- Also a stage director and producer. As an actor, often seen in dignified military or aristocratic roles.
- Noted actor/director on stage from 1900. Prolific appearances on screen from 1916, invariably as men of authority, including a plethora of dignified or jovial British officers, aristocrats, doctors and priests. A very busy character who retired in 1960.
- Appeared in nine Best Picture Oscar nominees: Arrowsmith (1931), The House of Rothschild (1934), The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935), The Life of Emile Zola (1937), Rebecca (1940), Suspicion (1941), Random Harvest (1942), Madame Curie (1943) and Julius Caesar (1953). The Life of Emile Zola and Rebecca won Best Picture.
- Daughter, Nora.
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