Alan Mowbray

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Alan Mowbray (August 18, 1896 - March 25, 1969), was a English stage and film actor who found success in Hollywood.

Born Alfred Ernest Allen in London, he served with the British Army in World War I. He began as a stage actor, making his way to the United States where he appeared in Broadway plays and toured the country as part of a theater troupe.

As Alan Mowbray he made his motion picture debut in 1931, going on to a career primarily as a character actor in more than one hundred and forty films and a played the title role in the TV series "the adventures of Colonel Flack" and appeared in two dozen guest roles on various other television series. Mowbray was a founding member of the Screen Actors Guild with outside interests that led to membership in Britain's Royal Geographic Society.

Alan Mowbray died of a heart attack in 1969 in Hollywood and was interred in the Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California.