Robert Morley
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- May 26, 1908, Semley, England, UK
- Died
- June 3, 1992
- Movies
- 87
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Robert Adolph Wilton Morley CBE (26 May 1908 – 3 June 1992) was an English actor who, often in supporting roles, was usually cast as a pompous English gentleman representing the Establishment. In Movie Encyclopedia, film critic Leonard Maltin describes Morley as "recognizable by his ungainly bulk, bushy eyebrows, thick lips, and double chin, […] particularly effective when cast as a pompous windbag". More politely, Ephraim Katz in his International Film Encyclopaedia describes Morley as a "a rotund, triple-chinned, delightful character player of the British and American stage and screen."
Best-Known Movies
The African Queen
1952
Around the World in 80 Days
1956
The Great Muppet Caper
1981
Theatre of Blood
1973
Topkapi
1964
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes
1965
Murder at the Gallop
1963
Beat the Devil
1953
Cromwell
1970
High Road to China
1983
Filmography
| 2018 | Nothing Like a Dame | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 1989 | Istanbul | Atkins |
| 1988 | The Lady and the Highwayman | Lord Chancellor |
| 1987 | Little Dorrit | Lord Decimus Barnacle |
| 1987 | The Trouble with Spies | Angus |
| 1986 | The Wind | Elias Appleby |
| 1984 | Second Time Lucky | God |
| 1983 | High Road to China | Bentik |
| 1982 | The Deadly Game | Emile Carpeau |
| 1981 | The Great Muppet Caper | British Gentleman by Pond |
| 1981 | Loophole | Godfrey |
| 1980 | Oh! Heavenly Dog | Bernie |
| 1979 | Scavenger Hunt | Bernstein |
| 1979 | The Human Factor | Doctor Percival |
| 1978 | Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? | Maximilian Van Devere |
| 1976 | The Blue Bird | Father Time |
| 1974 | Great Expectations | Uncle Pumblechook |
| 1973 | Theatre of Blood | Meredith Merridew |
| 1971 | When Eight Bells Toll | Uncle Arthur |
| 1970 | Song of Norway | Berg |
| 1970 | Cromwell | The Earl of Manchester |
| 1970 | Doctor in Trouble | Captain George Spratt |
| 1970 | Twinky | Judge Roxborough |
| 1969 | Sinful Davey | Duke of Argyll |
| 1969 | Some Girls Do | Miss Mary |
| 1968 | Hot Millions | Caesar Smith |
| 1968 | Luther | Papst Leo |
| 1967 | Woman Times Seven | Dr. Xavier |
| 1966 | The Trygon Factor | Hubert Hamlyn |
| 1966 | Tender Scoundrel | Lord Swift |
| 1966 | Finders Keepers | Colonel Roberts |
| 1966 | Way... Way Out | Harold Quonset |
| 1966 | Hotel Paradiso | Henri Cotte |
| 1965 | The Alphabet Murders | Captain Hastings |
| 1965 | The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics | Narrator (voice) |
| 1965 | Life at the Top | Tiffield |
| 1965 | The Loved One | Sir Ambrose Abercombie |
| 1965 | A Study in Terror | Mycroft Holmes |
| 1965 | Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes | Lord Rawnsley |
| 1965 | Genghis Khan | Emperor of China |
| 1964 | Of Human Bondage | Dr Jacobs |
| 1964 | Topkapi | Cedric Page |
| 1964 | Rhythm 'n' Greens | Narrator (voice) |
| 1964 | Hot Enough for June | Col. Cunliffe |
| 1963 | Take Her, She's Mine | Mr. Pope-Jones |
| 1963 | Ladies Who Do | The Colonel |
| 1963 | The Old Dark House | Roderick Femm |
| 1963 | Murder at the Gallop | Hector Enderby |
| 1963 | Nine Hours to Rama | P.K. Mussardi |
| 1962 | The Boys | Montgomery |
| 1962 | Go to Blazes | Arson Eddie |
| 1962 | The Road to Hong Kong | Leader of the 3rd Echelon |
| 1961 | The Young Ones | Hamilton Black |
| 1961 | Joseph and His Brethren | Potiphar |
| 1960 | Oscar Wilde | Oscar Wilde |
| 1960 | The Battle of the Sexes | Robert Macpherson |
| 1959 | Libel | Sir Wilfred |
| 1959 | The Journey | Hugh Deverill |
| 1959 | The Doctor's Dilemma | Sir Ralph Bloomfield-Bonington |
| 1958 | The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw | Uncle Lucius |
| 1958 | Law and Disorder | Judge Sir Edward Crichton |
| 1956 | Around the World in 80 Days | Ralph |
| 1956 | Loser Takes All | Dreuther |
| 1955 | ITV Opening Night at the Guildhall | Self |
| 1955 | Quentin Durward | King Louis XI |
| 1954 | Beau Brummell | King George III |
| 1954 | The Rainbow Jacket | Lord Logan |
| 1954 | The Good Die Young | Sir Francis Ravenscourt |
| 1953 | Beat the Devil | Peterson |
| 1953 | Melba | Oscar Hammerstein I |
| 1953 | The Final Test | Alexander Whitehead |
| 1953 | The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan | William S. Gilbert |
| 1952 | Curtain Up | W.H. 'Harry' Derwent Blacker |
| 1952 | The African Queen | The Brother |
| 1951 | Outcast of the Islands | Elmer Almayer |
| 1949 | The Small Back Room | The Minister |
| 1947 | The Ghosts of Berkeley Square | Colonel "Bulldog" Kelsoe |
| 1945 | I Live in Grosvenor Square | Duke of Exmoor |
| 1942 | The Young Mr. Pitt | Charles James Fox |
| 1942 | The Foreman Went to France | Mayor Coutare of Bivary |
| 1942 | Partners in Crime | Judge |
| 1942 | This Was Paris | Van Der Stuyl |
| 1942 | The Big Blockade | Von Geiselbrecht |
| 1941 | Major Barbara | Andrew Undershaft |
| 1941 | You Will Remember | Tom Barrett / Leslie Stuart |
| 1938 | Marie Antoinette | King Louis XVI |
| 1938 | Another Romance of Celluloid | Self (uncredited) |
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