Gavin Muir (American actor)
Not to be confused with Gavin Muir (British actor).
Gavin Muir (1900–1972) was an American Broadway, film and television actor.
Although born in Chicago, Muir was educated in England and had a significant career on the Broadway stage through 1933. His first film appearance is 1932 in a short subject, then in John Ford's Mary of Scotland in 1936. His film career continued through 1965, often in character roles, and with a sort of specialty in villains with British accents.
Broadway roles
- Enter Madame (1920) as John Fitzgerald
Partial filmography
- Mary of Scotland (1936)
- Lloyd's of London (1936)
- Charlie Chan at the Race Track (1936)
- The Holy Terror (1937)
- Tarzan Finds a Son! (1939)
- Eagle Squadron (1942)
- Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943)
- Passport to Suez (1943)
- Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943)
- The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944) (unbilled)
- The Merry Monahans (1944)
- Sherlock Holmes and the House of Fear (1945)
- Patrick the Great (1945)
- Calcutta (1947)
- Chicago Deadline (1949)
- Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951)
- Thunder on the Hill (1951)
- The Son of Dr. Jekyll (1951)
- Night Tide (1961)