Eric Blore

Eric Blore ( born December 23, 1887 in London, † March 2, 1959 in Hollywood ) was a British theater and film actor.

Life

After graduation Eric Blore initially worked as an insurance agent. However, his interest in the theater was awakened on a journey through Australia. When he returned to England, he gave up his job to become an actor. He focused mainly on British comedies and was henceforth seen in many stage plays and revues in London.

In 1923 he moved to the United States, where he repeatedly occurred until 1933 on Broadway. In 1926 he took over a small supporting role in a silent film version of The Great Gatsby ( The Great Gatsby ) with Warner Baxter and William Powell and played the first time in a Hollywood film. From 1930 he was regularly in comic roles before the camera. For RKO Pictures, he often played in movie musicals with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers how to dance with me! ( The Gay Divorcee, 1934) and I dance ' me ( Has Top, 1935) into your heart into it. He played mostly a head waiter or the typical English butler. So also in the popular Columbia crime series The Lone Wolf, in which he was seen from 1940 to 1947 eleven times as a butler Jamison.

Over the years, Blore acted in over 80 films. Before 1955 he retired from the film business, he was hired in 1949 The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad ( The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad ) for the voice of Mr. Toad in Walt Disney's animated film.

1917 Blore Violet Winter had married, but she died two years later. With his second wife Clara Mackin, whom he married in 1926, he had a child. Eric Blore died in 1959 at the age of 71 years in Hollywood of a heart attack. He was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.

Filmography (selection)

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