Arthur Hohl

Arthur Hohl (May 21, 1889 – March 10, 1964) was an American stage and motion-picture character actor.
Formative years and family
Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on May 21, 1889, Hohl began appearing in films during the early 1920s. He played a great number of villainous or mildly larcenous roles, although his screen roles usually were small, but he also played a few sympathetic characters.
Hohl married Jessie E. Gray in 1920, who survived him when he died in 1964. The couple had no children.
Career
Hohl's two performances seen most often today are as Pete, the nasty boat engineer who tells the local sheriff about Julie (Helen Morgan) and her husband (Donald Cook)'s secret interracial marriage in Show Boat (1936), and as Mr. Montgomery, the man who helps Richard Arlen and Leila Hyams to make their final escape in Island of Lost Souls (1932). He also played Brutus opposite Warren William's Julius Caesar in Cecil B. DeMille's version of Cleopatra (1934), starring Claudette Colbert.
Among his other notable roles were as Olivier, King Louis XI's right-hand man, in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939), as the real estate agent in Charlie Chaplin's Monsieur Verdoux (1947), and as Journet, a bereaved innkeeper who seeks to avenge his daughter's murder in the Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes film The Scarlet Claw (1944). Hohl also played a Christian named Titus (no relation to Titus Andronicus) in Cecil B. DeMille's religious epic The Sign of the Cross (1932).
Many sources claim that Hohl played a monk in the 1943 film classic The Song of Bernadette, but he is nowhere to be seen in the finished film.
Hohl also appeared on the Broadway stage in plays by William Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw, and Henrik Ibsen. Some of his stage roles, such as Sir Andrew Aguecheek in a 1930 Broadway revival of Twelfth Night, were considerably larger than his film roles.
Filmography
Wolfe and Montcalm (1924) as Gen. James Wolfe
The Puritans (1924)
It Is the Law (1924) as Albert Woodruff / Sniffer
The Cheat (1931) as Defense Attorney (uncredited)
The Night of June 13 (1932) as Prosecuting Attorney
The Sign of the Cross (1932) as Titus
Island of Lost Souls (1932) as Montgomery
The Crime of the Century (1933) as Announcer (uncredited)
Infernal Machine (1933) as Ship's Captain
The Life of Jimmy Dolan (1933) as Herman Malvin
The Silk Express (1933) as Wallace Myton
Private Detective 62 (1933) as Hogan
The Narrow Corner (1933) as Captain Nichols
Baby Face (1933) as Ed Sipple
Captured! (1933) as Cocky
Brief Moment (1933) as Steve Walsh
Wild Boys of the Road (1933) as Dr. Heckel
Footlight Parade (1933) as Frazer
The Kennel Murder Case (1933) as Gamble - the Butler
Man's Castle (1933) as Bragg
College Coach (1933) as Seymour Young
The World Changes (1933) as Mr. Patten
Massacre (1934) as Dr. Turner
As the Earth Turns (1934) as George
Jimmy the Gent (1934) as Joe
A Modern Hero (1934) as Homer Flint
The Defense Rests (1934) as James Randolph
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back (1934) as Dr. Sothern
Girl in Danger (1934) as Albert Beckett
Among the Missing (1934) as Gordon
Cleopatra (1934) as Brutus
Lady by Choice (1934) as Kendall
Against the Law (1934) as Kelly
Jealousy (1934) as Mike Callahan
Romance in Manhattan (1935) as Halsey J. Pander
The Whole Town's Talking (1935) as Detective Sergeant Boyle
In Spite of Danger (1935) as Steve Lynch
I'll Love You Always (1935) as Jergens
Eight Bells (1935) as Williams
One Frightened Night (1935) as Arthur Proctor
Village Tale (1935) as Elmer Stevenson
Unknown Woman (1935) as Lansing
After the Dance (1935) as Louie
Atlantic Adventure (1935) as Frank Julian
Case of the Missing Man (1935) as Steve
Guard That Girl (1935) as Reynolds
Super-Speed (1935) as Philip Morton
We're Only Human (1935) as Conroy (uncredited)
If You Could Only Cook (1935) as Lawyer John Martin
The Lone Wolf Returns (1935) as Undetermined Supporting Role (scenes deleted)
It Had to Happen (1936) as Honest John Pelkey
Show Boat (1936) as Pete
Forgotten Faces (1936) as Hi-Jack Eddie
The Devil-Doll (1936) as Victor Radin
Lloyd's of London (1936) as First Captain
The Road Back (1937) as Heinrich
Slave Ship (1937) as Grimes
Mountain Music (1937) as Prosecuting Attorney (uncredited)
Trapped by G-Men (1937) as Henchman Blackie
Hot Water (1937) as Walter Whittaker
The Bad Man of Brimstone (1937) as 'Doc' Laramie
Penitentiary (1938) as Finch (uncredited)
Kidnapped (1938) as Riach
Crime Takes a Holiday (1938) as Joe Whitehead
Stablemates (1938) as Mr. Gale
Boy Slaves (1939) as Sheriff
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939) as Burr
Help Wanted (1939) as Graham - Head of Employment Agency (uncredited)
They Shall Have Music (1939) as Miller
Fugitive at Large (1939) as Curtis
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939) as Bassick
Blackmail (1939) as Rawlins
Two Thoroughbreds (1939) as Thaddeus Carey
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) as Olivier
20 Mule Team (1940) as Salters
Blondie Has Servant Trouble (1940) as Eric Vaughn
Men of Boys Town (1941) as Guard
Ride on Vaquero (1941) as Sheriff Johnny Burns
We Go Fast (1941) as Hold-Up Man
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake (1942) as Captain Greenough
Moontide (1942) as Jennings
Whispering Ghosts (1942) as Inspector Norris
City Without Men (1943) as Convict (uncredited)
Idaho (1943) as Spike Madagan
The Woman of the Town (1943) as Robert Wright
The Spider Woman (1944) as Adam Gilflower
The Scarlet Claw (1944) as Emile Journet
The Eve of St. Mark (1944) as Sheep-Wagon Driver (uncredited)
Shadows in the Night (1944) as Riggs (uncredited)
Irish Eyes Are Smiling (1944) as Barker (uncredited)
Mystery of the River Boat (1944) as Clayton
Salome, Where She Danced (1945) as Bartender
The Thin Man Goes Home (1945)
The Frozen Ghost (1945) as Skeptic
Love Letters (1945) as Jupp (uncredited)
Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945) sa Dvar Svenson (uncredited)
The Yearling (1946) as Arch Forrester (uncredited)
Monsieur Verdoux (1947) as Real Estate Agent
It Happened on 5th Avenue (1947) as Brady - Gates Patrolman (uncredited)
The Vigilantes Return (1947) as Sheriff
The Three Musketeers (1948) as Dragon Rouge Host (uncredited)
You Gotta Stay Happy (1948) as Cemetery Man
Down to the Sea in Ships (1949) as Blair (uncredited) (final film role)
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1889 births
1964 deaths
American male silent film actors
American male film actors
Male actors from Pittsburgh
20th-century American male actors