- Director Robert Wise said of Daniell, "Henry was as far from a complainer as any I've ever known. He'd walk onto the set, do his work like the pro he was, do it damn good, and then quietly leave without being a burden to anybody. Period!".
- Daniell shot his last scene on Oct. 31, 1963, at Warner Bros. escorting the Queen of Transylvania in a scene from My Fair Lady (1964). Director and longtime friend George Cukor thought that Daniell, 69, looked unwell; as it turned out he was right, as Daniell died from a heart attack a few hours later in his home in Santa Monica. Alan Napier was substituted in another scene that was intended to feature Daniell.
- He was a favorite of director George Cukor, and appeared in seven of the director's films. Despite their collaborations, Cukor cited The Exile (1947) as his favorite Daniell performance because "I believe this film displays Henry's keen sense of humor!".
- His wife Ann Knox was a novelist and poet.
- He joined the British Army at the outbreak of World War I in 1914 and fought on the Western Front. He was badly wounded in battle, and received a medical discharge in 1915.
- Appeared in seven Best Picture Oscar nominees: All This, and Heaven Too (1940), The Great Dictator (1940), The Philadelphia Story (1940), Watch on the Rhine (1943), Witness for the Prosecution (1957), Mutiny on the Bounty (1962) and My Fair Lady (1964). Only the last of these won Best Picture. The first three of these films were all released in the same year in 1940.
- He was close friends with Krishnamurthy and spent much time with him in Ojai, CA, engaged in spiritual refection--quite contrary to the persona represented by the press.
- In his autobiography, Basil Rathbone stated that Daniell was the best of the villains in the Sherlock Holmes films.
- Gabriel Dell of the The Dead End Kids was the husband of Allison Daniell (Henry's daughter), and Gabriel Dell Jr. is his grandson.
- Was a contemporary of (and was occasionally confused with) fellow character actor Alan Mowbray. The two slightly resembled one another, and both specialized in playing similar roles: Snooty, upper crust types and elegant man-servants.
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