Biographies: Leonard Mudie - Actor

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A British actor born in Cheetham, Manchester, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom on April 11, 1883 and died in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA on April 14, 1965 of heart disease. He married two wives and had one child. His most important works are: Captain Blood (1935), The Mummy (1932), and Anthony Adverse (1936). After a successful start as a stage actor in England, he appeared regularly in the United States and settled there in 1932 on Broadway and Hollywood. He was born in England and began his theatrical work in 1908 at the Gaiety Theater in Manchester. He became a star in Broadway theaters, and in 1921, he worked in silent films in Hollywood for a year, but he returned again to the Broadway theater in New York and remained there until 1931. He presented his first film, The Mummy (1932) and appeared in 14 Oscar-nominated films. In the early fifties, he worked in TV series. His last appearance was in Jack Lemmon's How to Murder Your Wife (1965). He died in 1965 at the age of 82.

• 3 October 2021
• Christina Aziz