Reginald Owen

Reginald Owen

Known for: Acting
Biography: 1887-08-05
Deathday: 1972-11-05 (85 years old)

Biography

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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.

Filmography

all 137

Movies 129

TV Shows 8

Writer 1

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That's Entertainment!

That's Entertainment! (1974)

Movie
Sir Hillary Cooper
Run for Your Life

Run for Your Life (1965)

TV
The Hussar ('A Terribly Strange Bed')
Thriller

Thriller (1960)

TV
Marquis Norbert Belcastle
Maverick

Maverick (1957)

TV
5.33
Judge Wallace Winthrop
Red Garters

Red Garters (1954)

Movie
Father Victor
Kim

Kim (1950)

Movie
Duke of Malmunster
Kitty

Kitty (1945)

Movie
6
Skipper of the Congo Queen
White Cargo

White Cargo (1942)

Movie
Philo Cobson
Cairo

Cairo (1942)

Movie
Sir George Kelvin
Free and Easy

Free and Easy (1941)

Movie
Emperor Franz Josef
Florian

Florian (1940)

Movie
Edwards, Marvin's Valet
Bad Little Angel

Bad Little Angel (1939)

Movie
Capt. Steve Hartley
The Real Glory

The Real Glory (1939)

Movie
Sir Horace Bragdon
Bridal Suite

Bridal Suite (1939)

Movie
Captain Hoseason
Kidnapped

Kidnapped (1938)

Movie
Maurice Dourel
Madame X

Madame X (1937)

Movie
The Governor-General
Stingaree

Stingaree (1934)

Movie
Police Commissioner Col. Thomas Dawson
Mandalay

Mandalay (1934)

Movie
Sherlock Holmes / Dialogue
A Study in Scarlet

A Study in Scarlet (1933)

Movie
5.29
Baron 'Nicky' von Burgen
Downstairs

Downstairs (1932)

Movie
4
Lord Wheatley
Phroso

Phroso (1922)

Movie
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Known For
Acting

Gender
Male

Birthday
1887-08-05

Deathday
1972-11-05 (85 years old)

Birth Name
John Reginald Owen

Birth Place
Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire, England, UK

Relationships
Lydia Bilbrook (1909-01-01 - 1923-01-01)

Citizenships
United Kingdom

Also Known As
John Reginald Owen, Джон Реджинальд Оуэн, Реджинальд Оуэн

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