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1920:"Sir Cedric Hardwicke is Dead - the New York Times"
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1053:(1935) as Marquis of Steyne
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1706:Daniel Blum's Screen World
1485:(1954) as Prologue Speaker
1292:The Picture of Dorian Gray
1276:Three Sisters of the Moors
1244:(1943) as Father Sebastian
1161:(1940) as Fleetwood Peyton
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1212:(1942) as Conrad Stauffer
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978:(1932) as Alistair McBane
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1383:(1948) as Arthur Winslow
1319:(1947) as Ralph Nickleby
1252:(1944) as Robert Bonting
1236:(1943) as Colonel Lanser
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1177:(1941) as Bishop Coombes
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1595:Five Weeks in a Balloon
1541:The Power and the Prize
1391:(1948) as Henry Kentley
1359:(1948) as James Libbard
1311:(1946) as Albert Condor
1284:The Keys of the Kingdom
1220:(1942) as Admiral Bowen
1158:The Howards of Virginia
1147:Tom Brown's School Days
1120:Stanley and Livingstone
1093:(1937) as Dean Harcourt
1069:(1936) as Theotocopulos
1061:(1935) as David Garrick
1029:(1934) as Rabbi Gabriel
1021:(1934) as Gustav Dupont
796:Mrs. G. Goes to College
679:The Keys of the Kingdom
576:Stanley and Livingstone
523:In 1948, he joined the
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1590:(1957) as Doc Saunders
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1434:(1951) as Karl Strolin
1423:You Belong to My Heart
1343:(1947) as Julian Wilde
1327:(1947) as Lord Belmont
1193:(1942) as Lord Warrick
1142:(1940) as Richard Cobb
969:Captain Alfred Dreyfus
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1085:(1936) as Mr. Baxley
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777:Tennessee Ernie Ford
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673:King Solomon's Mines
643:The Ten Commandments
571:Henry Morton Stanley
475:Cambridge University
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1598:(1962) as Fergusson
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1351:(1947) as Alexander
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994:(1934) as Brigadier
986:(1933) as Broughton
490:Adelaide Phillpotts
482:Westminster Theatre
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1512:(1956) as Ruggieri
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1295:(1945) as Narrator
1228:(1943) as Mr. Dabb
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1037:(1934) as Max Till
720:Busy Doing Nothing
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1960:Los Angeles Times
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1533:The Vagabond King
1426:(1951) as Bernand
1316:Nicholas Nickleby
1271:(1944) as Admiral
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1225:Forever and a Day
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991:Orders Is Orders
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866:Edward Hardwicke
845:Bulldog Drummond
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718:(1949), singing
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690:Alfred Hitchcock
595:Charles Laughton
551:Charles Laughton
539:Don Juan in Hell
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