Dennis Hoey(1893-1960)

Actor

Traveling on the overnight train from London to Edinburgh, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are accompanying Roland Carstairs and his mother. They are there to protect the famed Star of Rhodesia, a 400-plus carat diamond that Mrs Carstairs had received on her 25th wedding anniversary many years before. There had been an attempt to steal the diamond while in London but when young Carstairs is killed and the diamond stolen, Holmes realizes that it must be the work of the noted thief and criminal, Colonel Sebastian Moran.

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Terror by Night (1946)

Dennis Hoey was born on 30 March 1893 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Terror by Night (1946), Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943) and The Spider Woman (1943). He was previously married to Josephine Marta Ricca and Sarah Pearl Lyons (known as Cissie). He died on 25 July 1960 in Palm Beach, Florida, USA.

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Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Gerald Hamer, Dennis Hoey, and Janet Murdoch in Terror by Night (1946)

Basil Rathbone and Dennis Hoey in Terror by Night (1946)

Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Leyland Hodgson, and Dennis Hoey in Terror by Night (1946)

Dennis Hoey and Anna Sten in They Came to Blow Up America (1943)

Dennis Hoey in David and Bathsheba (1951)

Gregory Peck, Dennis Hoey, and Kieron Moore in David and Bathsheba (1951)

Roy Rogers, Dennis Hoey, Francis McDonald, and Trigger in Roll on Texas Moon (1946)

Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, and Dennis Hoey in The Spider Woman (1943)

Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, and Dennis Hoey in Roll on Texas Moon (1946)

Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Paul Cavanagh, Harry Cording, Holmes Herbert, Dennis Hoey, Aubrey Mather, and Gavin Muir in The House of Fear (1945)

Basil Rathbone, Dennis Hoey, and Gale Sondergaard in The Spider Woman (1943)

Known for:

Terror by Night

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Inspector Lestrade

1946

Sherlock Holmes Faces Death

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Lestrade

1943

The Spider Woman

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Lestrade

1943

David and Bathsheba

6.1

Joab

1951

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ITV Television Playhouse
- Jock
- TV Series
- 1957
Omnibus
- Arthur Conan Doyle (segment "The Fine Art of Murder")
- TV Series
- 1956
Plymouth Adventure
- Head Constable (uncredited)
- 1952
Caribbean
- Burford
- 1952
Armstrong Circle Theatre
- Signor Cassini
- TV Series
- 1952
Cosmopolitan Theatre
- TV Series
- 1951
David and Bathsheba
- Joab
- 1951
Somerset Maugham TV Theatre
- TV Series
- 1950
The Adventures of Ellery Queen
- Ronny Sinclair
- TV Series
- 1950
Actor's Studio
- Father Hyacinth
- TV Series
- 1950
The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre
- TV Series
- 1950
The Kid from Texas
- Maj. Harper
- 1950
The Secret Garden
- Mr. Pitcher
- 1949
Badmen of Tombstone
- Mr. Smith
- 1949
Wake of the Red Witch
- Capt. Munsey
- 1948

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Height
- 6′ 2″ (1.88 m)
Born
- March 30, 1893
- London, England, UK
Died
- July 25, 1960
- Palm Beach, Florida, USA
Spouses
Children
- Michael A. Hoey
Relatives
- Dennis Hoey(Grandchild)
Other works
Stage: Appeared (as "The General" / "Boxer") in "Getting Married" on Broadway. Comedy (revival). Written by George Bernard Shaw. Directed by Peter Frye. ANTA Playhouse: 13 May 1951-20 May 1951 (16 performances). Cast: Margaret Bannerman, Barbara Britton (as "Leo"), John Buckmaster, Bramwell Fletcher (as "William Collins"), Frances Greet, Edith Meiser (as "Lesbia Grantham"), John Merivale, Michaele Myers, Dora Sayers, Guy Spaull (as "Alfred Bridgenorth, Bishop of Chelsea"), Ronald Telfer, Arthur Treacher (as "Reginald Bridgenorth"), Frederic Warriner (as "Oliver Cromwell Soames" / "Anthony"), Peggy Wood (as "Mrs. George Collins"). Produced by Marjorie Ewing (for ANTA) and Sherman Ewing.
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- 2 Articles

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Trivia
Best remembered as the pompous, but wonderfully dim-witted, "Inspector Lestrade" of Scotland Yard in several of Basil Rathbone's Sherlock Holmes offerings of the 1940's.