Raymond Huntley

Horace Raymond Huntley (23 April 1904 – 15 June 1990) was an English actor who appeared in dozens of British films from the 1930s to the 1970s. He also appeared in the ITV period drama Upstairs, Downstairs as the pragmatic family solicitor Sir Geoffrey Dillon.

After Dracula he made his Broadway debut at the Vanderbilt Theatre on 23 February 1931, in The Venetian Glass Nephew. On returning to the UK, his many West End appearances included The Farmer's Wife (Queen's Theatre 1932), Cornelius (Duchess Theatre 1935), Bees on the Boat Deck (Lyric Theatre 1936) Time and the Conways (Duchess Theatre 1937), When We Are Married (St Martin's Theatre 1938), Rebecca (Queen's Theatre 1940; Strand Theatre 1942), They Came to a City (Globe Theatre 1943), The Late Edwina Black (Ambassadors Theatre 1948), And This Was Odd (Criterion Theatre 1951), Double Image (Savoy Theatre 1956), Any Other Business (Westminster Theatre 1958), Caught Napping (Piccadilly Theatre 1959), Difference of Opinion (Garrick Theatre 1963), An Ideal Husband (Garrick Theatre 1966), Getting Married (Strand Theatre 1967), Soldiers (New Theatre 1968) and Separate Tables (Apollo Theatre 1977). He also starred opposite Flora Robson in the Broadway production of Black Chiffon (48th Street Theatre 1950).

Complete filmography

What Happened Then? (1934) .... Minor role (uncredited) Can You Hear Me, Mother? (1935) .... Dolan Whom the Gods Love (1936) .... Langer Rembrandt (1936) .... Ludwick London Melody (1937) .... Policeman Outside Nightclub (uncredited) Knight Without Armour (1937) .... White Officer Dinner at the Ritz (1937) .... Gibout When We Are Married (1938, TV Movie) .... Councillor Albert Parker Let's Be Famous (1939) .... Singer in trio (uncredited) The Lion Has Wings (1939) .... Minor role (uncredited) Night Train to Munich (1940) .... Kampenfeldt Bulldog Sees It Through (1940) .... Tramp Steamer Officer Freedom Radio (1941) .... Rabenau The Ghost of St. Michael's (1941) .... Mr Humphries The Ghost Train (1941) .... John Price Inspector Hornleigh Goes To It (1941) .... Dr Kerbishley "Pimpernel" Smith (1941) .... Marx Once a Crook (1941) .... Prison Governor The Day Will Dawn (1942) .... Norwegian Under-Secretary (scenes deleted) The New Lot (1943, Short) .... Barrington (uncredited) When We Are Married (1943) .... Albert Parker The Way Ahead (1944) .... Pte Herbert Davenport They Came to a City (1944) .... Malcolm Stritton I See a Dark Stranger (1946) .... J. Miller School for Secrets (1946) .... Prof Laxton-Jones So Evil My Love (1948) .... Henry Courtney Men of Darkness (1948, TV Movie) .... Pisancon Broken Journey (1948) .... Edward Marshall Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill (1948) .... Moy-Thompson It's Hard to Be Good (1948) .... Williams Passport to Pimlico (1949) .... Mr Wix The Late Edwina Black (1949, TV Movie) .... Henry Martin Trio (1950) .... Mr Henry Chester (segment "Sanatorium") The Long Dark Hall (1951) .... Chief Insp Sullivan I'll Never Forget You (1951) .... Mr Throstle Mr. Denning Drives North (1951) .... Wright When We Are Married (1951, TV movie) .... Councillor Albert Parker The Last Page (1952) .... Clive Oliver Laxdale Hall (1953) .... Samuel Pettigrew, MP Glad Tidings (1953) .... Tom Forester Meet Mr Lucifer (1953) .... Patterson Hobson's Choice (1954) .... Nathaniel Beenstock Orders Are Orders (1954) .... Colonel Bellamy The Teckman Mystery (1954) .... Maurice Miller Aunt Clara (1954) .... Rev Maurice Hilton The Unguarded Hour (1955, TV Movie) .... Colonel William Mason The Prisoner (1955) .... The General The Constant Husband (1955) .... The Boss The Dam Busters (1955) .... Official, National Physical Laboratory Doctor at Sea (1955) .... Capt Beamish Geordie (1955) .... Olympic Selector The Last Man to Hang (1956) .... Attorney-General The Green Man (1956) .... Sir Gregory Upshott Town on Trial (1957) .... Dr Reese Brothers in Law (1957) .... Tatlock QC Jessica (1957, TV Movie) .... Stanley Baines Dial 999 (TV series) (1958)....Myners Next to No Time (1958) .... Forbes, Factory Supervisor Room at the Top (1959) .... Mr Hoylake Carlton-Browne of the F.O. (1959) .... Foreign Secretary Tufton Slade Innocent Meeting (1959) .... Harold The Mummy (1959) .... Joseph Whemple I'm All Right Jack (1959) .... Magistrate Our Man in Havana (1959) .... General Bottoms Up (1960) .... Garrick-Jones Breathless (1960) .... A Journalist (uncredited) Follow That Horse! (1960) .... Special Branch Chief Make Mine Mink (1960) .... Inspector Pape A French Mistress (1960) .... Rev Edwin Peake Sands of the Desert (1960) .... Bossom Suspect (1960) .... Sir George Gatting, Minister of Defence The Pure Hell of St Trinian's (1960) .... Judge Line of Enquiry (1961, TV Movie) .... Mr Sinclair Only Two Can Play (1962) .... Vernon Crooks Anonymous (1962) .... Wagstaffe Waltz of the Toreadors (1962) .... Ackroyd, Court President On the Beat (1962) .... Sir Ronald Ackroyd Nurse on Wheels (1963) .... Vicar The Yellow Teddy Bears (1963) .... Harry Halburton Father Came Too! (1964) .... Mr Wedgewood The Black Torment (1964) .... Colonel John Wentworth Rotten to the Core (1965) .... Prison Governor (uncredited) The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery (1966) .... Sir Horace, the Minister Hot Millions (1968) .... Bayswater (uncredited) Hostile Witness (1968) .... John Naylor The Adding Machine (1969) .... Smithers Arthur! Arthur! (1969) .... George Payne Destiny of a Spy (1969, TV Movie) .... Supt Pode Young Winston (1972) .... Old Officer (scenes deleted) That's Your Funeral (1972) .... Emmanuel Holroyd Symptoms (1974) .... Burke A Voyage Round My Father (1982, TV Movie) .... Judge Sleepwalker (1984) .... Old Englishman (final film role)