Job Actor
Years active 1911-72
Top Roles Philo Cobson, 'Internal Injury' in Air raid drill, Ebenezer Scrooge, The Advocate, Benny Hawkins
Top GenresDrama, Comedy, Romance, Musical, Film Adaptation, Adventure
Top TopicsBook-Based, Romance (Comic), World War II
Top Collaborators (Director), (Director), (Director), (Director)
Shares birthday with John Huston, Robert Taylor, Emanuel Cohen  see more..

Reginald Owen Overview:

Character actor, Reginald Owen, was born John Reginald Owen on Aug 5, 1887 in Wheathampstead, England. Owen died at the age of 85 on Nov 5, 1972 in Boise, ID and was laid to rest in Morris Hill Cemetery in Boise, Ada County, ID.

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A Study in Scarlet (1933) – with and Anna May Wong

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Reginald Owen Quotes:

Sherlock Holmes: You came to see me professionally.
Inspector Lestrade: Well, er, unofficially.
Sherlock Holmes: I see. Heads you win, tails I lose.


Regina Mason: Father, why don't you stand up for yourself; are you a man or a mouse?
Reginald Mason: I must be a man; your mother is afraid of mice.


Capt. William Kidd: I'm one of nature's gentlemen, but I need polish, my good man. If I'm to improve myself...
Cary Shadwell: A gentleman only employs the term "My good man" when addressing lower servants or his inferiors, sir.
Capt. William Kidd: You see...
[sucks his teeth]
Capt. William Kidd: ...that's why I want you.
[sucks his teeth again]
Capt. William Kidd: With my upbringing...
Cary Shadwell: A gentleman never sucks his teeth, sir. Many a man's social career has been ruined by less, sir.


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Reginald Owen Facts
Graduated from Tree's Academy of Dramatic Art.

Was in the process of writing his autobiography at the time of his death.

Returned to Broadway in 1972, the year he died, in the Phil Silvers-led production of "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.".

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