Henry Herbert (actor)
Henry Herbert (c. 1879 – 20 February 1947) was an English film, stage actor and producer, who became well known in the United States.
Biography
Herbert appears to have commenced his early career with Ben Greet's Company, and with
In 1912 he went to the U.S. and appeared at the Lyceum Theatre (New York) on 9 September as Captain Jeyes in The 'Mind-the-Paint' Girl, and from March to May 1916 he appeared (with Sir Herbert Tree) at the New Amsterdam Theatre, New York, as Griffith and the Jester in Shakespeare's King Henry VIII, Tubal in The Merchant of Venice, and Dr. Caius in The Merry Wives of Windsor.
He took up residence at 16 Gramercy Park, New York City, and became solely engaged on the American stage thereafter both as an actor and a producer, with an impressive career.
Herbert is likely to have also worked in film, credited as Henry Hebert.[1]
Partial filmography
- A Man of Sorrow (1916)
- The Fires of Conscience (1916)
- The Silent Partner (1917)
- The Hidden Children (1917)
- The Ghosts of Yesterday (1918)
- La Tosca (1918)(*as Henry Hebert)
- When Fate Decides (1919)
- The Cyclone (1920)
- Her Elephant Man (1920)
- Twins of Suffering Creek (1920)
- Black Roses (1921)
- Blind Hearts (1921)
- No Defense (1921)
- The Little Minister (1922)
- My Wild Irish Rose (1922)
- The Silent Vow (1922)
- When Danger Smiles (1922)
- The Day of Faith (1923)
- So Big (1924)
- Stolen Secrets (1924)
- Daughters of Today (1924)
- The Enchanted Hill (1925)
- The Blue Streak (1926)
- The Mystery Club (1926)
- One Chance in a Million (1927)
- The Girl from Rio (1927)
- The Charge of the Gauchos (1928)
- Fangs of Fate (1928)
- Laddie Be Good (1928)
- The Wright Idea (1928)
- Their Own Desire (1929)
- Easy Money (1936)
References
- Parker, John, editor, Who's Who in the Theatre, 10th edition revised, London, 1947, p. 750.
- ISBN 978-1-4766-0905-8.
External links
- Henry Herbert at the Internet Broadway Database
- Henry Herbert at IMDb