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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1908-05-26 (116 years old)

Place of Birth

Semley, England, UK

Robert Morley

Biography:

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Robert Adolph Wilton Morley CBE (26 May 1908 – 3 June 1992) was an English actor who, often in supporting roles, was usually cast as a pompous English gentleman representing the Establishment. In Movie Encyclopedia, film critic Leonard Maltin describes Morley as "recognizable by his ungainly bulk, bushy eyebrows, thick lips, and double chin, […] particularly effective when cast as a pompous windbag". More politely, Ephraim Katz in his International Film Encyclopaedia describes Morley as a "a rotund, triple-chinned, delightful character player of the British and American stage and screen."

 

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Known For

Acting

2018

Nothing Like a Dame as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

2004

Los Angeles Plays Itself as Sir Ambrose Abercrombie in The Loved Ones (archive footage)

1989

Istanbul as Atkins

1988

The Lady and the Highwayman as Lord Chancellor
War and Remembrance as Alistair Tudsbury

1987

Little Dorrit as Lord Decimus Barnacle

1986

The Wind as Elias Appleby

1985

Alice in Wonderland as King of Hearts

1984

1983

The Old Men at the Zoo as Lord Godmanchester

1982

The Deadly Game as Emile Carpeau

1981

The Great Muppet Caper as British Gentleman by Pond
Loophole as Godfrey

1980

Lady Killers as Self/Presenter
Lady Killers as Self - Presenter

1979

Scavenger Hunt as Bernstein
The Human Factor as Doctor Percival

1978

1976

The Blue Bird as Father Time

1975

Hugo the Hippo as Sultan (voice)

1974

Great Expectations as Uncle Pumblechook

1973

Theatre of Blood as Meredith Merridew

1971

When Eight Bells Toll as Uncle Arthur

1970

Cromwell as The Earl of Manchester
Doctor in Trouble as Captain George Spratt
Twinky as Judge Roxborough

1969

Some Girls Do as Miss Mary
Sinful Davey as Herzog von Argyll

1968

Hot Millions as Caesar Smith
Luther as Papst Leo
The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest

1967

Woman Times Seven as Dr. Xavier

1966

Finders Keepers as Colonel Roberts
Tender Scoundrel as Lord Swift
Way... Way Out as Harold Quonset
The Trygon Factor as Hubert Hamlyn
Hotel Paradiso as Henri Cotte

1965

Genghis Khan as Emperor of China
A Study in Terror as Mycroft Holmes
The Loved One as Sir Ambrose Abercombie
Life at the Top as Tiffield

1964

Hot Enough for June as Col. Cunliffe
Topkapi as Cedric Page
Of Human Bondage as Dr. Jacobs
Rhythm 'n' Greens as Narrator (voice)

1963

Murder at the Gallop as Hector Enderby
Nine Hours to Rama as P.K. Mussardi
The Old Dark House as Roderick Femm
Take Her, She's Mine as Mr. Pope-Jones
Ladies Who Do as The Colonel

1962

The Road to Hong Kong as Leader of the 3rd Echelon
Go to Blazes as Arson Eddie
The Boys as Montgomery

1961

The Young Ones as Hamilton Black

1960

The Battle of the Sexes as Robert Macpherson
Oscar Wilde as Oscar Wilde

1959

The Journey as Hugh Deverill
Libel as Sir Wilfred
The Doctor's Dilemma as Sir Ralph Bloomfield-Bonington

1958

Law and Disorder as Judge Sir Edward Crichton

1957

1956

Loser Takes All as Dreuther
Armchair Theatre as Mr. Micawber

1955

Quentin Durward as King Louis XI

1954

Beau Brummell as King George III
The Good Die Young as Sir Francis Ravenscourt
The Rainbow Jacket as Lord Logan

1953

Beat the Devil as Peterson
The Final Test as Alexander Whitehead
The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan as William S. Gilbert
Melba as Oscar Hammerstein I

1952

The African Queen as The Brother
Curtain Up as W.H. 'Harry' Derwent Blacker

1951

Outcast of the Islands as Elmer Almayer

1949

The Small Back Room as The Minister

1947

The Ghosts of Berkeley Square as Colonel "Bulldog" Kelsoe

1945

I Live in Grosvenor Square as Duke of Exmoor

1944

Golden Globe Awards as Self - Presenter

1942

This Was Paris as Van Der Stuyl
The Foreman Went to France as Mayor Coutare of Bivary
The Big Blockade as Von Geiselbrecht
The Young Mr. Pitt as Charles James Fox

1941

Major Barbara as Andrew Undershaft
You Will Remember as Tom Barrett / Leslie Stuart

1938

Marie Antoinette as King Louis XVI
Another Romance of Celluloid as Self (uncredited)

Writing

1949

Edward, My Son as Theatre Play