Claud Allister

Born: 1888-08-02

Claud Allister (3 October 1888 – 26 July 1970) was an English actor. After his education at Felsted, in Essex, he appeared in 74 films between 1929 and 1955. He was born William Claud Michael Palmer in London, England and died in Santa Barbara, California. His interment was located in Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery. He began his career as a stockbroker's clerk but gave it up and made his stage debut in 1910. He toured England playing minor parts till the war started. He served in WWI and in 1924 went to America to act on the stage. In 1929 he made his film debut where he featured in The Trial of Mary Dugan. Description above from the Wikipedia article Claud Allister, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia. ​


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The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad

as Rat (voice)
Released: 1949-10-05

The Wind in the Willows: Concise version of Kenneth Grahame's story of the same name. J....

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Dracula's Daughter

as Sir Aubrey
Released: 1936-05-11

A countess from Transylvania seeks a psychiatrist’s help to cure her vampiric cravings.

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Pride and Prejudice

as Mr. Beck
Released: 1940-07-26

Mr. and Mrs. Bennet have five unmarried daughters, and Mrs. Bennet is especially eager to find...

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The Reluctant Dragon

as Sir Giles (segment "The Reluctant Dragon") (voice)
Released: 1941-06-19

Humorist Robert Benchley attempts to find Walt Disney to ask him to adapt a short story about a...

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The Awful Truth

as Lord Fabian (uncredited)
Released: 1937-10-20

Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings, whereupon they start...

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The Wind in the Willows

as Rat (voice)
Released: 1949-05-10

This animated fairy tale for kids tells the classic story of a dapper, automobile loving fellow...

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Platinum Blonde

as Dawson - the Valet
Released: 1931-10-31

Anne Schuyler is an upper-crust socialite who bullies her reporter husband into conforming to...

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Kiss Me Kate

as Paul
Released: 1953-11-26

Fred and Lilli are a divorced pair of actors who are brought together by Cole Porter who has...

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The Black Shield of Falworth

as Sir George
Released: 1954-09-02

In the days of King Henry IV, stalwart young Myles and his sister Meg have been raised as...

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Captain Fury

as Suco
Released: 1939-05-26

An Irish convict sentenced to hard labor in Australia escapes into the outback, and organizes a...

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The Private Life of Henry VIII

as Cornell
Released: 1933-08-17

Renowned for his excess, King Henry VIII goes through a series of wives during his rule. With...

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The Midshipmaid

as Chinley
Released: 1932-12-08

Sir Percy Newbiggin visits the fleet to find ways to economize Naval expenditures. Daughter...

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A Yank in the R.A.F.

as Officer-Motorist (uncredited)
Released: 1941-09-26

An American pilot impulsively joins His Majesty's Royal Air Force in Britain in an attempt to...

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Reaching for the Moon

as Sir Horace Partington Chelmsford
Released: 1930-12-29

Wall Street wizard, Larry Day, new to the ways of love, is coached by his valet. He follows...

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The Sea Ghost

as Percy Atwater
Released: 1931-11-28

A crooked lawyer trying to cheat a young girl out of her inheritance tries to convince a sea...

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Hong Kong

as Hotel Manager
Released: 1952-04-18

American adventurer Jeff Williams is fleeing the communist advance in China when he becomes...

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Monte Carlo

as Prince Otto von Liebenheim
Released: 1930-08-27

A countess fleeing her husband mistakes a count for her hairdresser at a Monte Carlo casino.

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Lillian Russell

as Arthur Sullivan
Released: 1940-05-24

Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.

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Slightly Scarlet

as Albert Hawkins
Released: 1930-02-22

Passing herself off as a countess, glamorous Lucy Stavrin hobnobs with the rich and famous along...

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Captain Applejack

as John Jason
Released: 1931-01-31

An ordinary man is confronted by gangsters who have reason to believe a treasure is buried...

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Three Live Ghosts

as Lord 'Spoofy' Brockton
Released: 1936-01-10

Three WWI veterans thought long dead turn out to be still alive and return home - much to the...

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Danger – Love at Work

as Gun salesman
Released: 1937-09-30

A New York City lawyer finds himself falling in love with the daughter of a screwball South...

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Quartet

as 1st. Club Man
Released: 1948-10-26

Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales in this anthology film: "The Facts of Life," "The...

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On the Loose

as Mr. Loder's friend
Released: 1931-12-26

Two young women, Zasu and Thelma, complain that all of their dates take them to Coney Island....

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Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.6

as Sir Giles (voice) (archive sound)
Released: 2004-05-31

Two classic animated shorts from the Disney studios. In 'The Reluctant Dragon' (1941), a young...

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Kentucky Moonshine

as Lord Boffingwell (uncredited)
Released: 1938-05-20

The Ritz Brothers pretend to be Kentucky hillbillies in order to get a booking on a radio show.

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Bulldog Drummond

as Algy Longworth
Released: 1929-05-02

Bulldog Drummond is a British WWI veteran who longs for some excitement after he returns to the...

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Bulldog Drummond at Bay

as Algy Longworth
Released: 1937-05-01

Drummond goes up against foreign agents who are trying to steal plans for a top-secret aircraft.

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Men Are Such Fools

as Rudolf
Released: 1938-06-15

Linda works at an advertising agency, but, unlike the other women in the secretarial pool, she...

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Storm Over Bengal

as Redding
Released: 1938-11-14

This being a Republic picture, it should come as no surprise that Storm Over Bengal was filmed...

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The Private Life of Don Juan

as The Duke, as Dukes Go
Released: 1934-01-01

What do women want? Don Juan is aging. He's arrived secretly in Seville after a 20 year absence....

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Confirm or Deny

as William (scenes deleted)
Released: 1941-12-12

Newsman Mitch and teletype operator Jennifer, whose job is to see he doesn't send inappropriate...

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Sleeping Car

as Baron Delande
Released: 1933-06-06

A French sleeping-car attending with an eye for the ladies hooks up with a wealthy widow and...

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Charming Sinners

as Gregson
Released: 1929-08-17

Charming Sinners was a stilted adaptation of Somerset Maugham's play The Constant Wife. Robert...

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Blond Cheat

as Lord Basil Sheldon (uncredited)
Released: 1938-06-17

Socially prominent Michael Ashburn, chief assistant for a London loan broker makes a large loan...

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Arrest Bulldog Drummond

as Sir Basil Leghorne
Released: 1938-11-25

The invention of a machine that can cause remote explosions brings the attention of Scotland...

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The Florodora Girl

as Lord Rumblesham
Released: 1930-05-31

A chorus girl gets bad advice from her fellow chorines in handling a rich suitor who assumes she...

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Lady Luck

as Briggs
Released: 1936-09-13

New York manicurist Mamie Murphy plans to marry a rich man, so she repeatedly turns down the...

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Gaiety George

as Archie
Released: 1946-07-15

The life of Irishman George Howard who buys an English theatre and strives to improve the...

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Every Night at Eight

as Mr. Vernon (uncredited)
Released: 1935-08-02

Three young girls working in an agency have build a singing trio. They want to "lease" the...

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Such Men Are Dangerous

as Fred Wyndham
Released: 1930-03-09

A wealthy and powerful industrialist changes his identity to avenge himself on the wife that...

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The Dark Angel

as Lawrence Bidley
Released: 1935-09-08

Kitty Vane, Alan Trent, and Gerald Shannon have been inseparable friends since childhood. Kitty...

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The First Gentleman

as Manservant
Released: 1948-03-15

The story of a romance between the daughter of the Prince Regent and Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg.

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The Unexpected Father

as Claude
Released: 1932-01-03

A wealthy bachelor hires a pretty young nanny to look after his adopted daughter. Sparks quickly...

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I Like Your Nerve

as Archie Lester
Released: 1931-09-12

Romance and political intrigue highlight director William C. McGann's 1931 comedy about a...

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Charley's Aunt

as Spectator
Released: 1941-08-01

In 1890, two students at Oxford force their rascally friend and fellow student to pose as an...

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Those Were the Days

as Capt. Horace Vale
Released: 1934-04-02

A farce based on Arthur Wing Pinero's play 'The Magistrate' in which the son (John Mills) of a...

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Diamond Cut Diamond

as Joe Fragson
Released: 1932-08-17

One of the guests tries to foil a gang of jewel-robbers during a country house weekend party.

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Kiss the Bride Goodbye

as Adolphus Pickering
Released: 1945-01-28

Working-class girl Joan Dodd's plan to marry Jack Fowler is thwarted when her mother Gladys...

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The Return of Bulldog Drummond

as Algy Longworth
Released: 1934-04-19

Bulldog Drummond forms a gang to rescue his wife and thwart his nemesis, Carl Peterson.

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The Czar of Broadway

as uncredited
Released: 1930-05-25

Mort Bradley, New York political boss and underworld czar, controls not only the city's most...

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The Lady Is Willing

as Brevin
Released: 1934-08-10

In this comedy-mystery, a private detective helps three businessmen get even with the man who...

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Two White Arms

as Dr. Biggash
Released: 1932-03-01

A man becomes bored with married life and pretends to have lost his memory so he can pursue...

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Oh, What a Knight!

as uncredited
Released: 1937-11-22

A barber is mistaken for a rich society woman's new servant.

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