Reginald Denny

Actor

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Also Known As

Reginald Leigh Daymore

Birth Place

Surrey, England, GB

Born

November 20, 1891

Died

June 16, 1967

Cause of Death

Stroke

Biography

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Reginald Denny was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. Denny's early acting career consisted of roles in various films, such as "Sherlock Holmes" (1922), "The Abysmal Brute" (1923) and "Oh, Doctor!" (1924). He also appeared in "Sporting Youth" (1924), "Where Was I?" (1925) and "California Straight Ahead" (1925). He kept working in film throughout the thirties, starring ...

Filmography

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The Big Bluff (1933)

Commodore Schmidlapp

Assault on a Queen (1966)

Cat Ballou (1965)

Sir Harry Percival

Around the World in 80 Days (1956)

Bombay police inspector

Escape to Burma (1955)

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Madam Satan (1930) -- (Movie Clip) Love Can't Be Kept In Cold Storage

Madam Satan (1930) -- (Movie Clip) Heaven Forgive Thee Kindly

Biography

Reginald Denny was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. Denny's early acting career consisted of roles in various films, such as "Sherlock Holmes" (1922), "The Abysmal Brute" (1923) and "Oh, Doctor!" (1924). He also appeared in "Sporting Youth" (1924), "Where Was I?" (1925) and "California Straight Ahead" (1925). He kept working in film throughout the thirties, starring in the Victor McLaglen drama "The Lost Patrol" (1934), "We're Rich Again" (1934) and "The Richest Girl in the World" (1934) with Miriam Hopkins. He also appeared in the romance "The Little Minister" (1934) with Katharine Hepburn. Nearing the end of his career, he tackled roles in the Marlene Dietrich adventurous drama "Seven Sinners" (1940), "Spring Parade" (1940) and "Appointment for Love" (1941). He also appeared in "International Squadron" (1941) with Ronald Reagan and the Milton Berle comedy "Over My Dead Body" (1942). Denny last acted in the Adam West action flick "Batman: The Movie" (1966). Denny passed away in June 1967 at the age of 76.

Filmography

Director (Feature Film)

The Big Bluff (1933)

Cast (Feature Film)

Commodore Schmidlapp

Assault on a Queen (1966)

Cat Ballou (1965)

Sir Harry Percival

Around the World in 80 Days (1956)

Bombay police inspector

Escape to Burma (1955)

World for Ransom (1954)

Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1953)

Fort Vengeance (1953)

The Iroquois Trail (1950)

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)

[Henry L.] Simms

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)

Christmas Eve (1947)

Phillip Hastings

My Favorite Brunette (1947)

The Macomber Affair (1947)

Captain Smollett

Escape Me Never (1947)

The Locket (1946)

Mr. [Arthur] Wendell

Adolpho Fernandez

Love Letters (1945)

Defense attorney

Song of the Open Road (1944)

Director Curtis

The Crime Doctor's Strangest Case (1943)

Over My Dead Body (1943)

Eyes in the Night (1942)

Captains of the Clouds (1942)

Commanding officer

Thunder Birds (1942)

Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942)

Sir Evan Barham [alias of Heinrich von Bork]

One Night in Lisbon (1941)

International Squadron (1941)

Wing Commander Severn

Appointment for Love (1941)

Spring Parade (1940)

Seven Sinners (1940)

Spring Parade (1940)

Everybody's Baby (1939)

Dr. Ronald B. Pillcoff

Bulldog Drummond's Bride (1939)

Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police (1939)

Four Men and a Prayer (1938)

[Captain Douglas] Loveland

Blockade (1938)

Bulldog Drummond in Africa (1938)

Bulldog Drummond's Peril (1938)

Bulldog Drummond's Revenge (1938)

Arrest Bulldog Drummond (1938)

Beg Borrow or Steal (1937)

Clifton ["Lord"] Summitt

Let's Get Married (1937)

George Willoughby

The Great Gambini (1937)

William Randall

Women of Glamour (1937)

Fritz [Frederick] Eagan

Bulldog Drummond Escapes (1937)

Join the Marines (1937)

Bulldog Drummond Comes Back (1937)

Jungle Menace (1937)

Two in a Crowd (1936)

More Than a Secretary (1936)

The Preview Murder Mystery (1936)

The Rest Cure (1936)

It Couldn't Have Happened (But It Did) (1936)

Romeo and Juliet (1936)

Benvolio, nephew to Montague and friend to Romeo

Anna Karénina (1935)

Lottery Lover (1935)

No More Ladies (1935)

Here's to Romance (1935)

Remember Last Night? (1935)

The Lady in Scarlet (1935)

Midnight Phantom (1935)

Professor David Graham

Vagabond Lady (1935)

Without Children (1935)

One More River (1934)

Of Human Bondage (1934)

Harry Griffiths

The Richest Girl in the World (1934)

Phillip [Lockwood]

Dancing Man (1934)

The World Moves On (1934)

Erik [von Gerhardt]

We're Rich Again (1934)

[Bookington] Bookie [Wells]

The Lost Patrol (1934)

The Little Minister (1934)

Captain Halliwell

Only Yesterday (1933)

The Big Bluff (1933)

The Barbarian (1933)

Strange Justice (1932)

Henry I. Judson

Iron Master (1932)

Private Lives (1931)

Victor [Prynne]

Stepping Out (1931)

Parlor, Bedroom and Bath (1931)

Jeffrey [Hayward]

Those Three French Girls (1930)

A Lady's Morals (1930)

Oh, For a Man (1930)

What a Man (1930)

Embarrassing Moments (1930)

Thaddeus Cruikshank

Madame Satan (1930)

Red Hot Speed (1929)

One Hysterical Night (1929)

William Judd [Napoleon]

Clear the Decks (1929)

His Lucky Day (1929)

Charles Blaydon

That's My Daddy (1928)

The Night Bird (1928)

Good Morning, Judge (1928)

Out All Night (1927)

On Your Toes (1927)

Elliott Beresford

The Cheerful Fraud (1927)

Sir Michael Fairlie

Fast and Furious (1927)

Take It From Me (1926)

What Happened to Jones (1926)

Rolling Home (1926)

Skinner's Dress Suit (1926)

Where Was I? (1925)

Thomas S. Berford

I'll Show You the Town (1925)

Oh, Doctor (1925)

Rufus Billups, Jr.

California Straight Ahead (1925)

Sporting Youth (1924)

The Reckless Age (1924)

The Fast Worker (1924)

The Abysmal Brute (1923)

Pat Glendon, Jr.

The Thrill Chaser (1923)

The Kentucky Derby (1922)

Sherlock Holmes (1922)

Paying the Piper (1921)

Disraeli (1921)

Charles, Viscount Deeford

Footlights (1921)

The Iron Trail (1921)

Tropical Love (1921)

The Price of Possession (1921)

Napoleon Gibbs, Jr.

A Dark Lantern (1920)

The Oakdale Affair (1919)

Arthur Stockbridge

Bringing Up Betty (1919)

Writer (Feature Film)

The Big Bluff (1933)

One Hysterical Night (1929)

One Hysterical Night (1929)

That's My Daddy (1928)

Fast and Furious (1927)

Tropical Love (1921)

Editing (Feature Film)

One Hysterical Night (1929)

Cast (Short)

Screen Actors (1950)

Hollywood Hobbies (1939)

Sunday Night at the Trocadero (1937)

Starlit Days at the Lido (1935)

THE CHRISTMAS PARTY (1931)

Life Events

1900

Stage acting debut

1912

First film as actor

Photo Collections

The Lost Patrol - Movie Poster

The Lost Patrol - Movie Poster

Videos

Madam Satan (1930) -- (Movie Clip) Love Can't Be Kept In Cold Storage Arisen in the evening, dressed formally after the previous night of carousing with another woman but having forgotten their concert date, affluent Bob (Reginald Denny) with wife Angela (Kay Johnson), who’s not so much angry as worried about losing him, early in C.B. DeMille’s MGM musical-melodrama hybrid Madam Satan, 1930.

Madam Satan (1930) -- (Movie Clip) Heaven Forgive Thee Kindly We’ve just met Kay Johnson as super-rich Angela, whose staff has been helping her ignore her husband having failed to come home, when he (Reginald Denny) and buddy Roland Young appear, and she provides them a graceful entrance, in the second feature in C.B. DeMille’s three-picture MGM deal, Madam Satan, 1930.

Madam Satan (1930) -- (Movie Clip) Low Down Much talked about, the “other woman” to the husband of the wealthy couple Bob and Angela, Lillian Roth as performer and party-girl Trixie, Jack King, with Eddie Prinz on banjo and dancing, her accompanists, in a song by King and Elsie Janis, in Cecil B. DeMille’s unusual MGM musical-spectacle Madam Satan, 1930.

Madam Satan (1930) -- (Movie Clip) The Cat Walk This is where the C.B. DeMille grandeur and MGM budget come forth, at the society ball on board a blimp where the neglected heroine is about to appear in exotic costume, with few identifiable actors, though the director’s daughter Katherine is one of the dancing cats, song by Herbert Stothart and Clifford Grey, in Madam Satan, 1930

Lost Patrol, The (1934) -- (Movie Clip) I Could See From Here To Bloomsbury The Sergeant (Victor McLaglen) holds a strategy session with the whole squad, leading to cheerful Hale (Billy Bevan) volunteering to climb a tree, in John Ford's The Lost Patrol, 1934.

Lost Patrol, The (1934) -- (Movie Clip) A Mohammedan Mosque The squad, led by "The Sergeant" (Victor McLaglen) at the oasis, in order, Brandon Hurst, Sammy Stein, Reginald Denny, J.M. Kerrigan, Boris Karloff, Douglas Watson, Paul Hanson, Alan Hale, in John Ford's The Lost Patrol, 1934.

Romeo And Juliet (1936) -- (Movie Clip) A Madness Most Discreet First scene for Leslie Howard in the male lead role, visited by cousin Benvolio (Reginald Denny), in MGM's production of Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet, 1936, directed by George Cukor, co-starring Norma Shearer.

Romeo And Juliet (1936) -- (Movie Clip) Time Out Of MInd En route to the masque at the house of Capulet, Leslie Howard as Romeo is the object of John Barrymore as friend Mercutio, delivering the MGM version of the what's known as Shakespeare's "Queen Mab" speech, in director George Cukor's Romeo And Juliet, 1936.

Bulldog Drummond Escapes (1937) -- (Movie Clip) A Very Dynamic Person Through London fog Ray Milland emerges as the eighth actor to play freelance crime fighter Hugh “Bulldog” Drummond (Ronald Colman was first), his butler (E.E. Clive) and ever-distracted partner Algy (Reginald Denny) winning his attention, opening Bulldog Drummond Escapes, 1937.

Christmas Eve (1947) -- (Movie Clip) We Have No License Opening scenes, we meet Philip (Reginald Denny) who's brought a judge and doctor (Clarence Kolb, Carl Harbord) to meet his maybe-nutty New York heiress Aunt Matilda (Ann Harding), in the holiday crime-comedy hybrid Christmas Eve (a.k.a. Holiday For Sinners), 1947.

Macomber Affair, The (1947) -- (Movie Clip) They're Devils To Kill The opening not from Ernest Hemingway's short story but as devised by director Zoltan Korda and his screenwriters, Gregory Peck as African hunter Wilson, Joan Bennett the bereaved wife Margaret, Reginald Denny as colonial policeman Smollet, in The Macomber Affair, 1947.

Barbarian, The (1933) -- (Movie Clip) Is Everyone In Egypt A Shriner? Hustling interpreter-for-hire Jamil (Ramon Novarro) is working the Cairo train station when his head is turned by Diana (Myrna Loy), arriving with her assistant (Louise Closser Hale), greeted by her uncle (C. Aubrey Smith), then fiance` Gerald (Reginald Denny), early in The Barbarian, 1933.

Anna Karenina (1935) - (Original Trailer) Greta Garbo stars in Anna Karenina (1935), a film adaptation of Tolstoy's classic tale of a woman who deserts her family for an illicit love.

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