Holmes Herbert
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Holmes Herbert (born Horace Edward Jenner; 30 July 1882 – 26 December 1956) was an English character actor who appeared in Hollywood films from 1915 to 1952. Herbert immigrated to the United States in 1912. He never made a film in his native country, but appeared in 228 films during his career in the U.S., beginning with stalwart leading roles during the silent era, then numerous supporting roles in classic Hollywood films of the sound era, including Captain Blood (1935), The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936), The Life of Emile Zola (1937), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), and Foreign Correspondent (1940). He is perhaps best known for his role as Dr. Jekyll's friend Dr. Lanyon in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931), and made something of a career in horror films of the period, appearing in The Terror (1928), The Thirteenth Chair (1929 and 1937), The Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933), The Invisible Man (1933), Mark of the Vampire (1935), Tower of London (1939), The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942), The Undying Monster (1942), The Mummy's Curse (1944), and The Son of Dr. Jekyll (1951). He also played in several of Universal's cycle of Sherlock Holmes films during the 1940s. Holmes Herbert was married three times. His first wife was actress Beryl Mercer, and his second was Elinor Kershaw Ince, widow of film mogul Thomas H. Ince. Both marriages ended in divorce. Third wife Agnes Bartholomew died, leaving Herbert a widower, in 1955. He died in 1956 at age 74.
Known for
Credits
The Invisible Man (1933)
as Chief of Police
Captain Blood (1935)
as Capt. Gardner
Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
as Wilkins (uncredited)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)
as Dr. John Lanyon
Foreign Correspondent (1940)
as Asst. Commissioner
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1942)
as Sir Reginald
The Mummy's Curse (1944)
as Dr. Cooper
The Little Princess (1939)
as Doctor
Dressed to Kill (1946)
as Ebenezer Crabtree
The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942)
as Magistrate
Marie Antoinette (1938)
as Herald (uncredited)
The Prince and the Pauper (1937)
as First Doctor
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)
as Justice of the Court
At Sword's Point (1952)
Actor
Mark of the Vampire (1935)
as Sir Karell Borotyn
Confidential Agent (1945)
as Lord Benditch
Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)
as Dr. Rasmussen
The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (1945)
Actor
The Pearl of Death (1944)
as James Goodram, courier
Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943)
as Mr. Ahrens
The House of Rothschild (1934)
as Rowerth
Anne of the Indies (1951)
as English Sea Captain
Lloyd's of London (1936)
as Spokesman
Our Hearts Were Young and Gay (1944)
as Captain (uncredited)
Juarez (1939)
as Marshal Randon (uncredited)
Invisible Agent (1942)
as Sir Alfred Spencer
Wildfire (1925)
as Garrison
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)
as Majordomo (uncredited)
The Uninvited (1944)
as Charlie Jessup
The Unwritten Code (1944)
as McDowell (uncredited)
A Woman's Vengeance (1948)
as Warder (uncredited)
Rulers of the Sea (1939)
as Member of Naval Company (Uncredited)
Family Honeymoon (1948)
as Rev. Miller (uncredited)
South of St. Louis (1949)
Actor
Canadian Pacific (1949)
as Head of Canadian Parliament (uncredited)
The House of Fear (1945)
as Alan Cosgrave
Careers (1929)
as Carouge
Wife vs. Secretary (1936)
as Frawley (uncredited)
Love Laughs at Andy Hardy (1946)
as Dr. White (uncredited)
The Earl of Chicago (1940)
as Sergeant-at-Arms (uncredited)
Ivy (1947)
as Mulloy (uncredited)
The Letter (1940)
as Robert's Friend at Bar at Party (uncredited)
An Angel from Texas (1940)
as Second Banker
The Wild North (1952)
as Magistrate (uncredited)
We Are Not Alone (1939)
as Police Inspector
A Dispatch from Reuters (1940)
as Member of Parliament (uncredited)
Three Strangers (1946)
as Sir Robert (uncredited)
The White Angel (1936)
as War Minister (uncredited)
Man Hunt (1941)
as Saul Farnsworthy
Brilliant Marriage (1936)
as Mr. Rodney Allison
The Verdict (1946)
as Sir William Dawson
Johnny Belinda (1948)
as Judge (uncredited)
Intermezzo: A Love Story (1939)
as Doctor (Uncredited)
Tower of London (1939)
as Councilman (uncredited)
Boom Town (1940)
as Doctor (uncredited)
The Mystery of Mr. Wong (1939)
as Prof. Ed Janney
Daughter of the Dragon (1931)
as Sir John Petrie
Corvette K-225 (1943)
as Commodore Ramsay
Lady in a Jam (1942)
as Man at Auction (uncredited)
The Ghost Goes Wild (1947)
as Judge
The Son of Dr. Jekyll (1951)
as Constable (uncredited)
Mr. Moto's Last Warning (1939)
as Bentham (uncredited)
When a Man Loves (1927)
as Jean Tiberge
20,000 Men a Year (1939)
as Dean Norris
Two Tickets to London (1943)
as Kilgallen
Everything Happens at Night (1939)
as Featherstone
The Pursuit of Happiness (1934)
as Gen. Sir Henry Clinton
Swingin' on a Rainbow (1945)
as Butler (uncredited)
British Intelligence (1939)
as Arthur Bennett
The Girl Said No (1937)
as Charles Dillon (scenes deleted)
The Man Without a Country (1937)
as Aaron Burr
Post Office Investigator (1949)
as James Seeley
The Sun Never Sets (1939)
as Colonial Official
Toilers of the Sea (1923)
as Sandro
Say It in French (1938)
as Richard Carrington Sr.
This Above All (1942)
as Dr. Mathias
The Buccaneer (1938)
as Captain McWilliams
Bulldog Drummond at Bay (1947)
as Scotland Yard Inspector McIvar
Lovers (1927)
as Milton
The House of Fear (1939)
as Minor Role
Stanley and Livingstone (1939)
as Frederick Holcomb
Mystery of the White Room (1939)
as Hospital Administrator
15 Maiden Lane (1936)
as Harold Anderson
The Unknown Man (1951)
as (uncredited)
The Wreck of the Hesperus (1948)
as Pastor West
His Wife (1915)
as John Dennys
East Side, West Side (1927)
as Gilbert Van Horn
The Gentleman from Louisiana (1936)
as Chief Steward
Trapped in the Sky (1939)
as Fielding
Say It with Songs (1929)
as Dr. Robert Merrill
Daddy's Gone A-Hunting (1925)
Actor
Dead Men Tell No Tales (1920)
as Squire John Rattray
Danger in the Pacific (1942)
as Commissioner
Over the Santa Fe Trail (1947)
as Doc Henderson
The House of Secrets (1936)
as Sir Bertram Evans - Home Secretary
Other Men's Wives (1919)
as Fenwick Flint
One in a Million (1935)
as Donald Cabot Sr.
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back (1947)
as Inspector McIver
The Ship from Shanghai (1930)
as Paul Thorpe
Her Life and His (1917)
as Ralph Howard
Kidnapped (1938)
as Judge
The Lost Tribe (1949)
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Evidence (1922)
as Judge Rowland
Untamed (1929)
as Howard Presley
The Undying Monster (1942)
as Chief Constable (uncredited)
Barbary Pirate (1949)
as Thomas Jefferson
Singapore (1947)
as Rev. Barnes
A Doll's House (1918)
as Thorvald Helmar
Miss Pinkerton (1932)
as Arthur Glenn
The Market of Souls (1919)
as Temple Bane
Slave Ship (1937)
as Commander
A Woman of the World (1925)
as Richard Granger
Calling Dr. Death (1943)
as Bryant, the Butler
Strictly in the Groove (1942)
as Commissioner
The Iroquois Trail (1950)
as Gen. Johnson
Their Hour (1928)
as Cora's Father
The Swordsman (1948)
as Lord Glowan
Heedless Moths (1921)
as The Sculptor
Wreckage (1925)
as Stuart Ames
Cardinal Richelieu (1935)
as Noble
Sinners in Heaven (1924)
as Hugh Rochedale
The Nest (—)
as Richard Elliot
The Brigand (1952)
as Archbishop
Enter Arsène Lupin (1944)
as Jobson
The Terror (1928)
as Goodman
The Silver Slave (1927)
as Tom Richards
A Woman's Woman (1922)
as John Plummer (as Holmes E. Herbert)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1928)
as Henry Spoffard
Moonshine Valley (1922)
as Dr. Martin
Here's Flash Casey (1938)
as Maj. Addison
Divorce Coupons (1922)
as Roland Bland
Mr. Wu (1927)
as Mr. Gregory
The Kiss (1929)
as Lassalle
Phantom Raiders (1940)
as Sir Edward
On with the Dance (1920)
Actor
My Lady's Garter (1920)
as Henry Van Derp, aka The Hawk
The Man Without a Country (1917)
as Lt. Philip Nolan
Her Private Life (1929)
as Rudolph Solomon
The Right to Love (1920)
as Lord Falkland
Josselyn's Wife (1926)
as Thomas Josselyn
The Careless Age (1929)
as Sir John
Chances (1931)
as Maj. Bradford
Through the Breakers (1928)
as Eustis Hobbs
The ABC of Love (1919)
as Harry Bryant
The Heart of Salome (1927)
as Sir Humphrey
The Thirteenth Chair (1929)
as Sir Roscoe Crosby
Her Own Free Will (1924)
as Peter Craddock
The Truth About Husbands (1920)
as Dustan Renshaw
Love's Wilderness (1924)
as David Tennant
His House in Order (1920)
as Filmer Jesson
Shop Angel (1932)
as James Walton Kennedy
Week End Husbands (1924)
as William Randall
South of Suez (1940)
as Simpson
Central Park (1932)
as Benefit Emcee (uncredited)
Lady Rose's Daughter (1920)
as Jacob Delafield
Accent on Youth (1935)
as Frank Galloway
Jungle Jim (1948)
as Commissioner Geoffrey Marsden
The Honeymoon Express (1926)
as Jim Donaldson
Wolf Call (1939)
as J.L. Winton
Madame X (1929)
as Noel
The Thirteenth Chair (1937)
as Governor Sir Roscoe Crosby
Bad Boy (1939)
as Mr. McNeil
I Will Repay (1924)
as Sir Percy Blakeney
The Curtain Falls (1934)
as John Scorsby
Her Lord and Master (1921)
as R. Honorable Thurston Ralph, Viscount Canning
The Death Dance (1918)
as Arnold Maitland
Greater Than Love (1919)
as James Bruton
The Charlatan (1929)
as Peter "Count Merlin" Dwight
The Family Closet (1921)
as Alfred Dinsmore
Champagne Charlie (1936)
as Captain Dell
Up the Ladder (1925)
as Robert Newhall
The Fisherwoman (1915)
as The Son
A Stage Romance (1922)
as Prince of Wales
Sons of Steel (1934)
as Curtis Chadburne
The Divorcee (1919)
as Sir Paradine Fuldes
Broadminded (1931)
as John J. Hackett Sr.
The Wild Goose (1921)
as Frank Manners (as Holmes E. Herbert)
The Rough Neck (1919)
as A Half-Breed Indian
The Hot Heiress (1931)
as Mr. Hunter
The Fire Brigade (1926)
as James Corwin
The White Heather (1919)
as Lord Angus Cameron
Hidden Power (1939)
as Dr. Morley
The Black Doll (1938)
as Dr. Giddings
Another Scandal (1924)
as Pelham Franklin
The Sporting Age (1928)
as James Driscoll
Beloved (1934)
as Lord Landslake
The Wanderer (1925)
as Prophet
The Single Sin (1931)
as Roger Van Dorn
Slaves of Beauty (1927)
as Leonard Jones
One Increasing Purpose (1927)
as Charles Paris
Jealousy (1945)
as Melvyn Russell
The Gay Retreat (1927)
as Charles Wright
Black Is White (1920)
as Jim Brood (as Holmes E. Herbert)
On Trial (1928)
as Gerald Trask
The Enchanted Cottage (1924)
as Major Hillgrove
Any Wife (1922)
as Philip Gray
Sister to Judas (1932)
as Bruce Rogers