Arthur Hohl

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Arthur Hohl
Los Angeles, California
, U.S.
OccupationActor
Years active1924–1949
Height6 ft 2 in (188 cm)
Spouse
Jessie E. Gray
(m. 1920)

Arthur Hohl (May 21, 1889 – March 10, 1964) was an American stage and motion-picture character actor.

Formative years and family

Born in

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on May 21, 1889, Hohl began appearing in films during the early 1920s. He played a great number of villainous or mildly larcenous roles, although his screen roles usually were small, but he also played a few sympathetic characters.[citation needed
]

In 1920, Hohl married Jessie E. Gray, who survived him when he died in 1964. The couple had no children.[1]

Career

Hohl's two performances seen most often today are as Pete, the nasty boat engineer who tells the local sheriff about Julie (

Brutus opposite Warren William's Julius Caesar in Cecil B. DeMille's version of Cleopatra (1934), starring Claudette Colbert
.

Among his other notable roles were as Olivier, King Louis XI's right-hand man, in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939), as the real estate agent in Charlie Chaplin's Monsieur Verdoux (1947), and as Journet, a bereaved innkeeper who seeks to avenge his daughter's murder in the Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes film The Scarlet Claw (1944). Hohl also played a Christian named Titus (no relation to Titus Andronicus) in Cecil B. DeMille's religious epic The Sign of the Cross (1932).

Many sources claim that Hohl played a monk in the 1943 film classic The Song of Bernadette, but he is nowhere to be seen in the finished film.

Hohl also appeared on the

Twelfth Night,[2]
were considerably larger than his film roles.

Filmography

References

  1. ^ "Arthur Hohl – Broadway to Hollywood, Double-Dealers All the Way". Immortal Ephemera. May 21, 2015.
  2. ^ "Twelfth Night – Broadway Play – 1930 Revival | IBDB".

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