Eric Blore

Born: 1887-12-22

Eric Blore (23 December 1887 - 2 March 1959) was an English actor.


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Top Hat

as Bates
Released: 1935-08-29

Showman Jerry Travers is working for producer Horace Hardwick in London. Jerry demonstrates his...

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Once Upon a Studio

as Mr. Toad (voice) (archive footage)
Released: 2023-09-24

Created for Disney's 100th anniversary, the short features Mickey Mouse corralling a gallery of...

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The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad

as Mr. Toad (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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The Lady Eve

as Sir Alfred McGlennan Keith
Released: 1941-02-25

It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set...

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Shall We Dance

as Cecil Flintridge
Released: 1937-05-07

Ballet star Petrov arranges to cross the Atlantic aboard the same ship as the dancer and musical...

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The Gay Divorcee

as Waiter
Released: 1934-10-12

Seeking a divorce from her absentee husband, Mimi Glossop travels to an English seaside resort....

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Sullivan's Travels

as Sullivan's Valet
Released: 1941-11-30

Successful movie director John L. Sullivan, convinced he won't be able to film his ambitious...

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Road to Zanzibar

as Charles Kimble
Released: 1941-04-11

Stranded in Africa, Chuck and his pal Fearless have comic versions of jungle adventures,...

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Swing Time

as Gordon
Released: 1936-08-27

Lucky is tricked into missing his own wedding again and has to make $25,000 so her father allows...

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Flying Down to Rio

as Head Waiter
Released: 1933-12-22

A dance band leader finds love and success in Brazil.

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Breakfast for Two

as Butch
Released: 1937-10-22

After a night on the town, Jonathan Blair wakes to find that Texan Valentine Ransome has...

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Holy Matrimony

as Henry Leek
Released: 1943-08-24

An artist returning from years abroad takes the identity of his dead valet and gets married, but...

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Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend

as Self (from Love Happy [1949]) (archive footage)
Released: 1986-04-19

Her story is well-known — the lonely child who yearned for affection and approval which she...

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Forever and a Day

as Charles
Released: 1943-01-21

In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the...

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Love Happy

as Mackinaw
Released: 1949-10-12

The Marx Brothers help young Broadway hopefuls when they get mixed up with gangsters due to a...

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The Good Fairy

as Dr. Metz
Released: 1935-02-18

In 1930s Budapest, naïve orphan Luisa Ginglebuscher becomes an usherette at the local movie...

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Music in My Heart

as Griggs
Released: 1940-01-04

A young woman engaged to a millionaire falls for the understudy in a Broadway musical.

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Romance on the High Seas

as Ship's Doctor
Released: 1948-06-25

Georgia Garrett is sent by jealous wife Elvira Kent on an ocean cruise to masquerade as herself...

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Swiss Miss

as Edward
Released: 1938-05-20

Stan and Ollie are mousetrap salesmen hoping for better business in Switzerland, with Stan's...

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The Shanghai Gesture

as Caesar Hawkins
Released: 1941-12-25

A gambling queen uses blackmail to stop a British financier from closing her Chinese clip joint.

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The Ex-Mrs. Bradford

as Stokes, Bradford's Butler
Released: 1936-04-24

A doctor is driven into an investigation of sinister goings-on at a horse race track by his...

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The Great Gatsby

as Lord Digby
Released: 1926-11-21

Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the...

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Lady Scarface

as Mr. Hartford
Released: 1941-09-26

A Chicago gang led by Slade carries out an audacious brokerage robbery. Lieutenant Bill Mason...

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The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1997-11-01

A film scrapbook, images, phrases from our past, hiding their meanings behind veils. Let's lift...

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Sons o' Guns

as Hobson
Released: 1936-05-13

Broadway star Jimmy Canfield stars in a patriotic show on the great white way during WWI. He...

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Old Man Rhythm

as 'Phil' Phillips
Released: 1935-08-02

Romantic rivalries between father and son enrolled at the same college.

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The Wind in the Willows

as J. Thaddeus Toad (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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The Sky's the Limit

as Jackson - Phil's Butler (uncredited)
Released: 1943-07-13

Flying Tiger Fred Atwell sneaks away from his famous squadron's personal appearance tour and...

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Diamond Jim

as Sampson Fox
Released: 1935-09-01

A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.

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Bowery to Bagdad

as The Genie
Released: 1955-01-07

The Bowery Boys find a lamp that has strange magic powers.

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Counter-Espionage

as Jameson
Released: 1942-09-03

The Lone Wolf tracks down Nazi spies in London during the German bombing.

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The Soldier and the Lady

as Henry Blount
Released: 1937-04-09

In the face of rebellion in Russia, Czar Alexander II sends soldier Michael Strogoff 2,000 miles...

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Heavenly Music

as Mr. Frisbie
Released: 1943-05-01

Bandleader/singer/songwriter Ted Barry arrives to heaven. The receptionist tells him that before...

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Folies Bergère

as Francois
Released: 1935-02-22

An entertainer impersonates a look-alike banker, causing comic confusion for wife and girlfriend.

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Kitty

as Dobson
Released: 1945-10-16

Pickpocket Kitty's life changes when painter Thomas Gainsborough makes her portrait. The artwork...

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Going Hollywood: The '30s

as (archive footage)
Released: 1984-01-01

Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they...

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The Notorious Lone Wolf

as Jameson
Released: 1946-02-14

Ex-thief Lone Wolf and his valet don turbans to solve a museum jewel theft.

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San Diego I Love You

as Nelson, Butler
Released: 1944-09-29

A harried daughter tries to keep her wacky family together while trying to sell her eccentric...

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The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date

as Jamison
Released: 1940-11-02

Complicated plot involving missing stamp collection and kidnapped businessman, with the Lone...

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Smartest Girl in Town

as Lucius Philbean
Released: 1936-11-27

A girl in search of a rich husband mistakes a millionaire for a male model.

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Limehouse Blues

as Slummer (uncredited)
Released: 1934-12-11

Fresh from Chinatown in New York, Harry Young has taken over the illegal import business in the...

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I Live My Life

as Grove, Bentley's Butler
Released: 1935-10-04

A society girl tries to make a go of her marriage to an archaeologist.

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New York Town

as Vivian
Released: 1941-10-31

Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York...

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One Dangerous Night

as Jamison
Released: 1943-01-22

Reformed jewel thief the Lone Wolf investigates the murder of a playboy who was blackmailing...

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Piccadilly Jim

as Bayliss, Jim's Butler
Released: 1936-08-14

Jim's father wants to marry Eugenia, but her sister Netta refuses to allow it. When Jim sees Ann...

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The Lone Wolf Strikes

as Jamison
Released: 1940-01-26

Delia Jordan's father is murdered and some very valuable jewelry stolen. She hires The Lone Wolf.

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Confirm or Deny

as Mr. Hobbs, Regency Hotel
Released: 1941-12-12

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

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Passport to Suez

as Llewellyn Jameson
Released: 1943-08-19

The Lone Wolf goes undercover in Egypt to foil a Nazi plot to bomb and disable the Suez canal,...

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Seven Keys to Baldpate

as Prof. Harrison Boulton
Released: 1935-12-13

A writer, looking for some peace and quiet in order to finish a novel, takes a room at the...

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The Moon and Sixpence

as Capt. Nichols
Released: 1942-10-27

Loosely inspired from Gauguin's life, the story of Charles Strickland, a middle-aged...

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Behold My Wife!

as Benson
Released: 1934-12-06

After Michael Carter's fiancée commits suicide, Michael vows to seek revenge on his wealthy...

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Secrets of the Lone Wolf

as Jamison
Released: 1941-11-13

Michael Lanyard's faithful butler Jamison is mistaken for his boss by a gang of jewel robbers.

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Fancy Pants

as Lionel Boswell / Sir Wimbley
Released: 1950-07-19

An American actor, impersonating an English butler, is hired by a rich woman from New Mexico to...

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Earl of Puddlestone

as Horatio Bottomley
Released: 1940-08-31

When Betty's father sees the condescending attitude displayed toward her by a rich family, he...

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Men in Her Diary

as Florist
Released: 1945-09-14

Singer/Dancer Peggy Ryan neither sings nor dances in this comedy in which she plays a secretary,...

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Winter Wonderland

as Luddington
Released: 1946-05-12

A farm girl has a romance with a ski instructor.

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Sunday Night at the Trocadero

as Eric Blore
Released: 1937-10-02

A series of vignettes with a loose plot. Featured are Frank Morgan, Groucho Marx, Frank McHugh,...

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I Dream Too Much

as Roger Briggs
Released: 1935-11-29

Opera student Annette Monard meets composer Jonathan Street, and in a buoyant, alcohol-fueled...

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It's Love I'm After

as Digges
Released: 1937-10-08

An infatuated debutante renews a Shakespearean actor's running feud with his leading lady.

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Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1997-05-12

Born Ruby Stevens, she was orphaned when she was four. A chance audition led to a chorus job. By...

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Quality Street

as Recruiting Sergeant
Released: 1937-03-26

In the 1810s, an old maid poses as her own niece in order to teach her onetime beau a lesson.

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The Boys from Syracuse

as Pinch
Released: 1940-07-30

The action takes place in Ephesus in ancient Asia Minor, and the concerns The efforts of two...

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Hitting a New High

as Cedric Cosmo
Released: 1937-12-24

A Paris cabaret singer dreams of becoming a Metropolitan Opera singer. A press agent arranges...

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Three Girls About Town

as Charlemagne, looking for Charlie
Released: 1941-10-23

Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next...

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Joy of Living

as Potter
Released: 1938-05-06

Falling in love with the voice of Broadway chanteuse Margaret Garret, cocksure young tycoon...

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The Casino Murder Case

as Currie
Released: 1935-03-15

When Philo Vance receives a note that harm will befall Lynn at the casino that night, he takes...

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'Til We Meet Again

as Sir Harold Pinchard
Released: 1940-04-20

Dying Joan Ames meets criminal Dan Hardesty on a luxury liner as he is being transported back to...

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To Beat the Band

as Hawkins
Released: 1935-11-23

An eccentric heir must marry a widow in order to collect the millions left to him in his aunt's...

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Breakdowns of 1940

as Self
Released: 1940-12-31

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1940.

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Laughter

as Party Guest in Angel Costume (Uncredited)
Released: 1930-09-24

Zeigfeld Follies beauty Peggy marries an older man, C. Morton Gibson. Although she soon grows...

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Submarine Base

as Spike, Morgan's Aide
Released: 1943-07-20

Ship engineer Jim Taggert is rescued from a torpedoed tramp steamer by Joe Morgan, an American...

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$1,000 a Touchdown

as Henry
Released: 1939-10-04

A couple inherits a college and to generate revenue offers a thousand dollars to players for...

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I Was a Criminal

as Obermueller, the Mayor
Released: 1941-01-01

In Prussia shoemaker Voight needs a residence permit to get a job, but can only get a job if he...

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A Gentleman's Gentleman

as Heppelwhite
Released: 1939-05-17

A valet thinks his master is a murder, and tries a little blackmail.

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The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady

as Jamison
Released: 1940-05-30

A hardworking secretary for a rich woman finds herself engaged to the woman's son and accused of...

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The Man Who Wouldn't Talk

as Horace Parker
Released: 1940-01-11

A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death....

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Two in the Dark

as Edmund Fish
Released: 1936-01-10

Ford Adams regains consciousness in Boston, bloody and suffering from amnesia. Information he...

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The Lone Wolf in Mexico

as Jamison
Released: 1947-01-16

In this entry in the enduring series, the suave jewel thief finds himself helping the police...

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Penthouse Rhythm

as Ferdy Pelham
Released: 1945-06-22

Musical comedy directed by Edward F. Cline

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The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance

as Jamison
Released: 1941-03-06

A reformed jewel thief fights to clear his name when he's framed for murder.

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Island of Lost Men

as Herbert
Released: 1939-08-16

A Chinese general's daughter tracks her father to a slave-labor tyrant's jungle empire.

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Abie's Irish Rose

as Stubbins, Asst. Hotel Manager
Released: 1946-12-27

Cultures clash when a Jewish boy wants to marry an Irish girl.

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The Lone Wolf in London

as Claudius Augustus Lucius Jamison
Released: 1947-11-13

Michael Lanyard (Gerald Mohr) is suspected of stealing two fabulous diamonds from a vault in...

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Tarnished Lady

as Jewelry Counter Clerk
Released: 1931-05-01

Nancy Courtney, a once wealthy socialite, has had to struggle to maintain a facade of prosperity...

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A Desperate Adventure

as Trump
Released: 1938-08-05

In this romantic comedy, a passionate French painter nearly goes berserk when he learns that his...

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South of Suez

as Harold 'Limey' Wemsley
Released: 1940-11-16

Greedy diamond mine owner Eli Snedeker, resentful that his ex-foreman John Gamble stopped him...

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Happy Go Lucky

as Betsman
Released: 1943-01-04

A gold-digger hopes to land a rich husband in Trinidad, but gets mixed up with a beach boy and...

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Redhead

as Digby
Released: 1941-05-21

A wealthy businessman's irresponsible son and a down-on-her-luck model enter into a marriage of...

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Easy to Look At

as Billings
Released: 1945-06-01

In this musical, a talented aspiring costume designer leaves her small town to seek her fortune...

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