Biography
Alan Napier (born Alan William Napier-Clavering) was an English actor. After a decade in London West End theatres, he had a long film career first in Britain and then in Hollywood. He eventually became widely known for portraying Alfred the butler in the 1960s live-action Batman television series.
Known For
Complete Filmography
Batman '66 Meets the Green Hornet
2020
as Alfred
The episodes "A Piece of the Action" and "Batman's Satisfaction" have been edited together, along with other scenes and period TV promos of the 1966 t...
Joe Dancer II: The Monkey Mission
1981
as Briarton
Robert Blake's second (of three) "Joe Dancer" movies has the hard-boiled private investigator teaming up with a chimp named Gregor, his trainer (who a...
The Bastard
1978
as Dr. Bleeker
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...
The Golden Dog
1977
as Archie
When two old prospectors find gold dust in the fur of their Airedale they dream of big riches. But soon greed threatens to tear them apart until a gho...
Come Die With Me
1974
A man kills his older brother when he is refused a loan and then is held in bondage by the housekeeper who knows of the murder.
Batman
1966
as Alfred
The Dynamic Duo faces four super-villains who plan to hold the world for ransom with the help of a secret invention that instantly dehydrates people.
The Loved One
1965
as British Club Official
Newly arrived in Hollywood from England, Dennis Barlow finds he has to arrange his uncle's interment at the highly-organised and very profitable Whisp...
Signpost to Murder
1964
as The Vicar
An escaped mental patient, reported to be homicidal, hides out in a woman's rural home.
36 Hours
1964
as Col. Peter MacLean
Germans kidnap an American major and try to convince him that World War II is over, so that they can get details about the Allied invasion of Europe o...
My Fair Lady
1964
as Gentleman Escorting Eliza to the Queen (uncredited)
A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.
Marnie
1964
as Mr. Rutland
Marnie is a thief, a liar, and a cheat. When her new boss, Mark Rutland, catches on to her routine kleptomania, she finds herself being blackmailed.
The Sword in the Stone
1963
as Sir Pellinore (voice)
Wart is a young boy who aspires to be a knight's squire. On a hunting trip he falls in on Merlin, a powerful but amnesiac wizard who has plans for him...
The Premature Burial
1962
as Dr. Gideon Gault
An artist grows distant from his new wife as an irrational horror of premature burial consumes him.
Tender Is the Night
1962
as Señor Pardo
Against the counsel of his friends, psychiatrist Dick Diver marries Nicole Warren, a beautiful but unstable young woman from a moneyed family. Thoroug...
Five Fingers : Thin Ice
1961
as Wembley
Sebastian must either deliver a young Arab prince to Russia or get him back safely to his own country. The episode aired in the US in 1959, and in th...
Wild in the Country
1961
as Prof. Joe B. Larson (uncredited)
A troubled young man discovers that he has a knack for writing when a counselor encourages him to pursue a literary career.
Journey to the Center of the Earth
1959
as Dean
An Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer's trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth's center.
Island of Lost Women
1959
as Dr. Paul Lujan
A plane crash-lands on a jungle island inhabited by a scientist and his nubile young daughters. Complications ensue.
Until They Sail
1957
as Prosecution Attorney
Four sisters in New Zealand fall for soldiers en route to the Pacific theater in WWII.
The Mole People
1956
as Elinu, the High Priest
A party of archaeologists discovers the remnants of a mutant five millennia-old Sumerian civilization living beneath a glacier atop a mountain in Meso...
Miami Exposé
1956
as Raymond Sheridan
A police detective baits killer gamblers with a mob witness (Patricia Medina) in the Everglades.
The Court Jester
1955
as Sir Brockhurst
A hapless carnival performer masquerades as the court jester as part of a plot against a usurper who has overthrown the rightful king of England.
Moonfleet
1955
as Parson Glennie
Set in the eighteenth century, Moonfleet is about John Mohune, a young orphan who is sent to the Dorset village of Moonfleet to stay with an old frien...
Désirée
1954
as Despreaux
In Marseilles, France in 1794, Desiree Clary, a young millinery clerk, becomes infatuated with Napoleon Bonaparte, but winds up wedding Genaral Jean-B...
Playmates
1954
as Stephen Everton
Monica is a lonely young girl who is schooled at home by her Uncle Stephen and his housekeeper. When Monica talks about her new playmates Mary and Els...
Julius Caesar
1953
as Cicero
The assassination of the would-be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic consequences for the idealist and for the republic.
Young Bess
1953
as Robert Tyrwhitt
The mother died under the executioner's axe; the daughter rose to become England's greatest monarch -- the brilliant and cunning Queen Elizabeth I. Je...
Big Jim McLain
1952
as Sturak
House Un-American Activities Committee investigators Jim McLain and Mal Baxter come to post war Hawaii to track Communist Party activities even though...
The Blue Veil
1951
as Professor George Carter
A World War I widow loses her only child and spends the rest of her life as a children's nurse.
Across the Wide Missouri
1951
as Capt. Humberstone Lyon
In the 1830's beaver trapper Flint Mitchell and other white men hunt and trap in the then unnamed territories of Montana and Idaho. Flint marries a Bl...
The Highwayman
1951
The Strange Door
1951
as Count Grassin
The wicked Alain plots an elaborate revenge against his younger brother Edmund, leading to a deadly confrontation in his dungeon deathtrap.
Double Crossbones
1951
as Capt. Kidd
Falsely accused by the corrupt Governor Elden of Charleston of fencing stolen pirate booty, young Davey Crandall and friend Tom Botts buy passage on t...
The Great Caruso
1951
as Jean de Reszke
Enrico Caruso's only passion is to sing. For that, he leaves his hometown of Naples, Italy, and travels to America to sing for the Metropolitan Opera....
Tarzan's Peril
1951
as Commissioner Peters
Escaped convicts are selling weapons to a warlike native tribe.
Tripoli
1950
as Khalil
In 1805, the United States battles the pirates of Tripoli as the Marines fight to raise the American flag.
Master Minds
1949
as Dr. Druzik
When Sach eats too much sugar, he goes into a trance whereby he's able to predict the future. Slip tries to make some money off of Sach by using him a...
Challenge to Lassie
1949
as Lord Provost
When Lassie's master dies, an old friend tries to convince a judge that the dog's life should be spared.
The Red Danube
1949
as The General
A Russian ballerina in Vienna tries to flee KGB agents and defect.
Manhandled
1949
as Alton Bennet
Merle Kramer works as a stenographer for a psychiatrist. She is casually dating Karl Benson, a private eye and former cop. Merle mentions in passing t...
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
1949
as High Executioner
A bump on the head sends Hank Martin, 1905 auto mechanic, to Arthurian England, 528 A.D., where he is befriended by Sir Sagramore le Desirous and gain...
The Adventure of the Speckled Band
1949
as Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes gets the clues he needs to solve a murder, and to prevent another one from occurring, when he finds out that a doctor owns a poisonous...
Tarzan's Magic Fountain
1949
as Jessup
An expedition tries to enlist Tarzan's help in finding the secret Blue Valley, which legend says is the location of a miraculous fountain of youth.
Criss Cross
1949
as Finchley
An armored-car guard must join a robbery after being caught with his ex-wife by her gangster husband.
Joan of Arc
1948
as Earl of Warwick
In the 15th Century, France is a defeated and ruined nation after the One Hundred Years War against England. The fourteen-year-old farm girl Joan of A...
Hills of Home
1948
as Sir George
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 ...
Macbeth
1948
as A Holy Father
A Scottish warlord and his wife murder their way to a pair of crowns.
Johnny Belinda
1948
as Defense Attorney
A small-town doctor helps a deaf-mute farm girl learn to communicate.
My Own True Love
1948
as Kittredge
Following World War II, a woman tries to help her fiance understand his son's traumatic experience as a G.I., during which he lost a leg and was impri...
The Lone Wolf in London
1947
as Monty Beresford
Michael Lanyard (Gerald Mohr) is suspected of stealing two fabulous diamonds from a vault in Scotland Yard, where they were being held for safekeeping...
Forever Amber
1947
as Landale
Amber St Clair, orphaned during the English Civil War and raised by a family of farmers, aspires to be a lady of high society; when a group of cavalie...
Unconquered
1947
as Sir William Johnson
England, 1763. After being convicted of a crime, the young and beautiful Abigail Hale agrees, to escape the gallows, to serve fourteen years as a slav...
Driftwood
1947
as Dr. Nicholas Adams
An orphan helps a doctor fight an epidemic in a small western town, in one of Allan Dwan’s closely observed studies in Americana.
Lured
1947
as Detective Gordon
Sandra Carpenter is a London-based dancer who is distraught to learn that her friend has disappeared. Soon after the disappearance, she's approached b...
Adventure Island
1947
as Attwater
Travelers find themselves marooned on an island with a maniacal self-made ruler.
Ivy
1947
as Sir Jonathan Wright
When Ivy, an Edwardian belle, begins to like Miles, a wealthy gentleman, she is unsure of what to do with her husband, Jervis, or her lover, Dr. Roger...
High Conquest
1947
as Tommy Donlin
Love and adventure on the Matterhorn mountain.
Fiesta
1947
as The Tourist
When a matador leaves town to focus on his music, his twin sister takes on his identity in the bullfighting ring.
Sinbad the Sailor
1947
as Aga
Daredevil sailor Sinbad embarks on a voyage across the Seven Seas to find the lost riches of Alexander the Great. His first stop is the port of Basra,...
The Strange Woman
1946
as Judge Henry Saladine
In early 19th century New England, an unscrupulous woman uses her beauty and wits to seduce, deceive and control the men around her.
A Scandal in Paris
1946
as Houdon De Pierremont, Police Minister
A smooth-talking French thief wangles his way into an important position as prefect of police.
House of Horrors
1946
as F. Holmes Harmon
An unsuccessful sculptor saves a madman named "The Creeper" from drowning. Seeing an opportunity for revenge, he tricks the psycho into murdering his ...
Three Strangers
1946
as David Shackleford
On the eve of the Chinese New Year, three strangers, Crystal Shackleford, married to a wealthy philanderer; Jerome Artbutny, an outwardly respectable ...
Isle of the Dead
1945
as St. Aubyn
On a Greek island during the 1912 war, several people are trapped by quarantine for the plague. If that isn't enough worry, one of the people—a supers...
Hangover Square
1945
as Sir Henry Chapman
When composer George Harvey Bone wakes with no memory of the previous night and a bloody knife in his pocket, he worries that he has committed a crime...
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
1944
as Mr. Parker
In the wake of Pearl Harbor, a young lieutenant leaves his expectant wife to volunteer for a secret bombing mission which will take the war to the Jap...
Mademoiselle Fifi
1944
as The Count de Breville
In occupied France during the Franco-Prussian War, a young French laundress shares a coach ride with several of her condescending social superiors. Bu...
The Hairy Ape
1944
as MacDougald, Chief Engineer
Aboard ship, a spoiled woman (Susan Hayward) insults the brutish stoker (William Bendix) while watching him work.
Ministry of Fear
1944
as Dr. Forrester
Stephen Neale is released into WWII England after two years in an asylum, but it doesn't seem so sane outside either. On his way back to London to rej...
The Uninvited
1944
as Dr. Scott
A brother and sister move into an old seaside house that has been abandoned for many years on the Cornwellian coast. They soon discover that it is hau...
Action in Arabia
1944
as Eric Latimer
Reporter Michael Gordon uncovers intrigue in Damascus, where the Allies and Nazis struggle for control of Arab sympathies.
Lost Angel
1943
as Dr. Woodring
Alpha's been raised along scientific principles, and will make Mike Regan a great human interest story for his paper. But when his interview prompts A...
The Song of Bernadette
1943
as Dr. Debeau
In 1858 Lourdes, France, Bernadette, an adolescent peasant girl, has a vision of "a beautiful lady" in the city dump. She never claims it to be anythi...
Madame Curie
1943
as Dr. Bladh (uncredited)
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...
Lassie Come Home
1943
as Jock
Hard times come for the Carraclough family and they are forced to sell their dog, Lassie, to the rich Duke of Rudling. Lassie, however, is unwilling t...
Appointment in Berlin
1943
as Col. Patterson (uncredited)
The "war of nerves" which gripped the European continent in 1938, is the background for this war thriller starring George Sanders.
Assignment in Brittany
1943
as Sam Wells
A French Resistance fighter discovers he's a dead ringer for a Nazi official.
Random Harvest
1942
as Julian
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.
Cat People
1942
as Doc Carver (uncredited)
A Serbian émigré in Manhattan believes that, because of an ancient curse, any physical intimacy with the man she loves will turn her into a feline pre...
Eagle Squadron
1942
as Black Watch officer
An American joins the British Royal Air Force just before Pearl Harbor is attacked, and falls in love with a beautiful English girl.
Confirm or Deny
1941
as Updyke (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...
The House of the Seven Gables
1940
as Fuller
In 1828, the bankrupt Pyncheon family fight over Seven Gables, the ancestral mansion. To obtain the house, Jaffrey Pyncheon obtains his brother Cliffo...
The Invisible Man Returns
1940
as Willie Spears
The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.
We Are Not Alone
1939
as Archdeacon
A British doctor and his son's Austrian governess have an affair and are accused of killing his wife.
The Four Just Men
1939
as Sir Hamar Ryman M.P.
The Four Men of the title are British WWI veterans who decide to work secretly against enemies of the country. They aren't above a bit of murder or sa...
The Wife of General Ling
1937
as Governor
In this espionage drama, a Secret Service agent must discover who has been smuggling British arms into China. The prime suspect is a prosperous Chines...
For Valour
1937
as General
In this British comedy, set during the Boer War, a foot soldier saves his major's life. The officer is most grateful and puts the soldier in line for ...
Wings over Africa
1936
as Redfern
Two prospectors in Africa, Tony Cooper and Dalton come across a skeleton that has nearly been picked clean by vultures. They find a letter on the body...
The Wandering Jew
1933
as Knight (Phase II)
Old Jerusalem: Matathias, spiteful over his lover's illness, spits on Jesus along the road to Calvary, and is cursed to live endlessly until His retur...
Loyalties
1933
as Gen. Canynge
A houseguest at an upper-class gathering, wealthy Jew Ferdinand de Levis, is robbed of £1,000 with evidence pointing towards the guilt of another gues...
In a Monastery Garden
1932
as Count Romano
An Italian musician begins to steal his brother's compositions after he is jailed for shooting a prince.
Stamboul
1931
as Bouchier
In the lead-up to the First World War, a French military attaché falls in love with the wife of a prominent German in Stamboul in the Ottoman Empire.
Caste
1930
as Capt. Hawtree
The daughter of a Cockney drunkard marries a young aristocrat who is presumed killed in action in WWI. When she gets the news she goes to stay with he...
And One Was Loyal
N/A
as Jack Simmons
Joan now a prominent artist meets the man who rescued her from a brutal and traumatized existence with a savage husband in the jungle. In flashback we...