Robert Rendel

{{Short description|British actor (1884–1944)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox person |name=Robert Rendel |image=The-Circle-1921-1-cropped.jpg |caption=Robert Rendel (left) with John Drew, Estelle Winwood, Mrs. Leslie Carter, Maxine MacDonald and John Halliday in the Broadway production of W. Somerset Maugham's ''The Circle'' (1921) |birthname= |birth_date={{Birth date |1884|12|2|df=y}} |birth_place=St Mary Abbots Kensington, London, England |death_date={{Death date and age|1944|5|9|1884|12|2|df=y}} |death_place=Marylebone, London, England |years_active= |occupation=Actor |spouse= |children= }} '''Robert Rendel''' (2 December 1884 in St Mary Abbots Kensington, London – 9 May 1944 in Marylebone, London) was a British actor of stage, screen, television and radio.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/21021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090115035105/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/21021|url-status=dead|archive-date=2009-01-15|title=Robert Rendel|work=BFI}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allmovie.com/artist/robert-rendel-p59601|title=Robert Rendel - Movies and Filmography|work=AllMovie|accessdate=16 December 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://theatricalia.com/person/feh/robert-rendell|title=Robert Rendell - Theatricalia|website=theatricalia.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|url=http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/71901eb1bd6646aca734845e49719be2|title=The Young in Heart'|journal=The Radio Times|date=25 December 1942|issue=1004|pages=8|via=BBC Genome}}</ref>

==Career== His stage work included roles in the original Broadway productions of Somerset Maugham's ''The Circle'' in 1921, and Arnold Ridley's ''The Ghost Train'' in 1926.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/robert-rendel-15967|title=Robert Rendel – Broadway Cast & Staff - IBDB|first=The Broadway|last=League|website=www.ibdb.com}}</ref> In 1935 he played the Duke of Marlborough in Norman Ginsbury's ''Viceroy Sarah''. On film, he played Sherlock Holmes in the original sound version of ''The Hound of the Baskervilles'' in 1932.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b72930e5f|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170714185703/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b72930e5f|url-status=dead|archive-date=14 July 2017|title=The Hound of the Baskervilles (1932)}}</ref>

==Filmography== * ''Slander'' (1916) as Harry Carson * ''The Barricade'' (1917) as Gerald Hastings * ''Her Night of Romance'' (1924) as Prince George * ''The Hound of the Baskervilles'' (1932) as Sherlock Holmes * ''Death at Broadcasting House'' (1934) as Sir Herbert Farquharson * ''The Way of Youth'' (1934) as Sir Peter Marmon * ''Borrow a Million'' (1934) as Struthers * ''The Price of Wisdom'' (1935) as Alfred Blake * ''Twice Branded'' (1936) as Charles Hamilton * ''The Crimson Circle'' (1936) as Commissioner * ''Fire Over England'' (1937) as Don Miguel * ''The Dark Stairway'' (1938) as Dr. Fletcher * ''The Four Feathers'' (1939) as Colonel * ''The Spy in Black'' (1939) as Admiral * ''The Lion Has Wings'' (1939) as Chief of Air Staff * ''Ten Days in Paris'' (1940) as Sir James Stevens * ''Sailors Three'' (1940) as British Captain * ''The Day Will Dawn'' (1942) as Captain of Destroyer

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==External links== *{{IMDb name|0719328}} *{{IBDB name|15967}} Also noted Contract Bridge author: "How's Your Bridge" with Sydney Lenz. "That extra Trick" and "The squeeze at auction and Contract Bridge" Rendell adopted the term "squeeze" from baseball.

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rendel, Robert}} Category:1884 births Category:1944 deaths Category:British male stage actors Category:British male film actors Category:Male actors from London Category:20th-century British male actors