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name: "Halliwell Hobbes"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/halliwell-hobbes"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "16 November 1877"
died: "20 February 1962"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 6
average_fi1m_score: 79
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 5
updated: "2026-09-20T01:10:21.975273+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Halliwell Hobbes

Actor. Born 16 November 1877 in Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, England, UK. Died 20 February 1962.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 16 November 1877, Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, England, UK
- **Died:** 20 February 1962
- **Active:** 1933–1944
- **Also known as:** Herbert Halliwell Hobbes, Halliwell Hobbs, Holliwell Hobbes
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 6: 5 acting, 1 other
- **Average Fi1m score:** 79, as actor, over 5 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1930s 76 (3), 1940s 82 (3)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 79 to 78 across 4 titles
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 0 of 4 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Comedy 4, Romance 3, Drama 2, Crime 1, Fantasy 1, Mystery 1
- **Screen time:** 9 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $14m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halliwell_Hobbes, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3126164, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0387561/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/29601

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*Here Comes Mr. Jordan*](https://film.one/film/here-comes-mr-jordan.md) (77), [*You Can't Take It with You*](https://film.one/film/you-cant-take-it-with-you.md) (70)
- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Gaslight*](https://film.one/film/gaslight.md) (81)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Halliwell Hobbes (16 November 1877 – 20 February 1962) was an English actor. Born in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, he made his stage debut in 1898 with Frank Benson's company, playing in Shakespearean repertory. He worked as an actor and director in the United States from 1906 before moving to Hollywood in 1929.

In films he specialised in character roles such as butlers, clerics, lords and diplomats. He appeared in over 100 films by 1949, including *Lady for a Day* (1933) as a butler, *Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde* (1931), *You Can't Take It with You* (1938), *To Be or Not to Be* (1942) and *Gaslight* (1944). He returned to Broadway in the mid-1940s, playing Lord Capulet in *Romeo and Juliet*, and continued stage work until 1955. From 1950 he also worked in American television. A heart ailment led to his retirement in 1956.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, ibdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (6)

### Performed in (5) — the average rests on these

- *Gaslight* (1944), Fi1m 81, as Mr. Muffin — [page](https://film.one/film/gaslight.md)
- *To Be or Not to Be* (1942), Fi1m 87, as Gen. Armstrong — [page](https://film.one/film/to-be-or-not-to-be.md)
- *Here Comes Mr. Jordan* (1941), Fi1m 77, as Sisk — [page](https://film.one/film/here-comes-mr-jordan.md)
- *You Can't Take It with You* (1938), Fi1m 70, as DePinna — [page](https://film.one/film/you-cant-take-it-with-you.md)
- *Lady for a Day* (1933), Fi1m 78, as Butler — [page](https://film.one/film/lady-for-a-day.md)

### Also credited (1) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited

- *Captain Blood* (1935), Fi1m 80, as Lord Sunderland (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/captain-blood.md)

## Complete filmography (107)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Miracle in the Rain* (1956), as Ely B. Windgate
- *That Forsyte Woman* (1949), as Nicholas Forsyte
- *You Gotta Stay Happy* (1948), as Martin
- *The Black Arrow* (1948), as Bishop of Tisbury
- *If Winter Comes* (1947), as The Coroner
- *Hollywood Wonderland* (1947), as Grandfather (clip from "Changing of the Guard", 1936) (uncredited)
- *Canyon Passage* (1946), as Clenchfield
- *Casanova Brown* (1944), as Charles, the Butler
- *The Invisible Man's Revenge* (1944), as Cleghorn, the butler
- *Mr. Skeffington* (1944), as Soames (uncredited)
- *Gaslight* (1944), as Mr. Muffin — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/gaslight.md)
- *Information Please* (1944), as Lt Eberhard
- *His Butler's Sister* (1943), as Willebrandt
- *Mr. Muggs Steps Out* (1943), Actor
- *Sherlock Holmes Faces Death* (1943), as Alfred Brunton, the butler
- *Forever and a Day* (1943), as Doctor
- *Journey for Margaret* (1942), as Mr. Barrie
- *The Undying Monster* (1942), as Walton the Butler
- *The War Against Mrs. Hadley* (1942), as Bennett
- *To Be or Not to Be* (1942), as Gen. Armstrong — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/film/to-be-or-not-to-be.md)
- *Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake* (1942), as Purdy
- *Here Comes Mr. Jordan* (1941), as Sisk — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/here-comes-mr-jordan.md)
- *Sunny* (1941), as Johnson
- *That Hamilton Woman* (1941), as Rev. Nelson
- *Lady with Red Hair* (1940), as Divorce Judge (uncredited)
- *Third Finger, Left Hand* (1940), as Burton
- *The Sea Hawk* (1940), as Astronomer
- *Waterloo Bridge* (1940), as Vicar at St. Matthews (uncredited)
- *The Earl of Chicago* (1940), as Lord Chancellor
- *The Light That Failed* (1939), as Doctor
- *Remember?* (1939), as Butler Williams
- *Nurse Edith Cavell* (1939), as British Chaplain
- *Naughty but Nice* (1939), as Dean Burton, Winfield College
- *Tell No Tales* (1939), as Dr. Lovelake
- *The Hardys Ride High* (1939), as Dobbs
- *Pacific Liner* (1939), as Captain Mathews
- *A Christmas Carol* (1938), as Clergyman Sliding on Sidewalk (uncredited)
- *Storm Over Bengal* (1938), as Sir John Galt
- *Service de Luxe* (1938), as Butler
- *You Can't Take It with You* (1938), as DePinna — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/you-cant-take-it-with-you.md)
- *Kidnapped* (1938), as Dominie Campbell
- *Bulldog Drummond's Peril* (1938), as Prof. Bernard Goodman
- *The Jury's Secret* (1938), as John, Butler
- *Varsity Show* (1937), as Dean Meredith
- *Fit for a King* (1937), as Count Strunsky
- *Parnell* (1937), as W.H. Smith
- *The Prince and the Pauper* (1937), as Archbishop
- *Maid of Salem* (1937), as Jeremiah
- *Love Letters of a Star* (1936), as Hotchkiss
- *Give Me Your Heart* (1936), as Oliver Warren
- *Mary of Scotland* (1936), as Man (uncredited)
- *Spendthrift* (1936), as Beuhl - the Butler
- *The White Angel* (1936), as Lord Raglan
- *Hearts Divided* (1936), as Cambaceres
- *Changing of the Guard* (1936), as Grandfather, the Colonel
- *Dracula's Daughter* (1936), as Hawkins
- *The Story of Louis Pasteur* (1936), as Dr. Lister
- *Here Comes Trouble* (1936), as Professor Howard
- *Captain Blood* (1935), as Lord Sunderland (uncredited) — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/captain-blood.md)
- *Millions in the Air* (1935), as Theodore
- *Charlie Chan in Shanghai* (1935), as Colonel Watkins, police commissioner
- *Jalna* (1935), as Ernest Whiteoaks
- *Cardinal Richelieu* (1935), as Father Joseph
- *Vanessa: Her Love Story* (1935), as Father of Little Girl
- *Folies Bergère de Paris* (1935), as Monsieur Paulet
- *The Right to Live* (1935), as Dr. Sir Stephen Barr
- *Father Brown, Detective* (1934), as Sir Leopold Fischer
- *Menace* (1934), as Skinner
- *We Live Again* (1934), as Official
- *British Agent* (1934), as Sir Walter Carrister
- *She Was a Lady* (1934), as George Dane
- *Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back* (1934), as First Bobby
- *The Key* (1934), as General C.O. Furlong
- *Double Door* (1934), as Mr. Chase
- *Riptide* (1934), as Bollard
- *Mandalay* (1934), as Col. Dawson Ames
- *I Am Suzanne!* (1933), as Dr. Lorenzo
- *Should Ladies Behave* (1933), as Louis
- *If I Were Free* (1933), as Burford-Gordon's butler
- *Lady for a Day* (1933), as Butler — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/lady-for-a-day.md)
- *The Masquerader* (1933), as Brock
- *Captured!* (1933), as British Major General
- *Midnight Mary* (1933), as Churchill
- *A Study in Scarlet* (1933), as Malcolm Dearing
- *Looking Forward* (1933), as Mr. James Felton
- *Cynara* (1932), as Coroner at Inquest (uncredited)
- *Payment Deferred* (1932), as A Prospective Tenant
- *6 Hours to Live* (1932), as Baron Emil von Sturm
- *Week Ends Only* (1932), as Martin
- *Man About Town* (1932), as Hilton
- *Devil's Lottery* (1932), as Lord Litchfield
- *Love Affair* (1932), as Kibbee
- *The Menace* (1932), as Phillips
- *Lovers Courageous* (1932), as Mr. Smith
- *Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde* (1931), as Brig. Gen. Sir Danvers Carew
- *Platinum Blonde* (1931), as Smythe
- *The Sin of Madelon Claudet* (1931), as Roget
- *The Woman Between* (1931), as Barton the Butler
- *Five and Ten* (1931), as Hopkins (uncredited)
- *The Lady Refuses* (1931), as Sir James (uncredited)
- *The Bachelor Father* (1931), as Larkin
- *Charley's Aunt* (1930), as Stephen Spettigue
- *The Right of Way* (1930), as The Siegneur
- *Scotland Yard* (1930), as Lord St. Arran
- *Grumpy* (1930), as Ruddick
- *Jealousy* (1929), as Rigaud
- *Lucky In Love* (1929), as Earl of Balkerry

## Gallery

- ![Halliwell Hobbes in American film Fit for a King (1937)](https://film.one/media/person/324103/gallery-517d03adab19.jpg) Halliwell Hobbes in American film Fit for a King (1937) — David L. Loew Productions, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/Halliwell_Hobbes_%281937%29%2C_in_Fit_For_A_King.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Halliwell Hobbes](https://film.one/media/person/324103/gallery-47900021e488.jpg) Halliwell Hobbes — Columbia Pictures, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Harlow_Hobbes_Platinum_Blonde_Promotional.jpg/1280px-Harlow_Hobbes_Platinum_Blonde_Promotional.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Halliwell Hobbes](https://film.one/media/person/324103/gallery-e6237946bc1a.jpg) Halliwell Hobbes — Image via TMDB

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