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Cecil Kellaway

Cecil Kellaway
Cecil Kellaway
Born: Aug 22, 1893 in Cape Town, South Africa
Died: Feb 28, 1973 in Los Angeles, California
Occupation: Actor,
Active: '30s-'60s
Major Genres: Comedy, Drama
Career Highlights: Harvey, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
First Major Screen Credit: It Isn't Done (1937)
12 Videos for Cecil Kellaway
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) Kim (1950) The Invisible Man Returns (1940)
Spinout (1966) The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) The Letter (1940)
Francis of Assisi (1961) I Married a Witch (1942) The Mummy's Hand (1940)
Harvey (1950) Star Spangled Rhythm (1942) Gunga Din (1939)
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Biography:

Jovial, twinkly-eyed character actor Cecil Kellaway resembled a full-grown leprechaun, so it's not surprising that he'd play such a role in the 1948 film Luck of the Irish -- and win an Oscar nomination in the bargain. Before coming to Hollywood to play Mr. Earnshaw in the 1939 filmization of Wuthering Heights, the South African-born Kellaway spent nearly two decades as an actor, writer and director of British and Australian films and stage plays.

Even when he played a villainous part like the eternally drunken warlock in I Married a Witch (1942) or an unsympathetic role like the cold-blooded psychiatrist Mr. Chumley in Harvey (1950), it was impossible for Kellaway to be completely dislikable. In 1967, Kellaway won a second Oscar nomination for his performance as the tippling priest in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.

Cecil Kellaway was the cousin of veteran British actor Edmund Gwenn. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.