Age, Biography and Wiki
Who is it? | Actor, Soundtrack |
Birth Day | August 18, 1896 |
Birth Place | London, England, United Kingdom |
Age | 123 YEARS OLD |
Died On | 25 March 1969(1969-03-25) (aged 72)\nHollywood, California, U.S. |
Birth Sign | Virgo |
Years active | 1922–1969 |
Spouse(s) | Lorraine Carpenter (1927-69) (his death) |
Children | 2 |
Net worth
Alan Mowbray, a renowned actor and soundtrack artist from the United Kingdom, is predicted to have a net worth ranging from $100K to $1M by the year 2024. With a successful career spanning across film and music, Mowbray has undoubtedly made a significant impact in the entertainment industry. His versatile talent and commendable contributions to cinema and soundtracks have earned him both critical acclaim and substantial financial success. As an acclaimed figure in the industry, it comes as no surprise that Alan Mowbray's net worth is projected to grow in the coming years, solidifying his status as a prominent personality in the UK entertainment scene.
Famous Quotes:
"The Philip Courtney Prendergast's (sic) lived on one of those wide, curving streets where the houses seem to be too close together for their size and the amount of money they represent... the house had an English slate roof and a porte-cochère, some nice imported trees, a trellis with a bougainvillea. It was a nice place and not loud. But Beverly Hills is Beverly Hills, so the butler had wing collar and an accent like Alan Mowbray.”
Biography/Timeline
Born Alfred Ernest Allen in London, England, he served with distinction in the British Army in World War I, being awarded the Military Medal for bravery. He began his stage career in London in 1922, as an actor and stage manager. Mowbray applied for transfer to the Royal Air Force which was granted just six days before the war ended. This placed him in London on Armistice Day. His Service came to an end when the Royal Air Force wanted another seven years from him. In 1923 he arrived in the United States and was soon acting with New York stock companies. He debuted on Broadway in The Sport of Kings (1926); in 1929 he wrote, directed and starred in the unsuccessful Dinner Is Served.
Mowbray made his film debut in God's Gift to Women (1931) playing a butler, a role in which he was thereafter often cast. He appeared in five more pictures that year, notably portraying George Washington in Alexander Hamilton. In 1935, he played one of the male leads in Becky Sharp, the first feature-length film in full-colour Technicolor as well as playing the lead in the farcical Night Life of the Gods, based on a Thorne Smith novel. It was for another Thorne Smith–derived film, Topper (1937), that Mowbray may be best remembered; he played Topper's butler Wilkins, a role he reprised the following year in Topper Takes a Trip. Throughout the 1930s and 1940s Mowbray worked steadily, appearing in over 120 films.
Mowbray was a founding member of the Screen Actors Guild in 1933, writing a personal check to fund the group's incorporation and serving as the first vice President.
Novelist and Screenwriter Raymond Chandler alludes to Mowbray's screen persona in his pulp magazine story Mandarin's Jade (1937):
In the 1950s, Mowbray's film roles decreased, and he began to appear on television. He played the title role in the DuMont TV series Colonel Humphrey Flack, which first aired in 1953–54 and was revived in 1958–59. In the 1954–55 television season Mowbray played Mr. Swift, the drama coach of the character Mickey Mulligan in NBC's short-lived The Mickey Rooney Show: Hey, Mulligan. He continued to appear occasionally in films. He portrayed the character Stewart Styles, a maitre d with a checkered past in the 1960-1961 adventure/drama series Dante, reprising a role he had originally played in several episodes of Four Star Theatre.
In 1956, he appeared in three major films, The King and I, The Man Who Knew Too Much and Around the World in 80 Days. His final film role was as Captain Norcross in A Majority of One in 1961. In 1963, he returned to Broadway in the successful comedy Enter Laughing, playing David Kolowitz's unscrupulous mentor Marlowe (played by Alan Arkin).
Mowbray died of a heart attack in 1969 in Hollywood and was interred in the Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California.