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Reginald Owen

Reginald Owen

Oyuncu · 1887 – 1972 · Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire, England, UK

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John Reginald Owen (5 August 1887 – 5 November 1972) was an English character actor. He was known for his many roles in British and American films and later in television programmes. The son of Joseph and Frances Owen, Reginald Owen studied at Sir Herbert Tree's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and made his professional debut in 1905. In 1911, he starred in the original production of Where the Rainbow Ends as Saint George which opened to very good reviews on 21 December 1911. Reginald Owen had a few years earlier met the author Mrs. Clifford Mills as a young actor, and it was he who on hearing her idea of a Rainbow Story persuaded her to turn it into a play, and thus "Where the Rainbow Ends" was born. He went to the United States in 1920 and worked originally on Broadway in New York, but later moved to Hollywood, where he began a lengthy film career. He was always a familiar face in many Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer productions. Owen is perhaps best known today for his performance as Ebenezer Scrooge in the 1938 film version of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, a role he inherited from Lionel Barrymore, who had played the part of Scrooge on the radio every Christmas for years until Barrymore broke his hip in an accident. Owen was one of only five actors to play both Sherlock Holmes and his companion Dr Watson (Jeremy Brett played Watson on stage in the United States prior to adopting the mantle of Holmes on British television, Carleton Hobbs played both roles in British radio adaptations while Patrick Macnee played both roles in US television films). Howard Marion-Crawford played Holmes in a radio adaptation of "The Speckled Band" and later played Watson to Ronald Howard’s Holmes in the 1954-55 television series. Owen first played Watson in the film Sherlock Holmes (1932), and then Holmes himself in A Study in Scarlet (1933). Having played Ebenezer Scrooge, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, Owen has the odd distinction of playing three classic characters of Victorian fiction only to live to see those characters be taken over and personified by other actors, namely Alastair Sim as Scrooge, Basil Rathbone as Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Watson. Later in his career, Owen appeared opposite James Garner in the television series Maverick in the episodes "The Belcastle Brand" (1957) and "Gun-Shy" (1958) and also guest starred in episodes of the series One Step Beyond and Bewitched. He was featured in the Walt Disney films Mary Poppins (1964) and Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971). He had a small role in the 1962 Irwin Allen production of the Jules Verne novel Five Weeks in a Balloon. In August 1964, his Bel-Air mansion was rented out to the Beatles, who were performing at the Hollywood Bowl, when no hotel would book them.

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  • Film7.5

    Mary Poppins

    1964 · 5.1K votes

  • Film7.0

    Bedknobs and Broomsticks

    Bedknobs ve Süpürgeler

    1971 · 1.1K votes

  • Film6.8

    The Three Musketeers

    Üç Silahşörler

    1948 · 165 votes

  • Film7.2

    The Valley of Decision

    1945 · 29 votes

  • Film7.1

    Mrs. Miniver

    Bayan Miniver

    1942 · 300 votes

  • Film7.0

    Woman of the Year

    1942 · 169 votes

  • Film6.5

    The Pirate

    Korsan Aşkı

    1948 · 109 votes

  • Film6.9

    Queen Christina

    1934 · 147 votes

  • Film6.3

    The Great Ziegfeld

    Büyük Ziegfeld

    1936 · 149 votes

  • Film6.3

    Call of the Wild

    1935 · 55 votes

  • Film6.8

    A Woman's Face

    1941 · 74 votes

  • Film7.1

    The Thrill of It All

    1963 · 89 votes

  • Film5.9

    Tarzan's Secret Treasure

    Tarzan'ın Gizli Hazinesi

    1941 · 85 votes

  • Film6.9

    A Tale of Two Cities

    1935 · 86 votes

  • Film6.6

    Anna Karenina

    1935 · 103 votes

  • Film7.4

    That's Entertainment!

    1974 · 73 votes

  • Film7.2

    National Velvet

    1945 · 127 votes

  • Film7.0

    A Christmas Carol

    1938 · 155 votes

  • Film7.5

    Forever and a Day

    1943 · 12 votes

  • Film7.3

    Random Harvest

    1942 · 118 votes

  • Film6.3

    Captain Kidd

    1945 · 38 votes

  • Film7.2

    They Met in Bombay

    1941 · 20 votes

  • Film5.4

    Tammy and the Doctor

    1963 · 9 votes

  • Film10.0

Diziler9

  • Dizi7.9

    Bewitched

    1964 · 766 votes

  • Dizi7.0

    Maverick

    1957 · 43 votes

  • Dizi3.8

    Climax!

    1954 · 12 votes

  • Dizi7.1

    Run for Your Life

    Hayatın İçin Koş

    1965 · 7 votes

  • Dizi5.7

    One Step Beyond

    1959 · 15 votes

  • Dizi7.2

    McCloud

    1970 · 53 votes

  • Dizi6.7

    Thriller

    1960 · 20 votes

  • Dizi6.1

    Adventures in Paradise

    1959 · 7 votes

  • Dizi7.5

    MGM Parade

    1955 · 2 votes