Aubrey Mather

Actor: Aubrey Mather

Born: Dec 17, 1885 in Minchinhampton, England
Died: Jan 16, 1958 in London, England, UK
Occupation: Actor
Active: '30s-'40s
Major Genres: Drama, Comedy
Career Highlights: The House of Fear, The Great Impersonation, The Man in the Mirror
First Major Screen Credit: Woman in Bondage (1932)

Biography

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