Add/Update Information: Leonard Mudie - Actor

A British actor, born in Cheetham, Manchester, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom. He married twice 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 worked regularly in the United States on Broadway and in Hollywood, settling there in 1932. He began his theatrical work in 1908 at the Gaiety Theatre 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 to Broadway in New York until 1931. He made his first talkie, The Mummy (1932), and appeared in 14 Oscar-nominated films. In the early 1950s, he worked in TV series. His last appearance was in How to Murder Your Wife (1965), starring Jack Lemmon. He died in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA, on April 14, 1965, of heart disease.