Lawrence Grant

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BIRTHDAY

October 31, 1869

Bournemouth, England, UK

DIED

February 19, 1952

RECENT CREDITS

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (FILM) Aug. 12, 1941

Marie Antoinette (FILM) Jan. 1, 1938

Mary of Scotland (FILM) Jul. 28, 1936

The Devil Is a Woman (FILM) Mar. 15, 1935

A Tale of Two Cities (FILM) Jan. 1, 1935

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BIOGRAPHY

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Veteran British stage actor Lawrence Grant entered films in 1918, when his marked resemblance to Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm made him a "natural" for such epics as To Hell with the Kaiser. An acknowledged expert in American Indian lore, Grant also took time in 1918 to produce an experimental color film about Native Americans. Sound proved no obstacle to Grant's film career, as he proved in his first talkie role, the scurrilous Dr. Lakington in Bulldog Drummond (1929). He later appeared with his Drummond co-star Ronald Colman in such films as The Unholy Garden (1931) and Lost Horizon (1937). Usually a villain, Grant enjoyed a sizeable sympathetic role as Sir Lionel Barton, the luckless aristocrat tortured to death by the insidious Boris Karloff, in The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932). Active until 1945, Lawrence Grant could be seen in minor roles (often unbilled) in such horror efforts as Ghost of Frankenstein (1942) and The Living Ghost (1944).

~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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