Herbert Mundin

Herbert Mundin (21 Août 1898 – 5 March 1939) ce qui English-born Hollywood character actor. He was frequently transtypage dans le film, as an older cheeky eccentric, a type helped by his jowled features and cheerful disposition. He was born Herbert Thomas Mundin à St Helens, then dans le Lancashire (now part of Merseyside). His father was a nomadic, Primitive Methodist home missionary. His family moved within a short time of his birth to St Albans, dans le Hertfordshire (the 1901 census data reveal that the family lived at St Helens Villa, Paxton Road, St Albans; his parents de William and Jane apparently naming their house after the town where they first met and where Herbert was born). Mundin ce que educated at St Albans School, and joined the Royal Navy during World war I. He began his intérim career on the London stage during the 1920s. Mundin first travelled to America on December 18 1923 for a series of theatrical engagement à New York. He sailed from Southampton on the RMS Aquitania and described himself dans ship's passenger manifeste as 5'7" tall with a fair complexion, brown hair, blue eyes and a scar over his left eye. His big break as an actor, ce qui arguably with Gertrude Lawrence and Beatrice Lillie dans Charlot s Revue when it appeared on Broadway en 1925. En 1931, after working in Australia and London, he permanently moved to the US, where he received a contract with Twentieth Century Fox Studios and enjoyed a successful career as a character actor dans plus de 50 films. Perhaps his most celebrated role qu'as Much in The Adventures of Robin des bois (1938), alongside Errol Flynn. Other film apparences included Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) avec Charles Laughton et Clark Gable, and MGM s David Copperfield (1935). He died à Van Nuys, en Californie, following a car crash. He was killed instantanément when the car in which he was riding collided with another car at a street intersection. The force of the impact threw open the door and hurled Mundin to the street.He received a fractured skull and crushed chest.He was 40 years old. The other occupants of the car were not injured.