Alan Napier
Alan Napier was born in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom on January 7th, 1903 and is the TV Actor. At the age of 85, Alan Napier biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Alan William Napier-Clavering (7 January 1903 – August 1988), better known as Alan Napier, was an English actor.
He spent a long time in West End theatres and later in Hollywood.
In the 1960s live-action Batman television movie series, Napier is best known for portraying Alfred Pennyworth, Bruce Wayne's butler.
Early life and career
Napier was the first cousin-once-deceased of Neville Chamberlain, Britain's prime minister from 1937 to 1940. He was educated at Packwood Haugh School and, after leaving Clifton College, he studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, graduating in 1925.
He was recruited by the Oxford Players, where he worked with John Gielt and Robert Morley. Napier recalled that his 6'6" height was a major factor in his winning the job and then almost losing it. J. f. J. Tyrone Guthrie was dismissed by B. Fagan because he was too tall for most parts. When sitting down, Napier was questioned (and accepted) as Guthrie's replacement. When he stood up, Fagan realized that Napier was even taller than Guthrie, but he paid tribute. On the West End stage, Napier appeared for ten years (1929-1939). In 1937, Napier expressed a special affinity for George Bernard Shaw's work, and Shaw himself supervised a revival of Heartbreak House in London.
In Lady in Waiting, he made his American debut as the romantic lead opposite Gladys George. Despite the fact that his film career began in the 1930s, he had little success before joining the British expatriate community in Hollywood in 1941. James Whale, a fellow ex-Oxford player, spent time there. Random Harvest (1942), Cat People (1942), and The Uninvited (1944) were among his film appearances. Bernadette (1943), he played the ethically troubled psychiatrist who is hired to accuse Bernadette of mental disorder. In Joan of Arc (1948), he played the cruel Earl of Warwick. He appeared in two Shakespearean films, Orson Welles Macbeth (1948), in which he played a priest for whom Welles wrote lines that were never revealed by other characters, and MGM's Julius Caesar (1953), as Cicero. Mr. Rutland appeared in the Hitchcock film Marnie (1964).
In 1949, he appeared in "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" as Sherlock Holmes, a short-lived television anthology film. He appeared on television in four episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents and guest starred on Dale Robertson's NBC western series Tales of Wells Fargo in the 1950s. On the 1962-1963 situation comedy Don't Call Me Charlie, he appeared as General Steele on a regular basis.
Later life and career
Napier's career spanned the 1980s, including the miniseries QB VII, The Bastard and Centennial, and the dramatic The Paper Chase. He died in 1981 at the age of 78.
Despite being in a wheelchair, Napier appeared on late-night talk show The Late Show as part of a revival of Batman's original cast members. Yvonne Craig, his co-star, referred to the reunion as overbooked, and when host Ross Shafer finally turned his attention to Napier, it was only to ask a silly question and then cut him off abruptly as he was telling a tale, much to Napier's annoyance. Napier did not attend the resulting cast reunion, which took place before his death.