Douglass Dumbrille

Douglass Dumbrille

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Douglass Rupert Dumbrille (October 13, 1889 – April 2, 1974) was a Canadian actor and one of the Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood. In 1913, the East Coast film industry was flourishing and that year he appeared in the film What Eighty Million Women Want, but it would be another 11 years before he appeared on screen again. In 1924, he made his Broadway debut and worked off and on in the theatre for several years while supplementing his income by selling such products as car accessories, tea, insurance, real estate, and books. During the Great Depression, Dumbrille moved to the West Coast of the U.S., where he specialized in playing secondary character roles alongside the great stars of the day. His physical appearance and suave voice equipped him for roles as slick politician, corrupt businessman, crooked sheriff, or unscrupulous lawyer. He was highly regarded by the studios and was sought out by Cecil B. DeMille, Frank Capra, Hal Roach and other prominent Hollywood filmmakers. A friend of fellow Canadian-born director Allan Dwan, Dumbrille played Athos in Dwan’s 1939 adaptation of The Three Musketeers. Dumbrille had roles in more than 200 motion pictures and, with the advent of television, made numerous appearances in the 1950s and 1960s. He had the ability to project a balance of menace and pomposity in roles as the "heavy" in comedy films, such as those of the Marx Brothers or Abbott and Costello.

Known For: Acting

Born: Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 1889-10-12

Died: 1974-04-02

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1931	The Door Knocker	Gangster	0
2	1931	His Woman	Alisandroe	35
3	1932	The Symphony Murder Mystery	Giuseppe Benito	0
4	1932	The Wiser Sex	Chauffeur - aka The Wop	60
5	1932	Blondie of the Follies	Murchenson	60
6	1932	The Pride of the Legion	McMahon	60
7	1932	I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang	District Attorney (uncredited)	78
8	1932	That's My Boy	Coach "Daisy" Adams	0
9	1933	Smoke Lightning	Sam Edson	35
10	1933	Laughter in Hell	Ed Perkins	10
11	1933	Hard to Handle	District Attorney (uncredited)	69
12	1933	King of the Jungle	Ed Peters	50
13	1933	The Rustler's Roundup	Bill Brett (as Douglas Dunbrile)	0
14	1933	The Working Man	Lawyer Hammersmith (uncredited)	66
15	1933	Elmer, the Great	Stillman (uncredited)	49
16	1933	Heroes for Sale	Chief Engineer Jim (uncredited)	70
17	1933	The Man Who Dared	Judge Collier	60
18	1933	Baby Face	Brody	73
19	1933	I Loved a Woman	U.S. Attorney Brandt (uncredited)	48
20	1933	The Way to Love	Agent Chapusard	0
21	1933	Female	George Mumford	63
22	1933	The World Changes	Buffalo Bill Cody	48
23	1933	Lady Killer	Spade Maddock	68
24	1934	Hi, Nellie!	Dawes	65
25	1934	Journal of a Crime	Cartier (as Douglas Dumbrille)	57
26	1934	Harold Teen	H.H. Snatcher (as Douglas Dumbrille)	60
27	1934	Fog Over Frisco	Joshua Mayard	62
28	1934	Operator 13	General Stuart	57
29	1934	Treasure Island	Pirate of the Spanish Main	65
30	1934	Broadway Bill	Eddie Morgan	60
31	1934	The Secret Bride	Breeden	59
32	1935	The Lives of a Bengal Lancer	Mohammed Khan	66
33	1935	Naughty Marietta	Prince de Namours de la Bonfain, Marietta's Uncle	52
34	1935	Air Hawks	Victor Arnold	56
35	1935	Unknown Woman		60
36	1935	Love Me Forever	Miller	48
37	1935	The Public Menace	Mario Tonelli	50
38	1935	Peter Ibbetson	Colonel Forsythe	68
39	1935	Crime and Punishment	Grilov	65
40	1935	The Calling of Dan Matthews	Jeff Hardy	30
41	1935	The Lone Wolf Returns	Morphew	59
42	1936	You May Be Next!	Beau Gardner	25
43	1936	The Music Goes 'Round	Bishop	0
44	1936	Mr. Deeds Goes to Town	John Cedar	75
45	1936	The Witness Chair	Stanley Whittaker	62
46	1936	The Princess Comes Across	Lorel	61
47	1936	M'Liss	Lou Ellis	50
48	1936	End of the Trail	Bill Mason	80
49	1936	Counterfeit Lady	August Marino	0
50	1937	Woman in Distress	Jerome Culver	60
51	1937	A Day at the Races	Morgan	71
52	1937	The Emperor's Candlesticks	Mr. Korum, a Conspirator	52
53	1937	Ali Baba Goes to Town	Prince Musah	59
54	1937	The Firefly	Marquis de Melito	64
55	1938	The Buccaneer	Governor William C.C. Claiborne	64
56	1938	Stolen Heaven	Klingman	0
57	1938	Fast Company	Arnold Stamper (as Douglas Dumbrille)	54
58	1938	The Mysterious Rider	Pecos Bill aka Ben Wade	60
59	1938	Crime Takes a Holiday	J.J. Grant	0
60	1938	Storm Over Bengal	Ramin Khan	53
61	1938	Sharpshooters	Count Maxim	0
62	1938	Kentucky	John Dillon - 1861	58
63	1939	The Three Musketeers	Athos (as Douglas Dumbrille)	58
64	1939	Mr. Moto in Danger Island	Comdr. La Costa	67
65	1939	Captain Fury	Preston	49
66	1939	Tell No Tales	Matt Cooper (as Douglas Dumbrille)	53
67	1939	Charlie Chan at Treasure Island	Stewart Salsbury, alias Thomas Gregory	66
68	1939	Thunder Afloat	District Commander	59
69	1939	City in Darkness	B. Petroff (as Douglas Dumbrille)	64
70	1939	Rovin' Tumbleweeds	Stephen Holloway	45
71	1939	Slightly Honorable	George Taylor	47
72	1940	Virginia City	Maj. Drewery	61
73	1940	South of Pago Pago	Williams	48
74	1940	Michael Shayne: Private Detective	Benny Gordon (as Douglas Dumbrille)	65
75	1941	Murder Among Friends	Carter Stevenson	0
76	1941	The Roundup	Capt. Bob Lane	80
77	1941	Road to Zanzibar	Slave trader	63
78	1941	Washington Melodrama	District Attorney Donnelly	50
79	1941	The Big Store	Mr. Grover	62
80	1941	Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime	John Matthews	58
81	1942	Castle in the Desert	Paul Manderley	68
82	1942	Ride 'Em Cowboy	Jake Rainwater	58
83	1942	A Gentleman After Dark	Enzo Calibra	35
84	1942	Ten Gentlemen from West Point	Gen. William Henry Harrison	58
85	1942	I Married an Angel	Baron Szigethy	50
86	1942	King of the Mounties	Harper	0
87	1942	Stand by for Action	Capt. Ludlow	68
88	1943	Du Barry Was a Lady	Willie / Duc de Rigor	61
89	1943	False Colors	Mark Foster	40
90	1944	Uncertain Glory	Police Commissioner LaFarge	66
91	1944	Lumberjack	Daniel J. Keefer	60
92	1944	Jungle Woman	District Attorney	49
93	1944	Forty Thieves	Tad Hammond	30
94	1944	Gypsy Wildcat	Baron Tovar	55
95	1944	Lost in a Harem	Nimativ	54
96	1945	Jungle Queen	Lang	50
97	1945	A Medal for Benny	General	45
98	1945	The Frozen Ghost	Inspector Brant	63
99	1945	Flame of the West	Marshal Tom Nightlander	60
100	1945	The Daltons Ride Again	Sheriff Hoskins	30
101	1945	Pardon My Past	Uncle Wills	60
102	1946	Road to Utopia	Ace Larson	66
103	1946	The Catman of Paris	Henry Borchard	54
104	1946	Night in Paradise	High Priest	40
105	1946	The Cat Creeps	Tom McGalvey	48
106	1946	Spook Busters	Dr. Coslow	48
107	1946	Under Nevada Skies	Courtney	50
108	1946	Monsieur Beaucaire	George Washington	56
109	1947	It's a Joke, Son!	Big Dan Healey	69
110	1947	Dishonored Lady	District Attorney O'Brien	57
111	1947	Dragnet	Frank Farrington	60
112	1947	Christmas Eve	Dr. Bunyan	53
113	1947	The Fabulous Texan	Luke Roland	40
114	1947	Beyond Our Own	E.W. Osborne	0
115	1947	Blonde Savage	Mark Harper	41
116	1948	Last of the Wild Horses	Charlie Cooper	26
117	1949	Dynamite	Hank Gibbons	25
118	1949	Riders of the Whistling Pines	Henry Mitchell	50
119	1949	Alimony	Burton Crail	58
120	1949	The Lone Wolf and His Lady	John J. Murdock	50
121	1949	Joe Palooka in the Counterpunch	Captain Lance	0
122	1949	Tell It to the Judge	George Ellerby	63
123	1950	Buccaneer's Girl	Capt. Martos	56
124	1950	Riding High	Eddie Howard	58
125	1950	The Savage Horde	Col. Price	58
126	1950	Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in the Foreign Legion	Sheik Hamud El Khalid	61
127	1950	The Kangaroo Kid	Vincent Moller	60
128	1951	A Millionaire for Christy	J.C. Thompson	64
129	1952	Scaramouche	Assembly President	71
130	1952	Son of Paleface	Sheriff McIntyre	63
131	1952	Apache War Smoke	Maj. Dekker	30
132	1952	Sky Full of Moon	Rodeo Official	55
133	1952	Rapture	W.C. Hutton	0
134	1953	Julius Caesar	Lepidus	71
135	1953	Plunder of the Sun	Consul (as Douglas Dumbrille)	61
136	1953	Captain John Smith and Pocahontas	Powhatan (as Douglas Dumbrille)	30
137	1954	World for Ransom	Insp. McCollum	50
138	1954	The Lawless Rider	Marshal Brady (as Douglas Dumbrille)	40
139	1955	Jupiter's Darling	Scipio	43
140	1955	A Life at Stake	Gus Hillman	52
141	1955	Allen in Movieland	Self- Lawyer	50
142	1956	Jungle Safari	Lang	40
143	1956	Mobs, Inc.	Leland Cameron James	40
144	1956	Mobs Incorporated	Leland Cameron James	0
145	1956	The Ten Commandments	Jannes	78
146	1956	Shake, Rattle and Rock!	Eustace Fentwick III	46
147	1958	The Buccaneer	Collector of the Port	64
148	1962	Air Patrol	Millard Nolan	30
149	1963	Johnny Cool		53
150	2003	Complicated Women	Self (archive footage)	67

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1950	Lux Video Theatre	Whitfield	63
2	1950	The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show	Mr. Arthur J. Cahill	69
3	1950	The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show	Judge Strickland	69
4	1951	Racket Squad		60
5	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Governor Spriggs	86
6	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Governor William Claiborne	86
7	1952	China Smith		0
8	1952	Dangerous Assignment		35
9	1952	Cavalcade of America	Lord Rawdon	35
10	1952	The Ford Television Theatre	J.B. Creston	73
11	1952	The Ford Television Theatre		73
12	1953	The Life Of Riley	Cunningham	60
13	1953	The Life Of Riley		60
14	1953	Letter to Loretta	George Haviland	65
15	1954	Public Defender	Frank Hackman	60
16	1954	Studio 57	Goldy	0
17	1955	The Millionaire	B.G. Greenwise	50
18	1955	Screen Director's Playhouse	Red Beecham	65
19	1955	Crossroads		50
20	1955	Matinee Theater		50
21	1956	Hey, Jeannie!	Gen. Hardwicke	55
22	1956	Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers		50
23	1957	Perry Mason	Judge Robert Adler	77
24	1957	Perry Mason	Judge	77
25	1958	Bat Masterson	Gen. Taylor Millard	61
26	1958	77 Sunset Strip		67
27	1959	The DuPont Show with June Allyson	Warden	63
28	1959	The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis		58
29	1959	The Twilight Zone	Mr. Halpert	85
30	1959	The Untouchables	Judge Ben Harlow	79
31	1960	Bringing Up Buddy		0
32	1962	The Beverly Hillbillies		69
33	1963	Petticoat Junction	Dave La Salle	58
34	1966	Batman	The Doctor	73

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