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person_profile-Reginald Owen

Reginald Owen Died at age: 85

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Reginald Owen

Date of Birth:

Aug 04, 1887

Country of birth:

UK

Died:

Nov 05, 1972

Biography of

Reginald Owen

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    John Reginald Owen (5 August 1887 – 5 November 1972) was an English character actor. He was known for his many roles in British and American films and later in television programmes. The son of Joseph and Frances Owen, Reginald Owen studied at Sir Herbert Tree's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and made his professional debut in 1905. In 1911, he starred in the original production of Where the Rainbow Ends as Saint George which opened to very good reviews on 21 December 1911. Reginald Owen had a few years earlier met the author Mrs. Clifford Mills as a young actor, and it was he who on hearing her idea of a Rainbow Story persuaded her to turn it into a play, and thus "Where the Rainbow Ends" was born.

    He went to the United States in 1920 and worked originally on Broadway in New York, but later moved to Hollywood, where he began a lengthy film career. He was always a familiar face in many Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer productions.

    Owen is perhaps best known today for his performance as Ebenezer Scrooge in the 1938 film version of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, a role he inherited from Lionel Barrymore, who had played the part of Scrooge on the radio every Christmas for years until Barrymore broke his hip in an accident.

    Owen was one of only five actors to play both Sherlock Holmes and his companion Dr Watson (Jeremy Brett played Watson on stage in the United States prior to adopting the mantle of Holmes on British television, Carleton Hobbs played both roles in British radio adaptations while Patrick Macnee played both roles in US television films). Howard Marion-Crawford played Holmes in a radio adaptation of "The Speckled Band" and later played Watson to Ronald Howard’s Holmes in the 1954-55 television series.

    Owen first played Watson in the film Sherlock Holmes (1932), and then Holmes himself in A Study in Scarlet (1933). Having played Ebenezer Scrooge, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, Owen has the odd distinction of playing three classic characters of Victorian fiction only to live to see those characters be taken over and personified by other actors, namely Alastair Sim as Scrooge, Basil Rathbone as Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Watson.

    Later in his career, Owen appeared opposite James Garner in the television series Maverick in the episodes "The Belcastle Brand" (1957) and "Gun-Shy" (1958) and also guest starred in episodes of the series One Step Beyond and Bewitched. He was featured in the Walt Disney films Mary Poppins (1964) and Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971). He had a small role in the 1962 Irwin Allen production of the Jules Verne novel Five Weeks in a Balloon. In August 1964, his Bel-Air mansion was rented out to the Beatles, who were performing at the Hollywood Bowl, when no hotel would book them.

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Filmography of

Reginald Owen

Found 124 Movies in total

The Many Faces of Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1985

That's Entertainment!

(archive footage) (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1974

Bedknobs and Broomsticks

Gen. Teagler ( Actor )

... 1971

Rosie!

Patrick ( Actor )

... 1967

Mary Poppins

Admiral Boom ( Actor )

... 1964

The Thrill of It All

Old Tom Fraleigh ( Actor )

... 1963

Tammy and the Doctor

Jason Tripp ( Actor )

... 1963

Five Weeks in a Balloon

Consul ( Actor )

... 1962

Moochie of the Little League

J. Cecil Bennett ( Actor )

... 1959

Red Garters

Judge Wallace Winthrop ( Actor )

... 1954

The Great Diamond Robbery

Bainbridge Gibbons ( Actor )

... 1954

Grounds for Marriage

Dely Delacorte ( Actor )

... 1951

Kim

Father Victor ( Actor )

... 1950

The Miniver Story

Mr. Foley ( Actor )

... 1950

Challenge to Lassie

Sergeant Davie ( Actor )

... 1949

The Secret Garden

Ben Weatherstaff ( Actor )

... 1949

Hills of Home

Hopps ( Actor )

... 1948

The Three Musketeers

Treville ( Actor )

... 1948

Julia Misbehaves

Benny Hawkins ( Actor )

... 1948

The Pirate

The Advocate ( Actor )

... 1948

If Winter Comes

Mr. Fortune ( Actor )

... 1947

Thunder in the Valley

James Moore ( Actor )

... 1947

Green Dolphin Street

Captain O'Hara ( Actor )

... 1947

The Imperfect Lady

Mr. Hopkins ( Actor )

... 1946

Monsieur Beaucaire

King Louis XV ( Actor )

... 1946

Piccadilly Incident

Judge ( Actor )

... 1946

Cluny Brown

Henry Carmel ( Actor )

... 1946

The Diary of a Chambermaid

Captain Lanlaire ( Actor )

... 1946

The Sailor Takes a Wife

Mr. Amboy ( Actor )

... 1945

Captain Kidd

Cary Shadwell ( Actor )

... 1945

She Went to the Races

Dr. Pembroke ( Actor )

... 1945

Kitty

Duke of Malmunster ( Actor )

... 1945

The Valley of Decision

McCready ( Actor )

... 1945

National Velvet

Farmer Ede ( Actor )

... 1945

The Canterville Ghost

Lord Canterville ( Actor )

... 1944

Madame Curie

Dr. Becquerel ( Actor )

... 1943

Salute to the Marines

Mr. Henry Casper ( Actor )

... 1943

Above Suspicion

Dr. Mespelbrunn ( Actor )

... 1943

Three Hearts for Julia

John Girard ( Actor )

... 1943

Assignment in Brittany

Col. Trane ( Actor )

... 1943

Forever and a Day

Simpson ( Actor )

... 1943

Reunion in France

Schultz ( Actor )

... 1942

Random Harvest

"Biffer" ( Actor )

... 1942

White Cargo

Skipper of the Congo Queen ( Actor )

... 1942

Somewhere I'll Find You

Willie Manning ( Actor )

... 1942

Cairo

Philo Cobson ( Actor )

... 1942

Pierre of the Plains

Noah Glenkins ( Actor )

... 1942

I Married an Angel

'Whiskers' ( Actor )

... 1942

Mrs. Miniver

Foley ( Actor )

... 1942

We Were Dancing

Maj. Tyler-Blane ( Actor )

... 1942

Woman of the Year

Clayton ( Actor )

... 1942

Tarzan's Secret Treasure

Professor Elliott ( Actor )

... 1941

Lady Be Good

Max Milton ( Actor )

... 1941

Charley's Aunt

Mr. Redcliffe ( Actor )

... 1941

They Met in Bombay

The General ( Actor )

... 1941

A Woman's Face

Bernard Dalvik ( Actor )

... 1941

Free and Easy

Sir George Kelvin ( Actor )

... 1941

Blonde Inspiration

Reginald Mason ( Actor )

... 1941

Hullabaloo

'Buzz' Foster ( Actor )

... 1940

Florian

Emperor Franz Josef ( Actor )

... 1940

The Ghost Comes Home

Hemingway ( Actor )

... 1940

The Earl of Chicago

Gervase Gonwell ( Actor )

... 1940

Remember?

Mr. Bronson ( Actor )

... 1939

Bad Little Angel

Edwards, Marvin's Valet ( Actor )

... 1939

The Real Glory

Capt. Steve Hartley ( Actor )

... 1939

Bridal Suite

Sir Horace Bragdon ( Actor )

... 1939

Hotel Imperial

General Videnko ( Actor )

... 1939

Fast and Loose

Vincent Charlton ( Actor )

... 1939

The Girl Downstairs

Charlie Grump ( Actor )

... 1938

A Christmas Carol

Ebenezer Scrooge ( Actor )

... 1938

Vacation from Love

John Hodge Lawson ( Actor )

... 1938

Three Loves Has Nancy

William, the Butler ( Actor )

... 1938

Paradise for Three

Johann Kesselhut ( Actor )

... 1938

Kidnapped

Capt. Hoseason ( Actor )

... 1938

Everybody Sing

Hillary Bellaire ( Actor )

... 1938

Rosalie

Chancellor ( Actor )

... 1937

Conquest

Tallyrand ( Actor )

... 1937

The Bride Wore Red

Admiral Monti ( Actor )

... 1937

Madame X

Maurice Dourel ( Actor )

... 1937

Personal Property

Claude Dabney ( Actor )

... 1937

Dangerous Number

William ( Actor )

... 1937

Love on the Run

Baron Otto Spandermann ( Actor )

... 1936

Adventure in Manhattan

Blackton Gregory ( Actor )

... 1936

The Girl on the Front Page

Archie Biddle ( Actor )

... 1936

Yours for the Asking

Dictionary McKinney ( Actor )

... 1936

Trouble for Two

President of Club ( Actor )

... 1936

The Great Ziegfeld

Sampston ( Actor )

... 1936

Petticoat Fever

Sir James Felton ( Actor )

... 1936

Rose Marie

Myerson ( Actor )

... 1936

A Tale of Two Cities

Stryver ( Actor )

... 1935

The Bishop Misbehaves

Guy Waller ( Actor )

... 1935

Anna Karenina

Stiva ( Actor )

... 1935

Call of the Wild

Mr. Smith ( Actor )

... 1935

Escapade

Paul ( Actor )

... 1935

The Good Fairy

Detlaff ( Actor )

... 1935

Enchanted April

Henry Arbuthnot ( Actor )

... 1935

Here Is My Heart

Vova ( Actor )

... 1934

Music in the Air

Ernst Weber ( Actor )

... 1934

Madame du Barry

King Louis XV ( Actor )

... 1934

The Human Side

James Dalton ( Actor )

... 1934

Of Human Bondage

Thorpe Athelny ( Actor )

... 1934

Stingaree

The Governor-General ( Actor )

... 1934

Where Sinners Meet

Leonard ( Actor )

... 1934

The House of Rothschild

Herries ( Actor )

... 1934

The Countess of Monte Cristo

The Baron ( Actor )

... 1934

Fashions of 1934

Oscar Baroque ( Actor )

... 1934

Mandalay

Police Commissioner Col. Thomas Dawson ( Actor )

... 1934

Nana

Bordenave ( Actor )

... 1934

Queen Christina

Charles ( Actor )

... 1933

Voltaire

King Louis XV ( Actor )

... 1933

The Big Brain

Lord Darlington ( Actor )

... 1933

Double Harness

Freeman ( Actor )

... 1933

The Narrow Corner

Mr. Frith ( Actor )

... 1933

A Study in Scarlet

Sherlock Holmes ( Actor )

Dialogue

... 1933

Robbers' Roost

Cecil Herrick ( Actor )

... 1932

Sherlock Holmes

Dr. Watson ( Actor )

... 1932

Downstairs

Baron 'Nicky' von Burgen ( Actor )

... 1932

The Man Called Back

Dr. Herbert Atkins ( Actor )

... 1932

A Woman Commands

The Prime Minister ( Actor )

... 1932

Lovers Courageous

Lord Jimmy ( Actor )

... 1932

Platinum Blonde

Dexter Grayson ( Actor )

... 1931

The Man in Possession

Claude Dabney ( Actor )

... 1931

The Letter

Robert Crosbie ( Actor )

... 1929