CECIL KELLAWAY BIOGRAPHY & FILMOGRAPHY:
Cecil Kellaway was born on August 22nd, 1893 in Cape Town, South Africa with the birth name Cecil Lauriston Kellaway. The majority of his career in the industry was spent working as an actor, author and director in Australia.
Kellaway earned two Oscar nominations for Best Supporting Actor for his roles in, "The Luck of the Irish" (1948) starring Tyrone Power, Anne Baxter, Lee J. Cobb and Jayne Meadows and "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" (1967) starring Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Sidney Poitier, Isabel Sanford and Katharine Houghton. Other more well known film roles included, "Wuthering Heights" (1939) starring alongside Laurence Olivier, Merle Oberon, David Niven, Donald Crisp, Leo G. Carroll and Flora Robson, "The House of the Seven Gables" (1940) also starring George Sanders, Margaret Lindsay, Vincent Price and Dick Foran, "The Letter" (1940) starring Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson and Gale Sondergaard, "Love Letters" (1945) co-starring Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Ann Richards, Gladys Cooper and Anita Louise, "The Postman Always Rings Twice" (1946) starring John Garfield and Lana Turner, "Unconquered" (1947) starring Gary Cooper, Paulette Goddard, Howard Da Silve, Ward Bond, C. Aubrey Smith, Virginia Grey, Henry Wilcoxon and Boris Karloff and "Portrait of Jennie" (1948) starring Jennifer Jones and Joseph Cotten, Lillian Gish, Ethel Barrymore, Anne Francis, Brian Keith, Nancy Davis, David Wayne and Henry Hull and "Proud Rebel" (1958) starring with Alan Ladd, Olivia de Havilland, Dean Jagger, James Westerfield, Henry Hull and Henry Dean Stanton.
Cecil also starred with Elvis Presley in "Spinout" (1966) featuring Shelley Fabares, Will Hutchins, Jimmy Hawkins, Deborah Walley, Carl Betz and Una Merkel.
Along with his work as a film actor he added a couple television appearances to his resume such as, "The Ann Sothern Show", "Make Room for Daddy", "Bewitched", "Twilight Zone", "That Girl", "The F.B.I.", "Burke's Law", "My Favorite Martian" and "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington".
His final appearances were on the television series, "Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color" (1970) and the television movie, "Call Holme" (1972).
Cecil Kellaway married only once to Doreen Elizabeth Joubert in 1919 and they had two children and remained married until he passed away at the age of eighty two, on February 28th, 1973 in Hollywood, California from arteriosclerosis. His remains are interred at Westwood Memorial Park in Los Angeles, California.
Filmography
1972 Call Holme
1970 Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color
1970 Getting Straight
1970 Nanny and the Professor
1969 The Ghost & Mrs. Muir
1968 That Girl
1967 Fitzwilly
1967 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
1967 Kismet
1967 The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin
1966 Spinout
1965 The F.B.I.
1965 Valentine's Day
1964 Bewitched
1964 Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte
1964 Burke's Law
1964 The Greatest Show on Earth
1964 My Favorite Martian
1964 The Confession
1963 The Cardinal
1962-1963 Ben Casey
1960-1963 Twilight Zone
1962 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1962 Zotz!
1962 Follow the Sun
1962 The New Breed
1961 The Dick Powell Theatre
1960-1961 Adventures in Paradise
1961 Tammy Tell Me True
1961 Francis of Assisi
1961 Rawhide
1961 Harrigan and Son
1960 The Private Lives of Adam and Eve
1960 Hennesey
1959 Johnny Ringo
1958-1959 Whirlybirds
1959 The Shaggy Dog
1959 The Millionaire
1959 The Ann Sothern Show
1959 Perry Mason
1959 Destination Space
1955-1958 Studio One in Hollywood
1958 The Proud Rebel
1958 Playhouse 90
1958 Matinee Theatre
1958 Studio 57
1957 Johnny Trouble
1956-1957 Crossroads
1957 Lux Video Theatre
1956 The Toy Tiger
1955 The Ford Television Theatre
1955 Female on the Beach
1954-1955 Schlitz Playhouse
1955 Interrupted Melody
1955 Make Room for Daddy
1955 The Prodigal
1953 Paris Model
1952-1953 Cavalcade of America
1953 Cruisin' Down the River
1953 The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
1953 Young Bess
1952 Thunder in the East
1952 My Wife's Best Friend
1952 Just Across the Street
1951 The Highwayman
1951 Half Angel
1951 Francis Goes to the Races
1951 Katie Did It
1950 The Magnavox Theatre
1950 Hurricane at Pilgrim Hill
1950 Kim
1950 Harvey
1950 The Reformer and the Redhead
1949 Down to the Sea in Ships
1948 Portrait of Jennie
1948 The Decision of Christopher Blake
1948 Joan of Arc
1948 The Luck of the Irish
1947 Always Together
1947 Unconquered
1946 The Cockeyed Miracle
1946 Monsieur Beaucaire
1946 Easy to Wed
1946 The Postman Always Rings Twice
1945 Kitty
1945 Love Letters
1944 Practically Yours
1944 And Now Tomorrow
1944 Mrs. Parkington
1944 Frenchman's Creek
1944 Showboat Serenade
1943 The Good Fellows
1943 It Ain't Hay
1943 The Crystal Ball
1943 Forever and a Day
1943 Freedom Comes High
1942 Star Spangled Rhythm
1942 My Heart Belongs to Daddy
1942 I Married a Witch
1942 Night in New Orleans
1942 Are Husbands Necessary?
1942 Take a Letter, Darling
1942 The Lady Has Plans
1941 Bahama Passage
1941 Night of January 16th
1941 New York Town
1941 Birth of the Blues
1941 Appointment for Love
1941 Burma Convoy
1941 A Very Young Lady
1941 West Point Widow
1941 Small Town Deb
1940 Lady with Red Hair
1940 The Letter
1940 South of Suez
1940 Mexican Spitfire Out West
1940 Diamond Frontier
1940 The Mummy's Hand
1940 Pop Always Pays
1940 Phantom Raiders
1940 Brother Orchid
1940 Adventure in Diamonds
1940 The House of the Seven Gables
1940 The Invisible Man Returns
1940 Mexican Spitfire
1939 We Are Not Alon
1939 Intermezzo: A Love Story
1939 The Under-Pup
1939 Man About Town
1939 The Sun Never Sets
1939 Mr. Chedworth Steps Out
1939 Wuthering Heights
1939 Gunga Din
1938 Annabel Takes a Tour
1938 Tarnished Angel
1938 Smashing the Rackets
1938 Blond Cheat
1938 Law of the Underworld
1938 This Marriage Business
1938 Maid's Night Out
1938 Night Spot
1938 Double Danger
1938 Everybody's Doing It
1937 Wise Girl
1937 It Isn't Done
1933 The Hayseeds
