Raymond Huntley
Known for Acting · 114 credits
- Born
- 1904-04-23
- Died
- 1990-10-19
- Place of birth
- King's Norton, Worcestershire, England, UK
- Also known as
- Horace Raymond Huntley · Рэймонд Хантли
Biography
Horace Raymond Huntley (23 April 1904 – 15 June 1990) was an English actor who appeared in dozens of British films from the 1930s to the 1970s. He also appeared in the ITV period drama Upstairs, Downstairs as the pragmatic family solicitor Sir Geoffrey Dillon, and other television shows, such as the Wodehouse Playhouse, ('Romance at Droitwich Spa'), in 1975.
Born in Kings Norton, Worcestershire (now a suburb of Birmingham) in 1904, Huntley made his stage debut at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre on 1 April 1922, in A Woman Killed with Kindness. His London debut followed at the Court Theatre on 22 February 1924, in As Far as Thought can Reach.
He subsequently inherited the role of Count Dracula from Edmund Blake in Hamilton Deane's touring adaptation of Dracula, which arrived at London's Little Theatre on 14 February 1927, subsequently transferring to the larger Duke of York's Theatre. Later that year he was offered the chance to reprise the role on Broadway (in a script streamlined by John L. Balderston); when he declined, the part was taken by Bela Lugosi instead. Huntley did, however, appear in a US touring production of the Deane/Balderston play, covering the east coast and midwest, from 1928-30. "I have always considered the role of Count Dracula to have been an indiscretion of my youth" he recalled in 1989.
After Dracula, he made his Broadway debut at the Vanderbilt Theatre on 23 February 1931, in The Venetian Glass Nephew. On returning to the UK, his many West End appearances included The Farmer's Wife (Queen's Theatre 1932), Cornelius (Duchess Theatre 1935), Bees on the Boat Deck (Lyric Theatre 1936) Time and the Conways (Duchess Theatre 1937), When We Are Married (St Martin's Theatre 1940), Rebecca (Queen's Theatre 1940; Strand Theatre 1942), They Came to a City (Globe Theatre 1943), The Late Edwina Black (Ambassadors Theatre 1948), And This Was Odd (Criterion Theatre 1951), Double Image (Savoy Theatre 1956), Any Other Business (Westminster Theatre 1958), Caught Napping (Piccadilly Theatre 1959), Difference of Opinion (Garrick Theatre 1963), An Ideal Husband (Garrick Theatre 1966), Getting Married (Strand Theatre 1967), Soldiers (New Theatre 1968) and Separate Tables (Apollo Theatre 1977). He also starred opposite Flora Robson in the Broadway production of Black Chiffon (48th Street Theatre 1950).
Often cast as a supercilious bureaucrat or other authority figure, Huntley was also a staple figure in British films, his many appearances including The Way Ahead, I See a Dark Stranger, Passport to Pimlico and The Dam Busters. In his later years, he became well-known on television as Sir Geoffrey Dillon, the family solicitor to the Bellamys in LWT's popular 1970s drama series Upstairs, Downstairs.
Known For
Crown Court
1972
as Mr. Justice Downes / Mr. Justice Ambleforth
Omnibus
1967
as Self
The Wednesday Play
1964
as Superintendent Willow / Dr. Hallam Aitkinson
No Hiding Place
1959
as Ward
Danger Man
1960
as Clements
Sunday Night Theatre
1950
as Mr. Culver / Crichton / Spence / Inspector Hubbard / Prof. Brander / Gordon Meslin / Challiss / Manning / Lord Laithwaite
TV Shows (26)
Crown Court
1972
as Mr. Justice Downes / Mr. Justice Ambleforth
Omnibus
1967
as Self
The Wednesday Play
1964
as Superintendent Willow / Dr. Hallam Aitkinson
No Hiding Place
1959
as Ward
Danger Man
1960
as Clements
Sunday Night Theatre
1950
as Mr. Culver / Crichton / Spence / Inspector Hubbard / Prof. Brander / Gordon Meslin / Challiss / Manning / Lord Laithwaite
Upstairs, Downstairs
1971
as Sir Geoffrey Dillon
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969
as Alderman Tindal
Sunday-Night Play
1960
as The Reader / Sir Edward Moss / Sir Arthur Hopwood-Lane / Herbert Nodes / Gilbert Morris
Justice
1971
as Judge / High Court Judge
Gideon's Way
1965
as Sir Percy Richmond
Softly Softly: Task Force
1969
as Doctor Mancroft
Hancock's Half Hour
1956
as Doctor
Sykes
1972
as Mr. Gatwick
The Count of Monte Cristo
1956
as Reimer
Interpol Calling
1959
as Schroeder
Sir Francis Drake
1961
as Doctor Dee
Brass
1983
as Judge
Theatre Night
1957
as Sir Norman Tullis / Dr. Rodd
Victorian Scandals
1976
as Dr Tristram
Knight Errant Limited
1959
as Dr. Felthorpe / Henry Latto
Armchair Theatre
1956
as Sturdee / Carlo / Hector Crawford / Mr. Gaunt
Barnaby Rudge
1960
as Mr. John Chester
My Honourable Mrs
1975
as Professor Walter Ramsay
That's Your Funeral
1970
as Emanuel Holroyd
A Time Of Day
1957
Movies (88)
Breathless
1960
as A Journalist (uncredited)
The Mummy
1959
as Joseph Whemple
Hobson's Choice
1954
as Nathaniel Beenstock
Trio
1950
as Mr. Henry Chester
Broken Journey
1948
as Edward Marshall
A Voyage Round My Father
1984
as Judge
Room at the Top
1958
as Mr. Hoylake
That's Your Funeral
1972
as Emmanuel Holroyd
The Dam Busters
1955
as Official, National Physical Laboratory
Young Winston
1972
as Old Officer
"Pimpernel" Smith
1941
as Marx
I'm All Right Jack
1959
as Magistrate
The Prisoner
1955
as The General
Crooks Anonymous
1962
as Mr. Wagstaffe
The Way Ahead
1944
as Pvt. Herbert Davenport
Night Train to Munich
1940
as Kampenfeldt
Suspect
1960
as Sir George Gatting the Minister of Defense
Carlton-Browne of the F.O.
1959
as Foreign Secretary Tufton-Slade
On the Beat
1962
as Sir Ronald Ackroyd
Knight Without Armour
1937
as White Officer
Our Man in Havana
1960
as General
Mr. Denning Drives North
1951
as Wright
Passport to Pimlico
1949
as Mr. Wix
Nurse on Wheels
1963
as Vicar Walcott
The Long Dark Hall
1951
as Chief Inspector Sullivan
Rembrandt
1936
as Ludwick
Next to No Time
1958
as Forbes, Factory Supervisor
Hot Millions
1968
as Bayswater
The Last Man to Hang
1956
as Attorney General
Waltz of the Toreadors
1962
as Ackroyd
The Ghost Train
1941
as John Price
Doctor at Sea
1955
as Captain Beamish
Laxdale Hall
1953
as Samuel Pettigrew, M.P.
School for Secrets
1946
as Prof. Laxton-Jones
The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery
1966
as Sir Horace, the Minister
Town on Trial
1957
as Dr. Reese
The Constant Husband
1955
as J.F. Hassett
Meet Mr. Lucifer
1953
as Patterson
Brothers in Law
1957
as Tatlock Q.C.
The Pure Hell of St Trinian's
1960
as Judge Slender
The Ghost of St. Michael's
1941
as Mr Humphries
Sleepwalker
1984
as Old Englishman
The Teckman Mystery
1954
as Maurice Miller
Orders Are Orders
1954
as Col. Fred Bellamy
Make Mine Mink
1960
as Inspector Pape
They Came to a City
1944
as Malcolm Stritton
Bottoms Up!
1960
as Garrick-Jones
Sands of the Desert
1960
as Bossom
Only Two Can Play
1962
as Vernon
Rotten to the Core
1965
as Governor
Whom the Gods Love: The Original Story of Mozart and His Wife
1936
as Langer
The Adding Machine
1969
as Smithers
Symptoms
1974
as Burke
The New Lot
1943
as Barrington
A French Mistress
1960
as Reverend Edwin Peake
I See a Dark Stranger
1946
as J. Miller
The Green Man
1956
as Sir Gregory Upshott
Geordie
1955
as Olympic Selector
Father Came Too!
1964
as Mr. Wedgewood
Hostile Witness
1968
as John Naylor
The Black Torment
1964
as Colonel John Wentworth
The Day Will Dawn
1942
Glad Tidings
1953
as Tom Forester
The Last Page
1952
as Clive Oliver
Destiny of a Spy
1969
as Supt. Pode
Arthur? Arthur!
1969
as George Payne
Freedom Radio
1941
as Rabenau
Aunt Clara
1954
as Rev. Maurice Hilton
Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It
1941
as Dr. Kerbishley
So Evil My Love
1948
as Henry Courtney
What Happened Then?
1934
The House in the Square
1951
as Mr. Throstle
Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill
1948
as Moy-Thompson
When We Are Married
1951
as Councillor Albert Parker
The Yellow Teddy Bears
1963
as Harry Haliburton
The Criminals
1958
as Hector Crawford
Tune On the Old Tax Fiddle
as Mr. Gaunt
Let's Be Famous
1939
as Singer in trio (uncredited)
London Melody
1937
as Policeman Outside Nightclub
Dinner at the Ritz
1937
as Gibout
The Portland Millions
1976
as Dr. Tristram
It's Hard to be Good
1948
as Williams
Innocent Meeting
1959
as Harold Phillips
Can You Hear Me, Mother?
1935
as Dolan
When We Are Married
1943
as Albert Parker
Follow That Horse!
1960
Number Three
1953
as Prof. Brander
When We Are Married
1938
as Councillor Albert Parker
About Raymond Huntley
Horace Raymond Huntley (23 April 1904 – 15 June 1990) was an English actor who appeared in dozens of British films from the 1930s to the 1970s. He also appeared in the ITV period drama Upstairs, Downstairs as the pragmatic family solicitor Sir Geoffrey Dillon, and other television shows, such as the Wodehouse Playhouse, ('Romance at Droitwich Spa'), in 1975. Born in Kings Norton, Worcestershire (now a suburb of Birmingham) in 1904, Huntley made his stage debut at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre on 1 April 1922, in A Woman Killed with Kindness… With 114 credits spanning from 1934 to 1984, Raymond Huntley has appeared in 88 films and 26 TV shows.
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- Breathless (1960) — as A Journalist (uncredited)
- The Mummy (1959) — as Joseph Whemple
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- Trio (1950) — as Mr. Henry Chester
- Broken Journey (1948) — as Edward Marshall
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