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Mary Poppins

as Admiral Boom

1965
The Thrill of It All

as Old Tom Fraleigh

1963
Tammy and the Doctor

as Jason Tripp

1963
Five Weeks in a Balloon

as Consul

1962
Grounds for Marriage

as Dely Delacorte

1951
Kim

as Father Victor

1950
Challenge to Lassie

as Sergeant Davie

1949
The Secret Garden

as Ben Weatherstaff

1949
The Pirate

as The Advocate

1948
Julia Misbehaves

as Benjy Hawkins

1948
Hills of Home

as Hopps

1948
Green Dolphin Street

as Captain O'Hara

1947
Monsieur Beaucaire

as King Louis XV

1946
The Diary of a Chambermaid

as Captain Lanlaire

1946
Cluny Brown

as Henry Carmel

1946
Piccadilly Incident

as Judge

1946
Captain Kidd

as Cary Shadwell

1945
National Velvet

as Farmer Ede

1945
The Valley of Decision

as McCready

1945
Kitty

as Duke of Malmunster

1945
The Canterville Ghost

as Lord Canterville

1944
Above Suspicion

as Dr. Mespelbrunn

1943
Madame Curie

as Dr. Becquerel

1943
Salute to the Marines

as Mr. Henry Casper

1943
Three Hearts for Julia

as John Girard

1943
Random Harvest

as "Biffer"

1942
Mrs. Miniver

as Foley

1942
Reunion in France

as Schultz

1942
I Married an Angel

as 'Whiskers'

1942
White Cargo

as Skipper of the Congo Queen

1942
Reginald Owen Reginald Owen

Birthday

1887-08-05

Place of Birth

Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire, England, UK

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John Reginald Owen (5 August 1887 – 5 November 1972) was an English character actor. He was known for his many roles in British and American films and later in television programmes. The son of Joseph and Frances Owen, Reginald Owen studied at Sir Herbert Tree's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and made his professional debut in 1905. In 1911, he starred in the original production of Where the Rainbow Ends as Saint George which opened to very good reviews on 21 December 1911. Reginald Owen had a few years earlier met the author Mrs. Clifford Mills as a young actor, and it was he who on hearing her idea of a Rainbow Story persuaded her to turn it into a play, and thus "Where the Rainbow Ends" was born. He went to the United States in 1920 and worked originally on Broadway in New York, but later moved to Hollywood, where he began a lengthy film career. He was always a familiar face in many Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer productions. Owen is perhaps best known today for his performance as Ebenezer Scrooge in the 1938 film version of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, a role he inherited from Lionel Barrymore, who had played the part of Scrooge on the radio every Christmas for years until Barrymore broke his hip in an accident. Owen was one of only five actors to play both Sherlock Holmes and his companion Dr Watson (Jeremy Brett played Watson on stage in the United States prior to adopting the mantle of Holmes on British television, Carleton Hobbs played both roles in British radio adaptations while Patrick Macnee played both roles in US television films). Howard Marion-Crawford played Holmes in a radio adaptation of "The Speckled Band" and later played Watson to Ronald Howard’s Holmes in the 1954-55 television series. Owen first played Watson in the film Sherlock Holmes (1932), and then Holmes himself in A Study in Scarlet (1933). Having played Ebenezer Scrooge, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, Owen has the odd distinction of playing three classic characters of Victorian fiction only to live to see those characters be taken over and personified by other actors, namely Alastair Sim as Scrooge, Basil Rathbone as Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Watson. Later in his career, Owen appeared opposite James Garner in the television series Maverick in the episodes "The Belcastle Brand" (1957) and "Gun-Shy" (1958) and also guest starred in episodes of the series One Step Beyond and Bewitched. He was featured in the Walt Disney films Mary Poppins (1964) and Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971). He had a small role in the 1962 Irwin Allen production of the Jules Verne novel Five Weeks in a Balloon. In August 1964, his Bel-Air mansion was rented out to the Beatles, who were performing at the Hollywood Bowl, when no hotel would book them.
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