Reginald Denny (November 20, 1891 – June 16, 1967) was an English stage, film, and television actor.
Born Reginald Leigh Dugmore in Richmond, Surrey, England, he began his film career in 1915 and made films both in the United States and England until the 1960s. He came from a theatrical family which came to the U.S. in 1912 to appear in the stage production Quaker Girl. His father was the actor and singer W. H. Denny. Reginald became friends with...
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Reginald Denny (November 20, 1891 – June 16, 1967) was an English stage, film, and television actor.
Born Reginald Leigh Dugmore in Richmond, Surrey, England, he began his film career in 1915 and made films both in the United States and England until the 1960s. He came from a theatrical family which came to the U.S. in 1912 to appear in the stage production Quaker Girl. His father was the actor and singer W. H. Denny. Reginald became friends with actor John Barrymore and appeared in Barrymore's acclaimed 1920 Broadway production of Richard III.
Denny was a well-known actor in silent films and with the advent of talkies, he became a character actor. He played the lead role in a number of his earlier films, generally as a comedic Englishman in such works as Private Lives, and later had reasonably steady work as a supporting actor in dozens of movies, including The Little Minister (1934) with Katharine Hepburn, Anna Karenina (1935) with Greta Garbo, Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca (1940) and...
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