Herbert Mundin (1898 – 1939) was an English-born Hollywood character actor. He was frequently typecast in films as older cheeky eccentrics, a type helped by his jowelled features and cheerful Cockney disposition.
He was born Herbert Thomas Mundin in St Helens, then in Lancashire (now part of Merseyside), on 21 August, 1898. His father was a nomadic, Primitive Methodist home missionary. His family moved within a short time of his birth to St Alban...
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Herbert Mundin (1898 – 1939) was an English-born Hollywood character actor. He was frequently typecast in films as older cheeky eccentrics, a type helped by his jowelled features and cheerful Cockney disposition.
He was born Herbert Thomas Mundin in St Helens, then in Lancashire (now part of Merseyside), on 21 August, 1898. His father was a nomadic, Primitive Methodist home missionary. His family moved within a short time of his birth to St Albans in Hertfordshire (the 1901 census data reveals that the family lived at St Helens Villa, Paxton Road, St Albans; his parents William and Jane apparently naming their house after the town where they first met and where Herbert was born).
Mundin was educated at St Albans School, and joined the Royal Navy during World War I. He began his acting career on the London stage during the 1920s. Mundin first traveled to America on December 18, 1923 for a series of theatrical engagements in New York. He sailed from Southampton on the RMS Aquitania and...
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