Reginald Owen
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- August 4, 1887, Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire, England, UK
- Died
- November 5, 1972
- Movies
- 128
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John Reginald Owen (5 August 1887 – 5 November 1972) was an English character actor. He was known for his many roles in British and American films and later in television programmes. The son of Joseph and Frances Owen, Reginald Owen studied at Sir Herbert Tree's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and made his professional debut in 1905. In 1911, he starred in the original production of Where the Rainbow Ends as Saint George which opened to very good reviews on 21 December 1911. Reginald Owen had a few years earlier met the author Mrs. Clifford Mills as a young actor, and it was he who on hearing her idea of a Rainbow Story persuaded her to turn it into a play, and thus "Where the Rainbow Ends" was born.
He went to the United States in 1920 and worked originally on Broadway in New York, but later moved to Hollywood, where he began a lengthy film career. He was always a familiar face in many Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer productions.
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 1985 | The Many Faces of Sherlock Holmes | Sherlock Holmes (archive footage) |
| 1974 | That's Entertainment! | (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 1971 | Bedknobs and Broomsticks | Gen. Teagler |
| 1967 | Rosie! | Patrick |
| 1964 | Mary Poppins | Admiral Boom |
| 1964 | Voice of the Hurricane | |
| 1963 | The Thrill of It All | Tom Fraleigh |
| 1963 | Tammy and the Doctor | Jason Tripp |
| 1962 | Five Weeks in a Balloon | Consul |
| 1960 | Moochie of Pop Warner Football | Mr. Bennett |
| 1959 | Moochie of the Little League | J. Cecil Bennett |
| 1954 | Red Garters | Judge Wallace Winthrop |
| 1954 | The Great Diamond Robbery | Bainbridge Gibbons |
| 1951 | Grounds for Marriage | Dely Delacorte |
| 1950 | Kim | Father Victor |
| 1950 | The Miniver Story | Mr. Foley |
| 1949 | Challenge to Lassie | Sergeant Davie |
| 1949 | The Secret Garden | Ben Weatherstaff |
| 1948 | Hills of Home | Hopps |
| 1948 | The Three Musketeers | Treville |
| 1948 | Julia Misbehaves | Benjy Hawkins |
| 1948 | The Pirate | The Advocate |
| 1947 | If Winter Comes | Mr. Fortune |
| 1947 | Thunder in the Valley | James Moore |
| 1947 | Green Dolphin Street | Captain O'Hara |
| 1946 | The Imperfect Lady | Mr. Hopkins |
| 1946 | Monsieur Beaucaire | King Louis XV |
| 1946 | Piccadilly Incident | Judge |
| 1946 | Cluny Brown | Henry Carmel |
| 1946 | The Diary of a Chambermaid | Captain Lanlaire |
| 1945 | The Sailor Takes a Wife | Mr. Amboy |
| 1945 | Captain Kidd | Cary Shadwell |
| 1945 | She Went to the Races | Dr. Pembroke |
| 1945 | Kitty | Duke of Malmunster |
| 1945 | The Valley of Decision | McCready |
| 1945 | National Velvet | Farmer Ede |
| 1944 | The Canterville Ghost | Lord Canterville |
| 1943 | Madame Curie | Dr. Becquerel |
| 1943 | Salute to the Marines | Mr. Henry Casper |
| 1943 | Above Suspicion | Dr. Mespelbrunn |
| 1943 | Three Hearts for Julia | John Girard |
| 1943 | Assignment in Brittany | Col. Trane |
| 1943 | Forever and a Day | Simpson |
| 1942 | Reunion in France | Schultz, Gestapo agent |
| 1942 | Random Harvest | "Biffer" |
| 1942 | White Cargo | Skipper of the Congo Queen |
| 1942 | Somewhere I'll Find You | Willie Manning |
| 1942 | Cairo | Philo Cobson |
| 1942 | Pierre of the Plains | Noah Glenkins |
| 1942 | I Married an Angel | 'Whiskers' |
| 1942 | Mrs. Miniver | Foley |
| 1942 | We Were Dancing | Maj. Tyler-Blane |
| 1942 | Woman of the Year | Clayton |
| 1941 | Tarzan's Secret Treasure | Professor Elliott |
| 1941 | Lady Be Good | Max Milton |
| 1941 | Charley's Aunt | Mr. Redcliffe |
| 1941 | They Met in Bombay | General Allen |
| 1941 | A Woman's Face | Bernard Dalvik |
| 1941 | Free and Easy | Sir George Kelvin |
| 1941 | Blonde Inspiration | Reginald Mason |
| 1940 | Hullabaloo | 'Buzz' Foster |
| 1940 | Florian | Emperor Franz Josef |
| 1940 | The Ghost Comes Home | Hemingway |
| 1940 | The Earl of Chicago | Gervase Gonwell |
| 1939 | Remember? | Mr. Bronson |
| 1939 | Bad Little Angel | Edwards, Marvin's Valet |
| 1939 | The Real Glory | Capt. Hartley |
| 1939 | Bridal Suite | Sir Horace Bragdon |
| 1939 | Hotel Imperial | General Videnko |
| 1939 | Fast and Loose | Vincent Charlton |
| 1938 | The Girl Downstairs | Charlie Grump |
| 1938 | A Christmas Carol | Ebenezer Scrooge |
| 1938 | A Fireside Chat with Lionel Barrymore | Scrooge (atchive footage) |
| 1938 | Vacation from Love | John Hodge Lawson |
| 1938 | Three Loves Has Nancy | William, the Butler |
| 1938 | Paradise for Three | Johann Kesselhut |
| 1938 | Kidnapped | Capt. Hoseason |
| 1938 | Everybody Sing | Hillary Bellaire |
| 1937 | Rosalie | Chancellor |
| 1937 | Conquest | Tallyrand |
| 1937 | The Bride Wore Red | Admiral Monti |
| 1937 | Madame X | Maurice Dourel |
| 1937 | Personal Property | Claude Dabney |
| 1937 | Dangerous Number | William |
| 1936 | Love on the Run | Baron Otto Spandermann |
| 1936 | Adventure in Manhattan | Blackton Gregory |
| 1936 | The Girl on the Front Page | Archie Biddle |
| 1936 | Yours for the Asking | Dictionary McKinney |
| 1936 | Trouble for Two | President of Club |
| 1936 | The Great Ziegfeld | Sampston |
| 1936 | Petticoat Fever | Sir James Felton |
| 1936 | Rose Marie | Myerson |
| 1935 | A Tale of Two Cities | Stryver |
| 1935 | The Bishop Misbehaves | Guy Waller |
| 1935 | Anna Karenina | Stiva |
| 1935 | Call of the Wild | Mr. Smith |
| 1935 | Escapade | Paul |
| 1935 | The Good Fairy | The Waiter |
| 1935 | Enchanted April | Henry Arbuthnot |
| 1934 | Here Is My Heart | Vova |
| 1934 | Music in the Air | Ernst Weber |
| 1934 | Madame du Barry | King Louis XV |
| 1934 | The Human Side | James Dalton |
| 1934 | Of Human Bondage | Thorpe Athelny |
| 1934 | Stingaree | The Governor-General |
| 1934 | Where Sinners Meet | Leonard |
| 1934 | The House of Rothschild | Herries |
| 1934 | The Countess of Monte Cristo | The Baron |
| 1934 | Fashions of 1934 | Oscar Baroque |
| 1934 | Mandalay | Police Commissioner Col. Thomas Dawson |
| 1934 | Queen Christina | Charles |
| 1934 | Nana | Bordenave |
| 1933 | Voltaire | King Louis XV |
| 1933 | The Big Brain | Lord Darlington |
| 1933 | Double Harness | Freeman |
| 1933 | The Narrow Corner | Mr. Frith |
| 1933 | A Study in Scarlet | Sherlock Holmes |
| 1932 | Robbers' Roost | Cecil Herrick |
| 1932 | Sherlock Holmes | Dr. Watson |
| 1932 | Downstairs | Baron 'Nicky' von Burgen |
| 1932 | The Man Called Back | Dr. Herbert Atkins |
| 1932 | A Woman Commands | The Prime Minister |
| 1932 | Lovers Courageous | Lord Jimmy |
| 1931 | Platinum Blonde | Dexter Grayson |
| 1931 | The Man in Possession | Claude Dabney |
| 1929 | The Letter | Robert Crosbie |
| 1922 | The Grass Orphan | Heathcote St. John |
| 1922 | Phroso | Lord Wheatley |
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