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Henry Daniell

Henry Daniell

Actor

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Charles Henry Daniell (5 March 1894 – 31 October 1963) was an English actor who had a long and prestigious career on stage as well as in films. He is perhaps best known for his villainous roles in films like The Great Dictator, The Philadelphia Story and The Sea Hawk. Daniell was given few opportunities to play a 'good guy', including a supporting part as Franz Liszt in the biographical film Song of Love (1947). His last name is sometimes spelled "Daniel". Daniell's film debut came in 1929 in Jealousy. He appeared as Professor Moriarty in the Basil Rathbone-Nigel Bruce Sherlock Holmes film The Woman in Green (1945). He appeared in other films such as Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator (1940) (playing Garbitsch, to sound like "garbage", a parody of Joseph Goebbels), and The Body Snatcher (1945, with Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi) – as well as two other films in the Sherlock Holmes/Basil Rathbone series: The Voice of Terror (1942) and Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943) with fellow Moriarty George Zucco. Daniell played the sleazy Baron de Varville opposite Greta Garbo in Camille (1936). Another early triumph was his portrayal of Cecil in The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939). He also played the treacherous Lord Wolfingham (no relation to Francis Walsingham) in The Sea Hawk (1940), fighting Errol Flynn in what is often considered one of the most spectacular sword fighting duels ever filmed. When Michael Curtiz cast him in this film, Henry Daniell initially refused because he couldn't fence. Curtiz accomplished the climactic duel through the use of shadows and over-shoulder shots, with a double fencing Flynn with ingenious inter-cutting of their faces. Towards the end of the Second World War, he appeared in one of his most memorable film roles, as the cruel Mr. Brocklehurst in Jane Eyre (1944), opposite Joan Fontaine who played Eyre. That same year he appeared in The Suspect as Charles Laughton's blackmailing next-door neighbour. In the 1950s and 1960s, he did much television, and also appeared as the malevolent Dr. Emil Zurich in Edward L. Cahn's The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake (1959), and in an episode of Maverick, "Pappy" opposite James Garner the same year. An absolute professional, he was always on the set when needed, and impatient when delays in filming took place. Much in demand for his dry, sardonic delivery, Daniell moved easily from big-budget films, such as (uncredited) Mutiny on the Bounty (1962), to television without difficulty. In 1957, Daniell appeared as King Charles II of England in the NBC anthology series The Joseph Cotten Show in the episode "The Trial of Colonel Blood", with Michael Wilding in the title role. In the same year he played the instructing solicitor to Charles Laughton's leading counsel barrister in Witness for the Prosecution (1957). The actor claimed one of his favourite roles was as Tony Curtis' supervisor in the acclaimed Blake Edwards film Mister Cory (1957) at a time when the actor's career was clearly slowing down, but Daniell retained some of the best and most memorable lines in the movie, "A gentleman never grabs. Manners, Mister Cory. I find them a prerequisite in any circumstance."

Born: March 4, 1894 in Barnes, Surrey, UK

Died: October 31, 1963 (Age 69)

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Henry Daniell  Movies & TV Credits

Title Rating Job Role(s) Year
Movie
5.8
ActorMaj. Edward Chevenish1949
Movie
6.6
ActorBaron Von Stetten1945
Movie
7.9
ActorSidney Kidd1940
Movie
7.4
ActorCount von Rimpau (as Henry Daniel)1930
Movie
7
ActorGireaux1961
Movie
6.9
ActorWatson King1942
Movie
6.5
ActorWilliam Easter1943
Movie
6.2
ActorShelley Mason1941
Movie
6.4
ActorColonel Ingram1947
Movie
6.4
ActorMr. Earnshaw1957
Movie
6.1
ActorEmile Fleuron1942
Movie
7.8
ActorSeton Cram1938
Movie
5.5
ActorDr. Emil Zurich1959
Movie
7.2
ActorDr. Wolfe 'Toddy' MacFarlane1945
Movie
8.5
ActorGarbitsch1940
Movie
5.4
ActorBlades1949
Movie
6.5
ActorProfessor James Moriarty1945
Movie
5.6
ActorProfessor Marvin Griswald1937
Movie
6.5
ActorFranz Liszt1947
Movie
7.1
ActorMr. Simmons1945
Movie
6.2
ActorCapt. Edgar Stafford1942
Movie
5.6
ActorThe Regent - William of Pembroke1946
Movie
6.3
ActorSir Anthony Lloyd1942
Movie
8.5
ActorMayhew1957
Movie
6.6
ActorGeneral Savary1937
Movie
6.9
ActorLerocle1937
Movie
7.4
ActorBaron de Varville1936
Movie
5.7
ActorStipe1961
Movie
6.9
ActorSir Ronald Dawson1939
Movie
6.2
ActorFrederick Seamon1942
Movie
7.4
ActorHenry Brocklehurst1943
Movie
7.7
ActorLord Wolfingham1940
Movie
6.8
ActorJudge1957
Movie
5.3
ActorMorgana1958
Movie
6.1
ActorJohn Wales1937
Movie
6.4
ActorHugh Lewis1936
Movie
6.4
ActorJacques Desaix1948
Movie
7.5
ActorTheodorus van Gogh1956
Movie
7.6
ActorBroussais1940
Movie
5.9
ActorCapt. Duval1950
Movie
6.8
ActorSir Robert Cecil1939
Movie
6.8
ActorStranger1962
Movie
5.2
ActorBobo1942
Movie
6.9
ActorPhili Von Ramme1943
Movie
6.2
ActorJulian Davis1941
Movie
6.2
ActorDoctor1957
Movie
5.9
ActorGondi1956
Movie
6.6
ActorMekere1954
Movie
6.1
ActorKing William III1945
Movie
5.2
ActorMinister von Ribbentrop1943
Movie
5.8
ActorDr. Zucco1961
Movie
5.5
ActorSheik Ageiba1962
Movie
7
ActorBill Ogden1956
Movie
7.2
ActorLa Motte1938
Movie
5.3
ActorDr. Jonas1962
Movie
7.3
ActorPublic Prosecutor1941
Movie
4.6
ActorPierre Cauchon - Bishop of Beauvais1957
Movie
7.3
ActorCourt-martial Judge (uncredited)1962
Movie
7.9
ActorAmbassador (uncredited)1964
Movie
ActorClement1929
Movie
5.7
ActorNorman Warriner1929
Movie
5
ActorRamadi1955
TV Show
7.4
Actor1 Episode1948-1958
TV Show
7.3
ActorCount Maverin
1 Episode
1951-1959
TV Show
6.9
Actor1 Episode1958-1960
TV Show
7.3
ActorLord Belmont
1 Episode
1950-1959
TV Show
6.5
ActorJarden
1 Episode
1960-1961
TV Show
7.8
Actor1 Episode1958-1961
TV Show
7.2
ActorGraham
1 Episode
1959-1961
TV Show
6.6
Actor1 Episode1955-1958
TV Show
7.8
Actor1 Episode1957-1962
TV Show
7.5
Actor2 Episodes1958-1964
TV Show
8
ActorVicar John Weatherford
1 Episode
1960-1962
TV Show
8
ActorCount Alexander Cagliostro
1 Episode
1960-1962
TV Show
8
ActorSquire Moloch
1 Episode
1960-1962
TV Show
8
ActorPierre Radin
1 Episode
1960-1962
TV Show
8
ActorDirk Van Prinn
1 Episode
1960-1962
TV Show
8.2
ActorMinister
1 Episode
1962-1967
TV Show
6.6
Actor2 Episodes1946-1952
TV Show
7.4
ActorColonel Chart
1 Episode
1948-1956
TV Show
6.9
Actor1 Episode1954-1957
TV Show
6.8
Actor1 Episode1956-1958
TV Show
7.3
ActorMorton W. Snipple
1 Episode
1957-1965
Movie
6.4
ActorGarbitsch (archive footage) (uncredited)2007
Movie
ActorMr. Manningham1946
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