Arthur Gould-Porter

Arthur Gould-Porter was an English actor who worked in film, television, and theater. Born in Penzance, Cornwall, he moved to the United States by the early 1930s and earned good reviews at the Palm Beach Playhouse in 1931 in A.A. Milne's Mr. Pim Passes By. He appeared on Broadway in New York to Cherbourg in 1932 and had an 18-month run in Victoria Regina starting in 1935, followed by Bachelor Born and Oscar Wilde. He began film work in 1942, often uncredited, in films such as Eagle Squadron, The Black Swan (1942), and Random Harvest, and he had a credited part in Nightmare. From 1952 he did television, later appearing in eight episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents and as Ravenswood the butler on The Beverley Hillbillies. His later films included Torn Curtain (1966), Doctor Dolittle (1967), Darling Lili (1970), and Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971), where he was Captain Greer. He died in 1987.