Highest rated movie: I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
Lowest rated movie: Last of the Wild Horses (1948)
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Movies starring Douglass Dumbrille have generally received mixed reviews and hold an average score of 59%.
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang - released in 1932 - is Douglass Dumbrille's highest rated movie, with a score of 83% based on 125 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Douglass Dumbrille is Last of the Wild Horses - released in 1948 - with a score of 28% based on 3 reviews.
Douglass Rupert Dumbrille (October 13, 1889 – April 2, 1974) was a Canadian actor and one of the Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood.
In 1913, the East Coast film industry was flourishing and that year he appeared in the film What Eighty Million Women Want, but it would be another 11 years before he appeared on screen again.
In 1924, he made his Broadway debut and worked off and on in the theatre for several years while supplementing his income by selling such products as car accessories, tea, insurance, real estate, and books.
During the Great Depression, Dumbrille moved to the West Coast of the U.S., where he specialized in playing secondary character roles alongside the great stars of the day. His physical appearance and suave voice equipped him for roles as slick politician, corrupt businessman, crooked sheriff, or unscrupulous lawyer.
He was highly regarded by the studios and was sought out by Cecil B. DeMille, Frank Capra, Hal Roach and other prominent Hollywood filmmakers. A friend of fellow Canadian-born director Allan Dwan, Dumbrille played Athos in Dwan’s 1939 adaptation of The Three Musketeers.
Dumbrille had roles in more than 200 motion pictures and, with the advent of television, made numerous appearances in the 1950s and 1960s. He had the ability to project a balance of menace and pomposity in roles as the "heavy" in comedy films, such as those of the Marx Brothers or Abbott and Costello.
Douglass Dumbrille has acted in films with Edward Keane, Harry Strang, Dennis O'Keefe and Edmund Mortimer.
Douglass Dumbrille has worked with these film directors: Mervyn LeRoy, Roy Del Ruth, Cecil B. DeMille and Michael Curtiz.
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