
Raymond Huntley
Horace Raymond Huntley (23 April 1904 – 15 June 1990) was an English actor who appeared in dozens of British films from the 1930s to the 1970s. He also appeared in the ITV period drama Upstairs, Downstairs as the pragmatic family solicitor Sir Geoffrey Dillon, and other television shows, such as the Wodehouse Playhouse, ('Romance at Droitwich Spa'), in 1975.
Born in Kings Norton, Worcestershire (now a suburb of Birmingham) in 1904, Huntley made his stage debut at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre on 1 April 1922, in A Woman Killed with Kindness. His London debut followed at the Court Theatre on 22 February 1924, in As Far as Thought can Reach.
He subsequently inherited the role of Count Dracula from Edmund Blake in Hamilton Deane's touring adaptation of Dracula, which arrived at London's Little Theatre on 14 February 1927, subsequently transferring to the larger Duke of York's Theatre. Later that year he was offered the chance to reprise the role on Broadway (in a script streamlined by John L. Balderston); when he declined, the part was taken by Bela Lugosi instead. Huntley did, however, appear in a US touring production of the Deane/Balderston play, covering the east coast and midwest, from 1928-30. "I have always considered the role of Count Dracula to have been an indiscretion of my youth" he recalled in 1989.
After Dracula, he made his Broadway debut at the Vanderbilt Theatre on 23 February 1931, in The Venetian Glass Nephew. On returning to the UK, his many West End appearances included The Farmer's Wife (Queen's Theatre 1932), Cornelius (Duchess Theatre 1935), Bees on the Boat Deck (Lyric Theatre 1936) Time and the Conways (Duchess Theatre 1937), When We Are Married (St Martin's Theatre 1940), Rebecca (Queen's Theatre 1940; Strand Theatre 1942), They Came to a City (Globe Theatre 1943), The Late Edwina Black (Ambassadors Theatre 1948), And This Was Odd (Criterion Theatre 1951), Double Image (Savoy Theatre 1956), Any Other Business (Westminster Theatre 1958), Caught Napping (Piccadilly Theatre 1959), Difference of Opinion (Garrick Theatre 1963), An Ideal Husband (Garrick Theatre 1966), Getting Married (Strand Theatre 1967), Soldiers (New Theatre 1968) and Separate Tables (Apollo Theatre 1977). He also starred opposite Flora Robson in the Broadway production of Black Chiffon (48th Street Theatre 1950).
Often cast as a supercilious bureaucrat or other authority figure, Huntley was also a staple figure in British films, his many appearances including The Way Ahead, I See a Dark Stranger, Passport to Pimlico and The Dam Busters. In his later years, he became well-known on television as Sir Geoffrey Dillon, the family solicitor to the Bellamys in LWT's popular 1970s drama series Upstairs, Downstairs.
Huntley died in Westminster Hospital, London in 1990. In his obituary, the New York Times wrote, "During his long career the actor played judges, bank managers, churchmen, bureaucrats and other figures of authority. He could play them straight if necessary, but in comedy his natural dryness of delivery was exaggerated to the point where the character he was playing invited mockery as a pompous humbug."
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 0.049 |
Birthday | 1904-04-23 |
Place of Birth | King's Norton, Worcestershire, England, UK |
Also Known As | Horace Raymond Huntley, Рэймонд Хантли, |

1949

Passport to Pimlico
6.8/83
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1960

The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's
6.2/18
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1957

Town on Trial
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1960

Our Man in Havana
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1946

I See a Dark Stranger
6.3/24
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1959

I'm All Right Jack
6.7/73
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1944

The Way Ahead
6.375/36
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1966

The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery
5.9/25
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1959

Carlton-Browne of the F.O.
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1940

Night Train to Munich
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1953

Laxdale Hall
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1958

Room at the Top
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1960

Make Mine Mink
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1951

Mr. Denning Drives North
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1952

The Last Page
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1955

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5.3/19
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1948

So Evil My Love
6.3/24
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1959

The Mummy
6.7/234
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1936

Rembrandt
6.8/35
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1958

The Criminals
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1955

The Prisoner
7.2/20
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1946

School for Secrets
7/3
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1962

Only Two Can Play
5.893/27
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1955

The Constant Husband
6.9/9
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1956

The Green Man
7/34
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1964

The Black Torment
5.8/19
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1954

Orders Are Orders
6.4/7
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1968

Hostile Witness
6.2/10
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1969

Arthur? Arthur!
3/2
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1972

That's Your Funeral
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1941

The Ghost of St. Michael's
6.6/10
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1960

Bottoms Up!
6.4/8
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1959

Innocent Meeting
5.5/2
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1948

Broken Journey
6/7
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1954

The Teckman Mystery
6/16
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1944

They Came to a City
6/12
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1941

Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It
6.9/9
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1948

Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill
7.7/8
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1960

Sands of the Desert
6.3/6
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1960

Suspect
6.5/10
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1962

On the Beat
7.7/28
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1969

Destiny of a Spy
0/0
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1941

Freedom Radio
6.3/3
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1937

London Melody
5/1
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1969

The Adding Machine
5.5/2
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1953

Glad Tidings
5.7/3
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1960

Breathless
7.5/1844
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1963

The Yellow Teddy Bears
4.3/3
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1958

Next to No Time
8/2
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1951

The House in the Square
6.7/9
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1937

Knight Without Armour
5.6/15
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1963

Nurse on Wheels
5.7/13
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1984

Sleepwalker
6.1/11
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1954

Hobson's Choice
7.4/133
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1960

Follow That Horse!
0/0
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1936

Whom the Gods Love: The Original Story of Mozart and His Wife
5.2/4
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1943

The New Lot
0/0
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1939

Let's Be Famous
5.8/2
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1934

What Happened Then?
5/3
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1941

'Pimpernel' Smith
7.1/24
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1955

Geordie
6.8/10
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1941

The Ghost Train
5.9/33
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1984

A Voyage Round My Father
7.6/5
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1935

Can You Hear Me, Mother?
0/0
A British comedy film directed by Leslie Pearce
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1954

Aunt Clara
5.2/5
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1950

Trio
6.3/12
W. Somerset Maugham introduces three more of his stories about human foibles.
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1956

The Last Man to Hang
5.2/5
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1955

The Dam Busters
6.88/146
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1951

The Long Dark Hall
6.4/9
A devoted family man tries to help a beautiful alcoholic showgirl with her life, and becomes the the only suspect when someone else murders her.
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1957

Brothers in Law
7.063/8
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1962

Crooks Anonymous
6.3/21
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1964

Father Came Too!
5.955/11
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1974

Symptoms
6.2/52
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1965

Rotten to the Core
6.2/10
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1942

The Day Will Dawn
5.6/5
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1948

It's Hard to be Good
5.5/2
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1968

Hot Millions
6.6/25
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1937

Dinner at the Ritz
5.5/4
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1962

Waltz of the Toreadors
4.773/11
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1943

When We Are Married
0/0
The Helliwells, the Soppitts, and the Parkers, old friends gathered to celebrate their common silver anniversaries. To their dismay they learn that th...
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1938

When We Are Married
0/0
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1951

When We Are Married
0/0
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1953

Meet Mr. Lucifer
5.1/15
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1960

A French Mistress
5.7/6
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1976

The Portland Millions
0/0
Annie Druce claims she is the heir to the Duke of Portland.
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1972

Young Winston
6.2/46
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