Reginald Owen
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Male
Birthday 1887-08-04
Deathday 1972-11-05 (85 years old)
Place of Birth Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire, England, UK
Also Known As John Reginald Owen, Джон Реджинальд Оуэн, Реджинальд Оуэн
Reginald Owen
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John Reginald Owen (5 August 1887 – 5 November 1972) was an English character actor. He was known for his many roles in British and American films and later in television programmes. The son of Joseph and Frances Owen, Reginald Owen studied at Sir Herbert Tree's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and made his professional debut in 1905. In 1911, he starred in the original production of Where the Rainbow Ends as Saint George which opened to very good reviews on 21 December 1911. Reginald Owen had a few years earlier met the author Mrs. Clifford Mills as a young actor, and it was he who on hearing her idea of a Rainbow Story persuaded her to turn it into a play, and thus "Where the Rainbow Ends" was born. He went to the United States in 1920 and worked originally on Broadway in New York, but later moved to Hollywood, where he began a lengthy film career. He was always a familiar face in many Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer productions. Owen is perhaps best known today for his performance as Ebenezer Scrooge in the 1938 film version of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, a role he inherited from Lionel Barrymore, who had played the part of Scrooge on the radio every Christmas for years until Barrymore broke his hip in an accident. Owen was one of only five actors to play both Sherlock Holmes and his companion Dr Watson (Jeremy Brett played Watson on stage in the United States prior to adopting the mantle of Holmes on British television, Carleton Hobbs played both roles in British radio adaptations while Patrick Macnee played both roles in US television films). Howard Marion-Crawford played Holmes in a radio adaptation of "The Speckled Band" and later played Watson to Ronald Howard’s Holmes in the 1954-55 television series. Owen first played Watson in the film Sherlock Holmes (1932), and then Holmes himself in A Study in Scarlet (1933). Having played Ebenezer Scrooge, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, Owen has the odd distinction of playing three classic characters of Victorian fiction only to live to see those characters be taken over and personified by other actors, namely Alastair Sim as Scrooge, Basil Rathbone as Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Watson. Later in his career, Owen appeared opposite James Garner in the television series Maverick in the episodes "The Belcastle Brand" (1957) and "Gun-Shy" (1958) and also guest starred in episodes of the series One Step Beyond and Bewitched. He was featured in the Walt Disney films Mary Poppins (1964) and Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971). He had a small role in the 1962 Irwin Allen production of the Jules Verne novel Five Weeks in a Balloon. In August 1964, his Bel-Air mansion was rented out to the Beatles, who were performing at the Hollywood Bowl, when no hotel would book them.
Known For
Actor
as Sherlock Holmes (archive footage)
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Gen. Teagler
as Patrick
as Sir Hillary Cooper
as Admiral Boom
as Old Tom Fraleigh
as Jason Tripp
as Consul
as Mr. Bennett
as The Hussar ('A Terribly Strange Bed')
as J. Cecil Bennett
as Ambrose Feather
as Herbert Blakely
as Marquis Norbert Belcastle
as Judge Wallace Winthrop
as Bainbridge Gibbons
as Doctor
as Dely Delacorte
as Father Victor
as Mr. Foley
as Sergeant Davie
as Ben Weatherstaff
as Hopps
as Treville
as Benjy Hawkins
as The Advocate
as Mr. Fortune
as James Moore
as Captain O'Hara
as Mr. Hopkins
as King Louis XV
as Judge
as Henry Carmel
as Captain Lanlaire
as Mr. Amboy
as Cary Shadwell
as Dr. Pembroke
as Duke of Malmunster
as McCready
as Farmer Ede
as Lord Canterville
as Dr. Becquerel
as Mr. Henry Casper
as Dr. Mespelbrunn
as John Girard
as Col. Trane
as Simpson
as Schultz
as "Biffer"
as Skipper of the Congo Queen
as Willie Manning
as Philo Cobson
as Noah Glenkins
as 'Whiskers'
as Foley
as Maj. Tyler-Blane
as Clayton
as Professor Elliott
as Max Milton
as Mr. Redcliffe
as General Allen
as Bernard Dalvik
as Sir George Kelvin
as Reginald Mason
as 'Buzz' Foster
as Emperor Franz Josef
as Hemingway
as Gervase Gonwell
as Mr. Bronson
as Edwards, Marvin's Valet
as Capt. Hartley
as Sir Horace Bragdon
as General Videnko
as Vincent Charlton
as Charlie Grump
as Ebenezer Scrooge
as Scrooge (atchive footage)
as John Hodge Lawson
as William, the Butler
as Johann Kesselhut
as Capt. Hoseason
as Hillary Bellaire
as Chancellor
as Tallyrand
as Admiral Monti
as Maurice Dourel
as Claude Dabney
as William
as Baron Otto Spandermann
as Blackton Gregory
as Archie Biddle
as Dictionary McKinney
as President of Club
as Sampston
as Sir James Felton
as Myerson
as Stryver
as Guy Waller
as Stiva
as Mr. Smith
as Paul
as Detlaff
as Henry Arbuthnot
as Vova
as Ernst Weber
as King Louis XV
as James Dalton
as Thorpe Athelny
as The Governor-General
as Leonard
as Herries
as The Baron
as Oscar Baroque
as Police Commissioner Col. Thomas Dawson
as Bordenave
as Charles
as King Louis XV
as Lord Darlington
as Freeman
as Mr. Frith
as Sherlock Holmes
as Cecil Herrick
as Dr. Watson
as Baron 'Nicky' von Burgen
as Dr. Herbert Atkins
as The Prime Minister
as Lord Jimmy
as Dexter Grayson
as Claude Dabney
as Robert Crosbie
as Heathcote St. John
as Lord Wheatley
Writer
as Story
as Dialogue