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Charles Henry Daniell (5 March 1894 – 31 October 1963) was an English actor who had a long and prestigious career on stage as well as in films. He is perhaps best known for his villainous roles in films like The Great Dictator, The Philadelphia Story and The Sea Hawk. Daniell was given few opportunities to play a ‘good guy’, including a supporting part as Franz Liszt in the biographical film Song of Love (1947). His last name is sometimes spelled “Daniel”.
Daniell’s film debut came in 1929 in Jealousy. He appeared as Professor Moriarty in the Basil Rathbone-Nigel Bruce Sherlock Holmes film The Woman in Green (1945). He appeared in other films such as Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator (1940) (playing Garbitsch, to sound like “garbage”, a parody of Joseph Goebbels), and The Body Snatcher (1945, with Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi) – as well as two other films in the Sherlock Holmes/Basil Rathbone series: The Voice of Terror (1942) and Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943) with fellow Moriarty George Zucco.
Daniell played the sleazy Baron de Varville opposite Greta Garbo in Camille (1936). Another early triumph was his portrayal of Cecil in The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939). He also played the treacherous Lord Wolfingham (no relation to Francis Walsingham) in The Sea Hawk (1940), fighting Errol Flynn in what is often considered one of the most spectacular sword fighting duels ever filmed. When Michael Curtiz cast him in this film, Henry Daniell initially refused because he couldn’t fence. Curtiz accomplished the climactic duel through the use of shadows and over-shoulder shots, with a double fencing Flynn with ingenious inter-cutting of their faces.
Towards the end of the Second World War, he appeared in one of his most memorable film roles, as the cruel Mr. Brocklehurst in Jane Eyre (1944), opposite Joan Fontaine who played Eyre. That same year he appeared in The Suspect as Charles Laughton’s blackmailing next-door neighbour. In the 1950s and 1960s, he did much television, and also appeared as the malevolent Dr. Emil Zurich in Edward L. Cahn’s The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake (1959), and in an episode of Maverick, “Pappy” opposite James Garner the same year. An absolute professional, he was always on the set when needed, and impatient when delays in filming took place. Much in demand for his dry, sardonic delivery, Daniell moved easily from big-budget films, such as (uncredited) Mutiny on the Bounty (1962), to television without difficulty. In 1957, Daniell appeared as King Charles II of England in the NBC anthology series The Joseph Cotten Show in the episode “The Trial of Colonel Blood”, with Michael Wilding in the title role. In the same year he played the instructing solicitor to Charles Laughton’s leading counsel barrister in Witness for the Prosecution (1957).
The actor claimed one of his favourite roles was as Tony Curtis’ supervisor in the acclaimed Blake Edwards film Mister Cory (1957) at a time when the actor’s career was clearly slowing down, but Daniell retained some of the best and most memorable lines in the movie, “A gentleman never grabs. Manners, Mister Cory. I find them a prerequisite in any circumstance.”
Henry Daniell Biography / Wiki
| Name | Henry Daniell |
| Also Know | Henry Daniel |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Barnes, Surrey, UK |
| Date of Birth | 1894-03-05 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 69 |
| Deathday | 1963-10-31 |
Henry Daniell Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake | Dr. Emil Zurich | 1959-11-13 | Jonathan Drake, while attending his brother’s funeral, is shocked to find the head of the deceased is missing. When his brother’s skull shows up later… |
| The Secret Of St. Ives | Maj. Edward Chevenish | 1949-06-30 | A French soldier in the Napoleonic Wars plots his escape after he’s captured and imprisoned in a castle fortress in Edinburgh, Scotland. Director Phil… |
| The Awful Truth | Norman Warriner | 1929-08-10 | Story of a wealthy couple whose individual infidelities lead inexorably to the divorce court…. |
| Siren of Atlantis | Blades | 1949-01-01 | Two Foreign Legion soldiers, Jean (Dennis O’Keefe) and Andre (Jean Pierre Aumont), accidentally discover the famed lost continent of Atlantis. Bewitch… |
| The Body Snatcher | Dr. Wolfe ‘Toddy’ MacFarlane | 1945-05-25 | Edinburgh, 1831. Among those who undertake the illegal trade of grave robbery is Gray, ostensibly a cab driver. Formerly a medical student convicted o… |
| Nightmare | Capt. Edgar Stafford | 1942-11-10 | An ex-gambler helps a beautiful widow, and becomes involved with a murder, secret agents, and saboteurs…. |
| The Great Dictator | Garbitsch | 1940-10-15 | Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel’s regime…. |
| The Woman in Green | Professor James Moriarty | 1945-06-15 | Sherlock Holmes investigates when young women around London turn up murdered, each with a finger severed. Scotland Yard suspects a madman, but Holmes … |
| Sherlock Holmes in Washington | William Easter | 1943-03-24 | In World War II, a British secret agent carrying a vitally important document is kidnapped en route to Washington. The British government calls on She… |
| The Exile | Colonel Ingram | 1947-10-17 | In 17th-century England, Charles II, the rightful heir to the kingdom, is driven from his country by militants working for rogue leader Oliver Cromwel… |
| Under Cover of Night | Professor Marvin Griswald | 1937-01-08 | A detective (Edmund Lowe) trails a professor (Henry Daniell) who stole credit for his wife’s research, then killed her…. |
| Song of Love | Franz Liszt | 1947-10-09 | Composer Robert Schumann struggles to compose his symphonies while his loving wife Clara offers her support. Also helping the Schumanns is their lifel… |
| Castle in the Desert | Watson King | 1942-02-02 | Paul Manderley, eccentric historian, and his wife, descendant of the Borgias, live in an isolated castle-like mansion in the Mojave Desert. When a gue… |
| The Bandit of Sherwood Forest | The Regent – William of Pembroke | 1946-02-21 | Robin Hood’s swashbuckling son (Cornel Wilde) comes to the rescue when England’s boy-king is captured by the evil, power-hungry William of Pembroke (H… |
| Jealousy | Clement | 1929-09-13 | Yvonne, proprietor of a Paris gown shop, marries Pierre, a poor artist, concealing from him an affair she had with Rigaud, an elderly boulevardier who… |
| The Suspect | Mr. Simmons | 1945-01-31 | Genial shopkeeper Philip has to endure the constant nagging of a shrewish wife while he secretly yearns for a pretty young stenographer. When the henp… |
| Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror | Sir Anthony Lloyd | 1942-09-18 | England, at the start of World War Two. Mysterious wireless broadcasts, apparently from Nazi Germany are heard over the BBC. They warn of acts of terr… |
| The Firefly | General Savary | 1937-11-05 | Nina Maria Azara is the beautiful and alluring singing spy for Spain during the Napoleonic Wars. Her mission is to seduce French Officers, in order fo… |
| Madame X | Lerocle | 1937-10-01 | An alcoholic woman was charged and tried for murder and a young defense attorney, unaware that she is his mother, takes the assignment to defend her i… |
| Camille | Baron de Varville | 1936-12-26 | Life in 1847 Paris is as spirited as champagne and as unforgiving as the gray morning after. In gambling dens and lavish soirees, men of means exert t… |
| Madison Avenue | Stipe | 1961-04-13 | An adman and an adwoman put a dangerous milk tycoon in line for the White House…. |
| Mister Cory | Mr. Earnshaw | 1957-02-23 | An opportunistic young man from the slums gambles his way to wealth, power and high society…. |
| We Are Not Alone | Sir Ronald Dawson | 1939-11-25 | A British doctor and his son’s Austrian governess have an affair and are accused of killing his wife…. |
| The Great Impersonation | Frederick Seamon | 1942-12-18 | An Englishman (Ralph Bellamy) kills a German look-alike and poses as a Nazi spy in London…. |
| Jane Eyre | Henry Brocklehurst | 1943-12-24 | After a harsh childhood, orphan Jane Eyre is hired by Edward Rochester, the brooding lord of a mysterious manor house to care for his young daughter…. |
| The Sea Hawk | Lord Wolfingham | 1940-08-10 | Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with Dona Maria, a beautiful Spanish royal he captures…. |
| Les Girls | Judge | 1957-10-03 | After writing a tell-all book about her days in the dance troupe “Barry Nichols and Les Girls”, Sybil Wren is sued for libeling her fellow dancer Ange… |
| From the Earth to the Moon | Morgana | 1958-11-26 | Set just after the American civil war, businessman and inventor Victor Barbicane invents a new source of power called Power X. He plans to use it to p… |
| The Feminine Touch | Shelley Mason | 1941-10-01 | A professor and his wife move to New York and confuse a publisher’s romance with his assistant…. |
| The Thirteenth Chair | John Wales | 1937-05-07 | A phony psychic tries to solve a murder that took place during her seance…. |
| The Unguarded Hour | Hugh Lewis | 1936-04-10 | A blackmailer tries to stop a woman from revealing evidence that could save a condemned man…. |
| Captain Kidd | King William III | 1945-11-22 | Cutthroat pirate William Kidd captures Admiral Blayne’s treasure ship and hides the bounty in a cave. Three years later, Kidd, posing as a respectable… |
| Wake of the Red Witch | Jacques Desaix | 1948-12-30 | Captain Ralls fights Dutch shipping magnate Mayrant Sidneye for the woman he loves, Angelique Desaix, and for a fortune in gold aboard the Red Witch…. |
| Lust for Life | Theodorus van Gogh | 1956-09-15 | An intense and imaginative artist, revered Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh possesses undeniable talent, but he is plagued by mental problems and frustr… |
| All This, and Heaven Too | Broussais | 1940-07-13 | When lovely and virtuous governess Henriette Deluzy comes to educate the children of the debonair Duc de Praslin, a royal subject to King Louis-Philip… |
| Holiday | Seton Cram | 1938-05-26 | Johnny Case, a freethinking financier, has finally found the girl of his dreams — Julia Seton, the spoiled daughter of a socially prominent milliona… |
| Buccaneer’s Girl | Capt. Duval | 1950-03-01 | Buccaneer’s Girl is a 1950 American romantic adventure film directed by Frederick De Cordova and starring Yvonne De Carlo, Philip Friend and Robert Do… |
| The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex | Sir Robert Cecil | 1939-11-11 | This period drama frames the tumultuous affair between Queen Elizabeth I and the man who would be King of England…. |
| The Notorious Landlady | Stranger | 1962-04-13 | An American junior diplomat in London rents a house from, and falls in love with, a woman suspected of murder…. |
| Hotel Berlin | Baron Von Stetten | 1945-03-02 | An assortment of diverse characters gather at the Hotel Berlin in World War II Germany…. |
| Four Jacks and a Jill | Bobo | 1942-01-23 | Karanina “Nina” Novak, is befriended by Nifty, the leader of a four-piece orchestra, and in return, secures an engagement for them at the Little Arega… |
| Watch on the Rhine | Phili Von Ramme | 1943-08-27 | On the eve of World War II, the German Kurt Müller, his American-born wife Sara, and their three children, having lived in Europe for years, visit Sa… |
| Dressed to Kill | Julian Davis | 1941-08-08 | A detective’s wedding is postponed when gunshots are heard nearby…. |
| The Sun Also Rises | Doctor | 1957-08-23 | A group of disillusioned American expatriate writers live a dissolute, hedonistic lifestyle in 1920’s France and Spain…. |
| Witness for the Prosecution | Mayhew | 1957-12-17 | When Leonard Vole is arrested for the sensational murder of a rich, middle-aged widow, the famous Sir Wilfrid Robarts agrees to appear on his behalf. … |
| Diane | Gondi | 1956-01-12 | Asked by Francis I to tutor his son, Diane de Poitiers becomes the future King Henry II’s mistress in 1500s France…. |
| The Egyptian | Mekere | 1954-08-25 | In eighteenth-dynasty Egypt, Sinuhe, a poor orphan, becomes a brilliant physician and with his friend Horemheb is appointed to the service of the new … |
| The Last of the Lone Wolf | Count von Rimpau (as Henry Daniel) | 1930-08-26 | In this entry in the Lone Wolf series, the first to have a soundtrack, the jealousies of the King and the coquettish Queen are chronicled. When His Ma… |
| The Philadelphia Story | Sidney Kidd | 1940-12-05 | When a rich woman’s ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself…. |
| Mission to Moscow | Minister von Ribbentrop | 1943-04-29 | Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to America as an advocate of Stalinism…. |
| Reunion in France | Emile Fleuron | 1942-12-25 | Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed American flyer, Pat Talbot, and attempts to get hi… |
| Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea | Dr. Zucco | 1961-07-12 | The crew of an atomic submarine battle to save the world from global destruction…. |
| Five Weeks in a Balloon | Sheik Ageiba | 1962-08-22 | Professor Fergusson plans to make aviation history by making his way across Africa by balloon. He plans to claim uncharted territories in West Africa … |
| The Comancheros | Gireaux | 1961-10-30 | Texas Ranger Jake Cutter arrests gambler Paul Regret, but soon finds himself teamed with his prisoner in an undercover effort to defeat a band of rene… |
| The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit | Bill Ogden | 1956-04-12 | Tom Rath (Gregory Peck) is a suburban father and husband haunted by his memories of World War II, including a wartime romance with Italian village gir… |
| Marie Antoinette | La Motte | 1938-08-26 | The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the riv… |
| The Chapman Report | Dr. Jonas | 1962-10-05 | A research psychologist gets involved in the personal lives of four women…. |
| The Prodigal | Ramadi | 1955-05-06 | A wealthy young Hebrew traveling in Damascus renounces his faith after he is seduced by an alluring pagan priestess and cheated of his fortune by the … |
| A Woman’s Face | Public Prosecutor | 1941-05-09 | A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman…. |
| My Fair Lady | Ambassador (uncredited) | 1964-10-21 | A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society…. |
| The Story of Mankind | Pierre Cauchon – Bishop of Beauvais | 1957-11-08 | The devil and the spirit of mankind argue as to whether or not humanity is ultimately good or evil…. |
| Mutiny on the Bounty | Court-martial Judge (uncredited) | 1962-11-08 | The Bounty leaves Portsmouth in 1787. Its destination: to sail to Tahiti and load bread-fruit. Captain Bligh will do anything to get there as fast as … |
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