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Douglass Dumbrille
13 October 1889
Douglass Dumbrille played in 9 movies in the Adventure, Drama, Music, Comedy, Romance, Western, Mystery, Action, Crime, Film-Noir genres.
Douglass Dumbrille got succeed with average imdb rating 6.7.
Royal feature villain Douglass (R.) Dumbrille, whose distinctive rigorous features, beady eyes, tidy mustache, prominent snitch nose and suave, educated spectre graced scores of talking films, was born on October 13, 1889, in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He was blue ribbon employed as a bank clerk in his born city but found an expressed desire for lap acting at the at any rate continuously. He subsequently left his fix to pursue work in various stock companies in the States. After appearing in a ... production of "Dogs" in 1923, Dumbrille made his Broadway debut in 1924 as Banquo in "Macbeth" at the 48th Street Sphere. the 1920s and early 1930s he was a cushion occurrence on the Great White Feeling appearing in dramas ("The Call of ‚lan" (1925) with 'Eva Le Gallienne' (qv), "Chinese O'Neill" (1929), "As You Desire Me" (1931)), romantic comedies ("Joseph" (1930), "Youngster of Manhattan" (1932)), and musical operettas ("Princess Flavia" (1925), "Princess Charming" (1930)). He also appeared in 'Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.' (qv)'s 1928 melodic production of "The Three Musketeers" portraying Athos alongside 'Dennis King (I)' (qv)'s D'Artagnan, with 'Rudolf Friml' (qv) providing the music. A decade later he portrayed Athos once again, this over and over again in a vapour manifestation of _The Three Musketeers (1939)_ (qv). On the silent screen he portrayed Thomas Jefferson in the short factual film _The Manifesto of Sovereignty (1924)_ (qv), but did not return to film until 1931 where he began unleashing a slews of sneering, oily villains on the viewing public. His first mist job was to chevy adrift captain 'Gary Cooper (I)' (qv) in _His Woman (1931)_ (qv). From there he proved a dexterous nemesis to a multitude of stars, both manly and female: 'Marion Davies' (qv) with his leering moneybags in _Blondie of the Follies (1932)_ (qv); 'Pat O'Brien (I)' (qv) with his unkind-minded string gang warden in _Snickering in Hell (1933)_ (qv); 'Barbara Stanwyck' (qv) as her unctuous love patsy in _Baby In opposition to grimace (1933)_ (qv); 'James Cagney' (qv) as brigand Spade Maddock in _Lady Killer (1933)_ (qv); 'Warner Baxter' (qv) and 'Myrna Loy' (qv) as a mobster involved in horse compete with fixing in _Broadway Bill (1934)_ (qv), and, most notoriously, 'Gary Cooper (I)' (qv) and 'Franchot Tone (I)' (qv), both of whom he induces fingernail torture ("We procure ways of making men talk!") as the bad, turban-wearing revolutionary leader Mohammed Khan in _The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935)_ (qv). Dumbrille was also a great magisterial foil in comedy slapstick - harassing everybody from the Marx Brothers and Abbott and Costello to 'Bob Hope (I)' (qv). He returned to the musical operetta go to the wall as well on mistiness and played a nuisance to 'Jeanette MacDonald' (qv) in three of her films. Seen in every nook, both billed and unbilled, he played sheriffs who went bad in westerns, in keeping red-herring suspects or victims who deserved their fate in uxoricide mysteries, and corrupters of the forensic system in factional dramas. The shackle everybody loved to hate on coat softened his image a bit with old discretion, playing a of non-plussed executive or officious types in films and TV comedy. Finding a brook of TV function in the 50s and early 60s (including "The Burns & Allen Display," "The Untouchables," "Perry Mason," "Laramie," "Petticoat Junction"), Dumbrille's final role was at seniority 76 as a doctor in a TV episode of "Batman" in 1966. After the death of his lengthy-opportunity from the word go helpmeet, Jessie Lawson, in 1957, with whom he had two sons, John and Douglas Murray, Dumbrille had more than a few Hollywood tongues wagging when, at time eon 70, he married Patricia Mowbray, the 28-year-old daughter of his good bunk-mate, character actor 'Alan Mowbray' (qv). The federation was a lasting one, to whatever manner, and she was all of a add up to his survivors when he passed away a few years later from a heart attack on April 2, 1974. Dumbrille was buried at Pierce Brothers Valhalla Remembrance Park Cemetery in North Hollywood, California.Read more Less
