Henry Daniell Movies and Career Information

Henry Daniell (5 March 1894 – 31 October 1963) was an English actor, best known for his villainous screen roles, but who had a long and prestigious career on stage as well as in films. (Daniell was given few opportunities to play a 'good' guy; one of his few was the 1947 Clarence Brown bio-pic Song of Love where played the supporting part of Franz Liszt.) He was born in Barnes, London and was educated at St Paul's School, and at Gresham's School, Holt, Norfolk. He made his first appearance on the stage in the provinces in 1913, and on the London stage at the Globe Theatre (today called the Gielgud Theatre) on March 10, 1914, walking on in the revival of Edward Knoblock's Kismet. In 1914 he joined the 2nd Battalion The Norfolk Regiment, but was invalided out the following year. Thereafter throughout World War I, he appeared in the theatres of London, firstly at the New Theatre in October 1915 as Police Officer Clancy in Stop Thief!, and notably in May 1916, and subsequently, at the famous Theatre Royal, Haymarket. In April 1921, he appeared at the Empire, New York, as Prince Charles of Vaucluse in Clair de Lune, and subsequently toured for the next three years, reappearing in London