Holmes Herbert
Biography
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Holmes Herbert (born Horace Edward Jenner; 30 July 1882 – 26 December 1956) was an English character actor who appeared in Hollywood films from 1915 to 1952.
Herbert immigrated to the United States in 1912. He never made a film in his native country, but appeared in 228 films during his career in the U.S., beginning with stalwart leading roles during the silent era, then numerous supporting roles in classic Hollywood films of the sound era, including Captain Blood (1935), The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936), The Life of Emile Zola (1937), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), and Foreign Correspondent (1940).
He is perhaps best known for his role as Dr. Jekyll's friend Dr. Lanyon in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931), and made something of a career in horror films of the period, appearing in The Terror (1928), The Thirteenth Chair (1929 and 1937), The Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933), The Invisible Man (1933), Mark of the Vampire (1935), Tower of London (1939), The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942), The Undying Monster (1942), The Mummy's Curse (1944), and The Son of Dr. Jekyll (1951). He also played in several of Universal's cycle of Sherlock Holmes films during the 1940s.
Holmes Herbert was married three times. His first wife was actress Beryl Mercer, and his second was Elinor Kershaw Ince, widow of film mogul Thomas H. Ince. Both marriages ended in divorce. Third wife Agnes Bartholomew died, leaving Herbert a widower, in 1955.
He died in 1956 at age 74.
Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1882-07-30
Place of birth
Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
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Cast
The Pursuit of Happiness
1934
5.80
A Woman's Vengeance
1948
6.20
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1931
7.20
The Ghost of Frankenstein
1942
5.78
The Invisible Man
1933
7.50
Dressed to Kill
1946
6.60
The Kiss
1929
6.31
The Lost Tribe
1949
5.00
The Wild North
1952
6.90
Mystery of the Wax Museum
1933
6.45
The Pearl of Death
1944
7.10
The House of Fear
1945
6.85
The Divorcee
1919
0.00
Hidden Power
1939
0.00
Trapped in the Sky
1939
0.00
Tower of London
1939
6.04
The Verdict
1946
6.46
Invisible Agent
1942
5.79
Mark of the Vampire
1935
6.10
The Prince and the Pauper
1937
6.80
Jealousy
1945
5.40
Calling Dr. Death
1943
6.36
The Uninvited
1944
6.90
Captain Blood
1935
7.20
Madame X
1929
6.10
Moonshine Valley
1922
0.00
British Intelligence
1939
5.70
The Ghost Goes Wild
1947
5.00
Love Laughs at Andy Hardy
1946
5.50
Singapore
1947
5.93
The Fisherwoman
1915
0.00
His Wife
1915
0.00
Dead Men Tell No Tales
1920
6.00
The Mystery of Mr. Wong
1939
5.68
The House of Secrets
1936
5.20
The Unwritten Code
1944
5.60
The Thirteenth Chair
1929
4.90
Post Office Investigator
1949
6.00
Confidential Agent
1945
5.46
East Side, West Side
1927
7.20
The Thirteenth Chair
1937
6.14
Untamed
1929
5.89
Enter Arsène Lupin
1944
6.00
Miss Pinkerton
1932
5.70
The Fire Brigade
1926
3.50
Chances
1931
7.00
Say It with Songs
1929
4.80
The White Heather
1919
0.00
Broadminded
1931
3.70
The Brigand
1952
5.50
The Hot Heiress
1931
5.30
His House in Order
1920
1.00
Lady Rose's Daughter
1920
0.00
Here's Flash Casey
1938
4.80
The Girl Said No
1937
5.40
Sister to Judas
1932
0.00
South of St. Louis
1949
5.63
The Unknown Man
1951
4.80
One in a Million
1935
5.00
The Ship from Shanghai
1930
5.70
Two Tickets to London
1943
6.00
A Woman of the World
1925
5.06
Family Honeymoon
1948
5.70
Bad Boy
1939
3.00
Shop Angel
1932
0.00
The Black Doll
1938
5.30
The Man Without a Country
1917
4.80
Sons of Steel
1934
5.00
Evidence
1922
0.00
The Single Sin
1931
0.00
Ivy
1947
6.60
Say It in French
1938
0.00
Mr. Wu
1927
5.70
Slave Ship
1937
4.50
Brilliant Marriage
1936
4.50
The ABC of Love
1919
5.60
Stanley and Livingstone
1939
6.30
Wolf Call
1939
3.25
Man Hunt
1941
6.92
This Above All
1942
6.70
The Curtain Falls
1934
5.00
Any Wife
1922
1.00
Slaves of Beauty
1927
0.00
Cardinal Richelieu
1935
7.40
The Right to Love
1920
0.00
The Gentleman from Louisiana
1936
0.00
The White Angel
1936
7.20
Champagne Charlie
1936
4.80
Mr. Moto's Last Warning
1939
5.50
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
1947
5.80
The Little Princess
1939
6.70
Juarez
1939
6.50
The Sun Never Sets
1939
4.80
We Are Not Alone
1939
6.10
The House of Fear
1939
6.50
Everything Happens at Night
1939
4.10
The Swordsman
1948
0.00
Kidnapped
1938
4.70
The Earl of Chicago
1940
5.60
15 Maiden Lane
1936
6.00
When a Man Loves
1927
5.90
Boom Town
1940
6.88
Wife vs. Secretary
1936
6.70
The Letter
1940
7.29
Foreign Correspondent
1940
7.00
20,000 Men a Year
1939
5.50
A Dispatch from Reuters
1940
6.12
Phantom Raiders
1940
6.10
Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
1944
7.30
An Angel from Texas
1940
4.80
The Mummy's Curse
1944
5.50
The Wreck of the Hesperus
1948
6.20
The Honeymoon Express
1926
0.00
The Iroquois Trail
1950
5.80
Accent on Youth
1935
5.50
Over the Santa Fe Trail
1947
0.00
The Enchanted Cottage
1924
6.67
The Charlatan
1929
3.50
On Trial
1928
6.00
The Terror
1928
6.00
Careers
1929
0.00
On with the Dance
1920
1.00
Up the Ladder
1925
4.20
Sorry, Wrong Number
1948
6.72
Daughter of the Dragon
1931
5.08
The Careless Age
1929
0.00
Mystery of the White Room
1939
0.00
The Wanderer
1925
1.00
Bulldog Drummond at Bay
1947
6.00
The Buccaneer
1938
6.40
Jungle Jim
1948
5.30
Anne of the Indies
1951
6.30
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
1928
0.00
Sherlock Holmes in Washington
1943
6.70
Danger in the Pacific
1942
6.00
Corvette K-225
1943
6.10
The Man Without a Country
1937
5.70
Three Strangers
1946
6.40
Lloyd's of London
1936
7.22
One Increasing Purpose
1927
0.00
The Sporting Age
1928
2.70
Daddy's Gone A-Hunting
1925
5.00
Black Is White
1920
0.00
Josselyn's Wife
1926
0.00
The Truth About Husbands
1920
0.00
Rulers of the Sea
1939
6.50
Johnny Belinda
1948
6.77
Barbary Pirate
1949
6.00
The Undying Monster
1942
5.70
Intermezzo: A Love Story
1939
6.58
The Death Dance
1918
1.00
Her Private Life
1929
1.00
The Heart of Salome
1927
0.00
Through the Breakers
1928
3.25
Swingin' on a Rainbow
1945
0.00
Central Park
1932
5.20
Marie Antoinette
1938
6.50
A Woman's Woman
1922
0.00
The Silver Slave
1927
0.00
Sinners in Heaven
1924
0.00
Beloved
1934
0.00
Strictly in the Groove
1942
0.00
The Wild Goose
1921
1.00
A Doll's House
1918
0.00
The Son of Dr. Jekyll
1951
4.30
Canadian Pacific
1949
5.00
The Gay Retreat
1927
0.00
Divorce Coupons
1922
0.00
I Will Repay
1924
0.00
Another Scandal
1924
0.00
Her Own Free Will
1924
0.00
Greater Than Love
1919
1.00
Lady in a Jam
1942
5.27
Her Lord and Master
1921
0.00
Other Men's Wives
1919
0.00
The Family Closet
1921
0.00
The House of Rothschild
1934
6.20
A Stage Romance
1922
0.00
My Lady's Garter
1920
0.00
Love's Wilderness
1924
0.00
The Rough Neck
1919
0.00
Toilers of the Sea
1923
0.00
Wreckage
1925
0.00
Week End Husbands
1924
0.00
The Market of Souls
1919
0.00
Heedless Moths
1921
0.00
Lovers
1927
0.00