(1892-1963) British
stage and
screen character actor who frequently played a henpecked husband (one dominated by the wife) along with other roles such as grocer, policeman and a dustman (garbageman). He first appeared on
stage in 1900 and in 1908 went into
motion pictures, appearing in more than five hundred films throughout his long career, such as It's
Hard to Be Good (1948) and
Mother Riley Meets the Vampire (1952).