Cecil Kellaway
Cecil Kellaway | |
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 from the trailer for the film The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) | |
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| Spouse | Doreen Elizabeth Joubert (1919-1973) (his death) 2 children |
Cecil Kellaway (August 22, 1893 – February 28, 1973), born in Cape Town, South Africa, was a character actor.
Cecil Kellaway spent many years as an actor, author and director in the Australian film industry until he tried his luck in Hollywood in the 1930s. Finding he could get only gangster bit parts, he got discouraged and returned to Australia. Then William Wyler called and offered him a part in Wuthering Heights (1939). From then on Kellaway was always in demand when the part called for a twinkling, silver-haired leprechaun.
Kellaway died in 1973, in Hollywood, California. He was entombed in the Sanctuary of Remembrance at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery. He received two Best Supporting Actor nominations, for The Luck of the Irish and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.
Edmund Gwenn and Arthur Chesney, brothers whose real name was Kellaway, were his cousins.
Selected filmography
- Wuthering Heights (1939) – as Earnshaw
- Intermezzo (1939) – as Charles Moler
- We Are Not Alone (1939)
- The Invisible Man Returns (1940) – as Inspector Sampson
- The House of the Seven Gables (1940)
- Brother Orchid (1940)
- The Mummy's Hand (1940)
- The Letter (1940)
- A Very Young Lady (1941)
- I Married a Witch (1942)
- Take a Letter, Darling (1942)
- It Ain't Hay (1943)
- Mrs. Parkington (1944)
- Practically Yours (1944)
- Love Letters (1945)
- Kitty (1945) as Thomas Gainsborough
- Easy to Wed (1946)
- The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) – as Nick Smith
- Monsieur Beaucaire (1946)
- Unconquered (1947)
- The Luck of the Irish (1948) – as Horace
- Joan of Arc (1948)
- Portrait of Jennie (1948)
- Harvey (1950) – as Dr. Chumley
- Kim (1950)
- Francis Goes to the Races (1951)
- Young Bess (1953)
- The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953) – as Dr. Thurgood Elson
- Interrupted Melody (1955)
- The Prodigal (1955)
- Female on the Beach (1955) – as Osbert Sorenson
- The Proud Rebel (1958)
- The Shaggy Dog (1959)
- Zotz! (1962)
- The Cardinal (1963)
- Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)
- Spinout (1966) – as Bernard Ranley
- Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) – as Monsignor Ryan
- Fitzwilly (1967)
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