Acting

Herbert Evans

Born April 16, 1882 · London, England, UK

Died February 10, 1952 · aged 69

No biography available.

Known For

In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.

Strangers on a Train · 1951

Strangers on a Train

★ 7.71951

MovieCrimeThriller

A charming psychopath tries to coerce a tennis star into his theory that two strangers can commit the perfect crime by exchanging murders—each killing the other’s most-hated person.

The Adventures of Robin Hood · 1938

The Adventures of Robin Hood

★ 7.51938

MovieAdventureRomance

Robin Hood fights nobly for justice against the evil Sir Guy of Gisbourne while striving to win the hand of the beautiful Maid Marian.

A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she's married to his new boss.

Foreign Correspondent · 1940

Foreign Correspondent

★ 7.01940

MovieThrillerMystery

American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an assassination and stumbles on a spy ring, he seeks help from a beautiful politician’s daughter and an urbane English journalist to uncover the truth.

How Green Was My Valley · 1941

How Green Was My Valley

★ 7.31941

MovieDrama

Huw Morgan, the academically inclined youngest son in a proud family of Welsh coal miners, witnesses the tumultuous events of his young life during a period of rapid social change. At the dawn of the 20th-century, a miners' strike divides the Morgans: the sons demand improvements, and the father doesn't want to rock the boat.

Waterloo Bridge · 1940

Waterloo Bridge

★ 7.51940

MovieDramaRomance

On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young ballerina he met just before he left for the front.

Guests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through worry, scandal, and heartache.

Filmography

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In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.

Englishman Questioning Casino's Honesty (uncredited)

Strangers on a Train · 1951

Strangers on a Train

★ 7.71951

MovieCrimeThriller

A charming psychopath tries to coerce a tennis star into his theory that two strangers can commit the perfect crime by exchanging murders—each killing the other’s most-hated person.

Party Guest (uncredited)

The Adventures of Robin Hood · 1938

The Adventures of Robin Hood

★ 7.51938

MovieAdventureRomance

Robin Hood fights nobly for justice against the evil Sir Guy of Gisbourne while striving to win the hand of the beautiful Maid Marian.

Seneschal (uncredited)

A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she's married to his new boss.

English Cartel Member (uncredited)

Foreign Correspondent · 1940

Foreign Correspondent

★ 7.01940

MovieThrillerMystery

Parking Valet (uncredited)

How Green Was My Valley · 1941

How Green Was My Valley

★ 7.31941

MovieDrama

Postman (uncredited)

Waterloo Bridge · 1940

Waterloo Bridge

★ 7.51940

MovieDramaRomance

Commissionaire (uncredited)

Guests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through worry, scandal, and heartache.

Clerk (uncredited)

Bathing Beauty · 1944

Bathing Beauty

★ 5.91944

MovieMusicComedy

After breaking up with her fiancé, a gym teacher returns to work at a women's college, but a legal loophole allows him to enroll as one of her students.

Backstage Manager (uncredited)

Mr. Skeffington · 1944

Mr. Skeffington

★ 6.81944

MovieDramaRomance

A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty.

Speakeasy Patron (uncredited)

Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charming granddaughter of the local nobility as represented by Lady Beldon. Then the war comes and Vin joins the RAF.

Glee Club Member (uncredited)

In the 15th Century, France is a defeated and ruined nation after the One Hundred Years War against England. The fourteen-year-old farm girl Joan of Arc claims to hear voices from Heaven asking her to lead God's Army against Orleans and crowning the weak Dauphin Charles VII as King of France. Joan gathers the people with her faith, forms an army, and conquers Orleans.

Bailiff (uncredited)

Monsieur Verdoux · 1947

Monsieur Verdoux

★ 7.71947

MovieComedyCrime

The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his work, Verdoux has been laid-off. To make money for his wife and child, he marries wealthy widows and then murders them. His crime spree eventually works against him when two particular widows break his normal routine.

Garden Party Guest Getting Sprayed (uncredited)

The Little Princess · 1939

The Little Princess

★ 6.61939

MovieFamilyDrama

A little girl goes in search of her father who is reported missing by the military during the Second Boer War.

Orderly Chasing Sara (uncredited)

In Victorian era London, the inhabitants of a family home with rented rooms upstairs fear the new lodger is Jack the Ripper.

The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer · 1947

The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer

★ 6.91947

MovieComedyRomance

Teenager Susan Turner, with a severe crush on playboy artist Richard Nugent, sneaks into his apartment to model for him and is found there by her sister Judge Margaret Turner. Threatened with jail, Nugent agrees to date Susan until the crush abates.

Faculty Member (uncredited)

Father's Little Dividend · 1951

Father's Little Dividend

★ 6.51951

MovieRomanceComedy

Newly married Kay Dunstan announces that she and her husband are having a baby, leaving her father to come to grips with the fact that he will soon be a granddad.

Men's Club Waiter (uncredited)

Werewolf of London · 1935

Werewolf of London

★ 6.11935

MovieHorrorFantasy

A strange animal attack turns a botanist into a bloodthirsty monster.

Detective Evans (uncredited)

Shanghai Express · 1932

Shanghai Express

★ 7.01932

MovieDramaRomance

A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-packed train journey.

British Railway Officer (uncredited)

A Chump at Oxford · 1940

A Chump at Oxford

★ 6.91940

MovieComedy

The boys get jobs as a butler and maid-- Stan in drag-- for a dinner party. When that ends in disaster, they resort to sweeping streets and accidentally capture a bank robber. The grateful bank president sends them to Oxford, at their request, and higher-education hijinks ensue.

Professor Crampton (uncredited)

Shortly before the start of WW2, renowned British big-game hunter Alan Thorndike, vacationing in Bavaria, has Hitler in his gun sight. He is captured, beaten, left for dead, and escapes back to London where he is hounded by Nazi agents and aided by a young woman.

Reeves (uncredited)

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes · 1939

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

★ 6.91939

MovieCrimeMystery

Having once again avoided criminal conviction, Professor Moriarity develops a murderous plan to “finish off” his last major nemesis, Sherlock Holmes, by making him fail to prevent the perfect crime. Does it involve a family curse, the crown jewels of England, or something else…

Scotland Yard Man (uncredited)

When his first stage show fails, songwriter Cole Porter goes off to fight in WWI until, injured, he lands in a hospital. He impresses nurse Linda Lee with his creativity, but their budding romance must wait as Cole heads home. Back in New York, he mounts a series of popular shows, and when his work brings him back to Europe, he eventually marries Linda. But success doesn't spare him from marital complications or bad news about a beloved relative.

Bobby (uncredited)

A Christmas Carol · 1938

A Christmas Carol

★ 7.01938

MovieDramaFantasy

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.

(uncredited)