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