Reginald Owen(1887-1972)
- Actor
- Writer
- Script and Continuity Department
Born August 5th, 1887 in England, Reginald Owen was among Hollywood's busier
character actors, making more than 80 films. He was
educated in England at Sir Herbert Tree's Academy of Dramatic Arts.
Owen excelled and made his professional debut also in England at the
age of 18. He came to New York in the early 1920s and started working
on Broadway by 1924. He left New York in 1928 and moved to Hollywood,
hoping to make it in films. In 1929, he landed his first role in The
Letter. In 1932 he played Dr. Watson in Sherlock Holmes. Although, he
didn't get many leading roles, he did get to work with some of
Hollywood's most beautiful leading ladies like, Jean Harlow, Joan
Crawford, Jeanette MacDonald (Owen's personal favorite), Barbara
Stanwyck and Elizabeth Taylor. Owen continued to work into his 70s and
80s making family classics, such as Mary Poppins (1964) and Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971). He died in
1972 at the ripe age of 85 of natural causes.
