Gavin Muir (September 8, 1900 – May 24, 1972) was an American film, television, and theatre actor.

Biography

Muir's mother was American, and his father was Scottish. Although he was born in Chicago, he was educated in England at the

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. Muir's career included acting on

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through 1933. His first film appearance was in 1932 in a

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, then in

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's '' Mary of Scotland'' in 1936. His film career continued through 1965, often in character roles, and with a sort of specialty in villains with British accents.

Broadway roles

* '' Enter Madame'' (1920) as John Fitzgerald * ''Hay Fever'' (1927) with

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and

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Partial filmography

* ''

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'' (1936) - Dr. William Barth * '' Mary of Scotland'' (1936) - Leicester * ''

Charlie Chan at the Race Track ''Charlie Chan at the Race Track'' is the 12th film in the 20th Century Fox-produced Charlie Chan series starring Warner Oland in the title role. Plot When a prominent racehorse owner winds up dead-allegedly kicked to death by his prized stall ...

'' (1936) - Bagley * ''

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'' (1936) - Sir Gavin Gore * '' The Holy Terror'' (1937) - Redman * '' Fair Warning'' (1937) - Herbert Willett * ''

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'' (1937) - Capt. Bibberbeigh * ''

Tarzan Finds a Son! ''Tarzan Finds a Son!'' is a 1939 Tarzan film based on the character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It was the fourth in the MGM ''Tarzan'' series to feature Johnny Weissmuller as the "King of the Apes" and the fourth of six films in which he ...

'' (1939) - Pilot (uncredited) * ''

One Night in Lisbon ''One Night in Lisbon'' is a 1941 American thriller film directed by Edward H. Griffith and starring Fred MacMurray, Madeleine Carroll and Patricia Morison. It was one of a cycle of pro-British films produced in Hollywood before the United States ...

'' (1941) - Aide (uncredited) * '' A Yank in the R.A.F.'' (1941) - Wing Commander (uncredited) * ''

Dangerously They Live ''Dangerously They Live'' is a 1941 American World War II spy film directed by Robert Florey and starring John Garfield, Nancy Coleman and Raymond Massey. The plot concerns Nazi spies who try to pry information out of a British agent. Plot I ...

'' (1941) - Capt. Strong (credits) / Captain Hunter * ''

Captains of the Clouds ''Captains of the Clouds'' ( ''Shadows of Their Wings'') is a 1942 American war film in Technicolor, directed by Michael Curtiz and starring James Cagney. It was produced by William Cagney (Cagney's brother), with Hal B. Wallis as executive pro ...

'' (1942) - Orderly (uncredited) * ''

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'' (1942) - Maj. Severn * ''

Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror ''Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror'' is a 1942 American mystery thriller film based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes detective stories. The film combines elements of Doyle's short story "His Last Bow", to which it is credited as ...

'' (1942) - BBC Radio Announcer (voice, uncredited) * ''

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'' (1942) - J.B. Abbington * '' Hitler's Children'' (1943) - Nazi Major * ''

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'' (1943) - Bart Lang * ''

Passport to Suez ''Passport to Suez'' (1943; also known as ''A Night of Adventure'' and ''The Clock Strikes Twelve'') is the 20th film featuring the Lone Wolf (fictional detective), Lone Wolf character. It was the eleventh of fifteen in the Columbia Pictures seri ...

'' (1943) - Karl * ''

Sherlock Holmes Faces Death ''Sherlock Holmes Faces Death'' is the sixth film in the Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce series of Sherlock Holmes films. Made in 1943, it is a loose adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Holmes 1893 story "The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual." I ...

'' (1943) - Phillip Musgrave * ''

Passport to Destiny ''Passport to Destiny'' is a 1944 RKO Radio Pictures war film, starring Elsa Lanchester as an English charwoman who, believing herself invulnerable by being protected by a magic eye amulet, travels to Nazi Germany to personally assassinate Adol ...

'' (1944) - Herr Joyce / Lord Haw-Haw * '' The Story of Dr. Wassell'' (1944) - Dutch Military Messenger (uncredited) * '' The White Cliffs of Dover'' (1944) - Captain Griffiths (uncredited) * '' The Merry Monahans'' (1944) - Weldon Laydon, Broadway Talent Scout * '' The Master Race'' (1944) - Captain William Forsythe * '' Tonight and Every Night'' (1945) - Group Captain G. Homesby (uncredited) * ''

Sherlock Holmes and the House of Fear ''The House of Fear'' is a 1945 crime film directed by Roy William Neill. It is loosely based on the 1891 short story " The Five Orange Pips" by Arthur Conan Doyle, and features the characters Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. It is the 10th film o ...

'' (1945) - Chalmers * ''

Patrick the Great ''Patrick the Great'' is a 1945 American drama film starring Donald O'Connor, Peggy Ryan, and Frances Dee. This was the last film for O'Connor and Ryan together, who had been a teenage team for the past several years. This was also O'Connor's la ...

'' (1945) - Prentis Johns * ''

Salome Where She Danced ''Salome, Where She Danced'' is a 1945 American Technicolor western (genre), Western drama film directed by Charles Lamont and starring Yvonne De Carlo, Rod Cameron (actor), Rod Cameron and Walter Slezak. The film follows the adventures of a danc ...

'' (1945) - Henderson * ''

The Brighton Strangler ''The Brighton Strangler'' is a 1945 American crime film directed by Max Nosseck and starring John Loder, June Duprez and Michael St. Angel. During the blitz in wartime London, an actor suffers concussion and believes himself to be the characte ...

'' (1945) - Capt. Perry (uncredited) * '' O.S.S.'' (1946) - Col. Crawson * ''

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'' (1946) - Smith-Parrington (uncredited) * ''

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'' (1947) - Booth Pennock * ''

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'' (1947) - Inspector Kendricks * '' The Imperfect Lady'' (1947) - Kelvin (uncredited) * ''

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'' (1947) - Sergeant (uncredited) * '' Unconquered'' (1947) - Lieut. Fergus McKenzie * ''

The Prince of Thieves ''The Prince of Thieves'' is a 1948 American adventure film nominally inspired by Alexandre Dumas' 1872 novel ''Le Prince des voleurs''. Produced by Sam Katzman for Columbia Pictures and starring Jon Hall as Robin Hood with stuntwork by Jock ...

'' (1948) - Baron Tristram (uncredited) * ''

Chicago Deadline ''Chicago Deadline'' is a 1949 American film noir crime film directed by Lewis Allen and starring Alan Ladd and Donna Reed. It was remade as '' Fame Is the Name of the Game'' (1966). Plot Chicago newspaper reporter Ed Adams is in a boardi ...

'' (1949) - G.G. Temple * ''

Rogues of Sherwood Forest ''Rogues of Sherwood Forest'' is a 1950 Technicolor adventure film from Columbia Pictures, directed by Gordon Douglas, and starring John Derek as Robin, the Earl of Huntingdon, the son of Robin Hood, Diana Lynn as Lady Marianne, and Alan Hale, S ...

'' (1950) - Baron Alfred (uncredited) * '' Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man'' (1951) - Dr. Philip Gray * ''

Double Crossbones ''Double Crossbones'' is a 1951 American comedy adventure film distributed by Universal International, produced by Leonard Goldstein, directed by Charles Barton, and stars Donald O'Connor and Helena Carter. It was shot in Technicolor and was rel ...

'' (1951) - British Sea Captain (uncredited) * ''

Thunder on the Hill ''Thunder on the Hill'' is a 1951 American film noir crime film directed by Douglas Sirk and starring Claudette Colbert and Ann Blyth. The picture was made by Universal-International Pictures and produced by Michael Kraike from a screenplay by Osc ...

'' (1951) - Melling * ''

The Son of Dr. Jekyll ''The Son of Dr. Jekyll'' is a 1951 American horror film directed by Seymour Friedman and starring Louis Hayward, Jody Lawrance and Alexander Knox. The film is a continuation of Robert Louis Stevenson's original classic 1886 novella ''Strange ...

'' (1951) - Editor Richard Daniels * ''

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'' (1952) * ''

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'' (1953) - Captain (uncredited) * ''

The Royal African Rifles '' The Royal African Rifles'' is a 1953 American Cinecolor First World War adventure film directed by Lesley Selander and starring Louis Hayward, Veronica Hurst and Michael Pate. It is set in British East Africa but filmed on location in the Lo ...

'' (1953) * '' King of the Khyber Rifles'' (1953) - Maj. Lee, doctor (uncredited) * ''

Charge of the Lancers ''Charge of the Lancers'' is a 1954 American adventure film directed by William Castle and starring Paulette Goddard, Jean-Pierre Aumont and Karin Booth. Plot As the Crimean War rages, British Capt. Eric Evoir (Jean-Pierre Aumont) and Maj. Bruce ...

'' (1954) - Ring Official at Boxing Match (uncredited) * ''

King Richard and the Crusaders ''King Richard and the Crusaders'' is a 1954 American historical drama film made by Warner Bros. The film stars Rex Harrison, Virginia Mayo, George Sanders and Laurence Harvey, with Robert Douglas, Michael Pate and Paula Raymond. It was direct ...

'' (1954) - Physician (uncredited) * ''

Khyber Patrol ''Khyber Patrol'' is a 1954 American adventure film directed by Seymour Friedman and starring Richard Egan, Dawn Addams and Raymond Burr. The plot focuses on British troops on the Afghanistan border. It was distributed by United Artists as a s ...

'' (1954) - (uncredited) * ''

Escape to Burma ''Escape to Burma'' is a 1955 American Technicolor adventure film directed by Allan Dwan starring Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Ryan and David Farrar. The film was based on the short story "Bow Tamely to Me" by Kenneth Perkins, originally publis ...

'' (1955) - Astrologer * ''

The Sea Chase ''The Sea Chase'' is a 1955 World War II drama film starring John Wayne and Lana Turner, and featuring David Farrar, Lyle Bettger, and Tab Hunter. It was directed by John Farrow from a screenplay by James Warner Bellah and John Twist based on th ...

'' (1955) - British Officer of the Watch (uncredited) * ''

D-Day the Sixth of June ''D-Day the Sixth of June'' is a DeLuxe Color 1956 CinemaScope romance war film made by 20th Century Fox. It was directed by Henry Koster and produced by Charles Brackett from a screenplay by Ivan Moffat and Harry Brown, based on the 1955 novel, ...

'' (1956) - Voice of Radio Broadcaster (uncredited) * ''

The Abductors ''The Abductors'' is a 1957 American film noir crime film directed by Andrew McLaglen and starring Victor McLaglen, George Macready and Gavin Muir. It was produced by Regal Films. Maury Dexter described the film as "not too hot" but liked McLag ...

'' (1957) - Herbert Evans * ''

Johnny Trouble ''Johnny Trouble'' is a 1957 American drama film directed by John H. Auer and written by Charles O'Neil and David Lord. The film stars Ethel Barrymore in her final film, Cecil Kellaway, Stuart Whitman, Carolyn Jones, Jesse White and Rand Harp ...

'' (1957) - Madden * ''

Too Much, Too Soon ''Too Much, Too Soon'' is a 1958 biographical film about Diana Barrymore produced by Warner Bros. It was directed by Art Napoleon and produced by Henry Blanke from a screenplay by Art Napoleon and Jo Napoleon, based on the autobiography by Dian ...

'' (1958) - Sean (uncredited) * '' Island of Lost Women'' (1959) - Dr. McBain * '' The Miracle'' (1959) - Colonel (uncredited) * ''

Night Tide ''Night Tide'' is a 1961 American fantasy film sometimes considered to be a horror film, written and directed by Curtis Harrington and featuring Dennis Hopper in his first starring role. It was filmed in 1960, premiered in 1961, but was held up ...

'' (1961) - Capt. Samuel Murdock

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Muir, Gavin 1900 births 1972 deaths Male actors from Chicago American male stage actors American male film actors American male television actors 20th-century American male actors American expatriates in the United Kingdom