- Appeared as eight different characters in the Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce series of Sherlock Holmes films, the most of any bit player.
- Probably best known as Sir Dickon Malbete, the disgraced knight sent by Sir Guy of Gisbourne to kill King Richard in exchange for getting his land and titles back, in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938).
- Entered films in 1921.
- Appeared in twelve Best Picture Academy Award nominees: The Patriot (1928), The House of Rothschild (1934), Viva Villa! (1934), The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935), Naughty Marietta (1935), Les Misérables (1935), Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), Captain Blood (1935), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), The Grapes of Wrath (1940) and For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943). Mutiny on the Bounty was the only winner.
- Profiled in "Character Actors in Horror and Science Fiction Films, 1930-1960" by Laurence Raw (2012).
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