Biography
Ian Abercrombie (11 September 1934 – 26 January 2012) was an English actor, best known for playing Alfred Pennyworth in Birds of Prey. He appeared as Elaine Benes' boss Justin Pitt during the sixth season of Seinfeld, and as a fastidious butler on Desperate Housewives. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ian Abercrombie, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Known For
Complete Filmography

Rango
2011
as Ambrose (voice)
When Rango, a lost family pet, accidentally winds up in the gritty, gun-slinging town of Dirt, the less-than-courageous lizard suddenly finds he stand...

Star Wars: The Clone Wars - The Nightsisters Trilogy
2010
as Darth Sidious / Pirate #2 (voice)
For the first time ever, Sith training will be explored, and with it, truths about the very nature of the dark side itself! A warrior forged by a dark...

Star Wars: The Clone Wars
2008
as Chancellor Palpatine / Darth Sidious (voice)
As the Clone Wars sweep through the galaxy, the heroic Jedi Knights struggle to maintain order and restore peace. More and more systems are falling pr...

Wizards of Waverly Place: Wizard School
2008
as Headmaster Crumbs
When Alex is caught using magic to clean her room she is forced to go to wizard school with Justin. Max and Jerry camp out on the terrace to prove the...

Hard Four
2007
as Jack Ermine
When legendary gambler Golden Hands Segal suffers a fatal heart attack at the craps table in Las Vegas, his grandson Freddy Meingold and boyhood pal S...

Trust Me
2007
as Teitelbaum
Danny Marrs, a young huckster from small town America, arrives in Hollywood with a line of patter and a wannabe actress girlfriend. Things turn intere...

Inland Empire
2006
as Henry the Butler
As a Hollywood actress begins to adopt the persona of her character in a film, her world becomes nightmarish and surreal.

Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties
2006
as Smithee
Jon and Garfield visit the United Kingdom, where a case of mistaken cat identity finds Garfield ruling over a castle. His reign is soon jeopardized by...

Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
2006
as Ervin Sezgin
Frank Keane, a baker by trade, has been consumed by grief over his wife's untimely death. But everything changes when he pulls his bread truck over on...

When Puppets and Dolls Attack!
2005
as Dr. Hess (archive footage)
A compilation film containing scenes from Full Moon's Puppets and Dolls movie franchise.

The L.A. Riot Spectacular
2005
as Auctioneer
The controversial satire The LA Riot Spectacular plays for mordent laughs the events that consumed L.A. in 1992, after the police officers on trial fo...

Blasphemy the Movie
2005
as Zues
Martian Garcia announces to his parents that not only is he proud to have converted to Atheism, but he intends to tell his whole family on Christmas. ...

Puppet Master: The Legacy
2003
as Dr. Hess (archive footage)
A rogue agent named Maclain breaks into the lab of Eric Weiss, who has spent his entire life fascinated by Andre Toulon's supernatural ability to brea...

Gypsy Love
2002
as Sir George
A feature compilation comprised of three episodes of Zalman King's ChromiumBlue.com. Gypsy Love: When Ellen falls in love with two gorgeous gypsy brot...

Cover Me Girls
2002
as Sir George
A feature compilation comprised of three episodes of Zalman King's ChromiumBlue.com. Cover Me Girls: Sid has had every cowboy in the wild west and is ...

The Eternal
2002
as Sir George
A feature compilation comprised of two episodes of Zalman King's ChromiumBlue.com. The Eternal and The Eternal II: Maria has been searching in vain fo...

ChromiumBlue.com
2002
as Sir George
Vivian Vadim is a successful fashion stylist in complete charge of her life. Then she meets Henry. He's handsome, charming and very, very rich. Women ...

Shrek
2001
ADR & Dubbing
It ain't easy bein' green -- especially if you're a likable (albeit smelly) ogre named Shrek. On a mission to retrieve a gorgeous princess from the cl...

Jack Frost 2: The Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman
2000
as Psychiatrist
The sheriff and his deputies from the first movie decide to take a vacation in the Caribbean. Their holiday will be short-lived, however, as the thawe...

Wild Wild West
1999
as British Dignitary
Legless Southern inventor Dr. Arliss Loveless plans to rekindle the Civil War by assassinating President Ulysses S. Grant. Only two men can stop him: ...

Johnny Mysto: Boy Wizard
1997
as Merlin
In this light-hearted fantasy, a talented young magician stumbles across an unusual ring and ends up in Camelot before King Arthur. It turns out the r...

MouseHunt
1997
as Auctioneer
Down-on-their luck brothers, Lars and Ernie Smuntz, aren't happy with the crumbling old mansion they inherit... until they discover the estate is wort...

Bimbo Movie Bash
1997
as Dr. Dorn
This movie is a great compilation of the very silliest clips from some of the most awful "bimbo movies" of the past twenty years. It is laughably chea...

The Lost World: Jurassic Park
1997
as Butler
Four years after Jurassic Park's genetically bred dinosaurs ran amok, multimillionaire John Hammond shocks chaos theorist Ian Malcolm by revealing tha...

A Face to Die For
1996
as Mr. Sturetsky
A scarred, unattractive young woman is conned into helping with a robbery of her employer. As a result, she is sent to prison, gets plastic surgery, a...

Rattled
1996
as Dr. Remsen
A horde of rattlesnakes inexplicably descends into Eden Valley, terrorizing an isolated family and forcing them to fight for their lives.

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
1995
as Parks
Two runaway kids hide in a museum. Once they are locked inside overnight, they try to solve a mystery about a statue supposedly carved by Michaelangel...

Test Tube Teens from the Year 2000
1994
as Professor Dorn
In the future, corporations have taken over the world and banned sex. A group of rebellious high school students devise a way to go back in time to th...

Grief
1994
as Stanley
A campy chronicle of the lusts and loves of the men and women who work on a low-rent TV show called, "The Love Judge."

Clean Slate
1994
as Leader
Pogue is a private eye with a problem: every morning when he wakes up, he has total amnesia, waking up with a 'blank slate'. Since he is in the middle...

Addams Family Values
1993
as Driver
Siblings Wednesday and Pugsley Addams will stop at nothing to get rid of Pubert, the new baby boy adored by parents Gomez and Morticia. Things go from...

The Flash III: Deadly Nightshade
1992
as Skip
The Scarlet Speedster teams up with the city's previous superhero, The Nightshade, in two adventures.

Army of Darkness
1992
as Wiseman
Ash, a handsome, shotgun-toting, chainsaw-armed department store clerk, is time warped backwards into England's Dark Ages, where he romances a beauty ...

The Public Eye
1992
as Mr. Brown
A crime photographer gets involved in a conspiracy.

Puppet Master III
1992
as Dr. Hess
After hearing that mystical toymaker Andre Toulon has managed to create a troupe of sentient, living puppets, Nazi underling Dr. Hess sets his sights ...

Zandalee
1991
as Louis Medina
Bored with her marriage to burnt out poet turned corporate executive Thierry, Zandalee falls prey to an old friend of her husband, the manipulative an...

Rolling Thunder
1991
In the year 2040, after the world's oceans have been poisoned by mankind's industrial pollution, an old man who lives in a cave tells a group of child...

Repossessed
1990
as Ice Tea Waiter (uncredited)
It's been some time since Father Jebedaiah Mayii exorcised the Devil from little Nancy Aglet, who is now grown up with a husband and two children of h...

Warlock
1989
as Magistrate #1
In 17th century New England, witch hunter Giles Redferne captures an evil warlock, but the conjurer eludes death with supernatural help. Flung into th...

Dark Holiday
1989
as Captain
American tourist Gene LePere (Lee Remick), on vacation in Turkey, is hounded by a street vendor into buying a carved head she doesn't want. Then she i...

Catacombs
1988
as Brother Orsini
In the 17th century, an order of monks in Italy capture and entomb a demon that has possessed a member of their group. 400 years later, school teacher...

The Dancing Princesses
1987
as Royal Cobbler
A king with six daughters who is extremely over protective locks them in their room at night. But for some reason they order shoes from the cobbler pr...

Frog
1987
as Dr. Fritsky
Arlo Anderson loves his reptiles, and so when he decides to buy a rare breed of frog with his date money he winds up with more than he bargained for! ...

Firewalker
1986
as Boggs
A pair of adventurers try to track down an ancient Aztec/Mayan/Egyptian/Apache horde of gold.

Last Resort
1986
as Maitre d'
George Lollar takes his family on vacation with "Club Sand", a shoddy and untrustworthy company. On their tropical island, they find soldiers everywhe...

Hostage Flight
1985
as Scotland Yard Inspector
A plane is hijacked and bound for London. Once the terrorists begin killing hostages, the passengers take matters into their own hands.

Kicks
1985
as Barnes
A wealthy man with a penchant for living on the edge and engaging in dangerous, life-threatening activities becomes romantically involved with a femal...

First The Egg
1985
as Mr. Hanna
A group of high school students take part in a parenting class where their first assignment is to 'parent' an egg.

The Ice Pirates
1984
as Hymie
In the not too distant future, where by far the most precious commodity in the galaxy is water. The last surviving water planet was somehow removed to...

Flicks
1983
as Inspector
A parody of Saturday afternoon matinees, including coming attractions and a cartoon.

Marian Rose White
1982
as Lord Bates
Marian Rose White is placed in a State Home for the feeble-minded by her uncaring mother when her father dies. She is a young teenager and there is no...

Blood Beach
1980
as Man in Mayor's Office
Something or someone is attacking people one by one on the beach. Some of them are mutilated, but most of them are sucked into the sand, disappearing ...

The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood
1980
as Denis
Xaviera Hollander has to navigate some sleazy studio politics to see the production of the film version of her memoirs.

S.O.S. Titanic
1980
as Deck Steward (uncredited)
The Titanic disaster as seen through the eyes of one couple in each of the three classes on board.

The Prisoner of Zenda
1979
as Johann
Anthony Hope's classic tale gets a decidedly 'un-classic' treatment at the hands of Peter Sellers. Following the story somewhat, friends of the new Ki...

Little Mo
1978
as Dr. Noyes
Biopic about tennis great Maureen Connolly who, as a teenager, was the first woman to win the Grand Slam of Tennis, became world-renowned as "Little M...

The Bastard
1978
as Deserter (uncredited)
Phillipe Charboneau is the illegitimate son of an English duke. When he travels from France to England to claim his inheritance, he incurs the wrath o...

Keefer
1978
as Rudy
An U.S. Army colonel leads a crack group of secret agents operating behind enemy lines in occupied France during World War II.

Sextette
1978
as Frederick Ambrose (BBC Announcer)
Glamorous silver screen sex symbol Marlo Manners is enjoying her honeymoon with Sir Michael Barrington, husband number six. As luck would have it, an ...

The San Pedro Bums
1977
as Crazed Shopper (uncredited)
Pilot for the short-lived TV series centers on five rough-and-tumble guys living on a leaky boat where they try to collar a gang of waterfront toughs ...
Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years
1977
as Whiting (uncredited)
The story of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt during their 12-year stay at the White House.

Fantasy Island
1977
as Bartender
Mr. Roarke and his assistant Tattoo greet a former reporter in World War II who wants to relive a brief romance that took place in London 30 years ago...

High Risk
1976
as Major Domo
A troupe of former circus performers plot to steel a valuable artifact from an embassy in Washington, DC.

The Island at the Top of the World
1974
as Train Conductor (uncredited)
A Victorian gentleman hopes to find his long-lost son, who vanished while searching for a mysterious Viking community in a volcanic valley somewhere i...

Young Frankenstein
1974
as Second Villager
A young neurosurgeon inherits the castle of his grandfather, the famous Dr. Victor von Frankenstein. In the castle he finds a funny hunchback, a prett...

The Questor Tapes
1974
as Charlie
Project Questor is brainchild of the genius Dr. Vaslovik: he developed plans to build an android super-human. Although he's disappeared and half of hi...

Wicked, Wicked
1973
as Eddie (uncredited)
Simmons, the manager of a seaside hotel in California, has a problem: Guests are turning up dead, and Sgt. Ramsey, the hotel's detective, has no infor...

Sole Survivor
1970
as British co-pilot
In 1960, the ruins of an American bomber were found in the Libyan desert, but the remains of the crew were never located. In Guerdon Trueblood's telep...

They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
1969
as Male Dancer #74 (Uncredited)
In the midst of the Great Depression, manipulative emcee Rocky enlists contestants for a dance marathon offering a $1,500 cash prize. Among them are a...

Star!
1968
as Man in Brixton Music Hall (uncredited)
Gertrude Lawrence rises to stage stardom at the cost of happiness.

Von Ryan's Express
1965
as English POW
Von Ryan's Express stars Frank Sinatra as a POW colonel who leads a daring escape from WWII Italy by taking over a freight train, but he has to win ov...