Henry Daniell
69 movies · 19 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Mar 4, 1894
- Died
- Oct 31, 1963 (age 69)
- Place of birth
- Barnes, Surrey, UK
- Also known as
- Henry Daniel · 亨利·丹尼尔 · Charles Henry Pywell Daniell
Biography
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Charles Henry Daniell (5 March 1894 – 31 October 1963) was an English actor who had a long and prestigious career on stage as well as in films. He is perhaps best known for his villainous roles in films like The Great Dictator, The Philadelphia Story and The Sea Hawk. Daniell was given few opportunities to play a 'good guy', including a supporting part as Franz Liszt in the biographical film Song of Love (1947). His last name is sometimes spelled "Daniel".
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Daniell's film debut came in 1929 in Jealousy. He appeared as Professor Moriarty in the Basil Rathbone-Nigel Bruce Sherlock Holmes film The Woman in Green (1945). He appeared in other films such as Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator (1940) (playing Garbitsch, to sound like "garbage", a parody of Joseph Goebbels), and The Body Snatcher (1945, with Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi) – as well as two other films in the Sherlock Holmes/Basil Rathbone series: The Voice of Terror (1942) and Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943) with fellow Moriarty George Zucco.
Daniell played the sleazy Baron de Varville opposite Greta Garbo in Camille (1936). Another early triumph was his portrayal of Cecil in The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939). He also played the treacherous Lord Wolfingham (no relation to Francis Walsingham) in The Sea Hawk (1940), fighting Errol Flynn in what is often considered one of the most spectacular sword fighting duels ever filmed. When Michael Curtiz cast him in this film, Henry Daniell initially refused because he couldn't fence. Curtiz accomplished the climactic duel through the use of shadows and over-shoulder shots, with a double fencing Flynn with ingenious inter-cutting of their faces.
Towards the end of the Second World War, he appeared in one of his most memorable film roles, as the cruel Mr. Brocklehurst in Jane Eyre (1944), opposite Joan Fontaine who played Eyre. That same year he appeared in The Suspect as Charles Laughton's blackmailing next-door neighbour. In the 1950s and 1960s, he did much television, and also appeared as the malevolent Dr. Emil Zurich in Edward L. Cahn's The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake (1959), and in an episode of Maverick, "Pappy" opposite James Garner the same year. An absolute professional, he was always on the set when needed, and impatient when delays in filming took place. Much in demand for his dry, sardonic delivery, Daniell moved easily from big-budget films, such as (uncredited) Mutiny on the Bounty (1962), to television without difficulty. In 1957, Daniell appeared as King Charles II of England in the NBC anthology series The Joseph Cotten Show in the episode "The Trial of Colonel Blood", with Michael Wilding in the title role. In the same year he played the instructing solicitor to Charles Laughton's leading counsel barrister in Witness for the Prosecution (1957).
The actor claimed one of his favourite roles was as Tony Curtis' supervisor in the acclaimed Blake Edwards film Mister Cory (1957) at a time when the actor's career was clearly slowing down, but Daniell retained some of the best and most memorable lines in the movie, "A gentleman never grabs. Manners, Mister Cory. I find them a prerequisite in any circumstance."
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Henry Daniell: movies and TV shows
Acting (88)
- 2007 Hitler: The Comedy Years
as Garbitsch (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1964 My Fair Lady
as Ambassador (uncredited)
- 1962 Mutiny on the Bounty
as Court-martial Judge (uncredited)
- 1962 The Chapman Report
as Dr. Jonas
- 1962
- 1962 Five Weeks in a Balloon
as Sheik Ageiba
- 1962 The Notorious Landlady
as Stranger
- 1961 The Comancheros
as Gireaux
- 1961 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
as Dr. Zucco
- 1961 The Grim Reaper
as Pierre Radin
- 1961 Madison Avenue
as Stipe
- 1960
- 1960 Thriller · TV
as Dirk Van Prinn / Count Alexander Cagliostro / Squire Moloch / Pierre Radin / Vicar John Weatherford · 5 episodes
- 1959 The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake
as Dr. Emil Zurich
- 1959
- 1959
- 1958 From the Earth to the Moon
as Morgana
- 1958
- 1958
- 1958
- 1957 Witness for the Prosecution
as Mayhew
- 1957 The Story of Mankind
as Pierre Cauchon - Bishop of Beauvais
- 1957 Les Girls
as Judge
- 1957
- 1957
- 1957 The Sun Also Rises
as Doctor
- 1957 Mister Cory
as Mr. Earnshaw
- 1956 Confession
as Hubbel
- 1956 Lust for Life
as Theodorus van Gogh
- 1956
- 1956 War and Peace
as (uncredited)
- 1956 The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
as Bill Ogden
- 1956
- 1956 The Barretts of Wimpole Street
as Edward Moulton-Barrett
- 1956 Diane
as Gondi
- 1955
- 1955
- 1955 The Prodigal
as Ramadi
- 1954
- 1954 The Egyptian
as Mekere
- 1951
- 1950
- 1950 Buccaneer's Girl
as Capt. Duval
- 1949 The Secret Of St. Ives
as Maj. Edward Chevenish
- 1949 Siren of Atlantis
as Blades
- 1948 Wake of the Red Witch
as Jacques Desaix
- 1948
- 1948
- 1947 The Exile
as Colonel Ingram
- 1947 Song of Love
as Franz Liszt
- 1946 The Bandit of Sherwood Forest
as The Regent - William of Pembroke
- 1946 Angel Street
as Mr. Manningham
- 1945 Captain Kidd
as King William III
- 1945 The Woman in Green
as Professor James Moriarty
- 1945 The Body Snatcher
as Dr. Wolfe 'Toddy' MacFarlane
- 1945 Hotel Berlin
as Baron Von Stetten
- 1945 The Suspect
as Mr. Simmons
- 1943 Jane Eyre
as Henry Brocklehurst
- 1943 Watch on the Rhine
as Phili Von Ramme
- 1943 Mission to Moscow
as Minister von Ribbentrop
- 1943 Sherlock Holmes in Washington
as William Easter
- 1942 Reunion in France
as Emile Fleuron
- 1942 The Great Impersonation
as Frederick Seamon
- 1942 Nightmare
as Capt. Edgar Stafford
- 1942 Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror
as Sir Anthony Lloyd
- 1942 Castle in the Desert
as Watson King
- 1942 Four Jacks and a Jill
as Bobo
- 1941 The Feminine Touch
as Shelley Mason
- 1941 Dressed to Kill
as Julian Davis
- 1941 A Woman's Face
as Public Prosecutor
- 1940 The Philadelphia Story
as Sidney Kidd
- 1940 The Great Dictator
as Garbitsch
- 1940 The Sea Hawk
as Lord Wolfingham
- 1940 All This, and Heaven Too
as Broussais
- 1939 We Are Not Alone
as Sir Ronald Dawson
- 1939 The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
as Sir Robert Cecil
- 1938 Marie Antoinette
as La Motte
- 1938 Holiday
as Seton Cram
- 1937 The Firefly
as General Savary
- 1937 Madame X
as Lerocle
- 1937 The Thirteenth Chair
as John Wales
- 1937 Under Cover of Night
as Professor Marvin Griswald
- 1936 Camille
as Baron de Varville
- 1936 The Unguarded Hour
as Hugh Lewis
- 1934 The Path of Glory
as King Maximillian
- 1930 The Last of the Lone Wolf
as Count von Rimpau (as Henry Daniel)
- 1929 Jealousy
as Clement
- 1929 The Awful Truth
as Norman Warriner
Talk shows and appearances (1)
- 1949 Lights Out
2 episodes