Raymond Huntley
1904-04-23 ( 120 years old ) in King's Norton, Worcestershire, England, UK

Horace Raymond Huntley (23 April 1904 – 15 June 1990) was an English actor who appeared in dozens of British films from the 1930s to the 1970s. He also appeared in the ITV period drama Upstairs, Downstairs as the pragmatic family solicitor Sir Geoffrey Dillon, and other television shows, such as the Wodehouse Playhouse, ('Romance at Droitwich Spa'), in 1975. Born in Kings Norton, Worcestershire (now a suburb of Birmingham) in 1904, Huntley made his stage debut at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre on 1 April 1922, in A Woman Killed with Kindness. His London debut followed at the Court Theatre on 22 February 1924, in As Far as Thought can Reach. He subsequently inherited the role of Count Dracula from Edmund Blake in Hamilton Deane's touring adaptation of Dracula, which arrived at London's Little Theatre on 14 February 1927, subsequently transferring to the larger Duke of York's Theatre. Later that year he was offered the chance to reprise the role on Broadway (in a script streamlined by John L. Balderston); when he declined, the part was taken by Bela Lugosi instead. Huntley did, however, appear in a US touring production of the Deane/Balderston play, covering the east coast and midwest, from 1928-30. "I have always considered the role of Count Dracula to have been an indiscretion of my youth" he recalled in 1989. After Dracula, he made his Broadway debut at the Vanderbilt Theatre on 23 February 1931, in The Venetian Glass Nephew. On returning to the UK, his many West End appearances included The Farmer's Wife (Queen's Theatre 1932), Cornelius (Duchess Theatre 1935), Bees on the Boat Deck (Lyric Theatre 1936) Time and the Conways (Duchess Theatre 1937), When We Are Married (St Martin's Theatre 1940), Rebecca (Queen's Theatre 1940; Strand Theatre 1942), They Came to a City (Globe Theatre 1943), The Late Edwina Black (Ambassadors Theatre 1948), And This Was Odd (Criterion Theatre 1951), Double Image (Savoy Theatre 1956), Any Other Business (Westminster Theatre 1958), Caught Napping (Piccadilly Theatre 1959), Difference of Opinion (Garrick Theatre 1963), An Ideal Husband (Garrick Theatre 1966), Getting Married (Strand Theatre 1967), Soldiers (New Theatre 1968) and Separate Tables (Apollo Theatre 1977). He also starred opposite Flora Robson in the Broadway production of Black Chiffon (48th Street Theatre 1950). Often cast as a supercilious bureaucrat or other authority figure, Huntley was also a staple figure in British films, his many appearances including The Way Ahead, I See a Dark Stranger, Passport to Pimlico and The Dam Busters. In his later years, he became well-known on television as Sir Geoffrey Dillon, the family solicitor to the Bellamys in LWT's popular 1970s drama series Upstairs, Downstairs. Huntley died in Westminster Hospital, London in 1990. In his obituary, the New York Times wrote, "During his long career the actor played judges, bank managers, churchmen, bureaucrats and other figures of authority. He could play them straight if necessary, but in comedy his natural dryness of delivery was exaggerated to the point where the character he was playing invited mockery as a pompous humbug." Source: Article "Raymond Huntley" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Movies

Sleepwalker 1984-07-05
A Voyage Round My Father 1984-04-19
The Portland Millions 1976-09-17
Symptoms 1974-05-10
That's Your Funeral 1972-12-01
Young Winston 1972-07-20
Destiny of a Spy 1969-10-27
Arthur? Arthur! 1969-10-01
The Adding Machine 1969-09-23
Hostile Witness 1968-11-01
Hot Millions 1968-09-19
The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery 1966-03-11
Rotten to the Core 1965-07-14
The Black Torment 1964-10-19
Father Came Too! 1964-02-11
The Yellow Teddy Bears 1963-07-01
Nurse on Wheels 1963-01-03
On the Beat 1962-12-11
Waltz of the Toreadors 1962-04-12
Crooks Anonymous 1962-03-31
Only Two Can Play 1962-01-19
The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's 1960-12-22
Suspect 1960-11-15
Sands of the Desert 1960-09-08
A French Mistress 1960-08-25
Make Mine Mink 1960-08-09
Follow That Horse! 1960-07-11
Bottoms Up! 1960-03-25
Breathless 1960-03-16
Our Man in Havana 1960-01-27
I'm All Right Jack 1959-08-18
The Mummy 1959-08-01
Innocent Meeting 1959-04-01
Carlton-Browne of the F.O. 1959-03-10
Room at the Top 1958-12-29
The Criminals 1958-12-28
Next to No Time 1958-08-04
Brothers in Law 1957-03-04
Town on Trial 1957-01-24
The Green Man 1956-12-21
The Last Man to Hang 1956-08-01
Geordie 1955-09-02
Doctor at Sea 1955-07-12
The Dam Busters 1955-05-16
The Constant Husband 1955-04-21
The Prisoner 1955-04-19
Aunt Clara 1954-11-22
The Teckman Mystery 1954-10-27
Orders Are Orders 1954-10-01
Hobson's Choice 1954-04-19
Meet Mr. Lucifer 1953-11-30
Glad Tidings 1953-06-13
Laxdale Hall 1953-04-01
The Last Page 1952-01-25
When We Are Married 1951-12-25
Mr. Denning Drives North 1951-12-18
The House in the Square 1951-12-07
The Long Dark Hall 1951-02-06
Trio 1950-10-10
Passport to Pimlico 1949-10-26
It's Hard to be Good 1948-11-10
Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill 1948-09-27
So Evil My Love 1948-08-02
Broken Journey 1948-04-14
School for Secrets 1946-12-23
I See a Dark Stranger 1946-07-04
They Came to a City 1944-08-21
The Way Ahead 1944-06-09
When We Are Married 1943-07-12
The New Lot 1943-01-01
The Day Will Dawn 1942-06-08
'Pimpernel' Smith 1941-07-28
Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It 1941-05-17
The Ghost Train 1941-05-05
The Ghost of St. Michael's 1941-04-01
Freedom Radio 1941-02-04
Night Train to Munich 1940-08-31
Let's Be Famous 1939-03-22
When We Are Married 1938-11-16
Dinner at the Ritz 1937-11-26
Knight Without Armour 1937-07-23
London Melody 1937-02-04
Rembrandt 1936-11-06
Whom the Gods Love: The Original Story of Mozart and His Wife 1936-02-22
Can You Hear Me, Mother? 1935-12-02
What Happened Then? 1934-09-24
Tune On the Old Tax Fiddle

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