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person_profile-Aubrey Morris

Aubrey Morris Died at age: 89

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Aubrey Morris

Date of Birth:

Jun 01, 1926

Country of birth:

UK

Died:

Jul 15, 2015

Biography of

Aubrey Morris

    He was one of those delightful, typically British actors with a penchant for playing eccentrics. Early in his career, Jeremy Brett once quaintly introduced Aubrey Morris to Noël Coward as "the finest small-part player in London". Born Aubrey Steinberg of Jewish-Ukrainian ancestry, he was one of several siblings with artistic inclinations (his brother Wolfe Morris was also a noted character player). Aubrey studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London on a scholarship and made his stage debut in 1944. During the 1950s, he acted regularly on the West End stage, at the Old Vic, and on Broadway.

    In addition to making excellent use of his Shakespearean-trained voice, his diminutive stature and beaming, toothy countenance proved a significant asset to a remarkable versatility on screen. Morris was adept at conveying unctuousness, cunning, duplicity, civility, or obsession with equal ease and in a wide variety of roles and genres. His many memorable performances include: the Freud-fixated writer Mr. Mybug in Cold Comfort Farm (1968); the sleazy probation officer Mr. Deltoid in A Clockwork Orange (1971); a sinister gravedigger in The Wicker Man (1973); the oily manservant Grosvenor, asking Michael Palin for the use of the 'naughty books', in "The Curse of the Claw" episode of Ripping Yarns (1976); the jolly captain of the 'B-Ark' (filled with such folk as telephone sanitizers), spending years luxuriating in his bubble-bath in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981); and last, but not least, the ancient thespian Chesterton, shuffling off this mortal coil while being read quotes from King Lear in HBO's Deadwood (2004).

    Residing in the U.S. since the mid-1980s, Aubrey Morris continued to ply his trade right up until his death at the venerable age of 89.

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Aubrey Morris

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Filmography of

Aubrey Morris

Found 35 Movies in total

... 2013

Visioneers

Old Man Jeffers ( Actor )

... 2008

Necessary Evil

Rev. Arends ( Actor )

... 2008

Knee High P.I.

Worthington ( Actor )

... 2003

... 2001

Legend of the Mummy

Doctor Winchester ( Actor )

... 1998

Bordello of Blood

McCutcheon ( Actor )

... 1996

... 1995

My Girl 2

Alfred Beidermeyer ( Actor )

... 1994

A Mom for Christmas

Nicholas ( Actor )

... 1990

The Rachel Papers

Sir Herbert ( Actor )

... 1989

Lifeforce

Sir Percy Heseltine ( Actor )

... 1985

Oxford Blues

Doctor Quentin Boggs ( Actor )

... 1984

... 1984

... 1981

S.O.S. Titanic

John Hart, Steward ( Actor )

... 1980

Night Ferry

Soapy ( Actor )

... 1976

... 1975

Lisztomania

Manager ( Actor )

... 1975

Love and Death

Soldier 4 ( Actor )

... 1975

Man About the House

Lecturer ( Actor )

... 1974

The Wicker Man

Old Gardener / Gravedigger ( Actor )

... 1973

A Clockwork Orange

P. R. Deltoid ( Actor )

... 1971

Blood from the Mummy's Tomb

Doctor Putnum ( Actor )

... 1971

Goodbye Gemini

Houseboat Party Guest ( Actor )

... 1970

... 1969

Up the Junction

Creely ( Actor )

... 1968

The Magnificent Two

News Announcer (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1967

The Sandwich Man

Cedric ( Actor )

... 1966

... 1966

The Night Caller

Thorburn ( Actor )

... 1965

The Quare Fellow

Silvertop ( Actor )

... 1962

... 1962

Two Letter Alibi

Hotel Receptionist ( Actor )

... 1962

Fly Away Peter

Ted Hapgood ( Actor )

... 1948