Henry Daniell

Henry Daniell ( born March 5, 1894 in London, † October 31, 1963 in Santa Monica, California ) was a British actor.

Life

Henry Daniell began his career as a stage actor in London and was already a well-known Shakespearean actor on Broadway, as in 1929 he directed his first feature film in Hollywood. His first screen role was the title role in the film The Awful Truth, which was later filmed as The Awful Truth again and should be a great success for Cary Grant. With this, he also played in George Cukor's The Philadelphia Story ( 1940). In the same year he played the role of Dr. Gorbitsch in Charlie Chaplin 's The Great Dictator.

Daniell was occupied mainly as a villain and antagonist of the main character, as in the Sherlock Holmes series with Basil Rathbone. One of his few good-natured roles played Daniell as Franz Liszt in Clara Schumann's great love. In the 1950s, he was usually seen only on television, one of the exceptions was Witness for the Prosecution (1957).

He had his last film appearance in the complex film My Fair Lady, in which he spoke only three short sentences. On the evening of the shooting day, the 69 -year-old Daniell died quite suddenly of a heart attack. Daniell was married until his death with his wife Ann Knox.

Filmography (selection)

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