Personal Info
Birth date
1908-05-26 (117 Years)
Day of death
1992-06-03
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Semley, England, UK
Also known as
Роберт Морли
Robert Adolph Wilton Morley
Роберт Адольф Уилтон Морли
Robert Morley
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Robert Adolph Wilton Morley CBE (26 May 1908 – 3 June 1992) was an English actor who, often in supporting roles, was usually cast as a pompous English gentleman representing the Establishment. In Movie Encyclopedia, film critic Leonard Maltin describes Morley as "recognizable by his ungainly bulk, bushy eyebrows, thick lips, and double chin, […] particularly effective when cast as a pompous windbag". More politely, Ephraim Katz in his International Film Encyclopaedia describes Morley as a "a rotund, triple-chinned, delightful character player of the British and American stage and screen." Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Morley, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
Golden Globe Awards
7.2
Overview:
An annual awards ceremony recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign, bestowed by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.Tales of the Unexpected
6.7
Overview:
A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and a twist at the end. With early episodes written and presented by Roald Dahl, the series featured a plethora of big name guest stars.The Dick Cavett Show
6.8
Overview:
The Dick Cavett Show has been the title of several talk shows hosted by Dick Cavett on various television networks.Alfred Hitchcock Presents
7.8
Overview:
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.The Lady and the Highwayman
5.1
Overview:
During one of his robberies, a highwayman, who steals from the rich and gives to the poor, falls in love with an aristocratic lady. Now, he is forced to choose between his true love or his true cause.The Danny Kaye Show
6.3
Overview:
The Danny Kaye Show is an American variety show hosted by Danny Kaye that aired on CBS from 1963 to 1967 on Wednesday nights. Directed by Robert Scheerer, the show premiered in black-and-white, but later switched to color broadcasts. At the time, Kaye was at the height of his popularity, having starred in a string of successful films in the 1940s and '50's, made successful personal appearances at such venues as the London Palladium, and appeared many times on television. His most recent films had been considered disappointing, but the television specials he starred in were triumphant, leading to this series. Prior to his television and film career, Kaye had made a name for himself with his own radio show, and numerous other guest appearances on other shows.The Trouble with Spies
4.4
Overview:
George Trent, a British spy, has gone incommunicado in Ibiza. Appleton Porter (Donald Sutherland) is sent to find out what happened to Trent. Porter settles into a small hotel with several busybody guests. He probes them for information about Trent, their former neighbor. Meanwhile, the spy survives several attempts on his life as he attempts to solve the mystery.Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
6.1
Overview:
Mystery abounds when it is discovered that, one by one, the greatest Chefs in Europe are being killed. The intriguing part of the murders is that each chef is killed in the same manner that their own special dish is prepared in. Food critics and the (many) self-proclaimed greatest Chefs in Europe demand the mystery be solved.High Road to China
5.842
Overview:
A biplane pilot is saddled with a spoiled industrialist's daughter on a search for her missing father through Asia that eventually involves them in a struggle against a Chinese warlord.Tonight Starring Jack Paar
7
Overview:
Tonight Starring Jack Paar is an American talk show hosted by Jack Paar under The Tonight Show franchise from 1957 to 1962. It originally aired during late-night. During most of its run it was broadcast from Studio 6B inside the RCA Building. The same studio would also host early episodes of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Its theme song was an instrumental version of "Everything's Coming Up Roses", and the closing theme was "So Until I See You" by Al Lerner.Little Dorrit
6.5
Overview:
Amy Dorrit spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father who is a long term inmate of Marshalsea debtors' prison in London. Amy and her family's world is transformed when her employer's son, Arthur Clennam, returns from overseas to solve his family's mysterious legacy and discovers that their lives are interlinked.Law and Disorder
6.2
Overview:
When Percy Brand, a habitual confidence trickster, keeps being sent down, he goes to great lengths to ensure that his son Colin, does not find out about his criminal past. But when Colin becomes an assistant to the Judge, who is about to try Percy for his latest escapade, Percy and his gang have to come up with a plan, to stop them meeting in court.The Doctor's Dilemma
6.1
Overview:
Four doctors face a serious dilemma when the beautiful wife of a TB-stricken artist begs one of them to cure her brilliant, but amoral, husband.The Great Muppet Caper
6.903
Overview:
Kermit and Fozzie are newspaper reporters sent to London to interview Lady Holiday, a wealthy fashion designer whose priceless diamond necklace is stolen. Kermit meets and falls in love with her secretary, Miss Piggy. The jewel thieves strike again, and this time frame Miss Piggy. It's up to Kermit and Muppets to bring the real culprits to justice.Great Expectations
6.2
Overview:
Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.Sinful Davey
5.5
Overview:
A young man, convinced of his paternity, aims to emulate his notorious father by committing daring crimes. However, his childhood friend is equally determined to track him down and save him from his rogue ways.The Loved One
6.3
Overview:
Newly arrived in Hollywood from England, Dennis Barlow finds he has to arrange his uncle's interment at the highly-organised and very profitable Whispering Glades funeral parlour. His fancy is caught by one of their cosmeticians, Aimee Thanatogenos. But he has three problems - the strict rules of owner Blessed Reverand Glenworthy, the rivalry of embalmer Mr Joyboy, and the shame of now working himself at The Happy Hunting Ground pets' memorial home.The Ghosts of Berkeley Square
5.2
Overview:
The ghosts of two stupid 18th-century officers are doomed to haunt a Berkeley Square mansion until the unlikely event of a reigning monarch paying the house a visit. It will take more than 200 years... Based on the novel "No Nightingales" by Caryl Brahms and S.J. Simon.Lady Killers
5
Overview:
Compelling crime anthology looks at some of Britain's most notorious murder trials, in which both male and female defendants stood accused of the murder of women. Introduced by Robert Morley, seven hour-long dramas reconstruct sensational trials which shocked Britain, offering in-depth analyses of individuals' motives and methods.The Journey
6.4
Overview:
A Communist officer falls hard for a married woman trying to escape from Hungary.The Small Back Room
6.7
Overview:
As the Germans drop explosive booby-traps on 1943 Britain, the embittered expert who'll have to disarm them fights a private battle with alcohol.Quentin Durward
6
Overview:
During the 15th century reign of France's King Louis XI, a young Scottish man is sent by his English Lord to woo a French lady on his behalf. The plan goes awry when the young man falls in love with her. Based on the classic novel by Sir Walter Scott.Around the World in Eighty Days
6.644
Overview:
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.Topkapi
6.454
Overview:
Arthur Simon Simpson is a small-time crook biding his time in Greece. One of his potential victims turns out to be a gentleman thief planning to steal the emerald-encrusted dagger of the Mehmed II from Istanbul's Topkapi Museum.War and Remembrance
8
Overview:
War and Remembrance is an American miniseries based on the novel of the same name by Herman Wouk. It is the sequel to highly successful The Winds of War.DuPont Show of the Month
6.8
Overview:
DuPont Show of the Month is an acclaimed 90-minute television anthology series that aired monthly on CBS from 1957 to 1961. The DuPont Company also sponsored a weekly half-hour anthology drama series hosted by June Allyson, The DuPont Show with June Allyson. During the Golden Age of Television, DuPont Show of the Month was one of numerous anthology series telecast between 1949 and 1962. Superficially, it resembled Playhouse 90 and other anthologies, but DuPont Show of the Month focused less on contemporary dramas and more on adaptations of literary classics, including Oliver Twist, The Prince and the Pauper, Billy Budd, The Prisoner of Zenda, A Tale of Two Cities and The Count of Monte Cristo.The African Queen
7.35
Overview:
At the start of the First World War, in the middle of Africa’s nowhere, a gin soaked riverboat captain is persuaded by a strong-willed missionary to go down river and face-off a German warship.Acting
2018Nothing Like a Dame as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2004Los Angeles Plays Itself as Sir Ambrose Abercrombie in The Loved Ones (archive footage)
1989Istanbul as Atkins
1989Around the World in 80 Days (3 Episodes) as Wentworth
1988The Lady and the Highwayman as Lord Chancellor
1988War and Remembrance (12 Episodes) as Alistair Tudsbury
1987Little Dorrit as Lord Decimus Barnacle
1987The Trouble with Spies as Angus
1986The Wind as Elias Appleby
1985Alice in Wonderland (2 Episodes) as King of Hearts
1984Second Time Lucky as God
1983The Old Men at the Zoo (4 Episodes) as Lord Godmanchester
1983High Road to China as Bentik
1982The Deadly Game as Emile Carpeau
1981The Great Muppet Caper as British Gentleman by Pond
1981Loophole as Godfrey
1980Lady Killers (14, 1, 13 Episode) as Unknown, Self/Presenter, Self - Presenter
1980Oh! Heavenly Dog as Bernie
1979Scavenger Hunt as Bernstein
1979The Human Factor as Doctor Percival
1979Tales of the Unexpected (1 Episode) as Henry Knox
1978Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? as Maximilian Van Devere
1976The Blue Bird as Father Time
1974Great Expectations as Uncle Pumblechook
1973Theatre of Blood as Meredith Merridew
1971When Eight Bells Toll as Uncle Arthur
1970Song of Norway as Berg
1970Cromwell as The Earl of Manchester
1970Doctor in Trouble as Captain George Spratt
1970Twinky as Judge Roxborough
1969Charge! (5 Episodes) as Unknown
1969Sinful Davey as Duke of Argyll
1969Some Girls Do as Miss Mary
1968Hot Millions as Caesar Smith
1968The Dick Cavett Show (2 Episodes) as Self - Guest
1968Luther as Papst Leo
1967Woman Times Seven as Dr. Xavier
1966The Trygon Factor as Hubert Hamlyn
1966Tender Scoundrel as Lord Swift
1966Finders Keepers as Colonel Roberts
1966Way... Way Out as Harold Quonset
1966Hotel Paradiso as Henri Cotte
1965The Alphabet Murders as Captain Hastings
1965The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics as Narrator (voice)
1965Life at the Top as Tiffield
1965Call My Bluff as Unknown
1965The Loved One as Sir Ambrose Abercombie
1965A Study in Terror as Mycroft Holmes
1965Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes as Lord Rawnsley
1965Genghis Khan as Emperor of China
1964Of Human Bondage as Dr. Jacobs
1964Topkapi as Cedric Page
1964Rhythm 'n' Greens as Narrator (voice)
1964Hot Enough for June as Col. Cunliffe
1963Take Her, She's Mine as Mr. Pope-Jones
1963Ladies Who Do as The Colonel
1963The Old Dark House as Roderick Femm
1963The Danny Kaye Show (1 Episode) as Self
1963Murder at the Gallop as Hector Enderby
1963Nine Hours to Rama as P.K. Mussardi
1962The Boys as Montgomery
1962Go to Blazes as Arson Eddie
1962The Road to Hong Kong as Leader of the 3rd Echelon
1961The Young Ones as Hamilton Black
1961Joseph and His Brethren as Potiphar
1960Oscar Wilde as Oscar Wilde
1960The Battle of the Sexes as Robert Macpherson
1959Libel as Sir Wilfred
1959The Journey as Hugh Deverill
1959The Doctor's Dilemma as Sir Ralph Bloomfield-Bonington
1958The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw as Uncle Lucius
1958Law and Disorder as Judge Sir Edward Crichton
1957DuPont Show of the Month (1 Episode) as Mr. Jordan
1957Tonight Starring Jack Paar (1 Episode) as Self
1956Around the World in Eighty Days as Ralph
1956Loser Takes All as Dreuther
1956Armchair Theatre (1 Episode) as Mr. Micawber
1955Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1 Episode) as Mr. Laffler
1955ITV Opening Night at the Guildhall as Self
1955Quentin Durward as King Louis XI
1954Beau Brummell as King George III
1954The Rainbow Jacket as Lord Logan
1954The Good Die Young as Sir Francis Ravenscourt
1953Beat the Devil as Peterson
1953Melba as Oscar Hammerstein I
1953The Final Test as Alexander Whitehead
1953The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan as William S. Gilbert
1952Curtain Up as W.H. 'Harry' Derwent Blacker
1952The African Queen as The Brother
1951Outcast of the Islands as Elmer Almayer
1949The Small Back Room as The Minister
1947The Ghosts of Berkeley Square as Colonel "Bulldog" Kelsoe
1945I Live in Grosvenor Square as Duke of Exmoor
1944Golden Globe Awards (1 Episode) as Self - Presenter
1942The Young Mr. Pitt as Charles James Fox
1942The Foreman Went to France as Mayor Coutare of Bivary
1942Partners in Crime as Judge
1942This Was Paris as Van Der Stuyl
1942The Big Blockade as Von Geiselbrecht
1941Major Barbara as Andrew Undershaft
1941You Will Remember as Tom Barrett / Leslie Stuart
1938Marie Antoinette as King Louis XVI
1938Another Romance of Celluloid as Self (uncredited)
Writing
1949Edward, My Son ... Theatre Play