Halliwell Hobbes

Early years Hobbes's schooling came at Trinity College in Stratford-upon-Avon.

Career Hobbes's stage debut was as a member of Frank Benson's company, in the role of Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet in 1898. In 1908 and 1910 he played Prince Michael in The Prince and the Beggar Maid at the Lyceum Theatre in London.

Of his performance in a 1923 production of Ferenc Molnar's The Swan, Benjamin De Casseres wrote:

Hobbes moved back to Broadway by the mid-1940s, appearing in Romeo and Juliet as Lord Capulet

Personal life In 1915, Hobbes married Nancie Brenda Marsland,

Death After Hobbes died from a heart attack on February 20, 1962, he was buried at the Chapel of the Pines Crematory in Los Angeles.

Filmography

Lucky in Love (1929) as Earl of Balkerry (film debut) Jealousy (1929) as Rigaud Grumpy (1930) as Ruddick Charley's Aunt (1930) as Stephen Spettigue The Bachelor Father (1931) as Larkin, the Butler The Right of Way (1931) as The Siegneur The Lady Refuses (1931) as Sir James - Lawyer (uncredited) Five and Ten (1931) as Hopkins (uncredited) The Woman Between (1931) as Barton - the Butler The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931) as Roget Platinum Blonde (1931) as Butler Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) as Brig. Gen. Danvers Carew Forbidden (1932) as Florist (uncredited) Lovers Courageous (1932) as Mr. Smith The Menace (1932) as Phillips Love Affair (1932) as Kibbee Devil's Lottery (1932) as Lord Litchfield Man About Town (1932) as Hilton Week Ends Only (1932) as Martin Six Hours to Live (1932) as Baron Emil von Sturm Payment Deferred (1932) as A Prospective Tenant Cynara (1932) as Coroner at Inquest Looking Forward (1933) as Mr. James Felton A Study in Scarlet (1933) as Dearing Midnight Mary (1933) as Churchill Captured! (1933) as British Major General The Masquerader (1933) as Brock Lady for a Day (1933) as Butler If I Were Free (1933) as Burford - Gordon's Butler (uncredited) Should Ladies Behave (1933) as Louis I Am Suzanne (1933) as Dr. Lorenzo Mandalay (1934) as Col. Dawson Ames Riptide (1934) as Bollard All Men Are Enemies (1934) as Clarendon Double Door (1934) as Mr. Chase The Key (1934) as General C.O. Furlong Madame Du Barry (1934) as English Ambassador Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back (1934) as First Bobby She Was a Lady (1934) as George Dane British Agent (1934) as Sir Walter Carrister We Live Again (1934) as Official (uncredited) Menace (1934) as Skinner Father Brown, Detective (1934) as Sir Leopold Fischer The Right to Live (1935) as Sir Stephen Barr Folies Bergère de Paris (1935) as Monsieur Paulet Vanessa: Her Love Story (1935) as Father of Little Girl (uncredited) Cardinal Richelieu (1935) as Father Joseph Jalna (1935) as Uncle Ernest Whiteoak Charlie Chan in Shanghai (1935) as Chief of Police Millions in the Air (1935) as Theodore Captain Blood (1935) as Lord Sunderland (uncredited) Rose Marie (1936) as Mr. Gordon (uncredited) Here Comes Trouble (1936) as Prof. Howard The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936) as Dr. Lister Dracula's Daughter (1936) as Hawkins Changing of the Guard (1936, Short) as Grandfather, the Colonel Hearts Divided (1936) as Cambaceres The White Angel (1936) as Lord Raglan Spendthrift (1936) as Beuhl - the Butler Mary of Scotland (1936) as Minor Role (uncredited) Give Me Your Heart (1936) as Oliver Love Letters of a Star (1936) as Hotchkiss Maid of Salem (1937) as Jeremiah The Prince and the Pauper (1937) as Archbishop Parnell (1937) as W.H. Smith (uncredited) Fit for a King (1937) as Count Strunsky Varsity Show (1937) as Dean Meredith The Jury's Secret (1938) as John, The Butler Bulldog Drummond's Peril (1938) as Professor Bernard Goodman Kidnapped (1938) as Dominie Campbell You Can't Take It With You (1938) as DePinna Service de Luxe (1938) as Butler Storm Over Bengal (1938) as Sir John Galt A Christmas Carol (1938) as Clergyman Sliding on Sidewalk (uncredited) Pacific Liner (1939) as Captain Mathews The Hardys Ride High (1939) as Dobbs, the Butler Tell No Tales (1939) as Dr. Lovelake Naughty but Nice (1939) as Dean Burton, Winfield College Nurse Edith Cavell (1939) as English Chaplain Remember? (1939) as Butler Williams The Light That Failed (1939) as Doctor The Earl of Chicago (1940) as Lord Chancellor Waterloo Bridge (1940) as Vicar at St. Matthews (uncredited) The Sea Hawk (1940) as Astronomer Third Finger, Left Hand (1940) as Burton Lady with Red Hair (1940) as Divorce Judge (uncredited) That Hamilton Woman (1941) as Rev. Nelson Sunny (1941) as Johnson (uncredited) Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941) as Sisk Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day (1941) as Minister (uncredited) Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake (1942) as Purdy To Be or Not to Be (1942) as General Armstrong The War Against Mrs. Hadley (1942) as Bennett The Undying Monster (1942) as Walton, the Butler Journey for Margaret (1942) as Mr. Barrie Forever and a Day (1943) as Doctor Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943) as Brunton Mr. Muggs Steps Out (1943) as Charney, the Butler His Butler's Sister (1943) as Willebrandt (uncredited) Gaslight (1944) as Mr. Muffin Mr. Skeffington (1944) as Soames (uncredited) The Invisible Man's Revenge (1944) as Cleghorn Casanova Brown (1944) as Charles Information Please (1944, Short) as Leutnant Eberhard (uncredited) Canyon Passage (1946) as Clenchfield If Winter Comes (1947) as The Coroner The Black Arrow (1948) as Bishop of Tisbury You Gotta Stay Happy (1948) as Martin That Forsyte Woman (1949) as Nicholas Forsyte Miracle in the Rain (1956) as Ely B. 'Windy' Windgate (final film)

Partial Broadway credits And Then There Were None (1943) Murder on the Nile/Hidden Horizon (1944–45)