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Raymond Huntley

Raymond Huntley

Actor

Horace Raymond Huntley (23 April 1904 – 15 June 1990) was an English actor who appeared in dozens of British films from the 1930s to the 1970s. He also appeared in the ITV period drama Upstairs, Downstairs as the pragmatic family solicitor Sir Geoffrey Dillon, and other television shows, such as the Wodehouse Playhouse, ('Romance at Droitwich Spa'), in 1975. Born in Kings Norton, Worcestershire (now a suburb of Birmingham) in 1904, Huntley made his stage debut at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre on 1 April 1922, in A Woman Killed with Kindness. His London debut followed at the Court Theatre on 22 February 1924, in As Far as Thought can Reach. He subsequently inherited the role of Count Dracula from Edmund Blake in Hamilton Deane's touring adaptation of Dracula, which arrived at London's Little Theatre on 14 February 1927, subsequently transferring to the larger Duke of York's Theatre. Later that year he was offered the chance to reprise the role on Broadway (in a script streamlined by John L. Balderston); when he declined, the part was taken by Bela Lugosi instead. Huntley did, however, appear in a US touring production of the Deane/Balderston play, covering the east coast and midwest, from 1928-30. "I have always considered the role of Count Dracula to have been an indiscretion of my youth" he recalled in 1989. After Dracula, he made his Broadway debut at the Vanderbilt Theatre on 23 February 1931, in The Venetian Glass Nephew. On returning to the UK, his many West End appearances included The Farmer's Wife (Queen's Theatre 1932), Cornelius (Duchess Theatre 1935), Bees on the Boat Deck (Lyric Theatre 1936) Time and the Conways (Duchess Theatre 1937), When We Are Married (St Martin's Theatre 1940), Rebecca (Queen's Theatre 1940; Strand Theatre 1942), They Came to a City (Globe Theatre 1943), The Late Edwina Black (Ambassadors Theatre 1948), And This Was Odd (Criterion Theatre 1951), Double Image (Savoy Theatre 1956), Any Other Business (Westminster Theatre 1958), Caught Napping (Piccadilly Theatre 1959), Difference of Opinion (Garrick Theatre 1963), An Ideal Husband (Garrick Theatre 1966), Getting Married (Strand Theatre 1967), Soldiers (New Theatre 1968) and Separate Tables (Apollo Theatre 1977). He also starred opposite Flora Robson in the Broadway production of Black Chiffon (48th Street Theatre 1950). Often cast as a supercilious bureaucrat or other authority figure, Huntley was also a staple figure in British films, his many appearances including The Way Ahead, I See a Dark Stranger, Passport to Pimlico and The Dam Busters. In his later years, he became well-known on television as Sir Geoffrey Dillon, the family solicitor to the Bellamys in LWT's popular 1970s drama series Upstairs, Downstairs. Huntley died in Westminster Hospital, London in 1990. In his obituary, the New York Times wrote, "During his long career the actor played judges, bank managers, churchmen, bureaucrats and other figures of authority. He could play them straight if necessary, but in comedy his natural dryness of delivery was exaggerated to the point where the character he was playing invited mockery as a pompous humbug." Source: Article "Raymond Huntley" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Born: April 23, 1904 in King's Norton, Worcestershire, England, UK

Died: October 19, 1990 (Age 86)

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Raymond Huntley  Movies & TV Credits

Title Rating Job Role(s) Year
Movie
6.9
ActorMagistrate1959
Movie
7.3
ActorGeneral1960
Movie
6.5
ActorJoseph Whemple1959
Movie
6.1
ActorJohn Naylor1968
Movie
5.6
ActorOld Englishman1984
Movie
6.5
ActorWright1951
Movie
7.4
ActorMr. Hoylake1959
Movie
7.4
ActorMarx1941
Movie
6.8
ActorJ. Miller1946
Movie
6.8
ActorLudwick1936
Movie
6.3
ActorRabenau1941
Movie
7
ActorSir Ronald Ackroyd1962
Movie
5.9
ActorSmithers1969
Movie
5.5
ActorGovernor1965
Movie
5.9
Actor1942
Movie
6.2
ActorMalcolm Stritton1944
Movie
6.6
ActorWhite Officer1937
Movie
6
ActorLanger1936
Movie
7
ActorHenry Courtney1948
Movie
5.1
ActorTom Forester1953
Movie
6.2
ActorProf. Laxton-Jones1946
Movie
4.5
ActorEmmanuel Holroyd1972
Movie
6
ActorSamuel Pettigrew, M.P.1953
Movie
6.1
ActorClive Oliver1952
Movie
4.6
ActorCol. Fred Bellamy1954
Movie
6
ActorHarold Phillips1959
Movie
5.7
ActorWilliams1948
Movie
6.4
ActorVernon1962
Movie
6.5
ActorMr Humphries1941
Movie
6
ActorMaurice Miller1954
Movie
6.7
ActorMoy-Thompson1948
Movie
4.5
ActorBossom1960
Movie
7.3
ActorMr. Wix1949
Movie
5.6
ActorSir Horace, the Minister1966
Movie
7.2
ActorSir Gregory Upshott1956
Movie
6.2
ActorJ.F. Hassett1955
Movie
5.8
ActorGarrick-Jones1960
Movie
6
ActorForeign Secretary Tufton-Slade1959
Movie
5.7
ActorColonel John Wentworth1964
Movie
6.5
ActorDr. Kerbishley1941
Movie
5.7
Actor1960
Movie
6.7
ActorPvt. Herbert Davenport1944
Movie
6.8
ActorInspector Pape1960
Movie
6.6
ActorThe General1955
Movie
5.6
ActorEdward Marshall1948
Movie
6.8
ActorMr. Throstle1951
Movie
6.3
ActorBurke1974
Movie
5.6
ActorCapt. Beamish1955
Movie
6
ActorSir George Gatting the Minister of Defense1960
Movie
6.3
ActorRev. Maurice Hilton1954
Movie
ActorDolan1935
Movie
6
ActorWagstaffe1962
Movie
6
ActorJohn Price1941
Movie
6.1
ActorChief Inspector Sullivan1951
Movie
5.8
ActorJudge Slender1960
Movie
7.3
ActorKampenfeldt1940
Movie
6
ActorVicar Walcott1963
Movie
6.6
ActorOlympic Selector1955
Movie
5.7
ActorAttorney General1956
Movie
5.6
ActorSinger in trio (uncredited)1939
Movie
7
ActorBayswater1968
Movie
5.7
ActorGibout1937
Movie
7.4
ActorPoliceman Outside Nightclub1937
Movie
5.5
ActorForbes, Factory Supervisor1958
Movie
7.6
ActorOfficial, National Physical Laboratory1955
Movie
5.7
Actor1934
Movie
7.9
ActorNathaniel Beenstock1954
Movie
6.2
ActorTatlock Q.C.1957
Movie
6
ActorMr Wedgewood1964
Movie
6.9
ActorMr. Henry Chester1950
Movie
7.8
ActorA Journalist (uncredited)1960
Movie
5.6
ActorAckroyd1962
Movie
7.7
ActorAlbert Parker1943
Movie
5.7
ActorPatterson1953
Movie
5.6
ActorReverend Edwin Peake1960
Movie
7.4
ActorHector Crawford1958
Movie
6.3
ActorDr. Reese1957
Movie
5.1
ActorHarry Haliburton1963
Movie
5.7
ActorGeorge Payne1969
TV Show
Actor7 Episodes1970-1971
TV Show
7.9
ActorSir Percy Richmond
1 Episode
1964-1966
TV Show
8.2
ActorSir Geoffrey Dillon
14 Episodes
1971-1975
TV Show
7.8
Actor1 Episode1959-1967
TV Show
7.6
Actor1 Episode1956-1956
TV Show
6.9
ActorDoctor Dee
1 Episode
1961-1962
TV Show
7.7
Actor8 Episodes1960-1960
TV Show
7.1
ActorSchroeder
1 Episode
1959
TV Show
7.4
ActorHigh Court Judge
1 Episode
1971-1974
TV Show
Actor1 Episode1975
TV Show
7.1
ActorMr. Justice Downes
3 Episodes
1972-2007
TV Show
7.4
ActorJudge
1 Episode
1971-1974
TV Show
8.2
Actor2 Episodes1956-1960
Short Film
6.9
ActorBarrington1943
Movie
ActorCouncillor Albert Parker1938
Movie
ActorCouncillor Albert Parker1951
Movie
7.5
ActorSupt. Pode1969
Title Rating Job Role(s) Year
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