Halliwell Hobbes (Actor)

Reviews of Halliwell Hobbes Movies

Looking for reviews of Halliwell Hobbes movies? Cinafilm has a total of 2,142 reviews across 44 movies.

Movies starring Halliwell Hobbes have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 63%.

To Be or Not to Be - released in 1942 - is Halliwell Hobbes's highest rated movie, with a score of 83% based on 244 reviews.

The lowest rated film from Halliwell Hobbes is A Study in Scarlet - released in 1933 - with a score of 43% based on 4 reviews.

Actor Biography

Halliwell Hobbes (16 November 1877 in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire – 20 February 1962 in Santa Monica, California) was an English actor.

His stage debut was as a member of Frank Benson's company in 1898, playing in Shakespearean rep alongside actors such as Ellen Terry and Mrs Patrick Campbell. His earliest American work was as an actor and director from 1906, before moving to Hollywood in early 1929 (aged 51) to play older men's roles such as clerics, butlers, doctors, lords and diplomats.

Receiving fewer film roles during the 1940s (though he still managed to have been in over 100 films by 1949), he moved back to Broadway by mid-1940, appearing in Romeo and Juliet as Lord Capulet and continuing there until late 1955. By 1950 he had moved to American television in the diverse playhouse format. He married Nancie B. Marsland. He increased the sunkenness of his cheeks by having his four 12-year-molars removed. When he died from a heart attack he was buried at the Chapel of the Pines Crematory in Los Angeles.

Halliwell Hobbes has acted in films with Harry Cording, Billy Bevan, Eric Wilton and Olaf Hytten.

Halliwell Hobbes has worked with these film directors: Michael Curtiz, Frank Capra, Frank Lloyd and William Keighley.