Date of birth: 1882-07-30
Place of birth: Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Horace Edward Jenner, Holmes E. Herbert, H.E. Herbert, H.J. Herbert, Холмс Херберт

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Holmes Herbert (born Horace Edward Jenner; 30 July 1882 – 26 December 1956) was an English character actor who appeared in Hollywood films from 1915 to 1952. Herbert immigrated to the United States in 1912. He never made a film in his native country, but appeared in 228 films during his career in the U.S., beginning with stalwart leading roles during the silent era, then numerous supporting roles in classic Hollywood films of the sound era, including Captain Blood (1935), The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936), The Life of Emile Zola (1937), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), and Foreign Correspondent (1940). He is perhaps best known for his role as Dr. Jekyll's friend Dr. Lanyon in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931), and made something of a career in horror films of the period, appearing in The Terror (1928), The Thirteenth Chair (1929 and 1937), The Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933), The Invisible Man (1933), Mark of the Vampire (1935), Tower of London (1939), The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942), The Undying Monster (1942), The Mummy's Curse (1944), and The Son of Dr. Jekyll (1951). He also played in several of Universal's cycle of Sherlock Holmes films during the 1940s. Holmes Herbert was married three times. His first wife was actress Beryl Mercer, and his second was Elinor Kershaw Ince, widow of film mogul Thomas H. Ince. Both marriages ended in divorce. Third wife Agnes Bartholomew died, leaving Herbert a widower, in 1955. He died in 1956 at age 74.

1934-09-27
Lederer is a Hessian soldier who defects to the Americans during the Revolutionary War.He falls in l

1948-03-02
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1931-12-24
Dr. Henry Jekyll believes that there are two distinct sides to men - a good and an evil side. He bel

1942-03-13
Frankenstein's unscrupulous colleague, Dr. Bohmer, plans to transplant Ygor's brain so he can rule t

1933-10-31
After experimenting on himself and becoming invisible, scientist Jack Griffin, now aggressive due to

1946-05-24
A convicted thief in Dartmoor prison hides the location of the stolen Bank of England printing plate

1929-11-15
An unhappily married woman is caught up in scandal and murder when her affection toward a young man

1949-04-19
Jungle Jim fights a lion and sharks trying to save an African village from those who would despoil i

1952-01-28
In the Canadian mountains, a trapper goes on the run accused of a crime and is pursued by a rugged a

1933-02-18
A wax sculptor opens a new museum years after he is severely injured during a fire that destroyed hi

1944-08-01
The famous Borgia Pearl, a valuable gem with a history of bringing murder and misfortune to its owne

1945-03-16
The Good Comrades are a collection of varied gentlemen who crave one thing - solitude. They reside a

1919-01-20
Based on the 1907 play 'Lady Frederick' by W. Somerset Maugham, this tells the story of Betsy O'Hara

1939-06-01
In this exciting spy drama, enemy agents endeavor to steal the plans for a top secret silent aircraf

1939-09-07
Dr. Garfield gets so involved in his research for an antitoxin for severe burns that he completely n

1939-11-17
In the 15th century Richard Duke of Gloucester, aided by his club-footed executioner Mord, eliminate

1946-11-23
After an innocent man is executed in a case he was responsible for, a Scotland Yard superintendent f

1942-07-31
The Invisible Man's grandson uses his secret formula to spy on Nazi Germany.

1935-04-26
Sir Borotyn, a prominent Prague resident, is discovered murdered in his home, with all indications p

1937-04-30
Two boys – the prince Edward and the pauper Tom – are born on the same day. Years later, when young

1945-07-23
A female cabbie is suspected of killing her drunken husband.

1943-12-17
Losing his memories of the last few days, neurologist Dr. Steele is told that his wife has been brut

1944-02-24
A pair of siblings from London [Ray Milland and Ruth Hussey] purchase a surprisingly affordable, lon

1935-12-26
Dr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate.

1929-08-17
A young, unfaithful wife and mother is thrown out by her cold, unforgiving husband, the Attorney Gen

1939-09-01
Having once again avoided criminal conviction, Professor Moriarity develops a murderous plan to “fin

1922-08-27
Ned Connors, a prospector, has a happy marriage with his wife, living in the hills, until fate bring

1939-11-10
During WWI pretty German master spy Helene von Lorbeer is sent undercover to London to live with the

1947-08-08
Young artist Monte Crandell is being sued for an unauthorized caricature. To escape arrest, he disgu

1946-12-25
Andy Hardy goes to college after serving in the war and finds his sweetheart is engaged to someone e

1947-08-13
After the war, Matt Gordon returns to Singapore to retrieve a fortune in smuggled pearls. Arrived, h

1915-10-28
Henry Dennys, a wealthy Englishman, has two sons who are frequently brought into the company of Edit
1915-10-31
The Fisherwoman was a dominant force on the busy island. Unaided she had built up a large business.

1920-11-01
Notorious pirate Joaquin Santos lives by the saying, "Dead Men Tell No Tales". He conspires with the

1939-03-08
Detective James Lee Wong must find the "Eye of the Daughter of the Moon," a priceless but cursed sap

1936-10-28
Two men stumble into an old mansion, and get involved with a crazed scientist, torture chambers and

1944-10-26
A Nazi spy sneaks into the U.S., hoping to release hundreds of German prisoners. He fails, but not u

1929-10-19
Although his murdered friend was by all accounts a scoundrel, Edward Wales is determined to trap his

1949-09-01
A mailman leads PO-men to a pistol-packing stamp thief and her gang.

1945-11-02
During the Spanish Civil War, an agent on a mission to purchase coal meets with murder and countersp

1927-10-09
Director Allan Dwan’s excellent use of New York locations enlivens a rags-to-riches tale that fully

1937-05-07
A phony psychic tries to solve a murder that took place during her seance.

1929-11-23
In her first Talkie, Joan Crawford plays Bingo, a jungle-raised oil heiress, who turns Manhattan ups

1944-11-24
A rich but naive young woman is in possession of some priceless jewels. She herself doesn't know it,

1932-05-27
Scion of the once-rich Mitchell family, Herbert Wynn is found shot to death. Nurse Adams, bored by h

1926-12-20
Terry O'Neill is the youngest of a family of Irish firefighters. He falls in love with Helen Corwin,

1931-07-18
Two brothers, Jack and Tom, are in love with the same woman, Molly. While the two brothers go off to

1929-08-05
Joe Lane, radio entertainer and songwriter, learns that the manager of the studio, Arthur Phillips,

1919-06-29
Lord Angus Cameron's marriage to a woman of his titled Scottish class is thwarted by his secret marr

1931-08-01
Jack's father lowers the boom when his irresponsible rich-kid ends up in jail after a night of debau

1952-06-24
Carlos Delargo, the banished son of a royal princess of Mandorra, is returned to the kingdom to be t

1931-03-28
Classes clash when a poor riveter and wealthy society woman fall in love with each other, much to th

1920-03-07
A woman attempts to regain the love of her husband, who constantly compares her unfavorably to his f

1920-08-29
Julie le Breton is the illegitimate daughter of Lady Rose, whose own background resembles that of he

1938-01-07
After graduating college an aspiring photographer lands his first job--with a big city newspaper.

1937-09-18
Jimmie Allen, a shady bookie, is in love with Pearl Proctor, a greedy dance hall girl. He schemes to

1932-12-25
A young writer saves a desperate young woman from committing suicide. They eventually fall in love a

1949-03-06
With the advent of the American Civil War, three partners in a ranch see how this is destroyed. Need

1951-11-16
A scrupulously honest lawyer discovers that the client he's gotten off was really guilty.

1935-03-21
A department store clerk, wrongly accused of stealing by her lecherous boss, becomes involved in a r

1930-01-31
On a yacht sailing from Shanghai to the United States, the sailors, led by the megalomaniac steward,

1943-06-14
Accused of helping an enemy submarine, a man escapes and joins a beautiful girl in trying to find th

1925-12-28
A European countess, after being betrayed by her lover, goes to live in small town Middle America wi

1948-12-06
Grant Jordan, bachelor botany professor, marries Katie, a widow with three kids, despite the machina

1939-07-10
Johnny Fraser leaves his mother in their small home town and sets out for the big city. He obtains a

1932-03-19
A dress designer is attracted to the fiancée of her boss' daughter, not knowing that her boss himsel

1938-01-31
Nicholas Rood, dishonest mine owner, finds a Black Doll on his desk and knows that vengeance is abou

1917-09-08
Convicted in a revolutionary conspiracy, a man rashly states that he wishes never again to hear the

1934-12-14
Chadburne Steel is run by two brothers, old men. They each have different plans for their sons. Curt

1922-05-05
When Florette, a popular actress, and her friend Edith become rivals for the love of Walter Stanley,

1931-02-23
A lady-bootlegger does her 90 days in jail, gets released and becomes the secretary for a prominent

1947-06-26
When Ivy, an Edwardian belle, begins to like Miles, a wealthy gentleman, she is unsure of what to do

1938-11-25
An American golf pro falls in love with a woman while visiting France; before long they are married

1927-03-26
When Mandarin Wu's unmarried daughter becomes pregnant by a young Englishman, he seeks vengeance.

1937-06-16
Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced again

1936-03-25
When a wealthy heiress discovers the terrible family secret that has been hidden from her since birt

1919-12-14
Romance between the playwright Harry Bryant and the homeless and illiterate Kate.

1939-08-18
When American newspaperman and adventurer Henry M. Stanley comes back from the western Indian wars,

1939-05-22
A spoiled New York playboy learns the values of life when he's sent by his father to work in a rural

1941-06-13
Shortly before the start of WW2, renowned British big-game hunter Alan Thorndike, vacationing in Bav

1942-05-12
In 1940 England, aristocratic Prudence Cathaway alarms her snobbish parents by joining the WAF servi

1934-10-02
In this drama an older actress plays her last role. The aging thespian is terribly depressed and rea

1922-01-22
1927-06-05
Comedic send-up of the beauty salon industry...

1935-04-18
The cunning Cardinal Richelieu must save King Louis XIII from treachery within his inner circle.

1920-09-05
An adulterous aristocrat plans to murder his American wife.

1936-08-14
In Victorian-era USA, a horse-jockey becomes a scapegoat in the nefarious schemes of a group of smal

1936-06-25
In Victorian England, Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly change the attitude towards nurs

1936-05-06
The story is told in flashback. Backers want a gambler to marry a rich girl for her dowry.

1939-01-20
A Japanese man claiming to be Mr. Moto, of the International Police, is abducted and murdered soon a

1947-09-04
Captain Hugh 'Bulldog' Drummond investigates the murder of the C.I.D. man who had been tracing valid

1939-03-17
A little girl goes in search of her father who is reported missing by the military during the Second

1939-06-10
The newly-named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carlota arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment f

1939-05-31
The Randolph family have a tradition of working in the British colonial service. Clive comes home fr

1939-11-25
A British doctor and his son's Austrian governess have an affair and are accused of killing his wife

1939-06-30
A detective goes undercover as a producer to investigate an actor's murder, which occurred during th

1939-12-22
Two reporters compete to discover a scientist living in hiding and win his daughter.

1948-01-02
Young lovers brings two fighting clans together.

1939-11-11
This period drama frames the tumultuous affair between Queen Elizabeth I and the man who would be Ki

1938-05-27
Robert Louis Stevenson's hero David Balfour joins rebel Alan Breck Stewart in 18th-century Scotland

1940-01-05
A behind the times Chicago bootlegger goes to England with his lawyer to claim his estate as the Ear

1936-10-16
Insurance investigator Trevor pretends to be a thief to enter a gang of jewel thieves.

1927-08-21
A nobleman studying for the priesthood abandons his vocation in 18th Century France when he falls in

1940-08-30
Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both lov

1936-02-28
Linda, the wife of a publishing executive, suspects that her husband Van’s relationship with his att

1940-08-16
American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the i

1940-11-21
After a woman shoots a man to death, a damning letter she wrote raises suspicions.

1939-10-26
Pilot disobeys unsafe orders and loses his job. He then starts a flying school which receives a boos

1940-10-19
German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news age

1940-06-07
In this second Carter mystery, a mysterious rash of cargo ships sinking in Panama leads insurers Lle

1944-11-02
In 1923, two young ladies depart, unescorted, for a tour of Europe. Their great naïvité and efforts

1940-04-27
A pair of slick Broadway producers con a wealthy cowboy into backing their show.

1944-12-22
After being buried in quicksand for the past 25 years, Kharis is set free to roam the rural bayous o

1948-02-04
The story of an ex-sea captain who uses devious means to make his salvage company a success. Based

1926-09-02
The members of the Lambert household do not get along with each other, so Margaret and her youngest

1950-06-15
An American scout and his Indian friend help the English troops against the French during the French

1935-08-23
A young secretary falls in love with her boss, a middle-aged playwright. Complications ensue when he

1947-02-13
Curt Mason saves Doc Henderson's Medicine Show from being robbed by the Morrell gang but later earns

1924-03-23
The Enchanted Cottage stars Richard Barthelmess as Oliver, a physically and emotionally wounded Worl

1929-04-13
A woman goes to a sideshow fortune-teller to have her fortune told, and is astonished when the man l

1942-12-25
In the midst of World War II, Sherlock Holmes rescues the Swiss inventor of a new bomb-sight from th

1928-12-01
A man is put on trial for the murder of his best friend. A young attorney wants to become successful

1928-09-06
Guests at an old English manor house are stalked by a mysterious killer known only as "The Terror".

1929-06-02
In French Indochina, a magistrate is assigned to investigate the murder of his boss. Unknown to him,

1920-02-15
Sonia, a Russian dancer, comes to New York seeking her fortune. She marries Peter Derwynt, a young a

1925-05-02
An inventor invents a television telephone while going through some love troubles.

1948-09-24
Leona Stevenson is confined to bed and uses her telephone to keep in contact with the outside world.

1931-09-24
At her Chinese father's bidding, a woman goes to murder an enemy and meets a Scotland Yard detective

1929-09-15
Sir John Hayward, a noted surgeon, decides that his son Wyn, a medical student, needs a vacation as

1939-03-17
A doctor and nurse solve an operating-room murder.

1925-08-19
Jether, a shepherd, is lured from his home by Tisha, priestess of the goddess Ishtar. He journeys to

1947-05-15
"Bulldog" Drummond is vacationing in his country home in England, and his house if rifled by two thi

1938-02-04
French pirate Jean Lafitte rescues a girl and joins the War of 1812.

1948-12-15
Lady scientist, Hilary Parker is searching for a rare drug to help combat polio. Opportunist Bruce E

1951-10-18
After buccaneer captain Anne Providence spares Pierre LaRochelle and recruits him into her pirate cr

1928-01-22
Gold digging blonde Lorelei and her brunette friend Dorothy are searching for rich husbands. This fi

1943-03-24
In World War II, a British secret agent carrying a vitally important document is kidnapped en route

1942-06-10
Scientist-explorer David Lynd leaves wealthy bride-to-be June Claymore at the altar to join photogra

1943-09-29
The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain.

1937-11-27
This short film tells the story of a disgraced U.S. army officer who is charged with treason. At his

1946-01-28
On the eve of the Chinese New Year, three strangers, Crystal Shackleford, married to a wealthy phila

1936-11-25
Norfolk, England, 1770. The nephew of an innkeeper and the son of a reverend maintain a very close f

1927-01-02
Stars Edmund Lowe as WWI veteran Slim Paris. Though most of his comrades died in battle, Paris retur

1928-03-02
Blinded in a train accident James Driscoll (Holmes Herbert), whose wife, Miriam Driscoll (Belle Benn

1925-03-08
Julian (Percy Marmont) is a poor artist who lives with wife Edith (Alice Joyce) and their newborn ba

1920-03-07
A man's jealousy of his wife ruins their marriage. She leaves, taking a new name and beginning anew.

1926-11-15
Only six months of marital bliss and Lillian Josselyn is filled with dread at the return of Pierre M

1920-12-01
With an eye towards social climbing wealthy Dustan Renshaw breaks his engagement with Janet Preece t

1939-11-08
The struggle of a man to build a steam ship to take him across the Atlantic in spite of all setbacks

1948-09-14
A small-town doctor helps a deaf-mute farm girl learn to communicate.

1949-11-10
U.S. agent Major Tom Blake is sent to Tripoli to uncover who it is in Washington that is tipping off

1942-11-27
A werewolf prowls around at night but only kills certain members of one family. It seems like just a

1939-10-06
A concert violinist becomes charmed with his daughter's talented piano teacher. When he invites her

1918-07-01
Arnold Maitland is devastated when he finds out that his wife Cynthia is having an affair with a man

1929-08-25
A English aristocrat causes a scandal when she divorces her husband and runs off with a young Americ

1927-05-08
1927 picture starring Alma Rubens and Walter Pidgeon.

1928-09-28
Through the Breakers, the 1928 Joseph C. Boyle silent South Seas tropical island seafaring romantic

1945-09-01
A young girl goes to New York to find a band leader who has stolen all the songs she wrote and is pa

1932-12-10
Two destitute New Yorkers meet cute in Central Park and then separate and independently get tangled

1938-08-26
The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France,

1922-09-24
A woman finds herself being a unpaid skivvy to her husband, two daughters and her son.

1927-11-12
Bernice Randall, who has forsaken the love of her sweetheart, Tom Richards, to marry for wealth, tur

1924-09-09
Alan Croft, a young aviator and a girl from a strict English background are stranded on a cannibal i

1934-01-22
Story about four generations in a family of musicians.

1942-11-20
College student, cattle baron, confused love story.

1921-06-05
While visiting New York, Ogden Fenn finds himself charmed with Diana Manners, wife of Frank Manners,

1918-06-09
Differing considerably from Henrik Ibsen's classic play, the basic story of a woman who forges her f

1951-10-31
The son of the notorious Dr. Henry Jekyll is determined to prove that his father's reputation has be

1945-08-17
George Sanders stars in this engrossing melodrama about a very domineering sister who holds a tight

1949-05-19
A surveyor for the Canadian Pacific Railroad must fight fur trappers who oppose the building of the

1927-09-25
Rich boy Dick Wright, rejected by both the Army and the Navy because he is a sleepwalker, joins an a

1922-07-02
Linda Catherton, a poor small town girl in search of a wealthy suitor, meets Roland Bland, a man of

1924-03-01

1924-06-22
Beatrix and Pelham Franklin marriage is tested by jealousy and a scheming woman. Beatrix, about to h

1924-07-20
To save her father from bankruptcy, Nan Everard marries wealthy Peter Craddock and under protest goe

1919-06-01
Pursued by two suitors, James Brunton and Bob Standing, Grace chooses James followed by a sumptuous

1942-06-19
A psychiatrist's patient, a nutty heiress, travels west to find gold in her grandfather's abandoned
1921-03-01
Indiana Stillwater, the daughter of a wealthy American railroad industrialist, marries English noble

1919-06-15

1921-09-18

1934-04-07
The story of the rise of the Rothschild financial empire founded by Mayer Rothschild and continued b

1922-03-05
A silent film about the famous Shakespearean actor Edmund Kean, whose life intertwines with a young

1920-03-14
A thief known as The Hawk has stolen the treasured Garter from the British Museum. One of the men pu

1924-12-14
Worthless French cad Paul L'Estrange leads a young Southern girl, Linda Lou Heath, from the shelter

1919-02-03
John Masters leaves his lumber mining camp when he is summoned East by his dying father, a political

1923-07-21
Captain Jean and his daughter, Hélène, live in a Sicilian fishing hamlet. Captain André persuades hi

1925-09-12
In order to protect Grant Demarest from a siren named Margot, Stuart Ames attempts to disillusion hi

1924-02-10
William Randall becomes a bootlegger to provide his wife with the luxuries she demands. As a consequ

1919-09-07
A country girl goes to visit friends in the big city, and observes a different kind of life.

1921-06-03
A beautiful artists' model attempts to save a sculptor's marriage by putting herself in the place of

1927-05-01
Young José lives with his guardian, Don Julian, a middle-aged diplomat recently married to young Fel