Raymond Huntley
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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.
Known for
Credits
Breathless (1960)
as A Journalist (uncredited)
The Mummy (1959)
as Joseph Whemple
Young Winston (1972)
as Old Officer
The Dam Busters (1955)
as Official, National Physical Laboratory
Hobson's Choice (1954)
as Nathaniel Beenstock
The Prisoner (1955)
as The General
Hot Millions (1968)
as Bayswater
Our Man in Havana (1960)
as General
Room at the Top (1958)
as Mr. Hoylake
Crooks Anonymous (1962)
as Mr. Wagstaffe
The Way Ahead (1944)
as Pvt. Herbert Davenport
Night Train to Munich (1940)
as Kampenfeldt
I'm All Right Jack (1959)
as Magistrate
Symptoms (1974)
as Burke
"Pimpernel" Smith (1941)
as Marx
The Green Man (1956)
as Sir Gregory Upshott
Bottoms Up! (1960)
as Garrick-Jones
Knight Without Armour (1937)
as White Officer
Make Mine Mink (1960)
as Inspector Pape
Rembrandt (1936)
as Ludwick
The Ghost Train (1941)
as John Price
Passport to Pimlico (1949)
as Mr. Wix
The Yellow Teddy Bears (1963)
as Harry Haliburton
The Ghost of St. Michael's (1941)
as Mr Humphries
Doctor at Sea (1955)
as Captain Beamish
Innocent Meeting (1959)
as Harold Phillips
Suspect (1960)
as Sir George Gatting the Minister of Defense
I See a Dark Stranger (1946)
as J. Miller
The Long Dark Hall (1951)
as Chief Inspector Sullivan
The House in the Square (1951)
as Mr. Throstle
Aunt Clara (1954)
as Rev. Maurice Hilton
Brothers in Law (1957)
as Tatlock Q.C.
Town on Trial (1957)
as Dr. Reese
Carlton-Browne of the F.O. (1959)
as Foreign Secretary Tufton-Slade
The Pure Hell of St Trinian's (1960)
as Judge Slender
The Last Man to Hang (1956)
as Attorney General
Broken Journey (1948)
as Edward Marshall
Waltz of the Toreadors (1962)
as Ackroyd
The New Lot (1943)
as Barrington
Orders Are Orders (1954)
as Col. Fred Bellamy
The Adding Machine (1969)
as Smithers
School for Secrets (1946)
as Prof. Laxton-Jones
Only Two Can Play (1962)
as Vernon
On the Beat (1962)
as Sir Ronald Ackroyd
Sands of the Desert (1960)
as Bossom
The Black Torment (1964)
as Colonel John Wentworth
Mr. Denning Drives North (1951)
as Wright
The Constant Husband (1955)
as J.F. Hassett
So Evil My Love (1948)
as Henry Courtney
Meet Mr. Lucifer (1953)
as Patterson
Next to No Time (1958)
as Forbes, Factory Supervisor
A French Mistress (1960)
as Reverend Edwin Peake
A Voyage Round My Father (1984)
as Judge
Sleepwalker (1984)
as Old Englishman
The Last Page (1952)
as Clive Oliver
The Day Will Dawn (1942)
Actor
Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill (1948)
as Moy-Thompson
Rotten to the Core (1965)
as Governor
Arthur? Arthur! (1969)
as George Payne
Trio (1950)
as Mr. Henry Chester
Let's Be Famous (1939)
as Singer in trio (uncredited)
The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery (1966)
as Sir Horace, the Minister
Freedom Radio (1941)
as Rabenau
Geordie (1955)
as Olympic Selector
Laxdale Hall (1953)
as Samuel Pettigrew, M.P.
Nurse on Wheels (1963)
as Vicar Walcott
Destiny of a Spy (1969)
as Supt. Pode
That's Your Funeral (1972)
as Emmanuel Holroyd
When We Are Married (1951)
as Councillor Albert Parker
Number Three (1953)
as Prof. Brander
Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It (1941)
as Dr. Kerbishley
Father Came Too! (1964)
as Mr. Wedgewood
Whom the Gods Love: The Original Story of Mozart and His Wife (1936)
as Langer
When We Are Married (1938)
as Councillor Albert Parker
The Criminals (1958)
as Hector Crawford
Can You Hear Me, Mother? (1935)
as Dolan
It's Hard to be Good (1948)
as Williams
They Came to a City (1944)
as Malcolm Stritton
Glad Tidings (1953)
as Tom Forester
Hostile Witness (1968)
as John Naylor
Dinner at the Ritz (1937)
as Gibout
When We Are Married (1943)
as Albert Parker
Tune On the Old Tax Fiddle (1961)
as Mr. Gaunt
The Portland Millions (1976)
as Dr. Tristram
The Teckman Mystery (1954)
as Maurice Miller
London Melody (1937)
as Policeman Outside Nightclub
What Happened Then? (1934)
Actor
Follow That Horse! (1960)
Actor