Cecil Kellaway
- Birthday
- Aug 22, 1893
Bio: Jovial, twinkly-eyed character actor Cecil Kellaway resembled a full-grown leprechaun, so it's not surprising that he'd play such a role in the 1948 film Luck of the Irish -- and win an Oscar nomination in the bargain. Before coming to Hollywood to play Mr. Earnshaw in the 1939 filmization of Wuthering Heights, the South African-born Kellaway spent nearly two… More Bio: Jovial, twinkly-eyed character actor Cecil Kellaway resembled a full-grown leprechaun, so it's not surprising that he'd play such a role in the 1948 film Luck of the Irish -- and win an Oscar nomination in the bargain. Before coming to Hollywood to play Mr. Earnshaw in the 1939 filmization of Wuthering Heights, the South African-born Kellaway spent nearly two decades as an actor, writer and director of British and Australian films and stage plays. Even when he played a villainous part like the eternally drunken warlock in I Married a Witch (1942) or an unsympathetic role like the cold-blooded psychiatrist Mr. Chumley in Harvey (1950), it was impossible for Kellaway to be completely dislikable. In 1967, Kellaway won a second Oscar nomination for his performance as the tippling priest in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. Cecil Kellaway was the cousin of veteran British actor Edmund Gwenn. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Cecil Kellaway Pictures
Cecil Kellaway Videos
Guess Who's Coming To Dinner
Harvey
Spinout
Francis Of Assisi
Interrupted Melody
Filmography
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Getting Straight (1970)
- Dr. Kasper
- 33%
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Fitzwilly (A Garden of Cucumbers) (1967)
- Buckmaster
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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
- Monsignor Ryan
- 65%
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The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin (1966)
- Mr. Pemberton
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Spinout (1966)
- Bernard Ranley
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