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Henry Daniell

Born 04/03/1894 in Barnes, Surrey, UK

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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."

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Filmography (Movies)

Hitler: The Comedy Years

Character:Garbitsch (archive footage) (uncredited)

Release Date:10/05/2007

My Fair Lady

Character:Ambassador (uncredited)

Release Date:01/12/1964

Mutiny on the Bounty

Character:Court-martial Judge (uncredited)

Release Date:08/11/1962

The Chapman Report

Character:Dr. Jonas

Release Date:05/10/1962

Five Weeks in a Balloon

Character:Sheik Ageiba

Release Date:22/08/1962

The Notorious Landlady

Character:Stranger

Release Date:13/04/1962

The Comancheros

Character:Gireaux

Release Date:16/12/1961

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

Character:Dr. Zucco

Release Date:12/07/1961

The Grim Reaper

Character:Pierre Radin

Release Date:13/06/1961

Madison Avenue

Character:Stipe

Release Date:13/04/1961

The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake

Character:Dr. Emil Zurich

Release Date:13/11/1959

From the Earth to the Moon

Character:Morgana

Release Date:26/11/1958

Witness for the Prosecution

Character:Mayhew

Release Date:17/12/1957

The Story of Mankind

Character:Pierre Cauchon - Bishop of Beauvais

Release Date:08/11/1957

Les Girls

Character:Judge

Release Date:03/10/1957

The Sun Also Rises

Character:Doctor

Release Date:23/08/1957

Mister Cory

Character:Mr. Earnshaw

Release Date:23/02/1957

Confession

Character:Hubbel

Release Date:29/11/1956

Lust for Life

Character:Theodorus van Gogh

Release Date:15/09/1956

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

Character:Bill Ogden

Release Date:12/04/1956

The Barretts of Wimpole Street

Character:Edward Moulton-Barrett

Release Date:02/04/1956

Diane

Character:Gondi

Release Date:12/01/1956

The Prodigal

Character:Ramadi

Release Date:06/05/1955

The Egyptian

Character:Mekere

Release Date:25/08/1954

Buccaneer's Girl

Character:Capt. Duval

Release Date:01/03/1950

The Secret Of St. Ives

Character:Maj. Edward Chevenish

Release Date:30/06/1949

Siren of Atlantis

Character:Blades

Release Date:04/01/1949

Wake of the Red Witch

Character:Jacques Desaix

Release Date:30/12/1948

The Exile

Character:Colonel Ingram

Release Date:17/10/1947

Song of Love

Character:Franz Liszt

Release Date:09/10/1947

The Bandit of Sherwood Forest

Character:The Regent - William of Pembroke

Release Date:21/02/1946

Angel Street

Character:Mr. Manningham

Release Date:20/01/1946

Captain Kidd

Character:King William III

Release Date:22/11/1945

The Woman in Green

Character:Professor James Moriarty

Release Date:15/06/1945

The Body Snatcher

Character:Dr. Wolfe 'Toddy' MacFarlane

Release Date:25/05/1945

Hotel Berlin

Character:Baron Von Stetten

Release Date:02/03/1945

The Suspect

Character:Mr. Simmons

Release Date:31/01/1945

Jane Eyre

Character:Henry Brocklehurst

Release Date:24/12/1943

Watch on the Rhine

Character:Phili Von Ramme

Release Date:27/08/1943

Mission to Moscow

Character:Minister von Ribbentrop

Release Date:29/04/1943

Sherlock Holmes in Washington

Character:William Easter

Release Date:24/03/1943

Reunion in France

Character:Emile Fleuron

Release Date:25/12/1942

The Great Impersonation

Character:Frederick Seamon

Release Date:18/12/1942

Nightmare

Character:Capt. Edgar Stafford

Release Date:10/11/1942

Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror

Character:Sir Anthony Lloyd

Release Date:18/09/1942

Castle in the Desert

Character:Watson King

Release Date:02/02/1942

Four Jacks and a Jill

Character:Bobo

Release Date:23/01/1942

The Feminine Touch

Character:Shelley Mason

Release Date:01/10/1941

Dressed to Kill

Character:Julian Davis

Release Date:08/08/1941

A Woman's Face

Character:Public Prosecutor

Release Date:09/05/1941

The Philadelphia Story

Character:Sidney Kidd

Release Date:05/12/1940

The Great Dictator

Character:Garbitsch

Release Date:15/10/1940

The Sea Hawk

Character:Lord Wolfingham

Release Date:10/08/1940

All This, and Heaven Too

Character:Broussais

Release Date:05/07/1940

We Are Not Alone

Character:Sir Ronald Dawson

Release Date:25/11/1939

The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

Character:Sir Robert Cecil

Release Date:11/11/1939

Marie Antoinette

Character:La Motte

Release Date:26/08/1938

Holiday

Character:Seton Cram

Release Date:26/05/1938

The Firefly

Character:General Savary

Release Date:05/11/1937

Madame X

Character:Lerocle

Release Date:01/10/1937

The Thirteenth Chair

Character:John Wales

Release Date:07/05/1937

Under Cover of Night

Character:Professor Marvin Griswald

Release Date:08/01/1937

Camille

Character:Baron de Varville

Release Date:26/12/1936

The Unguarded Hour

Character:Hugh Lewis

Release Date:10/04/1936

The Path of Glory

Character:King Maximillian

Release Date:08/10/1934

The Last of the Lone Wolf

Character:Count von Rimpau (as Henry Daniel)

Release Date:26/08/1930

Jealousy

Character:Clement

Release Date:13/09/1929

The Awful Truth

Character:Norman Warriner

Release Date:10/08/1929

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