14 Facts About Douglass Dumbrille

Douglass Rupert Dumbrille was a Canadian actor who appeared regularly in films from the early 1930s.

Douglass Dumbrille eventually left banking for the theatre, finding work with a stock company that led him to Chicago, Illinois, and another that toured the United States.

Douglass Dumbrille was highly regarded by the studios, and was sought out by Cecil B DeMille, Frank Capra, Hal Roach and other prominent Hollywood filmmakers.

Douglass Dumbrille played similar roles in Capra's film Broadway Bill, and DeMille's version of The Buccaneer.

Douglass Dumbrille played villainous roles in comedies, projecting a balance of menace and pomposity opposite the Marx Brothers, Abbott and Costello, and The Bowery Boys.

Douglass Dumbrille portrayed the Egyptian priest and magician Jannes in DeMille's final film, The Ten Commandments.

Douglass Dumbrille played a flustered tycoon driven to distraction by Gracie Allen on the Burns and Allen episode "Company for Christmas".

Douglass Dumbrille was cast in six episodes of the religion anthology series, Crossroads.

Douglass Dumbrille portrayed Senator Bates in "Thanksgiving Prayer" with Ron Hagerthy of Sky King.

Douglass Dumbrille guest-starred in the 1957 episode "The Fighter" of the CBS situation comedy Mr Adams and Eve.

Douglass Dumbrille subsequently guest-starred in Frank Aletter's CBS sitcom, Bringing Up Buddy.

Douglass Dumbrille made two guest appearances as a judge on CBS's Perry Mason; in 1964 he played Judge Robert Adler in "The Case of the Latent Lover", and in 1965 he played an unnamed judge in "The Case of the Duplicate Case".

In 1960, at the age of 70, Douglass Dumbrille married Patricia Mowbray, the 28-year-old daughter of his friend and fellow actor, Alan Mowbray.

Douglass Dumbrille died of a heart attack on April 2,1974, at the Motion Picture Country Home and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California.