Holmes Herbert

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Holmes Herbert (born Horace Edward Jenner; 30 July 1882 – 26 December 1956) was an English character actor who appeared in Hollywood films from 1915 to 1952. Herbert immigrated to the United States in 1912. He never made a film in his native country, but appeared in 228 films during his career in the U.S., beginning with stalwart leading roles during the silent era, then numerous supporting roles in classic Hollywood films of the sound era, including Captain Blood (1935), The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936), The Life of Emile Zola (1937), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), and Foreign Correspondent (1940). He is perhaps best known for his role as Dr. Jekyll's friend Dr. Lanyon in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931), and made something of a career in horror films of the period, appearing in The Terror (1928), The Thirteenth Chair (1929 and 1937), The Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933), The Invisible Man (1933), Mark of the Vampire (1935), Tower of London (1939), The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942), The Undying Monster (1942), The Mummy's Curse (1944), and The Son of Dr. Jekyll (1951). He also played in several of Universal's cycle of Sherlock Holmes films during the 1940s. Holmes Herbert was married three times. His first wife was actress Beryl Mercer, and his second was Elinor Kershaw Ince, widow of film mogul Thomas H. Ince. Both marriages ended in divorce. Third wife Agnes Bartholomew died, leaving Herbert a widower, in 1955. He died in 1956 at age 74.

Known For: Acting

Born: Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England, UK, 1882-07-30

Died: 1956-12-26

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1915	His Wife	John Dennys	0
2	1915	The Fisherwoman	The Son	0
3	1917	The Man Without a Country	Lt. Philip Nolan	48
4	1918	A Doll's House	Thorvald Helmar	0
5	1918	The Death Dance	Arnold Maitland	10
6	1919	The Divorcee	Sir Paradine Fuldes	0
7	1919	Greater Than Love	James Bruton	0
8	1919	Other Men's Wives	Fenwick Flint	0
9	1919	The White Heather	Lord Angus Cameron	0
10	1919	The ABC of Love	Harry Bryant	56
11	1920	On with the Dance		10
12	1920	His House in Order	Filmer Jesson	10
13	1920	Black Is White	Jim Brood (as Holmes E. Herbert)	0
14	1920	Lady Rose's Daughter	Jacob Delafield	0
15	1920	The Right to Love	Lord Falkland	0
16	1920	Dead Men Tell No Tales	Squire John Rattray	60
17	1920	The Truth About Husbands	Dustan Renshaw	0
18	1921	Her Lord and Master	R. Honorable Thurston Ralph, Viscount Canning	0
19	1921	The Wild Goose	Frank Manners (as Holmes E. Herbert)	10
20	1921	The Family Closet	Alfred Dinsmore	0
21	1922	Any Wife	Philip Gray	10
22	1922	A Stage Romance	Prince of Wales	0
23	1922	Evidence	Judge Rowland	0
24	1922	Divorce Coupons	Roland Bland	0
25	1922	Moonshine Valley	Dr. Martin	0
26	1922	A Woman's Woman	John Plummer (as Holmes E. Herbert)	0
27	1924	I Will Repay	Sir Percy Blakeney	0
28	1924	The Enchanted Cottage	Major Hillgrove	65
29	1924	Another Scandal	Pelham Franklin	0
30	1924	Her Own Free Will	Peter Craddock	0
31	1924	Sinners in Heaven	Hugh Rochedale	0
32	1925	Daddy's Gone A-Hunting		50
33	1925	Up the Ladder	Robert Newhall	50
34	1925	The Wanderer	Prophet	10
35	1925	A Woman of the World	Richard Granger	56
36	1926	The Honeymoon Express	Jim Donaldson	0
37	1926	Josselyn's Wife	Thomas Josselyn	0
38	1926	The Fire Brigade	James Corwin	35
39	1927	One Increasing Purpose	Charles Paris	0
40	1927	Mr. Wu	Mr. Gregory	55
41	1927	The Heart of Salome	Sir Humphrey	0
42	1927	Slaves of Beauty	Leonard Jones	0
43	1927	When a Man Loves	Jean Tiberge	64
44	1927	The Gay Retreat	Charles Wright	0
45	1927	East Side, West Side	Gilbert Van Horn	72
46	1927	The Silver Slave	Tom Richards	0
47	1928	Gentlemen Prefer Blondes	Henry Spoffard	0
48	1928	The Sporting Age	James Driscoll	35
49	1928	The Terror	Goodman (as Holmes E. Herbert)	60
50	1928	Through the Breakers	Eustis Hobbs	30
51	1928	On Trial	Gerald Trask	60
52	1929	The Charlatan	Peter "Count Merlin" Dwight	43
53	1929	Careers	Carouge	0
54	1929	Say It with Songs	Dr. Robert Merrill	53
55	1929	Madame X	Noel	61
56	1929	Her Private Life	Rudolph Solomon	10
57	1929	The Careless Age	Sir John	0
58	1929	The Thirteenth Chair	Sir Roscoe Crosby	49
59	1929	The Kiss	Lassalle	63
60	1929	Untamed	Howard Presley	58
61	1930	The Ship from Shanghai	Paul Thorpe	57
62	1931	The Single Sin	Roger Van Dorn	0
63	1931	The Hot Heiress	Mr. Hunter	53
64	1931	Chances	Maj. Bradford	70
65	1931	Broadminded	John J. Hackett Sr.	37
66	1931	Daughter of the Dragon	Sir John Petrie	51
67	1931	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	Dr. John Lanyon	72
68	1932	Shop Angel	James Walton Kennedy	0
69	1932	Miss Pinkerton	Arthur Glenn	57
70	1932	Central Park	Benefit Emcee (uncredited)	52
71	1932	Sister to Judas	Bruce Rogers	0
72	1933	Mystery of the Wax Museum	Dr. Rasmussen	65
73	1933	The Invisible Man	Chief of Police	75
74	1934	Beloved	Lord Landslake	0
75	1934	The House of Rothschild	Rowerth	62
76	1934	The Pursuit of Happiness	Gen. Sir Henry Clinton	58
77	1934	The Curtain Falls	John Scorsby	50
78	1934	Sons of Steel	Curtis Chadburne	50
79	1935	One in a Million	Donald Cabot Sr.	50
80	1935	Cardinal Richelieu	Noble	74
81	1935	Mark of the Vampire	Sir Karell Borotyn	61
82	1935	Accent on Youth	Frank Galloway	55
83	1935	Captain Blood	Capt. Gardner	72
84	1936	Wife vs. Secretary	Frawley (uncredited)	68
85	1936	Brilliant Marriage	Mr. Rodney Allison	45
86	1936	Champagne Charlie	Captain Dell	48
87	1936	The White Angel	War Minister (uncredited)	72
88	1936	The Gentleman from Louisiana	Chief Steward	0
89	1936	15 Maiden Lane	Harold Anderson	60
90	1936	The House of Secrets	Sir Bertram Evans - Home Secretary	52
91	1936	Lloyd's of London	Spokesman	71
92	1937	The Prince and the Pauper	First Doctor	68
93	1937	The Thirteenth Chair	Roscoe Crosby	61
94	1937	Slave Ship	Commander	48
95	1937	The Girl Said No	Charles Dillon (scenes deleted)	54
96	1937	The Man Without a Country	Aaron Burr	57
97	1938	Here's Flash Casey	Maj. Addison	46
98	1938	The Black Doll	Dr. Giddings	53
99	1938	The Buccaneer	Captain McWilliams	64
100	1938	Kidnapped	Judge	47
101	1938	Marie Antoinette	Herald (uncredited)	66
102	1938	Say It in French	Richard Carrington Sr.	0
103	1939	Mr. Moto's Last Warning	Bentham (uncredited)	55
104	1939	The Mystery of Mr. Wong	Prof. Ed Janney	57
105	1939	The Little Princess	Doctor	66
106	1939	Mystery of the White Room	Hospital Administrator	0
107	1939	Wolf Call	J.L. Winton	33
108	1939	The Sun Never Sets	Colonial Official	48
109	1939	Trapped in the Sky	Fielding	0
110	1939	Juarez	Marshal Randon (uncredited)	65
111	1939	The House of Fear	Minor Role	65
112	1939	Bad Boy	Mr. McNeil	37
113	1939	Stanley and Livingstone	Frederick Holcomb	64
114	1939	The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes	Justice of the Court	69
115	1939	Hidden Power	Dr. Morley	0
116	1939	Intermezzo: A Love Story	Doctor (Uncredited)	67
117	1939	20,000 Men a Year	Dean Norris	55
118	1939	Rulers of the Sea	Member of Naval Company (Uncredited)	65
119	1939	British Intelligence	Arthur Bennett	57
120	1939	The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex	Majordomo (uncredited)	63
121	1939	Tower of London	Councilman (uncredited)	59
122	1939	We Are Not Alone	Police Inspector	61
123	1939	Everything Happens at Night	Featherstone	41
124	1940	The Earl of Chicago	Sergeant-at-Arms (uncredited)	56
125	1940	An Angel from Texas	Second Banker	48
126	1940	Phantom Raiders	Sir Edward	61
127	1940	Foreign Correspondent	Asst. Commissioner	70
128	1940	Boom Town	Doctor (uncredited)	69
129	1940	A Dispatch from Reuters	Member of Parliament (uncredited)	58
130	1940	The Letter	Robert's Friend at Bar at Party (uncredited)	73
131	1941	Man Hunt	Saul Farnsworthy	69
132	1942	The Ghost of Frankenstein	Magistrate	58
133	1942	This Above All	Dr. Mathias	67
134	1942	Danger in the Pacific	Commissioner	60
135	1942	Lady in a Jam	Man at Auction (uncredited)	55
136	1942	Invisible Agent	Sir Alfred Spencer	58
137	1942	Strictly in the Groove	Commissioner	0
138	1942	The Undying Monster	Chief Constable (uncredited)	57
139	1942	Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon	Sir Reginald	63
140	1943	Sherlock Holmes in Washington	Mr. Ahrens	67
141	1943	Two Tickets to London	Kilgallen	60
142	1943	Corvette K-225	Commodore Ramsay	61
143	1943	Calling Dr. Death	Bryant, the Butler	65
144	1944	The Uninvited	Charlie Jessup	69
145	1944	The Pearl of Death	James Goodram, courier	71
146	1944	The Unwritten Code	McDowell (uncredited)	52
147	1944	Our Hearts Were Young and Gay	Captain (uncredited)	73
148	1944	Enter Arsène Lupin	Jobson	60
149	1944	The Mummy's Curse	Dr. Cooper	55
150	1945	The House of Fear	Alan Cosgrave	69
151	1945	Jealousy	Melvyn Russell	54
152	1945	The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry		63
153	1945	Swingin' on a Rainbow	Butler (uncredited)	0
154	1945	Confidential Agent	Lord Benditch	56
155	1946	Three Strangers	Sir Robert	64
156	1946	Dressed to Kill	Ebenezer Crabtree	65
157	1946	The Verdict	Sir William Dawson	66
158	1946	Love Laughs at Andy Hardy	Dr. White, Minister	55
159	1947	Over the Santa Fe Trail	Doc Henderson	0
160	1947	Bulldog Drummond at Bay	Scotland Yard Inspector McIvar	60
161	1947	Ivy	Mulloy (uncredited)	68
162	1947	The Ghost Goes Wild	Judge	50
163	1947	Singapore	Rev. Barnes	61
164	1947	Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back	Inspector McIver	58
165	1948	The Swordsman	Lord Glowan	0
166	1948	The Wreck of the Hesperus	Pastor West	63
167	1948	A Woman's Vengeance	Warder (uncredited)	65
168	1948	Johnny Belinda	Judge (uncredited)	68
169	1948	Sorry, Wrong Number	Wilkins (uncredited)	68
170	1948	Family Honeymoon	Rev. Miller (uncredited)	57
171	1948	Jungle Jim	Commissioner Geoffrey Marsden	53
172	1949	South of St. Louis		56
173	1949	The Lost Tribe	Narrator (voice) (uncredited)	50
174	1949	Canadian Pacific	Head of Canadian Parliament (uncredited)	52
175	1949	Post Office Investigator	James Seeley	60
176	1949	Barbary Pirate	Thomas Jefferson	60
177	1950	The Iroquois Trail	Gen. Johnson	58
178	1951	Anne of the Indies	English Sea Captain	64
179	1951	The Son of Dr. Jekyll	Constable (uncredited)	40
180	1951	The Unknown Man		48
181	1952	The Wild North	Magistrate (uncredited)	69
182	1952	The Brigand	Archbishop	55

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