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Cecil Lauriston Kellaway (22 August 1890 – 28 February 1973) was a South African-born character actor.
Cecil Kellaway spent many years as an actor, author, and director in the Australian film industry until he tried his luck in Hollywood in the 1930s. Finding he could get only gangster bit parts, he got discouraged and returned to Australia. Then William Wyler called and offered him a part in Wuthering Heights (1939). After that he was seen in such films as The House of the Seven Gables (1940), The Letter (1940), Love Letters (1945), The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946, as Lana Turner's husband), Portrait of Jennie (1948) and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967).
Kellaway died 28 February 1973 in Hollywood, California, and his ashes were entombed in the Sanctuary of Remembrance, at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery.[citation needed] He received two Best Supporting Actor nominations, for The Luck of the Irish and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.[citation needed]
Academy Award winning actor Edmund Gwenn, whose real surname was Kellaway, was his cousin.
Victor Andrew de Bier Everleigh McLaglen (10 December 1886 – 7 November 1959) was an English boxer and World War I veteran who became a successful film actor. Towards the end of his life he was naturalised as a U.S. citizen.
McLaglen was born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. His father, later a bishop of the Free Protestant Episcopal Church of England, moved the family to South Africa when McLaglen was a child. He had eight brothers and a sister. Four of his brothers also became actors: Arthur (1888–1972), an actor and sculptor, and Clifford (1892–1978), Cyril (1899–1987) and Kenneth (circa 1901-1979). Other siblings included Frederick (b. circa 1882), Sydney (b. circa 1884), Lewis (b. circa 1889), and a sister, Lily (b. circa 1893). Another brother, Leopold McLaglen, who appeared in one film, gained notoriety prior to World War I as a showman and self-proclaimed World Jujutsu Champion, who authored a book on the subject.
He left home at fourteen to join the British Army with the intention of fighting in the Second Boer War. However, much to his chagrin, he was stationed at Windsor Castle with the Life Guards and was later forced to leave the army when his true age was discovered.
"Poor,Poor Thing" - from 'Harvey'
Diamond Frontier - 1940 - Victor McLaglen, Anne Nagel, John Loder, Cecil Kellaway
Anne baxter tyrone and cecil kellaway 1948
The Luck Of The Irish (1948)-
Cecil kellaway dick powell june 1950
Half-Angel (1951)
Guess Who's Coming To Dinner Trailer 1967
The Proud Rebel Online Alan Ladd Western FULL MOVIE
I Married A Witch Trailer 1942
JOAN CRAWFORD in Female On The Beach (1955) "I'd ask you to stay for a drink..."
Actors: William Demarest (actor), Hal K. Dawson (actor), Walter Abel (actor), Edgar Dearing (actor), Eric Alden (actor), Frank Butler (actor), Macdonald Carey (actor), Stanley Clements (actor), Charles Coleman (actor), Pinto Colvig (actor), Gary Cooper (actor), William Bendix (actor), Bing Crosby (actor), Howard Da Silva (actor), Cecil B. DeMille (actor),
Plot: Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (show-business charity) are woven into a framework about two hopeful young ladies who come to Hollywood, exchange identities, and cause comic confusion (with slapstick interludes) throughout the Paramount studio.
Keywords: variety-clubActors: Albert Dekker (actor), Edgar Dearing (actor), Walter Abel (actor), Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson (actor), Eddie Bracken (actor), Boyd Davis (actor), Macdonald Carey (actor), William Bendix (actor), Walter Catlett (actor), Chester Clute (actor), Jerry Colonna (actor), Bing Crosby (actor), Rod Cameron (actor), Irving Bacon (actor), Cecil B. DeMille (actor),
Plot: Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his buddies, Pop enlists the aid of the studio's dizzy switchboard operator in pulling off the charade. Things get more complicated when Pop agrees to put together a show for the Navy starring Paramount's top contract players.
Keywords: air-raid-warden, applause, audience, audition, ballerina, canoe, choreography, chorine, climbing-up-a-wall, comedianHappened to pass your doorway
Gave you a buzz, that’s all
Lately I thought lots about you,
So I thought I’d pay a social call
Do you recall the old days,
We used to have a ball
Not that I’m lonesome without you
I just thought I’d pay a social call
I'd lie and say things are just swell
But to tell the truth
I haven’t been to well
And if you should try to kiss me,
I wouldn't even stall
Maybe we’ll get back together