Background
His mother was an Irish seamstress.
His mother was an Irish seamstress.
At one stage she worked for Queen Victoria as her dressmaker and had a store on Sloane Street, London. He acted on Broadway, in films and in television. The Marquise (1927) as Miquel The Bachelor Father (1928) as Geoffrey Trent The Apple Cart (1930) as Sempronius Lost Sheep (1930) as Eric Bailey No More Ladies (1934) as James Salston Revenge with Music (1934) as Pablo Matrimony Pfd.
(1936) as Dr. Robert Levy-de Coudray The Man Who Came to Dinner (1939) as Beverly Carlton The Cherry Orchard (1944) as Epikhodov, Semen Panteleevich a clerk Lute Song (1946) as Youen-Kong a steward Lady Windermere's Fan (1946) as Mr. Cecil Graham.