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Eric Blore

Eric Blore
Eric Blore
Born: Dec 23, 1887 in London, England, UK
Died: Mar 02, 1959 in Hollywood, California
Occupation: Actor
Active: '30s-'40s
Major Genres: Comedy, Drama
Career Highlights: Swing Time, The Moon and Sixpence, The Lady Eve
First Major Screen Credit: I Dream Too Much (1935)
8 Videos for Eric Blore
Fancy Pants (1950) The Moon and Sixpence (1943) The Lady Eve (1941)
The Wind in the Willows (1949) Sullivan's Travels (1941) Top Hat (1935)
Romance on the High Seas (1948) Sullivan's Travels (1941)
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Biography:

Most often cast as a snide gentleman's gentleman or dissipated nobleman, British actor Eric Blore abandoned the business world for the theatre when he was in his mid-twenties. Established in both London and New York, Blore began adding movies to his acting achievements with 1920's A Night Out and a Day In(1920); he also appeared in the 1926 silent version of F.

Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. A scene-stealing role in RKO's Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers musical Flying Down to Rio (1933) led to Blore's becoming a fixture in such subsequent Astaire-Rogers projects as Gay Divorcee (1934), Top Hat (1935) and Shall We Dance? (1937).

The actor also became a regular in the unorthodox film comedies of Preston Sturges, notably The Lady Eve (1941) and Sullivan's Travels(1942). In addition, Blore found himself in support of several star comedians, from Laurel and Hardy to Bob Hope to The Marx Brothers.

When pickings became lean for veddy British character actors in the mid 1950s, Blore was reduced to co-starring with the bargain-counter Bowery Boys in Bowery to Baghdad (1955); he played an inebriated genie in this, his last film. On a more artistically rewarding note, cartoon fans will recall the pixilated voice of Blore as the automobile-happy Mr.

Toad in the 1949 Disney animated feature Ichabod and Mr. Toad. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.