Herbert Mundin - Фильмы

Герберт Mundin (21 августа 1898 – 5 February 1939) was an English-born Голливуд character actor. He was frequently typecast в films as an older чики eccentric, a type helped by his jowled features and cheerful disposition. He was born Херберт Томас Mundin в Сент-Хеленс, then в Ланкашире (now part of Merseyside). His father was a nomadic, Primitive Methodist home missionary. His family moved within a short time of his birth to Сент-Олбанс в Хартфордшире (the 1901 census data reveal that the family lived at Villa St Helens, Paxton Road, St Albans; his parents William and Jane apparently naming their house after the town where they first met and where что Герберт Борн). Mundin что educated at St Albans School, and joined the Royal Navy during World War I. He began his acting career on the London stage during the 1920s. Mundin first travelled to America on 18 December 1923 for a series of theatrical ангажемента в Нью-Йорке. He sailed from Southampton on the RMS Aquitania and described himself в ship's passenger manifest as 5'7" tall with a fair complexion, brown hair, blue eyes and a scar over his left eye. His big break as an actor что arguably with Gertrude Lawrence and Beatrice Lillie в Charlot's Revue when it appeared on Broadway в 1925 году. В 1931, after working in Australia and London, he moved permanently to the US, where he received a contract with Twentieth Century Fox Studios and enjoyed a successful career as a character actor in over 50 films. Perhaps his most celebrated что role as Much in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), alongside Эррол Флинн. Other film appearances included Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) with Чарльз Лоутон и Кларк Гейбл, и MGM's Дэвид Копперфилд (1935). He died in Van Nuys, California following a car crash. He was killed instantly when the car in which he was riding collided with another car at a street intersection. The force of the impact threw open the door and hurled Mundin to the street.He received a fractured skull and crushed грудь.He was 40 years old. The other occupants of the car were not injured.