Cecil Kellaway (Actor)

Reviews of Cecil Kellaway Movies

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Movies starring Cecil Kellaway have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 60%.

Portrait of Jennie - released in 1948 - is Cecil Kellaway's highest rated movie, with a score of 78% based on 75 reviews.

The lowest rated film from Cecil Kellaway is Zotz! - released in 1962 - with a score of 43% based on 7 reviews.

Actor Biography

Cecil Lauriston Kellaway (22 August 1890 – 28 February 1973) was a South African-born character actor.

Cecil Kellaway spent many years as an actor, author, and director in the Australian film industry until he tried his luck in Hollywood in the 1930s. Finding he could get only gangster bit parts, he got discouraged and returned to Australia. Then William Wyler called and offered him a part in Wuthering Heights (1939).

Kellaway died 28 February 1973 in Hollywood, California, and his ashes were entombed in the Sanctuary of Remembrance, at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery. He received two Best Supporting Actor nominations, for The Luck of the Irish and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.

Academy Award winning actor Edmund Gwenn, whose real surname was Kellaway also, was his cousin.

Cecil Kellaway has acted in films with Charles Coleman, Ray Milland, Doris Lloyd and Bess Flowers.

Cecil Kellaway has worked with these film directors: Michael Curtiz, Joe May, Tay Garnett and George Marshall.