Olaf Hytten

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BIRTHDAY

January 01, 1888

Scotland, UK

DIED

March 21, 1955

RECENT CREDITS

Sylvia Scarlett (FILM) Jan. 1, 1999

The Scarlet Coat (FILM) Aug. 1, 1955

Against All Flags (FILM) Mar. 6, 1952

Kim (FILM) Jan. 26, 1951

Fancy Pants (FILM) Jan. 1, 1950

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Piping-voice, hamster-faced Scottish character actor Olaf Hytten left the British stage for films in 1921. By the time the talkie era rolled around, Hytten was firmly established in Hollywood, playing an abundance of butlers and high-society gentlemen. The actor was primarily confined to one or two-line bits in such films as Platinum Blonde (1931), The Sphinx (1933), Bonnie Scotland (1935), Beloved Rebel (1936), The Howards of Virginia (1940) and The Bride Came COD (1941). He was a semi-regular of the Universal B-unit in the '40s, appearing in substantial roles as military men and police official in the Rathbone/Bruce Sherlock Holmes series and as burgomeisters and innkeepers in the studio's many horror films (Ghost of Frankenstein, House of Frankenstein, etc.) Olaf Hytten was active until at least 1956; one of his more memorable assignments of the '50s was as the larcenous butler who participates in a scheme to drive Daily Planet editor Perry White crazy in the "Great Caesar's Ghost" episode of the TV series Adventures of Superman.

~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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