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The Great Lover

as C.J. Dabney

1949
You Gotta Stay Happy

as Ralph Tutwiler

1948
And Then There Were None

as William Blore

1945
Topper Returns

as Cosmo Topper

1941
Two-Faced Woman

as Oscar 'O.O.' Miller

1941
The Philadelphia Story

as Uncle Willie

1940
Irene

as Mr. Smith

1940
Yes, My Darling Daughter

as Titus Jaywood

1939
Topper Takes a Trip

as Cosmo Topper

1938
Topper

as Cosmo Topper

1937
King Solomon's Mines

as Cmdr. John Good

1937
Ali Baba Goes to Town

as Sultan

1937
The Man Who Could Work Miracles

as George McWhirter Fotheringay

1937
The Unguarded Hour

as William "Bunny" Jeffers

1936
Ruggles of Red Gap

as Earl of Burnstead

1935
Pleasure Cruise

as Andrew Poole

1933
Blind Adventure

as Holmes

1933
One Hour with You

as Professor Olivier

1932
This Is the Night

as Gerald Gray

1932
Lovers Courageous

as Jeffrey

1932
A Woman Commands

as King Alexander

1932
The Squaw Man

as Sir John Applegate

1931
Don't Bet on Women

as Herbert Drake

1931
Annabelle's Affairs

as Roland Wimbleton

1931
The Bishop Murder Case

as Sigurd 'Erik' Arnesson

1929
Madam Satan

as Jimmy Wade

1930
New Moon

as Count Strogoff

1930
The Unholy Night

as Lord Montague

1929
Sherlock Holmes

as Dr. Watson

1922
Roland Young Roland Young

Birthday

1887-11-11

Place of Birth

London, England, UK

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Roland Young (11 November 1887 – 5 June 1953) was an English actor. Young made his first stage appearance in London's West End in Find the Woman in 1908, and in 1912 he made his Broadway debut in Hindle Wakes. He appeared in two comedies written for him by Clare Kummer, Good Gracious Annabelle! (1916) and A Successful Calamity (1917) before he served with the United States Army during World War I. He returned to New York when the war ended, and married Kummer's daughter, Frances. For the next few years he alternated between New York and London. He made his film debut in the 1922 silent film Sherlock Holmes, in which he played Watson opposite John Barrymore as Holmes. He signed a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and made his talkie debut in The Unholy Night (1929), directed by Lionel Barrymore. He was loaned to Warner Bros. to appear in Her Private Life, with Billie Dove and Fox Film Corporation, winning critical approval for his comedic performance as Jeanette MacDonald's husband in Don't Bet on a Woman. He was again paired with MacDonald in the film version of Good Gracious Annabelle!, titled Annabelle's Affairs. He appeared in Cecil B. de Mille's The Squaw Man, and played opposite Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in The Guardsman (both 1931). He appeared with Evelyn Brent in Columbia's The Pagan Lady (1932) and Pola Negri in RKO's A Woman Commands (1932). His final film under his MGM contract was Lovers Courageous (1932), opposite Robert Montgomery. In 1933 he had a starring role in the risqué comedy for Fox Film called Pleasure Cruise along side Genevieve Tobin. Young began to work as a freelance performer and found himself in constant demand. He appeared with Jeanette MacDonald, Genevieve Tobin and Maurice Chevalier in One Hour With You (1932) and with Kay Francis in Street of Women (1932). Alexander Korda invited him to return to Britain to make his British film debut in Wedding Rehearsal (1932). He returned to Hollywood and appeared in a diverse group of films that included comedies, murder mysteries, and dramas, and also worked on Broadway. Among his films of this period were Ruggles of Red Gap (1935), David Copperfield (1935) (playing Uriah Heep), and the H.G. Wells fantasy The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1936). In 1937, he achieved one of the most important successes of his career in Topper, as a bank president haunted by the ghosts of his clients, played by Cary Grant and Constance Bennett. It was one of the most successful films of the year, and Young was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Topper's wife was played by Billie Burke, who wrote in her memoir that Young "was dry and always fun to work with". They also appeared together in The Young in Heart (1938), and both of the Topper sequels, Topper Takes a Trip (1938) and Topper Returns (1941). He continued working steadily through the 1940s, playing small roles opposite some of Hollywood's leading actresses, such as Joan Crawford, Marlene Dietrich, Paulette Goddard and Greta Garbo in her final film, Two-Faced Woman (1941). In the 1950s, Young appeared on several episodic television series, including Lux Video Theatre, Studio One, Pulitzer Prize Playhouse and The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre.
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