Career
His earliest American work was as an actor and director from 1906, before moving to Hollywood in early 1929 (aged 51) to play old men"s roles such as clerics, butlers, doctors, lords and diplomats. Receiving fewer film roles during the 1940s (though he still managed to have been in over 100 films by 1949), he moved back to Broadway by mid 1940, appearing in Romeo and Juliet as Lord Capulet and continuing there until late 1955. By 1950 he had moved to American television in the diverse playhouse format.
He increased the sunkenness of his cheeks by having his four 12-year-molars removed.
Doctor Broadway And Then There Were None (1943) Murder on the Nile/Hidden Horizon (1944-1945).