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Robert Greig is a Actor Australien born on 26 december 1879 at Melbourne (Australie)

Robert Greig

Robert Greig
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Nationality Australie
Birth 26 december 1879 at Melbourne (Australie)
Death 27 june 1958 (at 78 years) at Los Angeles (USA)

Robert Greig (December 27, 1879 – June 27, 1958) was an Australian-American actor who appeared in more than 100 films between 1930 and 1949, usually as the dutiful butler.

Biography

Installé aux États-Unis, Robert Greig joue notamment au théâtre à Broadway (New York). Il y débute en avril 1928, dans l'opérette Comtesse Maritza (musique d'Emmerich Kálmán). Puis, d'octobre 1928 à avril 1929, il personnifie le majordome Hives dans la comédie musicale Animal Crackers (musique et lyrics de Bert Kalmar et Harry Ruby), aux côtés des Marx Brothers et de Margaret Dumont. Il participe ensuite à deux pièces, dont Cette nuit ou jamais, de novembre 1930 à juin 1931, avec Melvyn Douglas. Enfin, en 1938, il tient son cinquième et dernier rôle à Broadway dans une seconde comédie musicale, Great Lady (musique de Frederick Loewe), avec Jerome Robbins.

Au cinéma, il débute dans deux films sortis en 1930, dont l'adaptation — sous le même titre original — de la comédie musicale Animal Crackers (titre français : L'Explorateur en folie), les Marx Brothers, Margaret Dumont et lui y reprenant leurs rôles respectifs. L'année suivante (1931), son cinquième film est l'adaptation de la pièce Cette nuit ou jamais (même titre , réalisation de Mervyn LeRoy), où Melvyn Douglas et lui reprennent leurs rôles, aux côtés de Gloria Swanson.

Second rôle de caractère (parfois non-crédité) au long d'une centaine de films américains, Robert Greig interprète souvent des domestiques jusqu'en fin de carrière (ainsi, dans Haute Pègre d'Ernst Lubitsch en 1932, il est le majordome de Kay Francis). Son dernier film est La Vengeance des Borgia de Mitchell Leisen (avec Paulette Goddard et John Lund), sorti en 1949.

Parmi ses autres films notables, mentionnons Casbah de John Cromwell (1938, avec Charles Boyer et Hedy Lamarr, où il reprend le rôle initialement tenu par Charles Granval dans Pépé le Moko, dont Casbah est le remake), Sur la piste des Mohawks de John Ford (1939, avec Claudette Colbert et Henry Fonda), Les Voyages de Sullivan de Preston Sturges (1941, avec Joel McCrea et Veronica Lake), ou encore Le Portrait de Dorian Gray d'Albert Lewin (1945, avec George Sanders et Hurd Hatfield).

Usually with

Cedric Gibbons
Cedric Gibbons
(14 films)
Bess Flowers
Bess Flowers
(10 films)
Lee Phelps
Lee Phelps
(10 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Robert Greig (87 films)

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Actor

Unfaithfully Yours, 1h45
Directed by Preston Sturges
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell, Rudy Vallée, Barbara Lawrence, Kurt Kreuger, Lionel Stander
Roles Jules
Rating74% 3.745143.745143.745143.745143.74514
Sir Alfred de Carter (Rex Harrison) is a world-famous symphony conductor who returns from a visit to his native England and discovers that his rich and boring brother-in-law, August Henshler (Rudy Vallee), has misunderstood Alfred's casual instruction to watch over his much younger wife Daphne (Linda Darnell) while he was away, and instead hired a detective named Sweeney (Edgar Kennedy) to follow her. Alfred is livid, and ineptly attempts to destroy any evidence of the detective's report.
Forever Amber, 2h18
Directed by Otto Preminger, John M. Stahl
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical, Melodrama, Romance
Themes Children's films
Actors Linda Darnell, Cornel Wilde, Richard Greene, George Sanders, Richard Haydn, Glenn Langan
Roles un magistrat
Rating64% 3.2444353.2444353.2444353.2444353.244435
The film begins in 1644 during the English Civil War, as we see a group of Roundheads pursuing a Cavalier's carriage. The carriage drives into the country where its passengers abandon a baby, named Amber, on the doorstep of a farming cottage. The roundheads soon catch up with the carriage and kill all the passengers while the farmers discover and decide to adopt Amber.
The Sin of Harold Diddlebock, 1h29
Directed by Lewis Milestone, Preston Sturges
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Circus films
Actors Harold Lloyd, Jimmy Conlin, Rudy Vallée, Pat O'Brien, Raymond Walburn, Edgar Kennedy
Roles Algernon McNiff
Rating63% 3.1969753.1969753.1969753.1969753.196975
In 1945, twenty-three years after scoring the winning touchdown for his college football team (as told in The Freshman), mild-mannered Harold Diddlebock (Harold Lloyd), who has been stuck in a dull, dead-end book-keeping job for years, is let go by his pompous boss, advertising tycoon J.E. Waggleberry (Raymond Walburn), with nothing but a tiny pension of $1,000. He bids farewell to the girl at the desk down the aisle, Miss Otis (Frances Ramsden), whom he had hoped to marry – just as he had hoped to marry five of her older sisters before that – and wanders aimlessly through the streets, his life's savings in hand.
The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1h49
Directed by Albert Lewin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Fantastic, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Peinture
Actors George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed, Angela Lansbury, Peter Lawford, Lowell Gilmore
Roles Sir Thomas
Rating74% 3.745873.745873.745873.745873.74587
Dorian Gray (Hurd Hatfield) is a handsome, wealthy young man living in 19th century London. While generally intelligent, he is naive and easily manipulated. These faults lead to his spiral into sin and, ultimately, misery.
Hollywood and Vine
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors James Ellison, Wanda McKay, Ralph Morgan, June Clyde, Franklin Pangborn, Emmett Lynn
Roles Jenkins
Rating55% 2.762382.762382.762382.762382.76238
Martha Manning is on her way to imagined fame and fortune in Hollywood and stops off at Pop Barkley's hamburger stand thirty miles from the city of her dreams. A stray dog enters as does Larry Winters who thinks the dog belongs to Martha. Feeding the dog his hamburger Larry notices the dog dancing to The Emperor's Waltz on Pop's jukebox and thinks the dog belongs to Martha. Martha feels Larry is a wolf and leaves the cafe with Larry vowing to track her down in Hollywood to return her dog who he has named "Emperor".
Summer Storm, 1h46
Directed by Douglas Sirk
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Linda Darnell, George Sanders, Anna Lee, Hugo Haas, Sig Ruman, John Abbott
Roles Gregory
Rating65% 3.2901453.2901453.2901453.2901453.290145
After the Russian Revolution, Count Volsky visits Nadena Kalenin, the editor of a Russian book publishing company, with a manuscript written by his friend and Nadena's former fiancé, Judge Fedor Petroff.
Mrs. Parkington, 2h4
Directed by Tay Garnett
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Edward Arnold, Dan Duryea, Tom Drake, Agnes Moorehead
Roles Mr. Orlando (uncredited)
Rating69% 3.493423.493423.493423.493423.49342
Susie Parkington (Greer Garson), an elderly society matron, is surrounded by her many relatives at her stately home at Christmastime in 1938, with the exception of her beloved great-granddaughter Jane (Frances Rafferty). When Jane does appear she informs her great-grandmother that she plans to elope with Ned Talbot (Tom Drake), her father's employee, who wishes to take her away from her family and their way of life. Susie arranges a meeting with Ned, where he reveals that Jane's father Amory (Edward Arnold) is being questioned for fraud and he planned to take Jane away in order to hide her from the truth. Susie sends Ned away, telling Jane to forget about him, and after hearing her grandson-in-law's side of the story makes the decision to ask her heirs to pay off Amory's debts with a loan ($31 million), much to her family's disgust, as it will mean that they may lose their inheritance.
Million Dollar Kid, 1h5
Directed by Wallace Fox
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, William Benedict, Louise Currie, Buddy Gorman
Roles Spevin
Rating60% 3.0020453.0020453.0020453.0020453.002045
In the East Side Kids' clubhouse, Muggs McGinnis (Leo Gorcey) laments the epidemic of mugging that has been plaguing their streets. While waiting outside a store that afternoon, the boys witness a man being attacked in the alley and come to his defense, chasing away his assailants. In gratitude, the man, millionaire John Cortland (Herbert Heyes), hands Muggs his business card. When the cynical Muggs tosses the card in a garbage can, Glimpy McClosky (Huntz Hall) digs it out and finds the man's cash-laden wallet in the trash.
Three Hearts for Julia, 1h23
Directed by Richard Thorpe
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Ann Sothern, Melvyn Douglas, Richard Ainley, Reginald Owen, Felix Bressart, Lee Bowman
Roles Cairns, Anton's Butler (uncredited)
Rating58% 2.9067752.9067752.9067752.9067752.906775
Lors de l'été 1941, Jeff Seabrook, un correspondant de guerre basé à Lisbonne, refuse la direction du bureau de Berlin, car cela fait deux ans qu'il est parti de chez lui et il espère ainsi passer plus de temps avec sa femme. À New York, Julia, un violoniste de concert qui fait partie d'un orchestre uniquement féminin, a du mal à se concentrer sur son travail car elle a engagé une procédure de divorce et craint d'annoncer la nouvelle à Jeff. Ce dernier apprend que Julia, lasse de ses longues absences et de ses promesses non tenues, est courtisée par deux hommes, le manager de l'orchestre David Torrance et le critique musical Philip Barrows. Le patron de Jeff, Johnny Girard, le convainc que la meilleure manière de regagner l'amour de Julia est de faire semblant d'accepter le divorce, et pour prouver son accord Jeff annonce à Julia qu'il va l'aider à sélectionner son successeur.
The Palm Beach Story, 1h28
Directed by Hal Walker, Preston Sturges
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films, Films about marriage
Actors Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Mary Astor, Rudy Vallée, William Demarest, Sig Arno
Roles Third Member Ale and Quail Club
Rating74% 3.7456753.7456753.7456753.7456753.745675
Tom and Gerry Jeffers (Joel McCrea and Claudette Colbert) are a married couple in New York City who are down on their luck financially, which is pushing the marriage to an end. But there is another, deeper problem with their relationship, one that is hinted at in the prologue of the movie as the opening credits roll and then explained near the movie's end.
Tales of Manhattan, 2h7
Directed by Julien Duvivier
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Children's films
Actors Charles Boyer, Rita Hayworth, Ginger Rogers, Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton, Edward G. Robinson
Roles Lazar
Rating72% 3.640823.640823.640823.640823.64082
Based on the Mexican writer Francisco Rojas González's novel, Historia de un frac ("Story of a Tailcoat"), the stories follow a black formal tailcoat as it goes from owner to owner, in five otherwise unconnected stories.
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake, 1h38
Directed by John Cromwell, Darryl F. Zanuck
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Films about sexuality, Transport films, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films, Children's films
Actors Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, George Sanders, Frances Farmer, Roddy McDowall, John Carradine
Roles Judge
Rating70% 3.5457753.5457753.5457753.5457753.545775
The story is set during the reign of King George III, in Bristol, England, where young Benjamin Blake (Roddy McDowall), son of the deceased Baronet of Breetholm is taken from his commoner grandfather, gunsmith Amos Kidder (Harry Davenport), and forced to serve his vengeful uncle, Sir Arthur Blake (George Sanders). Arthur inherited the title and land from his brother Godfrey, and fears that Ben may not have been born out of wedlock and might claim his inheritance. He compels the boy to become his ward and bonded servant, giving Arthur life-and-death power over the lad. Ben runs away to his grandfather, but rather than force the old man to live a life on the run, returns to Breetholm, vowing to endure whatever he must in order to one day prove himself a "true Blake" and recover his birthright.