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person_profile-Raymond Huntley

Raymond Huntley Died at age: 86

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Raymond Huntley

Date of Birth:

Apr 23, 1904

Country of birth:

UK

Died:

Oct 19, 1990

Biography of

Raymond Huntley

    Horace Raymond Huntley (23 April 1904 – 15 June 1990) was an English actor who appeared in dozens of British films from the 1930s to the 1970s. He also appeared in the ITV period drama Upstairs, Downstairs as the pragmatic family solicitor Sir Geoffrey Dillon, and other television shows, such as the Wodehouse Playhouse, ('Romance at Droitwich Spa'), in 1975.

    Born in Kings Norton, Worcestershire (now a suburb of Birmingham) in 1904, Huntley made his stage debut at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre on 1 April 1922, in A Woman Killed with Kindness. His London debut followed at the Court Theatre on 22 February 1924, in As Far as Thought can Reach.

    He subsequently inherited the role of Count Dracula from Edmund Blake in Hamilton Deane's touring adaptation of Dracula, which arrived at London's Little Theatre on 14 February 1927, subsequently transferring to the larger Duke of York's Theatre. Later that year he was offered the chance to reprise the role on Broadway (in a script streamlined by John L. Balderston); when he declined, the part was taken by Bela Lugosi instead. Huntley did, however, appear in a US touring production of the Deane/Balderston play, covering the east coast and midwest, from 1928-30. "I have always considered the role of Count Dracula to have been an indiscretion of my youth" he recalled in 1989.

    After Dracula, he made his Broadway debut at the Vanderbilt Theatre on 23 February 1931, in The Venetian Glass Nephew. On returning to the UK, his many West End appearances included The Farmer's Wife (Queen's Theatre 1932), Cornelius (Duchess Theatre 1935), Bees on the Boat Deck (Lyric Theatre 1936) Time and the Conways (Duchess Theatre 1937), When We Are Married (St Martin's Theatre 1940), Rebecca (Queen's Theatre 1940; Strand Theatre 1942), They Came to a City (Globe Theatre 1943), The Late Edwina Black (Ambassadors Theatre 1948), And This Was Odd (Criterion Theatre 1951), Double Image (Savoy Theatre 1956), Any Other Business (Westminster Theatre 1958), Caught Napping (Piccadilly Theatre 1959), Difference of Opinion (Garrick Theatre 1963), An Ideal Husband (Garrick Theatre 1966), Getting Married (Strand Theatre 1967), Soldiers (New Theatre 1968) and Separate Tables (Apollo Theatre 1977). He also starred opposite Flora Robson in the Broadway production of Black Chiffon (48th Street Theatre 1950).

    Often cast as a supercilious bureaucrat or other authority figure, Huntley was also a staple figure in British films, his many appearances including The Way Ahead, I See a Dark Stranger, Passport to Pimlico and The Dam Busters. In his later years, he became well-known on television as Sir Geoffrey Dillon, the family solicitor to the Bellamys in LWT's popular 1970s drama series Upstairs, Downstairs.

    Huntley died in Westminster Hospital, London in 1990. In his obituary, the New York Times wrote, "During his long career the actor played judges, bank managers, churchmen, bureaucrats and other figures of authority. He could play them straight if necessary, but in comedy his natural dryness of delivery was exaggerated to the point where the character he was playing invited mockery as a pompous humbug."

    Source: Article "Raymond Huntley" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Filmography of

Raymond Huntley

Found 80 Movies in total

Sleepwalker

Old Englishman ( Actor )

... 1984

... 1984

The Portland Millions

Dr. Tristram ( Actor )

... 1976

Symptoms

Burke ( Actor )

... 1974

That's Your Funeral

Emmanuel Holroyd ( Actor )

... 1972

Young Winston

Old Officer ( Actor )

... 1972

Destiny of a Spy

Supt. Pode ( Actor )

... 1969

Arthur? Arthur!

George Payne ( Actor )

... 1969

The Adding Machine

Smithers ( Actor )

... 1969

Hostile Witness

John Naylor ( Actor )

... 1968

Hot Millions

Bayswater ( Actor )

... 1968

The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery

Sir Horace, the Minister ( Actor )

... 1966

Rotten to the Core

Governor ( Actor )

... 1965

The Black Torment

Colonel John Wentworth ( Actor )

... 1964

Father Came Too!

Mr Wedgewood ( Actor )

... 1964

The Yellow Teddy Bears

Harry Haliburton ( Actor )

... 1963

Nurse on Wheels

Vicar Walcott ( Actor )

... 1963

On the Beat

Sir Ronald Ackroyd ( Actor )

... 1962

Waltz of the Toreadors

Ackroyd ( Actor )

... 1962

Crooks Anonymous

Wagstaffe ( Actor )

... 1962

Only Two Can Play

Vernon ( Actor )

... 1962

The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's

Judge Slender ( Actor )

... 1960

Suspect

Sir George Gatting the Minister of Defense ( Actor )

... 1960

Sands of the Desert

Bossom ( Actor )

... 1960

A French Mistress

Reverend Edwin Peake ( Actor )

... 1960

Make Mine Mink

Inspector Pape ( Actor )

... 1960

Bottoms Up!

Garrick-Jones ( Actor )

... 1960

Breathless

A Journalist (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1960

Our Man in Havana

General ( Actor )

... 1960

I'm All Right Jack

Magistrate ( Actor )

... 1959

The Mummy

Joseph Whemple ( Actor )

... 1959

Innocent Meeting

Harold Phillips ( Actor )

... 1959

Carlton-Browne of the F.O.

Foreign Secretary Tufton-Slade ( Actor )

... 1959

Room at the Top

Mr. Hoylake ( Actor )

... 1958

The Criminals

Hector Crawford ( Actor )

... 1958

Brothers in Law

Tatlock Q.C. ( Actor )

... 1957

Town on Trial

Dr. Reese ( Actor )

... 1957

The Green Man

Sir Gregory Upshott ( Actor )

... 1956

The Last Man to Hang

Attorney General ( Actor )

... 1956

Geordie

Olympic Selector ( Actor )

... 1955

Doctor at Sea

Capt. Beamish ( Actor )

... 1955

The Dam Busters

Official, National Physical Laboratory ( Actor )

... 1955

The Constant Husband

J.F. Hassett ( Actor )

... 1955

The Prisoner

The General ( Actor )

... 1955

Aunt Clara

Rev. Maurice Hilton ( Actor )

... 1954

The Teckman Mystery

Maurice Miller ( Actor )

... 1954

Orders Are Orders

Col. Fred Bellamy ( Actor )

... 1954

Hobson's Choice

Nathaniel Beenstock ( Actor )

... 1954

Meet Mr. Lucifer

Patterson ( Actor )

... 1953

Glad Tidings

Tom Forester ( Actor )

... 1953

The Last Page

Clive Oliver ( Actor )

... 1952

... 1951

The House in the Square

Mr. Throstle ( Actor )

... 1951

The Long Dark Hall

Chief Inspector Sullivan ( Actor )

... 1951

Trio

Mr. Henry Chester ( Actor )

... 1950

Passport to Pimlico

Mr. Wix ( Actor )

... 1949

It's Hard to be Good

Williams ( Actor )

... 1948

Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill

Moy-Thompson ( Actor )

... 1948

So Evil My Love

Henry Courtney ( Actor )

... 1948

Broken Journey

Edward Marshall ( Actor )

... 1948

School for Secrets

Prof. Laxton-Jones ( Actor )

... 1946

I See a Dark Stranger

J. Miller ( Actor )

... 1946

They Came to a City

Malcolm Stritton ( Actor )

... 1944

The Way Ahead

Pvt. Herbert Davenport ( Actor )

... 1944

When We Are Married

Albert Parker ( Actor )

... 1943

The New Lot

Barrington ( Actor )

... 1943

... 1942

'Pimpernel' Smith

Marx ( Actor )

... 1941

Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It

Dr. Kerbishley ( Actor )

... 1941

The Ghost Train

John Price ( Actor )

... 1941

The Ghost of St. Michael's

Mr Humphries ( Actor )

... 1941

Freedom Radio

Rabenau ( Actor )

... 1941

Night Train to Munich

Kampenfeldt ( Actor )

... 1940

Let's Be Famous

Singer in trio (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1939

Dinner at the Ritz

Gibout ( Actor )

... 1937

Knight Without Armour

White Officer ( Actor )

... 1937

Rembrandt

Ludwick ( Actor )

... 1936

... 1936

... 1934

Tune On the Old Tax Fiddle

Mr. Gaunt ( Actor )

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