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HENRY DANIELL

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Men Of Character              Henry Daniell


                                           The Sea Hawk/ Lord Wolfingham
                                           The Body Snatcher/ Dr.Wolfe "Toddy" MacFarlane
                                           The Woman In Green/ Moriarity
                                           The Private Lives Of Elizabeth And Essex/ Sir Robert Cecil

Per Quinlan's Character Stars:

Wavy haired British born Hollywood actor with hard, unsmiling face and rat trap mouth, a villain par excellent, who also project sympathy in off beat leading roles. He came to play Shakespeare on Broadway but was soon in film roles of jealous noblemen or humorless martinets.

Charles Henry Daniell was born at Barnes, Surrey, England in 1894.

He lived in Surrey where he was educated at St. Paul's School and then at Greasham's School at Holt, Norfolk.

Daniell made his first appearance on the stage in the provinces in the year 1913 after which he moved to London and performed at The Globe Theater.

He served in World War One in the 2nd Battalion of the Norfolk Regiment where the following year he was invalidated out due to have been severely wounded in combat.

After returning home Daniell  appeared at  the New Theater and the prestigious Theater Royal, Haymarket.

In 1921 he appeared at the Empire Theater in New York City as Prince Charles of Vaucluse in the play Claire de Lune after which he toured for the next three years reappearing at                                London's GarrickTheater.

In 1929 he went for six months to New York City appearing at the Moresco Theater as  Lord Ivor Creame  in  Serena Blandish returning to London where he played the role of John Carlton in Secrets at the Comedy Theater.

Again he went back to America where he toured on the Pacific Coast at Los Angeles and                    then back to New York City again.. he continued to perform in London and New York and started his film career in England with the 1929 film The Awful Truth.

Daniel appeared on Broadway quite often appearing in such productions as  The Woman On The Jury (1923), Heat Wave (1931) Hedda Gabler (1942) , The Winter's  Tale (1946) and My Three Angels (1953-54) among others.   

His Hollywood film debut came in the 1929 film Jealousy. He had few opportunities to play the good guy  and one such role was that of Franz Liszt in the film Song of Love (1947)

Some of his best villains were Professor Moriarity (The Woman In Green), Baron Varville  (Camille), Lord Wolfingham  (The Sea Hawk), Cecil ( The Private Lives Of Elizabeth And Essex) and the cruel Mr. Brocklehurst (Jane Eyre).

Henry Daniell's film roles were:

The Awful Truth (1929) as Norman Warriner

Jealousy (1929) as Clement

The Last Of The Lone Wolf (1930) as Count van Rimpau

The Path Of Glory (1934) as King Maximilian

The Unguarded Hour (1936) as Hugh Lewis

Camille (1936) as Baron de Varville

Under Cover Of Night (1937) as Marvin Griswall

The Thirteenth Chair (1937) as John Wales

The Firefly (1937) as General Savary

Madame X (1937) as Lerocle

Holiday (1938) as Seton Cram

Marie Antoinette (1939) as LaMotte

The Private Lives Of Elizabeth And Essex (1939) as Sir Robert Cecil

We Are Not Alone (1939) as Sir Ronald Dawson

The Sea Hawk (1940) as  Lord Wolfingham

All This And Heaven Too (1940) as Broussls

The Great Dictator (1940) as Garbitsch

The Philadelphia Story (1940) as Sidney Kidd

A Woman's Face (1941) as Public Prosecutor

Dressed To Kill (0941) as Julian Davis

The Feminine Touch (1942) as Shelley Mason

Four Jacks And A Jill (1942) as Bobo

Castle In The Desert (1942) as Watson King

Sherlock Holmes & The Voice Of Terror (1942) as Anthony Lloyd

Nightmare (1942) as Captain Stafford

The Great Impersonation (1942) as Frederick Seamon

Reunion In France (1942) as Emile Fleuron

Sherlock Holmes In Washington (1943) as William Easter

Mission To Moscow (1943) as Minister Von Ribbertrop

Watch On The Rhine (1943) as Phil Van Ramme

Jane Eyre (1943) as Henry Brocklehurst

The Suspect (1944) as Mr. Simmons

The Bandit Of Sherwood Forest (1945) as The Regent- William Of Pembroke

The Body Snatcher (1945) as Dr. Wolfe "Toddy" MacFarlane

Hotel Berlin (1945) as Baron Von Stetten

The Woman In Greer (1945) as Professor Morairity

Captain Kidd (1945) as King William III

Angel Street (1946) as Mr. Manningham

Song Of Love (1947) as Franz Liszt

The Exile (1947) Colonel Ingram

Wake Of The Red Witch (1946) as Jacques Desaix

Siren Of Atlantis (1949) as Blades

The Secret Of St. Ives (1949) as Major Edward Chevenish

Buccaneer's Girl (1950) as Capt. Duval

The Egyptian (1954) as Mekere

The Prodigal (1955) as Ramadi

Diane (1956) as Gondi

The Man In The Gray Flannel Suit (1956) as Bill Ogden

Lust For Life (1956) as Theodorus Van Gogh

Mister Cory (1957) as Mr. Earnshaw

The Sun Also Rises (1957) as Doctor

Les Girls (1957) as Judge

The Story Of Mankind (1957) as Pierre Cauchon - Bishop Of Beauvais

Witness For The Prosecution (1957) as Mayhew

From The Earth To The Moon (1958) as Morgana

Madison Avenue (1961) as Stipe

Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea (1961) as Dr. Zucco

The Comancheros (1961) as Grieux

The Notorious Landlady (1962) as Stranger

Five Weeks In A Balloon (1962) as Sheik Ageiba

The Chapman Report (1962) as Dr. Jonas

My Fair Lady (1964) as The Ambassador

Mr Daniell also appeared on television in such programs as The Philco-Goodyear Playhouse, Studio One In Hollywood, Armstrong Circle Theater, Lights Out, Lux Video Theater, Jane Wyman Presents The Fireside Theater, TV Reader's Digest, Producers Showcase, Telephone Time, The Joseph Cotten Show, Studio 57, Schlitz Playhouse of Stars, Matinee Theater, Alcoa Theater, Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse, Playhouse 90, The Californians, Lux Playhouse, Maverick, Riverboat, Startime, Markham, Walt Disney's Wonderful World Of Color, Wagon Train, Peter Gunn, Shirley Temples'  Storybook, The Islanders, The Law And Mr. Jones, Boris Karloff's Thriller, Combat and 77 Sunset Strip.

He was married to Ann Knox. from 1932 until his death.

Henry Daniell passed away  in 1963 a few hours before he was due to report to work on the film version of My Fair Lady.

Mr. Daniell always made a great villain.

I enjoyed him in the films The Sea Hawk, Castle In The Desert, Jane Eyre The Body Snatcher, The Bandit Of Sherwood Forest, The Woman In Green, The Prodigal and Witness For The Prosecution,

Louie The Movie Buff













                                   


                                           


                                           

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