Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Charles Henry Daniell (5 March 1894 – 31 October 1963) was an English actor who had a long and prestigious career on stage as well as in films. He is perhaps best known for his villainous roles in films like The Great Dictator, The Philadelphia Story and The Sea Hawk. Daniell was given few opportunities to play a 'good guy', including a supporting part as Franz Liszt in the biographical film Song of Love (1947). His last name is sometimes spelled "Daniel". ...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Hitler: The Comedy Years
2007
as Garbitsch (archive footage) (uncredited)
A documentary about the portrayal of Adolf Hitler in popular culture.
My Fair Lady
1964
as Ambassador (uncredited)
A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.
Mutiny on the Bounty
1962
as Court-martial Judge (uncredited)
The Bounty leaves Portsmouth in 1787. Its destination: to sail to Tahiti and load bread-fruit. Captain Bligh will do anything to get there as fast as ...
The Chapman Report
1962
as Dr. Jonas
A research psychologist gets involved in the personal lives of four women.
Five Weeks in a Balloon
1962
as Sheik Ageiba
Professor Fergusson plans to make aviation history by making his way across Africa by balloon. He plans to claim uncharted territories in West Africa ...
The Notorious Landlady
1962
as Stranger
An American junior diplomat in London rents a house from, and falls in love with, a woman suspected of murder.
The Comancheros
1961
as Gireaux
Texas Ranger Jake Cutter arrests gambler Paul Regret, but soon finds himself teamed with his prisoner in an undercover effort to defeat a band of rene...
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
1961
as Dr. Zucco
The crew of an atomic submarine battle to save the world from global destruction.
Madison Avenue
1961
as Stipe
An adman and an adwoman put a dangerous milk tycoon in line for the White House.
The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake
1959
as Dr. Emil Zurich
Jonathan Drake, while attending his brother's funeral, is shocked to find the head of the deceased is missing. When his brother's skull shows up later...
From the Earth to the Moon
1958
as Morgana
Set just after the American civil war, businessman and inventor Victor Barbicane invents a new source of power called Power X. He plans to use it to p...
Witness for the Prosecution
1957
as Mayhew
An ailing barrister agrees to defend a man in a sensational murder trial where the unconvincing testimony of the defendant's wife becomes a subject of...
The Story of Mankind
1957
as Pierre Cauchon - Bishop of Beauvais
The devil and the spirit of mankind argue as to whether or not humanity is ultimately good or evil.
Les Girls
1957
as Judge
After writing a tell-all book about her days in the dance troupe "Barry Nichols and Les Girls", Sybil Wren is sued for libeling her fellow dancer Ange...
The Sun Also Rises
1957
as Doctor
A group of disillusioned American expatriate writers live a dissolute, hedonistic lifestyle in 1920's France and Spain.
Mister Cory
1957
as Mr. Earnshaw
An opportunistic young man from the slums gambles his way to wealth, power and high society.
Confession
1956
as Hubbel
When a much-admired community leader dies, a journalist starts to investigate his life - and finds he was not the man he seemed.
Lust for Life
1956
as Theodorus van Gogh
An intense and imaginative artist, revered Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh possesses undeniable talent, but he is plagued by mental problems and frustr...
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
1956
as Bill Ogden
Tom Rath is a suburban father and husband haunted by his memories of World War II, including a wartime romance with Italian village girl Maria, which ...
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
1956
as Edward Moulton-Barrett
Elizabeth Barrett's tyrannical father has forbidden any of his family to marry. Nevertheless, Elizabeth falls in love with the poet Robert Browning.
Diane
1956
as Gondi
Asked by Francis I to tutor his son, Diane de Poitiers becomes the future King Henry II's mistress in 1500s France.
The Prodigal
1955
as Ramadi
A wealthy young Hebrew traveling in Damascus renounces his faith after he is seduced by an alluring pagan priestess and cheated of his fortune by the ...
The Egyptian
1954
as Mekere
In eighteenth-dynasty Egypt, Sinuhe, a poor orphan, becomes a brilliant physician and with his friend Horemheb is appointed to the service of the new ...
Buccaneer's Girl
1950
as Capt. Duval
A New Orleans performer loves a pirate who robs only from the shipowner who ruined his father.
The Secret Of St. Ives
1949
as Maj. Edward Chevenish
A French soldier in the Napoleonic Wars plots his escape after he's captured and imprisoned in a castle fortress in Edinburgh, Scotland. Director Phil...
Siren of Atlantis
1949
as Blades
Two Foreign Legion soldiers, Jean (Dennis O'Keefe) and Andre (Jean Pierre Aumont), accidentally discover the famed lost continent of Atlantis. Bewitch...
Wake of the Red Witch
1948
as Jacques Desaix
Captain Ralls fights Dutch shipping magnate Mayrant Sidneye for the woman he loves, Angelique Desaix, and for a fortune in gold aboard the Red Witch.
The Exile
1947
as Colonel Ingram
In 17th-century England, Charles II, the rightful heir to the kingdom, is driven from his country by militants working for rogue leader Oliver Cromwel...
Song of Love
1947
as Franz Liszt
Composer Robert Schumann struggles to compose his symphonies while his loving wife Clara offers her support. Also helping the Schumanns is their lifel...
The Bandit of Sherwood Forest
1946
as The Regent - William of Pembroke
Robin Hood's swashbuckling son comes to the rescue when England's boy-king is captured by the evil, power-hungry William of Pembroke.
Angel Street
1946
as Mr. Manningham
NBC adaptation of Patrick Hamilton's play Gaslight
Captain Kidd
1945
as King William III
Cutthroat pirate William Kidd captures Admiral Blayne's treasure ship and hides the bounty in a cave. Three years later, Kidd, posing as a respectable...
The Woman in Green
1945
as Professor James Moriarty
Sherlock Holmes investigates when young women around London turn up murdered, each with a finger severed. Scotland Yard suspects a madman, but Holmes ...
The Body Snatcher
1945
as Dr. Wolfe 'Toddy' MacFarlane
Edinburgh, 1831. Among those who undertake the illegal trade of grave robbery is Gray, ostensibly a cab driver. Formerly a medical student convicted o...
Hotel Berlin
1945
as Baron Von Stetten
An assortment of diverse characters gather at the Hotel Berlin in World War II Germany as the Third Reich falls.
The Suspect
1945
as Mr. Simmons
Genial shopkeeper Philip has to endure the constant nagging of a shrewish wife while he secretly yearns for a pretty young stenographer. When the henp...
Jane Eyre
1943
as Henry Brocklehurst
After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she mee...
Watch on the Rhine
1943
as Phili Von Ramme
On the eve of World War II, the German Kurt Müller, his American-born wife Sara, and their three children, having lived in Europe for years, visit Sar...
Mission to Moscow
1943
as Minister von Ribbentrop
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to the US as an advocate of socialism.
Sherlock Holmes in Washington
1943
as William Easter
In World War II, a British secret agent carrying a vitally important document is kidnapped en route to Washington. The British government calls on She...
Reunion in France
1942
as Emile Fleuron
Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed American flyer, Pat Talbot, and attempts to get hi...
The Great Impersonation
1942
as Frederick Seamon
An Englishman kills a German look-alike and poses as a Nazi spy in London.
Nightmare
1942
as Capt. Edgar Stafford
An ex-gambler helps a beautiful widow, and becomes involved with a murder, secret agents, and saboteurs.
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror
1942
as Sir Anthony Lloyd
England, at the start of World War Two. Mysterious wireless broadcasts, apparently from Nazi Germany are heard over the BBC. They warn of acts of terr...
Castle in the Desert
1942
as Watson King
Charlie Chan, with son Jimmy on a week's pass from the Army, takes up a request for help at a castle-home, miles from anywhere in the American desert ...
Four Jacks and a Jill
1942
as Bobo
Karanina "Nina" Novak, is befriended by Nifty, the leader of a four-piece orchestra, and in return, secures an engagement for them at the Little Arega...
The Feminine Touch
1941
as Shelley Mason
A college professor who believes there's no place for jealousy in modern marriage, John Hathaway (Don Ameche) moves with his wife, Julie (Rosalind Rus...
Dressed to Kill
1941
as Julian Davis
A detective's wedding is postponed when gunshots are heard nearby.
A Woman's Face
1941
as Public Prosecutor
A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman.
The Philadelphia Story
1940
as Sidney Kidd
When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.
The Great Dictator
1940
as Garbitsch
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
The Sea Hawk
1940
as Lord Wolfingham
Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with Dona Maria, a beautiful Spanish royal he captures.
All This, and Heaven Too
1940
as Broussais
When lovely and virtuous governess Henriette Deluzy comes to educate the children of the debonair Duc de Praslin, a royal subject to King Louis-Philip...
We Are Not Alone
1939
as Sir Ronald Dawson
A British doctor and his son's Austrian governess have an affair and are accused of killing his wife.
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
1939
as Sir Robert Cecil
This period drama frames the tumultuous affair between Queen Elizabeth I and the man who would be King of England.
Marie Antoinette
1938
as La Motte
The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the riv...
Holiday
1938
as Seton Cram
Johnny Case, a freethinking financier, has finally found the girl of his dreams — Julia Seton, the spoiled daughter of a socially prominent millionair...
The Firefly
1937
as General Savary
Nina Maria Azara is the beautiful and alluring singing spy for Spain during the Napoleonic Wars. Her mission is to seduce French officers, in order fo...
Madame X
1937
as Lerocle
An alcoholic woman was charged and tried for murder and a young defense attorney, unaware that she is his mother, takes the assignment to defend her i...
The Thirteenth Chair
1937
as John Wales
A phony psychic tries to solve a murder that took place during her seance.
Under Cover of Night
1937
as Professor Marvin Griswald
A detective (Edmund Lowe) trails a professor (Henry Daniell) who stole credit for his wife's research, then killed her.
Camille
1936
as Baron de Varville
Life in 1847 Paris is as spirited as champagne and as unforgiving as the gray morning after. In gambling dens and lavish soirees, men of means exert t...
The Unguarded Hour
1936
as Hugh Lewis
A blackmailer tries to stop a woman from revealing evidence that could save a condemned man.
The Path of Glory
1934
as King Maximillian
Comedy about two Ruritanian countries who declare war on each other with the mutual intention of losing. Political satire that might have been Britain...
The Last of the Lone Wolf
1930
as Count von Rimpau (as Henry Daniel)
In this entry in the Lone Wolf series, the first to have a soundtrack, the jealousies of the King and the coquettish Queen are chronicled. When His Ma...
Jealousy
1929
as Clement
Yvonne, proprietor of a Paris gown shop, marries Pierre, a poor artist, concealing from him an affair she had with Rigaud, an elderly boulevardier who...
The Awful Truth
1929
as Norman Warriner
Story of a wealthy couple whose individual infidelities lead inexorably to the divorce court.