Claud Allister

Claud Allister
Claud Allister, 1938
Born	(1888-10-03)3 October 1888 London, England
Died	Santa Barbara, California
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1929–1955

Claud Allister (3 October 1888 – 26 July 1970) was an English actor with an extensive film career in Hollywood, where he appeared in more than 70 films between 1929-1955.

Life

He was born William Claud Michael Palmer, in London, England. After receiving his education at Felsted School in Essex, he began his career as a stockbroker's clerk in the City of London, but gave up a life in the Square Mile on deciding that he preferred the stage, upon which he made his début in 1910. He toured England's repertory theatres playing minor parts up to the outbreak of World War I, when he was commissioned into the British Army as a subaltern, and saw active service with the Suffolk Regiment and the Machine Gun Corps Post-war he returned to acting, and in 1924 went to America to perform on the stage there initially. In 1929 he made his film début in The Trial of Mary Dugan. Allister died 26 July 1970 at Santa Barbara, California.

Filmography

• The Trial of Mary Dugan (1929)
• The Constant Wife (1929)
• Three Live Ghosts (1929)
• Bulldog Drummond (1929)
• Monte Carlo (1930)
• Slightly Scarlet (1930)
• In the Next Room (1930)
• Such Men Are Dangerous (1930)
• Murder Will Out (1930)
• Ladies Love Brutes (1930)
• The Czar of Broadway (1930)
• The Gay Nineties (1930)
• Reaching for the Moon (1930)
• Captain Applejack (1931)
• Meet the Wife (1931)
• Platinum Blonde (1931)
• The Sea Ghost (1931)
• I Like Your Nerve (1931)
• On the Loose (1931)
• The Unexpected Father (1932)
• Two White Arms (1932)
• Diamond Cut Diamond (1932)
• The Midshipmaid (1932)
• The Return of Raffles (1932)
• The Medicine Man (1933)
• Excess Baggage (1933)
• That's My Wife (1933)
• Sleeping Car (1933)
• The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)
• The Return of Bulldog Drummond (1934)
• Those Were the Days (1934)
• The Lady Is Willing (1934)
• The Private Life of Don Juan (1934)
• Every Night at Eight (1935)
• The Dark Angel (1935)
• Three Live Ghosts (1936)
• Dracula's Daughter (1936)
• Yellowstone (1936)
• Lady Luck (1936)
• Radio Parade of 1937 (1937)
• Bulldog Drummond at Bay (1937)
• Danger: Love at Work (1937)
• The Awful Truth (1937)
• Three Men and a Girl (1938)
• Let's Make a Night of It (1938)
• Men Are Such Fools (1938)
• Blond Cheat (1938)
• Storm Over Bengal (1938)
• Phantom Submarine U67 (1939)
• Arrest Bulldog Drummond (1939)
• Captain Fury (1939)
• Lillian Russell (1940)
• Pride and Prejudice (1940)
• Charley's American Aunt (1941)
• A Yank in the R.A.F. (1941)
• What a Man (1941)
• Confirm or Deny (1941)
• The Captain from Köpenick (1941)
• The Reluctant Dragon (1941) – Sir Giles (voice)
• Don't Get Personal (1942)
• Forever and a Day (1943)
• The Hundred Pound Window (1944)
• I Was a Criminal (1945)
• Don Chicago (1945)
• Kiss the Bride Goodbye (1945)
• Gaiety George (1946)
• Quartet (1948)
• The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949) – Ratty (voice)
• Hong Kong (1952)
• Down Among the Sheltering Palms (1953)
• Kiss Me Kate (1953)
• The Black Shield of Falworth (1954)

External links

• Claud Allister at the Internet Movie Database
• Claud Allister at the Internet Broadway Database
• Claud Allister at AllMovie
• Claud Allister at Find a Grave