Biography
Claud Allister (3 October 1888 – 26 July 1970) was an English actor. After his education at Felsted, in Essex, he appeared in 74 films between 1929 and 1955. He was born William Claud Michael Palmer in London, England and died in Santa Barbara, California. His interment was located in Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery. He began his career as a stockbroker's clerk but gave it up and made his stage debut in 1910. He toured England playing minor parts till the war started. He served in WWI ...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.6
2004
as Sir Giles (voice) (archive sound)
Two classic animated shorts from the Disney studios. In 'The Reluctant Dragon' (1941), a young boy and a famous dragon fighter team up to teach a doci...
Meet the Governor
1955
as Cyril
A backwoods lawyer's race for the governor's office is thwarted by mainstream opponents who dig up dirt from his past.

The Black Shield of Falworth
1954
as Sir George
In the days of King Henry IV, stalwart young Myles and his sister Meg have been raised as peasants, without any knowledge of who their father really w...

Kiss Me Kate
1953
as Paul
A pair of divorced actors are brought together to participate in a musical version of The Taming of the Shrew. Of course, the couple seem to act a gre...

Hong Kong
1952
as Hotel Manager
American adventurer Jeff Williams is fleeing the communist advance in China when he becomes entangled with a young Chinese orphan, Wei Lin, and a beau...

The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
1949
as Rat (voice)
The Wind in the Willows: Concise version of Kenneth Grahame's story of the same name. J. Thaddeus Toad, owner of Toad Hall, is prone to fads, such as ...

The Wind in the Willows
1949
as Rat (voice)
This animated fairy tale for kids tells the classic story of a dapper, automobile loving fellow named Mr. Toad, whose passion becomes a problem when h...

Quartet
1948
as 1st. Club Man (segment "The Colonel's Lady")
Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales in this anthology film: "The Facts of Life," "The Alien Corn," "The Kite," and "The Colonel's Lady."

The First Gentleman
1948
as Manservant
The story of a romance between the daughter of the Prince Regent and Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg.

Gaiety George
1946
as Archie
The life of Irishman George Howard who buys an English theatre and strives to improve the standard of musical entertainment. Set in the late 19th and ...
Don Chicago
1945
as Lord Piccadilly
Timid Don Chicago yearns to follow in the footsteps of his gangster mother, but is forced by the Mulligan Gang to leave America. In England, he tangle...

Kiss the Bride Goodbye
1945
as Adolphus Pickering
Working-class girl Joan Dodd's plan to marry Jack Fowler is thwarted when her mother Gladys interferes. Hoping to improve her daughter's social status...
The Hundred Pound Window
1944
as Hon. Freddie
An accountant who has to take a second job working at a racetrack, soon becomes mixed up with a shady crowd.

Confirm or Deny
1941
as William (scenes deleted)
Newsman Mitch and teletype operator Jennifer, whose job is to see he doesn't send inappropriate stuff out of the country, dodge bombs during the blitz...

A Yank in the R.A.F.
1941
as Officer-Motorist (uncredited)
An American pilot impulsively joins His Majesty's Royal Air Force in Britain in an attempt to impress his ex-girlfriend.

Charley's Aunt
1941
as Spectator
In 1890, two students at Oxford force their rascally friend and fellow student to pose as an aunt from Brazil--where the nuts come from.

The Reluctant Dragon
1941
as Sir Giles (segment "The Reluctant Dragon") (voice)
Humorist Robert Benchley attempts to find Walt Disney to ask him to adapt a short story about a gentle dragon who would rather recite poetry than be f...

Pride and Prejudice
1940
as Mr. Beck
Mrs. Bennet wishes to wed her five unmarried daughters and is overjoyed when a wealthy bachelor begins living nearby, but misunderstandings make happi...

Lillian Russell
1940
as Arthur Sullivan
Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.

Captain Fury
1939
as Suco
An Irish convict sentenced to hard labor in Australia escapes into the outback, and organizes a band of fellow escapees to fight a corrupt landlord.

Arrest Bulldog Drummond
1938
as Sir Basil Leghorne
The invention of a machine that can cause remote explosions brings the attention of Scotland Yard and Bulldog Drummond.

Storm Over Bengal
1938
as Redding
This being a Republic picture, it should come as no surprise that Storm Over Bengal was filmed in its entirety in the San Fernando Valley. Within its ...

Blond Cheat
1938
as Lord Basil Sheldon (uncredited)
Socially prominent Michael Ashburn, chief assistant for a London loan broker makes a large loan during a closing time to a man for a pair of earrings....

Men Are Such Fools
1938
as Rudolf
Linda works at an advertising agency, but, unlike the other women in the secretarial pool, she hopes to succeed in the business rather than just find ...

Kentucky Moonshine
1938
as Lord Boffingwell (uncredited)
The Ritz Brothers pretend to be Kentucky hillbillies in order to get a booking on a radio show.

Oh, What a Knight!
1937
A barber is mistaken for a rich society woman's new servant.

The Awful Truth
1937
as Lord Fabian (uncredited)
Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings, whereupon they start undermining each other's attempts to find new romance.

Danger – Love at Work
1937
as Gun salesman
A New York City lawyer finds himself falling in love with the daughter of a screwball South Carolina family.
Let's Make a Night of It
1937
as Monty
Unbeknown to each other, a husband and wife acquire separate nightclubs in the same London street; however, both clubs are on the brink of bankruptcy.

Bulldog Drummond at Bay
1937
as Algy Longworth
Drummond goes up against foreign agents who are trying to steal plans for a top-secret aircraft.

Lady Luck
1936
as Briggs
New York manicurist Mamie Murphy plans to marry a rich man, so she repeatedly turns down the proposals of honest reporter David Haines. When she is an...

Dracula's Daughter
1936
as Sir Aubrey
A countess from Transylvania seeks a psychiatrist’s help to cure her vampiric cravings.

Three Live Ghosts
1936
as Lord 'Spoofy' Brockton
Three WWI veterans thought long dead turn out to be still alive and return home - much to the consternation of their friends and family.

The Dark Angel
1935
as Lawrence Bidley
Kitty Vane, Alan Trent, and Gerald Shannon have been inseparable friends since childhood. Kitty has always known she would marry one of them, but has ...

Every Night at Eight
1935
as Mr. Vernon (uncredited)
Three young girls working in an agency have build a singing trio. They want to "lease" the Dictaphone of their boss to make a record of their singing,...

The Lady Is Willing
1934
as Brevin
In this comedy-mystery, a private detective helps three businessmen get even with the man who misused their investments. The detective plans to kidnap...

The Return of Bulldog Drummond
1934
as Algy Longworth
Bulldog Drummond forms a gang to rescue his wife and thwart his nemesis, Carl Peterson.

Those Were the Days
1934
as Capt. Horace Vale
A farce based on Arthur Wing Pinero's play 'The Magistrate' in which the son (John Mills) of a stern magistrate (Will Hay) visits a music hall against...

The Private Life of Don Juan
1934
as The Duke, as Dukes Go
What do women want? Don Juan is aging. He's arrived secretly in Seville after a 20 year absence. His wife Dolores, whom he hasn't lived with in five y...

The Private Life of Henry VIII
1933
as Cornell
Renowned for his excess, King Henry VIII goes through a series of wives during his rule. With Anne Boleyn, his second wife, executed on charges of tre...

Sleeping Car
1933
as Baron Delande
A French sleeping-car attending with an eye for the ladies hooks up with a wealthy widow and they get married. What he doesn't know is that she marrie...
Excess Baggage
1933
as Colonel Murgatroyd R.S.V.P.
'Colonel thinks he has killed superior while hunting ghost.' (British Film Catalogue)
The Medicine Man
1933
as Hon. Freddie Wiltshire
A young man impersonates a doctor.

The Midshipmaid
1932
as Chinley
Sir Percy Newbiggin visits the fleet to find ways to economize Naval expenditures. Daughter Celia tags along and organizes a morale-boosting show util...
The Return of Raffles
1932
as Bunny
A British crime film directed by Mansfield Markham

Diamond Cut Diamond
1932
as Joe Fragson
One of the guests tries to foil a gang of jewel-robbers during a country house weekend party.

Two White Arms
1932
as Dr. Biggash
A man becomes bored with married life and pretends to have lost his memory so he can pursue other women.

The Unexpected Father
1932
as Claude
A wealthy bachelor hires a pretty young nanny to look after his adopted daughter. Sparks quickly fly between the two, much to the dismay of the man's ...

On the Loose
1931
as Mr. Loder's friend
Two young women, Zasu and Thelma, complain that all of their dates take them to Coney Island. The next day a car goes by and they are splashed with mu...

The Sea Ghost
1931
as Percy Atwater
A crooked lawyer trying to cheat a young girl out of her inheritance tries to convince a sea captain to help him. Re-released in 1939 as "Phantom Sub...

Platinum Blonde
1931
as Dawson - the Valet
Anne Schuyler is an upper-crust socialite who bullies her reporter husband into conforming to her highfalutin ways. The husband chafes at the confinem...

I Like Your Nerve
1931
as Archie Lester
Romance and political intrigue highlight director William C. McGann's 1931 comedy about a playboy smitten with the stepdaughter of a corrupt governmen...
Meet the Wife
1931
as Victor Staunton
Gertrude Lennox, a dominating woman who controls every aspect of her household, is preparing a reception for famous novelist Philip Lord, who is to ar...

Captain Applejack
1931
as John Jason
An ordinary man is confronted by gangsters who have reason to believe a treasure is buried somewhere on his property.

Reaching for the Moon
1930
as Sir Horace Partington Chelmsford
Wall Street wizard, Larry Day, new to the ways of love, is coached by his valet. He follows Vivian Benton on an ocean liner, where cocktails, laced wi...

Monte Carlo
1930
as Prince Otto von Liebenheim
A countess fleeing her husband mistakes a count for her hairdresser at a Monte Carlo casino.

The Florodora Girl
1930
as Lord Rumblesham
A chorus girl gets bad advice from her fellow chorines in handling a rich suitor who assumes she is a gold digger.

The Czar of Broadway
1930
Mort Bradley, New York political boss and underworld czar, controls not only the city's most popular nightclub but also much of the press; however, th...

Such Men Are Dangerous
1930
as Fred Wyndham
A wealthy and powerful industrialist changes his identity to avenge himself on the wife that spurned him on their wedding night.

Slightly Scarlet
1930
as Albert Hawkins
Passing herself off as a countess, glamorous Lucy Stavrin hobnobs with the rich and famous along the French Riviera. Aware that Lucy is a phony, jewel...

In the Next Room
1930
as Parks (butler)
The story starts with a prologue set in 1889 in which we see an angry husband murdering his wife's lover. The setting then moves to 1929, just as an a...

Charming Sinners
1929
as Gregson
Charming Sinners was a stilted adaptation of Somerset Maugham's play The Constant Wife. Robert Miles (Clive Brook) starts the ball rolling when he fal...

Bulldog Drummond
1929
as Algy Longworth
Bulldog Drummond is a British WWI veteran who longs for some excitement after he returns to the humdrum existence of civilian life. He gets what he's ...