Bramwell Fletcher

Bramwell Fletcher (20 February 1904 – 22 June 1988) was an English stage, film, and television actor.

Career Fletcher appeared on the stage in 1927 and made his Broadway debut in 1929. Hollywood and sound films soon beckoned. He made his first film in 1928, S.O.S. Fletcher co-starred in Warner Brothers' 1931 film Svengali with actor John Barrymore, whose daughter Diana would marry Fletcher a decade later. He had a brief but notable appearance in The Mummy (1932) as the assistant gone mad. In 1943, he abandoned films for the theatre and television. He wrote and acted in the critically successful 1965 play The Bernard Shaw Story.

Personal life His first two wives were actresses. He was married to Helen Chandler from 1935 to 1940 and Diana Barrymore from 1942 to 1946. Both marriages ended in divorce. In 1950 he married Susan Robinson and had 3 children: Whit, Kent and Catherine Fletcher. In 1970 he married Lael Tucker Wertenbaker, living with her in Nelson, New Hampshire, moving to Keene in 1985. He remained with her until his death in 1988.

Complete filmography

Chick (1928) - Chick Beane S.O.S. (1928) - Herriott To What Red Hell (1929) - Jim Nolan So This Is London (1930) - Alfred Honeycutt Raffles (1930) - Bunny The Millionaire (1931) - Carter Andrews Svengali (1931) - Billee Men of the Sky (1931) - Eric Daughter of the Dragon (1931) - Ronald Petrie Once a Lady (1931) - Allen Corinth The Silent Witness (1932) - Anthony Howard A Bill of Divorcement (1932) - Gareth (uncredited) The Face on the Barroom Floor (1932) - Bill Bronson The Mummy (1932) - Ralph Norton The Monkey's Paw (1933) - Herbert White Only Yesterday (1933) - Scott Hughes The Right to Romance (1933) - Man with the Maceys Nana (1934) - Minor Role (uncredited) The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934) - The Priest Line Engaged (1935) - David Morland The Undying Monster (1942) - Dr. Jeff Colbert White Cargo (1942) - Wilbur Ashley Random Harvest (1942) - Harrison Immortal Sergeant (1943) - Symes Bread of Freedom (1952 TV movie) Drama into Opera: Oedipus Rex (1961 TV movie)