Henry Daniell
- a.k.a. Henry Daniel
- 亨利·丹尼尔
- Charles Henry Pywell Daniell
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Charles Henry Daniell (5 March 1894 – 31 October 1963) was an English actor who had a long and prestigious career on stage as well as in films. He is perhaps best known for his villainous roles in films like The Great Dictator, The Philadelphia Story and The Sea Hawk. Daniell was given few opportunities to play a 'good guy', including a supporting part as Franz Liszt in the biographical film Song of Love (1947). His last name is sometimes spelled "Daniel". Daniell's film debut came in 1929 in Jealousy. He appeared as Professor Moriarty in the Basil Rathbone-Nigel Bruce Sherlock Holmes film The Woman in Green (1945). He appeared in other films such as Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator (1940) (playing Garbitsch, to sound like "garbage", a parody of Joseph Goebbels), and The Body Snatcher (1945, with Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi) – as well as two other films in the Sherlock Holmes/Basil Rathbone series: The Voice of Terror (1942) and Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943) with fellow Moriarty George Zucco. Daniell played the sleazy Baron de Varville opposite Greta Garbo in Camille (1936). Another early triumph was his portrayal of Cecil in The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939). He also played the treacherous Lord Wolfingham (no relation to Francis Walsingham) in The Sea Hawk (1940), fighting Errol Flynn in what is often considered one of the most spectacular sword fighting duels ever filmed. When Michael Curtiz cast him in this film, Henry Daniell initially refused because he couldn't fence. Curtiz accomplished the climactic duel through the use of shadows and over-shoulder shots, with a double fencing Flynn with ingenious inter-cutting of their faces. Towards the end of the Second World War, he appeared in one of his most memorable film roles, as the cruel Mr. Brocklehurst in Jane Eyre (1944), opposite Joan Fontaine who played Eyre. That same year he appeared in The Suspect as Charles Laughton's blackmailing next-door neighbour. In the 1950s and 1960s, he did much television, and also appeared as the malevolent Dr. Emil Zurich in Edward L. Cahn's The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake (1959), and in an episode of Maverick, "Pappy" opposite James Garner the same year. An absolute professional, he was always on the set when needed, and impatient when delays in filming took place. Much in demand for his dry, sardonic delivery, Daniell moved easily from big-budget films, such as (uncredited) Mutiny on the Bounty (1962), to television without difficulty. In 1957, Daniell appeared as King Charles II of England in the NBC anthology series The Joseph Cotten Show in the episode "The Trial of Colonel Blood", with Michael Wilding in the title role. In the same year he played the instructing solicitor to Charles Laughton's leading counsel barrister in Witness for the Prosecution (1957). The actor claimed one of his favourite roles was as Tony Curtis' supervisor in the acclaimed Blake Edwards film Mister Cory (1957) at a time when the actor's career was clearly slowing down, but Daniell retained some of the best and most memorable lines in the movie, "A gentleman never grabs. Manners, Mister Cory. I find them a prerequisite in any circumstance."
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Henry Daniell (* 5. März 1894 in London, England; † 31. Oktober 1963 in Santa Monica, Kalifornien) war ein britischer Schauspieler, der vor allem durch seine Darstellungen von Filmschurken Bekanntheit erlangte. Mit dem Einsetzen des Tonfilmes Ende der 1920er-Jahre kam er, zuvor ausschließlich Theaterschauspieler, nach Hollywood zur Filmindustrie. Sein erster Film war die Liebeskomödie The Awful Truth, wo er zusammen mit Ina Claire einer der wenigen Hauptrollen seiner Filmkarriere spielte. Schon bald wurde er aber vor allem als eleganter Schurke in Nebenrollen besetzt und erreichte mit diesen Rollen größere Bekanntheit. Seine heute wahrscheinlich bekannteste Rolle hatte Daniell 1940 als Dr. Gorbitsch in Charlie Chaplins Anti-Nazi-Komödie Der große Diktator. Sein Auftritt als kaltherziger und rassistischer Berater eines Diktators mit fanatischen Ideologien war eine Parodie auf den deutschen Propagandaminister Joseph Goebbels. Ebenfalls 1940 spielte er den gefährlichen Gegenspieler von Errol Flynn im Abenteuerfilm Der Herr der sieben Meere, wobei seine Figur am Ende des Filmes von Flynn im Schwertkampf getötet wird. Im selben Jahr verkörperte er außerdem einen skrupellosen Chefredakteur in George Cukors Komödie Die Nacht vor der Hochzeit (1940) an der Seite von Cary Grant und James Stewart. Er spielte ebenfalls Nebenrollen in drei Filmen der Sherlock-Holmes-Reihe mit Basil Rathbone, unter anderem als Holmes’ gefährlichster Gegenspieler Professor Moriarty in Die Frau in Grün. In der Literaturverfilmung Jane Eyre war Daniell 1943 neben Orson Welles und Joan Fontaine als sadistischer Internatsleiter Henry Brocklehurst zu sehen, der seine Schüler mit maßloser Härte bestrafte. In mehreren Horrorfilmen war Daniell zudem als verrückter Wissenschaftler besetzt. In einigen Filmen erhielt Daniell allerdings auch die Gelegenheit, sympathischere Rollen zu spielen, darunter als Franz Liszt in der Filmbiografie Clara Schumanns große Liebe (1948) sowie als Anwalt Mayhew im Gerichtsfilm-Klassiker Zeugin der Anklage (1957). In den 1950er-Jahren hatte Daniell neben seiner Filmarbeit auch regelmäßig Gastrollen im US-Fernsehen. Seine Rollen wurden allerdings mit fortschreitendem Alter kleiner. Insgesamt hatte Daniell zwischen 1929 und 1964 rund 95 Film- und Fernsehauftritte.
- Gender
- male
- Date of Birth
- Place of Birth
- Barnes, Surrey, UK
- Date of Death
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Credits
Cast
| Character | Movie / TV Show | Genres | Release | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Garbitsch | The Great Dictator | 83% · 3,377 |