About
Horace Raymond Huntley (23 April 1904 – 15 June 1990) was an English actor who appeared in dozens of British films from the 1930s to the 1970s. He also appeared in the ITV period drama Upstairs, Downstairs as the pragmatic family solicitor Sir Geoffrey Dillon, and other television shows, such as the Wodehouse Playhouse, ('Romance at Droitwich Spa'), in 1975. Born in Kings Norton, Worcestershire (now a suburb of Birmingham) in 1904, Huntley made his stage debut at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre on 1 April 1922, in A Woman Killed with Kindness. His London debut followed at the Court Theatre on 22 February 1924, in As Far as Thought can Reach. He subsequently inherited the role of Count Dracula from Edmund Blake in Hamilton Deane's touring adaptation of Dracula, which arrived at London's Little Theatre on 14 February 1927, subsequently transferring to the larger Duke of York's Theatre....
Known for
Crown CourtSeries • 1972
The Wednesday PlaySeries • 1964
No Hiding PlaceSeries • 1959
Sunday Night TheatreSeries • 1950
Danger ManSeries • 1960
ITV Saturday Night TheatreSeries • 1969
Upstairs, DownstairsSeries • 1971
SykesSeries • 1972
Hancock's Half HourSeries • 1956
JusticeSeries • 1971
Interpol CallingSeries • 1959
BreathlessMovie • 1960
Softly Softly: Task ForceSeries • 1969
Gideon's WaySeries • 1965
Steptoe and SonSeries • 1962
Sir Francis DrakeSeries • 1961
The Count of Monte CristoSeries • 1956
Man BaitMovie • 1952
Hot MillionsMovie • 1968
Room at the TopMovie • 1958
Night Train to MunichMovie • 1940
Hobson's ChoiceMovie • 1954
The MummyMovie • 1959
Our Man in HavanaMovie • 1960