Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John Reginald Owen (5 August 1887 – 5 November 1972) was an English character actor. He was known for his many roles in British and American films and later in television programmes. The son of Joseph and Frances Owen, Reginald Owen studied at Sir Herbert Tree's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and made his professional debut in 1905. In 1911, he starred in the original production of Where the Rainbow Ends as Saint George which opened to very good reviews on ...
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Many Faces of Sherlock Holmes
1985
as Sherlock Holmes (archive footage)
This documentary examines the making of the Sherlock Holmes cinematic dynasty and includes interviews and archival film clips featuring the original c...

That's Entertainment!
1974
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history.

Bedknobs and Broomsticks
1971
as Gen. Teagler
Three children evacuated from London during World War II are forced to stay with an eccentric spinster. The children's initial fears disappear when th...

Rosie!
1967
as Patrick
An eccentric Los Angeles dowager decides to fight back when her two greedy daughters attempt to have her declared legally insane.

Mary Poppins
1964
as Admiral Boom
Mr Banks is looking for a nanny for his two mischievous children and comes across Mary Poppins, an angelic nanny. She not only brings a change in thei...

Voice of the Hurricane
1964
The struggle of a country and its people.

The Thrill of It All
1963
as Old Tom Fraleigh
A housewife's sudden rise to fame as a soap spokesperson leads to chaos in her home life.

Tammy and the Doctor
1963
as Jason Tripp
Tammy becomes a nurse's aide, works in a hospital, cares for an old rich woman, and causes romantic commotion in the life of Dr. Mark Cheswick.

Five Weeks in a Balloon
1962
as Consul
Professor Fergusson plans to make aviation history by making his way across Africa by balloon. He plans to claim uncharted territories in West Africa ...

Moochie of Pop Warner Football
1960
as Mr. Bennett
Moochie joins a Pop Warner Football team, but has troubles with the mayor’s son. When the two make amends, they help the team win and go to the Disney...

Moochie of the Little League
1959
as J. Cecil Bennett
A young newspaper boy who is on a Little League team works hard to persuade an elderly Englishman, with whom he had a previous run-in, to donate land ...

Red Garters
1954
as Judge Wallace Winthrop
A spirited cast kicks up its heels in a lively musical spoof of cowboy films crammed with spur-jangling tunes by Jay Livingstone and Ray Evans and dec...

The Great Diamond Robbery
1954
as Bainbridge Gibbons
Ambrose C. Park, left on a park bench as an infant with an impulsive need to find his parents, is an assistant to a diamond cutter. Shyster lawyer Rem...

Grounds for Marriage
1951
as Dely Delacorte
Opera singer Ina Massine tries to win back former husband Dr. Lincoln I. Bartlett.

Kim
1950
as Father Victor
During the British Raj, the orphan of a British soldier poses as a Hindu and is torn between his loyalty to a Buddhist mystic and aiding the English s...

The Miniver Story
1950
as Mr. Foley
The Second World War is over, and the Miniver family is trying to keep themselves together in post-War Britain, among continuing shortages and growing...

Challenge to Lassie
1949
as Sergeant Davie
When Lassie's master dies, an old friend tries to convince a judge that the dog's life should be spared.

The Secret Garden
1949
as Ben Weatherstaff
When Cholera takes the parents of Mary Lennox, she is shipped from India to England to live with her Uncle Craven. Mary changes the lives of those she...

Hills of Home
1948
as Hopps
William McClure is the villlage doctor in a remote Scottish glen. Tricked into buying Lassie, a collie afraid of water, he sets about teaching her to ...

The Three Musketeers
1948
as Treville
Athletic adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' classic adventure about the king's musketeers and their mission to protect France.

Julia Misbehaves
1948
as Benjy Hawkins
Julia and William were married and soon separated by his snobbish family. They meet again many years later, when their daughter he has raised invites ...

The Pirate
1948
as The Advocate
A girl is engaged to the local richman, but meanwhile she has dreams about the legendary pirate Macoco. A traveling singer falls in love with her and ...

If Winter Comes
1947
as Mr. Fortune
The small English town of Penny Green is swarming with scandal when textbook author Mark, unhappily married to the shrewish Mabel, cultivates a friend...

Thunder in the Valley
1947
as James Moore
The popular Alfred Ollivant novel "Bob, Son of Battle" is the source for this drama about sheep dogs in the Scottish highlands, filmed in mountains in...

Green Dolphin Street
1947
as Captain O'Hara
Sophie loved Edmund, but he left town when her parents forced her to marry wealthy Octavius. Years later, Edmund returns with his son, William. Sophie...

The Imperfect Lady
1946
as Mr. Hopkins
A British peer's romance with a ballerina courts scandal in 1890s London.

Monsieur Beaucaire
1946
as King Louis XV
A bumbling barber in the court of King Louis XV becomes engaged in political intrigue when he masquerades as a dashing nobleman engaged to the princes...

Piccadilly Incident
1946
as Judge
A newly married WREN, presumed drowned when her ship is torpedoed, spends three years on a tropical island before returning to England to find her hus...

Cluny Brown
1946
as Henry Carmel
Amateur plumber Cluny Brown gets sent off by her uncle to work as a servant at an English country estate.

The Diary of a Chambermaid
1946
as Captain Lanlaire
Celestine, the chamber-maid, has a new job in the country, at the Lanlaires. She has decided to use her beauty to seduce a wealthy man, but Mr. Lanlai...

The Sailor Takes a Wife
1945
as Mr. Amboy
While waiting in New York City to ship out to Europe, a sailor stops by a serviceman's canteen and meets a USO hostess. They immediately fall for each...

Captain Kidd
1945
as Cary Shadwell
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...

She Went to the Races
1945
as Dr. Pembroke
A group of scientists develop a system to pick winners at the racetrack. Comedy.

Kitty
1945
as Duke of Malmunster
Pickpocket Kitty's life changes when painter Thomas Gainsborough makes her portrait. The artwork gains the attention of Sir Hugh Marcy, who later deci...

The Valley of Decision
1945
as McCready
Mary Rafferty comes from a poor family of steel mill workers in 19th Century Pittsburgh. Her family objects when she goes to work as a maid for the we...

National Velvet
1945
as Farmer Ede
Mi Taylor is a young wanderer and opportunist who finds himself in the quiet English countryside home of the Brown family. The youngest daughter, Velv...

The Canterville Ghost
1944
as Lord Canterville
The descendent of a ghost imprisoned for cowardice hopes to free the spirit by displaying courage when under duress.

Madame Curie
1943
as Dr. Becquerel
Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying in her field, Marie encounters skepticism concern...

Salute to the Marines
1943
as Mr. Henry Casper
It is a comic book propaganda film which has Beery as a retired USMC NCO who, when the Japanese invade the Philippines, leads a heroic defense, first ...

Above Suspicion
1943
as Dr. Mespelbrunn
Two newlyweds spy on the Nazis for the British Secret Service during their honeymoon in Europe.

Three Hearts for Julia
1943
as John Girard
When his wife threatens him with divorce, a reporter courts her again.

Assignment in Brittany
1943
as Col. Trane
A French Resistance fighter discovers he's a dead ringer for a Nazi official.

Forever and a Day
1943
as Simpson
In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, ...

Reunion in France
1942
as Schultz
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...

Random Harvest
1942
as "Biffer"
Wandered away from his asylum, an amnesiac World War I veteran falls in love with a music hall star but his amnesia makes it difficult to last.

White Cargo
1942
as Skipper of the Congo Queen
In Africa early in World War II, a British rubber plantation executive reminisces about his arrival in the Congo in 1910. He tells the story of a love...

Somewhere I'll Find You
1942
as Willie Manning
Journalist brothers feud over a woman they both fall for while covering World War II in the far east.

Cairo
1942
as Philo Cobson
Reporter Homer Smith accidently draws Marcia Warren into his mission to stop Nazis from bombing Allied Conwoys with robot-planes.

Pierre of the Plains
1942
as Noah Glenkins
A French-Canadian trapper's adventures jeopardize his romance with an innkeeper.

I Married an Angel
1942
as 'Whiskers'
A count who ignores an infatuated secretary thinks he has met his match when an angel from Heaven shows up.

Mrs. Miniver
1942
as Foley
Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charm...

We Were Dancing
1942
as Maj. Tyler-Blane
A penniless former princess weds an equally cash-strapped baron, so they support themselves by becoming houseguests at the homes of wealthy American s...

Woman of the Year
1942
as Clayton
Rival reporters Sam Craig and Tess Harding fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hecti...

Tarzan's Secret Treasure
1941
as Professor Elliott
A scientific expedition happens to discover that gold exists on Tarzan's escarpment. The villainous Medford and Vandermeer kidnap Jane and Boy to exto...

Lady Be Good
1941
as Max Milton
Married songwriters almost split up while putting on a big show.

Charley's Aunt
1941
as Mr. Redcliffe
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.

They Met in Bombay
1941
as General Allen
A jewel thief and a con artist are rivals in the theft of a valuable diamond and gem necklace in Bombay and as the Japanese Army invades China.

A Woman's Face
1941
as Bernard Dalvik
A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman.

Free and Easy
1941
as Sir George Kelvin
This MGM B-picture was adapted from Ivor Novello's play The Truth Game. Max and Florian Clemington pretend to be members of the landed gentry. Max rom...

Blonde Inspiration
1941
as Reginald Mason
A writer of pulp Westerns cranks out more words than his editor and publisher want to pay for.

Hullabaloo
1940
as 'Buzz' Foster
A radio actor faces trouble when a science-fiction story causes the audience to panic.

Florian
1940
as Emperor Franz Josef
Set against the backdrop of WWI Europe, a man and woman of different classes are brought together by their love of Lippizan horses.

The Ghost Comes Home
1940
as Hemingway
Comic mayhem results when a small town pet store owner, mistakenly believed killed during a sea voyage, turns up very much alive.

The Earl of Chicago
1940
as Gervase Gonwell
A behind the times Chicago bootlegger goes to England with his lawyer to claim his estate as the Earl of Gorley.

Remember?
1939
as Mr. Bronson
Sky and Linda meet on vacation and become engaged. When Sky introduces Linda to his best friend, Jeff, Linda and Jeff fall in love and marry. But Jeff...

Bad Little Angel
1939
as Edwards, Marvin's Valet
A bible-guided Victorian orphan befriends a bootblack in a strange town.

The Real Glory
1939
as Capt. Hartley
Fort Mysang, southern Philippine Islands, under US rule, 1906. A small group of army officers and native troops resist the fierce and treacherous atta...

Bridal Suite
1939
as Sir Horace Bragdon
A carefree playboy with an aversion to marriage falls for a lass he meets in the French Alps.

Hotel Imperial
1939
as General Videnko
It is the fate of a small frontier town, adjoining the no-man's-land where the Russians and Austrians are fighting out one of the final campaigns of W...

Fast and Loose
1939
as Vincent Charlton
The Sloanes tie murder to the theft of a Shakespeare manuscript.

The Girl Downstairs
1938
as Charlie Grump
A wealthy playboy surreptitiously romances a scullery maid to gain access to her mistress with whom he is in love, but doesn't count on the maid falli...

A Christmas Carol
1938
as Ebenezer Scrooge
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his yout...
A Fireside Chat with Lionel Barrymore
1938
as Scrooge (atchive footage)
A Fireside chat with Lionel Barrymore is, in fact, a trailer for A Christmas Carol (1938) starring Reginald Owen. Barrymore speaks fondly of the Scroo...

Stablemates
1938
Story
A boozy former veterinarian and a teenage orphan team together with dreams of entering a broken-down horse in the big race.

Vacation from Love
1938
as John Hodge Lawson
A socialite dumps her fiancé on their wedding day and runs off with a saxophone player. Comedy.

Three Loves Has Nancy
1938
as William, the Butler
A small-town country homebody goes to New York to find her missing fiancé and gets romantically involved with two sophisticated men.

Paradise for Three
1938
as Johann Kesselhut
A businessman mingles with German laborers to learn more about their lives.

Kidnapped
1938
as Capt. Hoseason
Robert Louis Stevenson's hero David Balfour joins rebel Alan Breck Stewart in 18th-century Scotland.

Everybody Sing
1938
as Hillary Bellaire
Boisterous teen Judy Bellaire is expelled from her all-female boarding school for convincing her fellow school chorus members to sing a classical piec...

Rosalie
1937
as Chancellor
West Point cadet Dick Thorpe falls in love with a girl, who turns out to be a princess from an European kingdom.

Conquest
1937
as Tallyrand
A Polish countess is dispatched by her country to become Napoleon Bonaparte's mistress at the urging of Polish leaders, who feel she might influence h...

The Bride Wore Red
1937
as Admiral Monti
A poor singer in a bar masquerades as a rich society woman thanks to a rich benefactor.

Madame X
1937
as Maurice Dourel
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...

Personal Property
1937
as Claude Dabney
Raymond Dabney returns to his family after trouble with the law. He convinces the sheriff to give him a job watching the house and furniture of widow ...

Dangerous Number
1937
as William
Hank Medhill, artificial silk manufacturer, has returned to the U.S. from Japan to learn that his former girlfriend, Eleanor Breen is about to marry. ...

Love on the Run
1936
as Baron Otto Spandermann
A runaway bride and an undercover reporter get caught up in political intrigue as they lead a merry chase across Europe and uncover a spy plot.

Adventure in Manhattan
1936
as Blackton Gregory
The story of an egotistical crime writer who gets involved with the case of a notorious art thief (who is believed to be dead) while at the same time ...

The Girl on the Front Page
1936
as Archie Biddle
The heiress to a powerful newspaper owner gets a job at the paper under an assumed name and helps break up a blackmail racket.

Yours for the Asking
1936
as Dictionary McKinney
Casino operator Johnny Lamb hires down-on-her-luck socialite Lucille Sutton as his casino hostess, in order to help her and to improve casino income. ...

Trouble for Two
1936
as President of Club
A decadent prince unhappy over an impending arranged marriage, looking for a good time in London discovers the existence of a secret society called Th...

The Great Ziegfeld
1936
as Sampston
At the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, sideshow barker Florenz Ziegfeld turns the tables on his more-successful neighbor Billings, and also steals his girl...

Petticoat Fever
1936
as Sir James Felton
A lonely radio operator in Labrador falls for an engaged woman.

Rose Marie
1936
as Myerson
An incognito opera singer falls for a policeman who has been assigned to track down her fugitive brother.

A Tale of Two Cities
1935
as Stryver
Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French doctor Alexandre Manette serves an 18-year imprisonment...

The Bishop Misbehaves
1935
as Guy Waller
On a walking tour of English cathedrals, Donald Meadows meets Hester Granthem in church. Hearing he is from that hot-bed of crime, Chicago, Hester ask...

Anna Karenina
1935
as Stiva
In 19th century Russia a woman in a respectable marriage to a senior statesman must grapple with her love for a dashing soldier.

Call of the Wild
1935
as Mr. Smith
Jack Thornton has trouble winning enough at cards for the stake he needs to get to the Alaska gold fields. His luck changes when he pays $250 for Buck...

Escapade
1935
as Paul
A romantic comedy-drama-musical of mistaken identity, infidelity and farce, set in Vienna at the turn of the 20th century.

The Good Fairy
1935
as The Waiter
In 1930s Budapest, naïve orphan Luisa Ginglebuscher becomes an usherette at the local movie house, determined to succeed in her first job by doing goo...

Enchanted April
1935
as Henry Arbuthnot
Mrs. Lotty Wilkins is an unhappily wife whom's life husband and romance have departed. In order to possibly salvage some of the missing elements in he...

Here Is My Heart
1934
as Vova
A rich and famous singer disguises himself as a waiter in order to be near the woman he loves, a European princess.

Music in the Air
1934
as Ernst Weber
A songwriter's young daughter (June Lang) begins to dream of stardom when she's offered the lead role in a new operetta.

Madame du Barry
1934
as King Louis XV
Brought to Versailles as the companion of courtier D'Aigullon, former street waif Madame du Barry charms her way into the heart of gouty King Louis XV...

The Human Side
1934
as James Dalton
The story of a theatrical producer, his divorced wife and their four children.

Of Human Bondage
1934
as Thorpe Athelny
A young man finds himself attracted to a cold and unfeeling waitress who may ultimately destroy them both.

Stingaree
1934
as The Governor-General
A young lady named Hilda who works as a servant for the wealthy Clarksons, sheep farmers, and dreams of being a great singer. An upcoming visit by Si...

Where Sinners Meet
1934
as Leonard
A pair of lovers are secreting away to Paris for a quick divorce and marriage when they find themselves trapped in a "hotel" where they are forced to ...

The House of Rothschild
1934
as Herries
The story of the rise of the Rothschild financial empire founded by Mayer Rothschild and continued by his five sons. From humble beginnings the busine...

The Countess of Monte Cristo
1934
as The Baron
A distraught movie extra flees a movie set with a fancy costume and car. Circumstances lead her to begin impersonating a Countess, while a fellow ext...

Fashions of 1934
1934
as Oscar Baroque
When the Manhattan investment firm of Sherwood Nash goes broke, he joins forces with his partner Snap and fashion designer Lynn Mason to provide disco...

Mandalay
1934
as Police Commissioner Col. Thomas Dawson
Abandoned by her lover, a woman becomes the main "hostess" in a decadent nightclub, but tries to put her past behind her on a steamer to Mandalay.

Nana
1934
as Bordenave
Young Parisian Nana wards off of a boozed-up military officer at a local restaurant, and fellow diner Gaston Greiner is so impressed with her pluck th...

Queen Christina
1933
as Charles
Popular monarch Queen Christina of Sweden must choose between love and loyalty to her nation when she unexpectedly falls for a Spanish envoy.

Voltaire
1933
as King Louis XV
Writer and philosopher Voltaire, loyal to his king, Louis XV of France, nonetheless writes scathingly of the king's disdain for the rights and needs o...

The Big Brain
1933
as Lord Darlington
A small-town barber finds himself short of stature but a giant in the world of stock promotion. As his bank account grows, Stone's ethics diminish, an...

Double Harness
1933
as Freeman
After tricking him into marriage, a woman tries to win the love of her philandering husband.

The Narrow Corner
1933
as Mr. Frith
An Englishman sought for murder, tries to escape fate to South Seas island.

A Study in Scarlet
1933
as Sherlock Holmes
In London, a secret society led by lawyer Thaddeus Merrydew collects the assets of any of its deceased members and divides them among the remaining me...

A Study in Scarlet
1933
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In London, a secret society led by lawyer Thaddeus Merrydew collects the assets of any of its deceased members and divides them among the remaining me...

Robbers' Roost
1932
as Cecil Herrick
Running from the law, Jim Hall joins Hays’ gang. Hays is foreman on the Herrick ranch and plans to rustle Herrick’s cattle. Attracted to Herrick’s sis...

Sherlock Holmes
1932
as Dr. Watson
Moriarty is sentenced to death, and Sherlock Holmes prepares to retire to the country and marry his girl. But Moriarty has sworn that Holmes, Lt. Col....

Downstairs
1932
as Baron 'Nicky' von Burgen
In the Austrian manor of Baron and Baroness von Burgen, the relationship between the upstairs aristocracy and the downstairs staff is quite positive. ...

The Man Called Back
1932
as Dr. Herbert Atkins
Fresh from his success with the moody melodrama Murders in the Rue Morgue, director Robert Florey dashed off The Man Called Back at bargain-basement T...

A Woman Commands
1932
as The Prime Minister
In order to keep his lover, Maria Draga, in luxury, Captain Alex Pastitsch contracts huge debts which threaten his military career. To save Alex's car...

Lovers Courageous
1932
as Lord Jimmy
A daydreaming dramatist and his beloved persevere through hard times in the hope that one of his plays will be a hit.

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

The Man in Possession
1931
as Claude Dabney
A deeply in debt heiress tries to land a rich man while a collector from the Sheriff's office is guarding the assets in her house.

The Letter
1929
as Robert Crosbie
A planter's wife shoots a neighbor, but tells conflicting stories of what happened.
The Grass Orphan
1922
as Heathcote St. John

Phroso
1922
as Lord Wheatley
An Englishman, Lord Wheatley, purchases an island over which reigns the supremely beautiful Phroso, thus disposessing her of her land. Revolted, the i...