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Alan Napier
Highest Rated: 100% Lured (1947)
Lowest Rated: 20% Desiree (1954)
Birthday: Jan 7, 1903
Birthplace: Birmingham, England, UK
Tall, gaunt, elegant, mustachioed character actor, born in England, who after considerable stage and some film experience moved to the United States in 1939. Almost invariably in gentlemanly roles connoting Britishness, Napier played a variety of noblemen, butlers, senior officers, professors and aristocrats, with an occasional villager or con man thrown in for good measure. His over 70 film credits include roles in "The House of the Seven Gables" (1940), "The Song of Bernadette" (1943), "Three Strangers" (1946), "Macbeth" (1948), "Julius Caesar" (1953), "The Court Jester" (1956), "Journey to the Center of the Earth" (1959) and "Marnie" (1964). A prolific TV performer, Napier is best-known as Alfred, the perfect butler to the Caped Crusaders (and the only person to know Batgirl's true identity), on the camp classic, "Batman."
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Filmography
Movies
Credit | |||||
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Monkey Mission | Briarton (Character) | - | 1981 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Come Die With Me | Lawyer (Character) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet |
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QB VII | Semple (Character) | - | 1974 |
81% |
|
Batman | Alfred Pennyworth (Character) | - | 1966 |
No Score Yet |
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Signpost to Murder | The Vicar (Character) | - | 1965 |
83% |
|
36 Hours | Colonel Peter MacLean (Character) | - | 1964 |
81% |
|
Marnie | Mr. Rutland (Character) | - | 1964 |
66% |
|
The Sword in the Stone | Sir Pelinore (Voice) | - | 1963 |
56% |
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The Premature Burial | Dr. Gideon Gault (Character) | - | 1962 |
50% |
|
Wild in the Country | Prof. Joe B. Larson (uncredited) (Character) | - | 1961 |
No Score Yet |
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Island of Lost Women | Dr. Paul Lujan (Character) | - | 1959 |
84% |
|
Journey to the Center of the Earth | Dean (Character) | - | 1959 |
67% |
|
Until They Sail | Prosecution Attorney (Character) | - | 1957 |
43% |
|
The Mole People | Elinu (Character) | - | 1956 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Miami Expose | Ray Sheridan (Character) | - | 1956 |
97% |
|
The Court Jester | Sir Brockhurst (Character) | - | 1955 |
69% |
|
Moonfleet | Parson Glennie (Character) | - | 1955 |
20% |
|
Desiree | Despreaux (Character) | - | 1954 |
96% |
|
Julius Caesar | Cicero (Character) | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet |
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Big Jim McLain | Sturak (Character) | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet |
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Across the Wide Missouri | Capt. Humberstone Lyon (Character) | - | 1951 |
No Score Yet |
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The Strange Door | Count Grassin (Character) | - | 1951 |
No Score Yet |
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The Great Caruso | Jean de Reszke (Character) | - | 1951 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tripoli | Khalil (Character) | - | 1950 |
No Score Yet |
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Manhandled | Alton Bennet (Character) | - | 1949 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Master Minds | Dr. Druzik (Character) | - | 1949 |
No Score Yet |
|
The Red Danube | The General (Character) | - | 1949 |
44% |
|
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court | High Executioner (Character) | - | 1949 |
No Score Yet |
|
Challenge to Lassie | Lord Provost (Character) | - | 1949 |
No Score Yet |
|
Tarzan's Magic Fountain | Douglas Jessup (Character) | - | 1949 |
86% |
|
Criss Cross | Finchley (Character) | - | 1948 |
87% |
|
Macbeth | A Holy Father (Character) | - | 1948 |
No Score Yet |
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Hills of Home | Sir George (Character) | - | 1948 |
No Score Yet |
|
Ivy | Sir Jonathan Wright (Character) | - | 1947 |
No Score Yet |
|
Fiesta | The Tourist (Character) | - | 1947 |
100% |
|
Lured | Detective Gordon (Character) | - | 1947 |
86% |
|
Unconquered | Sir William Johnson (Character) | - | 1947 |
80% |
|
Sinbad the Sailor | Aga (Character) | - | 1947 |
75% |
|
A Scandal in Paris | Houdon (Character) | - | 1946 |
No Score Yet |
|
House of Horrors | F. Holmes Harmon (Character) | - | 1946 |
40% |
|
The Strange Woman | Judge Henry Saladine (Character) | - | 1946 |
No Score Yet |
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Three Strangers | David Shackleford (Character) | - | 1946 |
No Score Yet |
|
Hangover Square | Sir Henry Chapman (Character) | - | 1945 |
90% |
|
Isle of the Dead | St. Aubyn (Character) | - | 1945 |
40% |
|
The Hairy Ape | MacDougald (Character) | - | 1944 |
95% |
|
The Uninvited | Dr. Scott (Character) | - | 1944 |
81% |
|
Ministry of Fear | Dr. Forrester (Character) | - | 1944 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Action in Arabia | Eric Latimer (Character) | - | 1944 |
67% |
|
Mademoiselle Fifi | Count de Breville (Character) | - | 1944 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Appointment in Berlin | Col. Patterson (Character) | - | 1943 |
94% |
|
Lassie Come Home | Jock (Character) | - | 1943 |
92% |
|
Cat People | Doc Carver (Character) | - | 1942 |
82% |
|
Random Harvest | Julian, Tall Brother (Character) | - | 1942 |
80% |
|
The House of the Seven Gables | Fuller (Character) | - | 1940 |
87% |
|
The Invisible Man Returns | Willie Spears (Character) | - | 1940 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Secret Four | Sir Hamar Ryman M.P. (Character) | - | 1939 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Wife of General Ling | Unknown (Character) | - | 1937 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wings Over Africa | Redfern (Character) | - | 1936 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Caste | Capt. Hawtree (Character) | - | 1930 |
TV
Credit | ||||
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Paper Chase | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1978 |
No Score Yet | 100% | Night Gallery | Unknown (Character) | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Family Affair | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1969 |
72% | 78% | Batman | Alfred Pennyworth (Character) | 1966-1968 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Beverly Hillbillies | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1967 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Daktari | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Laredo | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1965 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Alfred Hitchcock Hour | Unknown (Character) | 1963 1965 |
92% | 96% | The Twilight Zone | Capt. Protheroe (Character) | 1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Lloyd Bridges Show | Kurt Drobney (Guest Star) | 1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tales of Wells Fargo | Bertram La Tour (Guest Star) | 1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Thriller | Unknown (Character) | 1960-1961 |
No Score Yet | 85% | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Sir Everett (Character) | 1955-1957 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Northwest Passage | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1958 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The 20th Century-Fox Hour | Unknown (Character) | 1956 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Letter to Loretta | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1953 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Four Star Playhouse | John Dwerrihouse (Character) | 1953 |