Aubrey Mather

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BIRTHDAY

December 17, 1885

Minchinhampton, England

DIED

January 16, 1958

RECENT CREDITS

The Song of Bernadette (FILM) Jan. 1, 2003

Joan of Arc (FILM) Sep. 2, 1950

That Forsyte Woman (FILM) Nov. 11, 1949

National Velvet (FILM) Jan. 1, 1944

Forever and a Day (FILM) Mar. 26, 1943

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BIOGRAPHY

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Character actor Aubrey Mather launched his stage career in 1905, touring the British provinces until his 1909 London debut in Brewster's Millions. Ten years later, Mather made his first Broadway appearance in Luck of the Navy. In British films from 1931, he essayed such supporting roles as Corin in As You Like It. Moving to Hollywood in 1940, he worked with regularity at 20th Century-Fox, playing roles like Colonel Dent in Jane Eyre (1943), the Scotland Yard chief inspector in The Lodger (1944), and, best of all, mild-mannered Nazi spy Mr. Fortune in Careful Soft Shoulders (1942). Other assignments included Professor Peagram, one of the "seven dwarfs" in Goldwyn's Ball of Fire (1941), and James Forsyte in That Forsyte Woman (1949). Like his fellow Britons Arthur Treacher and Charles Coleman, Aubrey Mather is fondly remembered for his butler roles, notably Merriman in the British The Importance of Being Earnest (1952).

~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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