In "The Dawn Patrol" (1938), he played one of his few heroic roles in the 1930s, as a Royal Flying Corps (RFC) squadron commander brought to the brink of a nervous breakdown by the strain and guilt of sending his battle-weary pilots off to near-certain death in the skies of 1915 France.
V filmu "Captain Blood" se je na plaži boril in izgubil proti Errolu Flynnu, nastopil je tudi v obsežnem bojnem prizoru iz filma "The Adventures of Robin Hood".