Reginald Owen

Reginald Owen

Acting 1887-08-04 Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire, England, UK

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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1985 Sherlock Holmes (archive footage)
1974 (archive footage) (uncredited)
1971 Gen. Teagler
1970
1967 Patrick
1965 Sir Hillary Cooper
1964 Admiral Boom
1963 Tom Fraleigh
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1963 Jason Tripp
1962 Consul
1960 Mr. Bennett
1960 The Hussar ('A Terribly Strange Bed')
1959 J. Cecil Bennett
1959 Herbert Blakely
1959 Ambrose Feather
1957
1957 Marquis Norbert Belcastle
1957 Freddie Hawkins
1955 Self
1954 Bainbridge Gibbons
1954 Judge Wallace Winthrop
1954 Doctor
1951 Dely Delacorte
1950 Mr. Foley
Kim
1950 Father Victor
1949 Sergeant Davie
1949 Ben Weatherstaff
1948 The Advocate
1948 Benjy Hawkins
1948 Treville
1948 Hopps
1947 Captain O'Hara
1947 Mr. Fortune
1947 James Moore
1946 Captain Lanlaire
1946 Henry Carmel
1946 Mr. Hopkins
1946 Judge
1946 King Louis XV
1945 McCready
1945 Duke of Malmunster
1945 Dr. Pembroke
1945 Mr. Amboy
1945 Farmer Ede
1945 Cary Shadwell
1944 Lord Canterville
1943 Dr. Mespelbrunn
1943 Dr. Becquerel
1943 Mr. Henry Casper
1943 Col. Trane
1943 John Girard
1943 Simpson
1942 Clayton
1942 "Biffer"
1942 Foley
1942 Schultz, Gestapo agent
1942 Philo Cobson
1942 Willie Manning
1942 Skipper of the Congo Queen
1942 Maj. Tyler-Blane
1942 'Whiskers'
1942 Noah Glenkins
1941 Bernard Dalvik
1941 Professor Elliott
1941 General Allen
1941 Reginald Mason
1941 Mr. Redcliffe
1941 Max Milton
1941 Sir George Kelvin
1940 Hemingway
1940 Gervase Gonwell
1940 Emperor Franz Josef
1940 'Buzz' Foster
1939 Edwards, Marvin's Valet
1939 Capt. Hartley
1939 Vincent Charlton
1939 Mr. Bronson
1939 General Videnko
1939 Sir Horace Bragdon
1938 Ebenezer Scrooge
1938 Hillary Bellaire
1938 William, the Butler
1938 Capt. Hoseason
1938 Charlie Grump
1938 Johann Kesselhut
1938 John Hodge Lawson
1938 Scrooge (atchive footage)
1938 Story
1937 Tallyrand
1937 Chancellor
1937 Maurice Dourel
1937 Claude Dabney
1937 Admiral Monti
1937 William
1936 Sampston
1936 Baron Otto Spandermann
1936 Myerson
1936 Sir James Felton
1936 President of Club
1936 Dictionary McKinney
1936 Blackton Gregory
1936 Archie Biddle
1935 Stryver
1935 The Waiter
1935 Stiva
1935 Mr. Smith
1935 Paul
1935 Henry Arbuthnot
1935 Guy Waller
1934 Charles
1934 Thorpe Athelny
1934 Oscar Baroque
1934 Ernst Weber
1934 Bordenave
1934 Vova
1934 The Governor-General
1934 Herries
1934 King Louis XV
1934 Police Commissioner Col. Thomas Dawson
1934 Leonard
1934 The Baron
1934 James Dalton
1933 Sherlock Holmes
1933 Freeman
1933 King Louis XV
1933 Mr. Frith
1933 Lord Darlington
1933 Dialogue
1932 Baron 'Nicky' von Burgen
1932 Dr. Watson
1932 Lord Jimmy
1932 Dr. Herbert Atkins
1932 The Prime Minister
1932 Cecil Herrick
1931 Dexter Grayson
1931 Claude Dabney
1929 Robert Crosbie
1922 Lord Wheatley
1922 Heathcote St. John