Cecil Kellaway Biography
Cecil Kellaway (Cecil Lawriston Kellaway) was a famous South African character actor. He is most famous for being nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for both The Luck of the Irish (1948) and Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967).
Kelleway was born in Cape Town, South Africa. He was born to English parents, Edwin John Kellaway and Rebecca Annie. His father was an architect and engineer, He came to S.A to help build the Houses of Parliament and was a good friend of Cecil Rhodes, who was Cecil’s godfather. Coming to his educational background, He was educated at the Normal College, Cape Town, and in England at Bradford Grammar School. He studied engineering and on his return to South Africa was employed in an engineering firm.
He briefly served in the army in 1914 but was invalided out. He toured for three years through China, Japan, Siam, Borneo, Malaya, North and South Africa, and Europe. Kellaway arrived in Australia in 1921 under contract to J. C. Williamson Ltd. He had a notable success as the comic father of four daughters in A Night Out which he played in 1922, 1924, 1926, and 1931. He acted for Williamson’s over sixteen years, mostly in musical comedies.
Kellaway made his film debut in the lead of The Hayseeds (1933), a popular local comedy. After receiving acclaim for his main role in the Australian Cinesound film It Isn’t Done (1937), for which he also provided the original story, he was screen-tested by RKO Pictures and put under contract. Kellaway returned to Australia for a second Cinesound film, Mr. Chedworth Steps Out (1938).
Kellaway had a long career as a Hollywood character actor, with prominent roles in William Wyler’s Wuthering Heights (1939), The House of the Seven Gables (1940), The Letter (1940), Kitty (1945) (giving an excellent performance as painter Thomas Gainsborough), (1945), Love Letters (1945), as the ill-fated husband of Lana Turner’s character in The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946), Portrait of Jennie (1948), Harvey (1950), Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964), and Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967). He was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for The Luck of the Irish in 1948 and Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner in 1967.
In 1959, he made a guest appearance on Perry Mason as chemist and murderer Darrell Metcalf in “The Case of the Glittering Goldfish”, and received billing credit equal to Raymond Burrs. In 1961, Kellaway guest-starred as MacKay in the episode “Incident In The Middle of Nowhere” on CBS’s Rawhide. In 1964, he played Santa Claus in the “Visions of Sugarplums” episode of “Bewitched”. In 1967, Kellaway played the part of a lonely, megawealthy much older suitor of Ann Marie (played by Marlo Thomas) in an episode of That Girl. he also appeared as Admiral Snedecker in a1969 episode of “The Ghost and Mrs. Muir”.
Cecil Kellaway Age
She was born on August 22, 1890. She died at the age of 82 years in 1973.
Cecil Kellaway Height
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Cecil Kellaway Married|Wife
He got married Doreen Elizabeth Joubert in Johannesburg on 15 November 1919.
Cecil Kelleway Net Worth
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Cecil Kellaway Death
Kellaway died after a long illness at a West Los Angeles convalescent home on February 28, 1973. He was survived by his wife, two sons, and four grandchildren. His interment was at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery.
Cecil Kellaway Filmography
- Bond and Word (1918)
- The Hayseeds (1933) as Dad Hayseed
- It Isn’t Done (1937) as Hubert Blaydon
- Wise Girl (1937) as Fletcher’s Butler
- Everybody’s Doing It (1938) as Mr. Beyers
- Double Danger (1938) as Fetrisss / Gilhooley
- Night Spot (1938) as Willard Lorryweather
- Maid’s Night Out (1938) as Geoffrey
- This Marriage Business (1938) as Police Chief Hardy
- Law of the Underworld (1938) as Phillips – Gene’s Butler (uncredited)
- Blond Cheat (1938) as Rufus Trent
- Smashing the Rackets (1938) as Barrett (uncredited)
- Tarnished Angel (1938) as Reginald ‘Reggie’ Roland
- Annabel Takes a Tour (1938) as Strothers, River-Clyde’s Publisher (uncredited)
- Gunga Din (1939) as Mr. Stebbins (uncredited)
- Wuthering Heights (1939) as Earnshaw
- Mr. Chedworth Steps Out (1939) as George Chedworth
- The Sun Never Sets (1939) as Colonial Official
- Man About Town (1939) as Headwaiter (uncredited)
- The Under-Pup (1939) as Mr. Wendelhares (uncredited)
Intermezzo (1939) as Charles Moler - We Are Not Alone (1939) as Judge
- Mexican Spitfire (1940) as Mr. Chumley
- The Invisible Man Returns (1940) as Inspector Sampson
- The House of the Seven Gables (1940) as Philip Barton
- Adventure in Diamonds (1940) as Emerson
- Phantom Raiders (1940) as Franklin Morris
- Brother Orchid (1940) as Brother Goodwin
- Pop Always Pays (1940) (scenes deleted)
- The Mummy’s Hand (1940) as The Great Solvang
- Diamond Frontier (1940) as Noah
- Mexican Spitfire Out West (1940) as Mr. Chumley
- South of Suez (1940) as Henry Putnam
- The Letter (1940) as Prescott
- Lady with Red Hair (1940) as Mr. Chapman
- West Point Widow (1941) as Dr. Spencer
- A Very Young Lady (1941) as Professor Starkweather
- Burma Convoy (1941) as Angus McBragel
- Birth of the Blues (1941) as Granet
- New York Town (1941) as Shipboard Host
- Appointment for Love (1941) as O’Leary
- The Night of January 16th (1941) as Oscar
- Bahama Passage (1941) as Captain Jack Risingwell
- The Lady Has Plans (1942) as Peter Miles
- Star-Spangled Rhythm (1942) as Cecil Kellaway (uncredited)
- Take a Letter, Darling (1942) as Uncle George
- Small Town Deb (1941) as Henry Randall
- Are Husbands Necessary? (1942) as Dr. Buell
- Night in New Orleans (1942) as Dan Odell
- I Married a Witch (1942) as Daniel
- My Heart Belongs to Daddy (1942) as Alfred Fortescue
- Freedom Comes High (1943) as Ellen’s Father
- Forever and a Day (1943) as Dinner Guest
- The Crystal Ball (1943) as Pop Tibbets
- It Ain’t Hay (1943) as King O’Hara
- The Good Fellows (1943) as Jim Hilton
- Frenchman’s Creek (1944) as William
- Mrs. Parkington (1944) as Edward, Prince of Wales
- And Now Tomorrow (1944) as Dr. Weeks
- Practically Yours (1944) as Marvin P. Meglin
- Love Letters (1945) as Mac
- Kitty (1945) as Thomas Gainsborough
- The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) as Nick Smith
- Easy to Wed (1946) as J.B. Allenbury
- Monsieur Beaucaire (1946) as Count D’Armand
- The Cockeyed Miracle (1946) as Tony Carte
- Variety Girl (1947) as Cecil Kellaway
- Unconquered (1947) as Jeremy Love
- Always Together (1947) as Jonathan Turner
- The Luck of the Irish (1948) as Horace
- Joan of Arc (1948) as Jean Le Maistre – Inquisitor of Rouen
- The Decision of Christopher Blake (1948) as Judge Alexander Adamson
- Portrait of Jennie (1948) as Matthews
- I Married a Witch (1942) as DanielMy Heart Belongs to Daddy (1942) as Alfred Fortescue
- Freedom Comes High (1943) as Ellen’s Father