Herbert Mundin

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Herbert Mundin (21 August 1898 – 5 March 1939) was an English-born Hollywood character actor. He was frequently typecast in films as an older cheeky eccentric, a type helped by his jowled features and cheerful disposition. He was born Herbert Thomas Mundin in St Helens, then in Lancashire (now part of Merseyside). His father was a nomadic, Primitive Methodist home missionary. His family moved within a short time of his birth to St Albans in Hertfordshire (the 1901 census data reveal that the family lived at St Helens Villa, Paxton Road, St Albans; his parents William and Jane apparently naming their house after the town where they first met and where Herbert was born). Mundin was educated at St Albans School, and joined the Royal Navy during World War I. He began his acting career on the London stage during the 1920s. Mundin first travelled to America on 18 December 1923 for a series of theatrical engagements in New York. He sailed from Southampton on the RMS Aquitania and described himself in ship’s passenger manifest as 5'7" tall with a fair complexion, brown hair, blue eyes and a scar over his left eye. His big break as an actor was arguably with Gertrude Lawrence and Beatrice Lillie in Charlot's Revue when it appeared on Broadway in 1925. In 1931, after working in Australia and London, he permanently moved to the US, where he received a contract with Twentieth Century Fox Studios and enjoyed a successful career as a character actor in over 50 films. Perhaps his most celebrated role was as Much in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), alongside Errol Flynn. Other film appearances included Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) with Charles Laughton and Clark Gable, and MGM's David Copperfield (1935). He died in Van Nuys, California following a car crash. He was killed instantly when the car in which he was riding collided with another car at a street intersection. The force of the impact threw open the door and hurled Mundin to the street.He received a fractured skull and crushed chest.He was 40 years old. The other occupants of the car were not injured. Description above from the Wikipedia article Herbert Mundin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Known For: Acting

Born: St Helens, Lancashire, UK, 1898-08-20

Died: 1939-03-05

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1930	Enter the Queen	Goss	0
2	1930	Ashes		0
3	1931	Immediate Possession	Peter Bootle	0
4	1931	East Lynne on the Western Front	Bob Cox / Lady Isobel	0
5	1931	The Wrong Mr. Perkins	Jimmy Perkins	0
6	1932	The Silent Witness	Henry Hammer	55
7	1932	Devil's Lottery	Trowbridge	0
8	1932	The Trial of Vivienne Ware	William Boggs	0
9	1932	Bachelor's Affairs	Jepson	10
10	1932	Chandu the Magician	Albert Miggles	63
11	1932	Love Me Tonight	Groom (uncredited)	66
12	1932	Life Begins	Mr. MacGilvairy (uncredited)	60
13	1932	One Way Passage	S.S. Maloa Steward (uncredited)	73
14	1932	Sherlock Holmes	George	51
15	1933	Cavalcade	Alfred Bridges	55
16	1933	Dangerously Yours	Grove	0
17	1933	Pleasure Cruise	Henry	57
18	1933	Adorable	Detective Pipac	33
19	1933	It's Great to Be Alive	Brooks	50
20	1933	The Devil's in Love	Bimpy	50
21	1933	Arizona to Broadway	Kingfish Miller	70
22	1933	Shanghai Madness	Larsen	0
23	1933	Hoopla	Hap Spissel	60
24	1934	Orient Express	Herbert Thomas Peters	0
25	1934	Ever Since Eve	Horace Saunders	0
26	1934	Bottoms Up	Limey Brook aka Lord Brocklehurst	48
27	1934	All Men Are Enemies		0
28	1934	Such Women Are Dangerous	Horatio Wilson	0
29	1934	Call It Luck	Herbert Biggelwade	60
30	1934	Springtime for Henry	Trivers	10
31	1934	Love Time	Caesar	0
32	1934	Hell in the Heavens	Granny Biggs	47
33	1935	David Copperfield	Barkis	67
34	1935	Ladies Love Danger		0
35	1935	Spring Tonic	Thompson	53
36	1935	Black Sheep	Oscar	70
37	1935	Mutiny on the Bounty	Smith	74
38	1935	The Perfect Gentleman	Frederick Hitch	45
39	1935	The Widow from Monte Carlo	John Torrent	50
40	1936	King of Burlesque	English Impresario	59
41	1936	Charlie Chan's Secret	Baxter	68
42	1936	A Message to Garcia	Henry Piper	50
43	1936	Under Two Flags	Rake	60
44	1936	Champagne Charlie	Mr. Fipps	48
45	1936	Tarzan Escapes	Rawlins	63
46	1937	You Can't Beat Love	Jasper 'Meadows' Hives	60
47	1937	Another Dawn	Wilkins, Wister's Orderly	62
48	1937	Angel	Mr. Greenwood	68
49	1938	Invisible Enemy	Sergeant Alfred M. Higgs	60
50	1938	The Adventures of Robin Hood	Much	75
51	1938	Lord Jeff	Bosun 'Crusty' Jelks	71
52	1938	Exposed	Skippy	50
53	1939	Society Lawyer	Layton	51

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Title

Role

Vote Average

1930