Arthur Hohl

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Arthur Hohl on stage in Tolstoy's The Power of Darkness (1920)
Arthur Hohl on stage in Tolstoy's The Power of Darkness (1920)

Arthur Hohl (May 21, 1889 - March 10, 1964) was a stage and motion-picture character actor. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and began appearing in films in the early 1920s. He played a great number of villainous or mildly larcenous roles, although his screen roles usually were small. His talented for mimicking a wide range of accents kept him in high demand with the studios.

Hohl's two performances seen most often today are Pete, the nasty boat engineer who tells the local sheriff about Julie (Helen Morgan) and her husband's (Donald Cook) secret interracial marriage in the 1936 adaptation of Show Boat, and Brutus opposite Claudette Colbert in Cecil B. DeMille's 1934 version of Cleopatra.

Hohl also appeared on the Broadway stage in plays by William Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw, and Henrik Ibsen.

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  • Down to the Sea in Ships (1949)
  • You Gotta Stay Happy (1948)
  • The Three Musketeers (1948)
  • The Vigilantes Return (1947)
  • It Happened on 5th Avenue (1947)
  • Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
  • The Yearling (1946)
  • Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945)
  • Love Letters (1945)
  • The Frozen Ghost (1945)
  • Salome, Where She Danced (1945)
  • The Thin Man Goes Home (1945)
  • Mystery of the River Boat (1944)
  • Irish Eyes Are Smiling (1944)
  • Shadows in the Night (1944)
  • The Scarlet Claw (1944)
  • The Eve of St. Mark (1944)
  • The Spider Woman (1944)
  • The Woman of the Town (1943)
  • The Song of Bernadette (1943)
  • Idaho (1943)
  • City Without Men (1943)
  • Whispering Ghosts (1942)
  • Moontide (1942)
  • Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake (1942)
  • We Go Fast (1941)
  • Ride on Vaquero (1941)
  • Men of Boys Town (1941)
  • Blondie Has Servant Trouble (1940)
  • 20 Mule Team (1940)
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
  • Two Thoroughbreds (1939)
  • Blackmail (1939)
  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)
  • Fugitive at Large (1939)
  • They Shall Have Music (1939)
  • Help Wanted (1939)
  • You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939)
  • Boy Slaves (1939)
  • Stablemates (1938)
  • Crime Takes a Holiday (1938)
  • Kidnapped (1938)
  • Penitentiary (1938)
  • The Bad Man of Brimstone (1937)
  • Hot Water (1937)
  • Trapped by G-Men (1937)
  • Mountain Music (1937)
  • Slave Ship (1937)
  • The Road Back (1937)
  • Lloyd's of London (1936)
  • The Devil-Doll (1936)
  • Forgotten Faces (1936)
  • Show Boat (1936)
  • It Had to Happen (1936)
  • The Lone Wolf Returns (1935)
  • If You Could Only Cook (1935)
  • We're Only Human (1935)
  • Super-Speed (1935)
  • Guard That Girl (1935)
  • Case of the Missing Man (1935)
  • Atlantic Adventure (1935)
  • Unknown Woman (1935)
  • Village Tale (1935)
  • After the Dance (1935)
  • One Frightened Night (1935)
  • Eight Bells (1935)
  • I'll Love You Always (1935)
  • In Spite of Danger (1935)
  • The Whole Town's Talking (1935)
  • Romance in Manhattan (1935)
  • Jealousy (1934)
  • Against the Law (1934)
  • Lady by Choice (1934)
  • Cleopatra (1934)
  • Among the Missing (1934)
  • Girl in Danger (1934)
  • Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back (1934)
  • The Defense Rests (1934)
  • A Modern Hero (1934)
  • Jimmy the Gent (1934)
  • As the Earth Turns (1934)
  • Massacre (1934)
  • The World Changes (1933)
  • College Coach (1933)
  • The Kennel Murder Case (1933)
  • Man's Castle (1933)
  • Footlight Parade (1933)
  • Wild Boys of the Road (1933)
  • Brief Moment (1933)
  • Captured! (1933)
  • The Narrow Corner (1933)
  • Baby Face (1933)
  • The Life of Jimmy Dolan (1933)
  • Private Detective 62 (1933)
  • The Silk Express (1933)
  • Infernal Machine (1933)
  • The Crime of the Century (1933)
  • Island of Lost Souls
  • The Sign of the Cross (1932)
  • The Night of June 13th (1932)
  • The Cheat (1931)
  • It Is the Law (1924)
  • The Puritans (1924)
  • Wolfe and Montcalm (1924)

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