Alan Napier
Alan Napier was born on Jan 07, 1903 in UK. Alan Napier's big-screen debut came with Stamboul directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki in 1931, strarring Bouchier. Alan Napier is known for QB VII directed by Tom Gries, Ben Gazzara stars as Abe Cady and Anthony Hopkins as Adam Kelno. The upcoming new tvshow Alan Napier plays is QB VII - Season 1 which will be released on Apr 29, 1974.
Alan Napier was born on January 7, 1903 in Kings Norton, Worcestershire, England. Tall, distinguished-looking English character actor with aristocratic bearing and precisely modulated voice. A cousin of the former British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, he studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and spent his formative years as an actor with Oxford Repertory and, from 1924, on the London stage. During the 1930s, he found his niche in Shakespearean roles. His characterisation of Menenius in a 1954 Boston revival of "Coriolanus" was described in the Christian Science Monitor (January 23, 1954) as imbued with "benevolent distinction and with some of the comic quality of the part". However, by that time, Napier had largely forsaken the stage for the screen.In 1939, Alan Napier immigrated to America and, in the course of nearly five decades, appeared in film and on television as noblemen, manservants and doctors. His gaunt, suave, sometimes bespectacled characters could be kindly or nefarious. He gave good support in the supernatural thriller La falaise mystérieuse (1944) and lent gravitas to his role of Cicero in Jules César (1953). However, he is best remembered as the ever reliable, and very English, butler Alfred Pennyworth on Batman (1966), starring Adam West. Napier's second wife, Aileen Dickens Bouchier Hawksley (nicknamed "Gypsy"), was a great-granddaughter of Charles Dickens. Alan Napier died at age 85 of pneumonia in Santa Monica, California on August 8, 1988.
Birthday
Jan 07, 1903Place of Birth
Birmingham, England, UK
Known For
Movies & TV Shows
- 19747.7
- 19736.0
- 1972
actor
as Cousin Zachariah Ogilvy / The Man (segment "The Sins of the Fathers") / Doctor (segment "House - With Ghost")
7.9 - 1971
actor
as Cousin Zachariah Ogilvy / The Man (segment "The Sins of the Fathers") / Doctor (segment "House - With Ghost")
7.9 - 19677.5
- 19666.5
- 19667.5
- 19667.5
- 19657.0
- 19646.2
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- 19647.8
- 19647.8
- 19647.1
- 19637.1
- 19626.5
- 19625.6
- 19616.3
- 19608.2
- 19597.0
- 19598.2
- 1958
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 4
actor
as Lord Sorrington / Sir Charles Harrington / Wilfred - the Recording Angel / ...
8.5 - 19576.5
- 1957
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 3
actor
as Lord Sorrington / Sir Charles Harrington / Wilfred - the Recording Angel / ...
8.5 - 19565.0
- 19566.1
- 1956
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 2
actor
as Lord Sorrington / Sir Charles Harrington / Wilfred - the Recording Angel / ...
8.5 - 19567.4
- 19557.8
- 19556.6
- 1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 1
actor
as Lord Sorrington / Sir Charles Harrington / Wilfred - the Recording Angel / ...
8.5 - 19546.3
- 19536.6
- 19537.2
- 19525.1
- 19527.7
- 1952
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- 19516.0
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- 1948
additional crew
7.2 - 19486.4
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- 19474.7
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- 19476.1
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- 19467.0
- 19456.5
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- 19446.5
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- 19407.0
- 19406.5
- 19397.1
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- 1931