Cecil Kellaway (1890 - 1973) سيسيل كيلاواي

Biography

Cecil Kellaway was born in Cape Town, South Africa, on August 22, 1890, as Cecil Lauriston Kellaway. He married Doreen Elizabeth Joubert (1919-1973), had two children, and remained with her until his death. Among his most important films are The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946),...Read more Harvey (1950), Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964), and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967). Despite being born in South Africa, he spent many years in Australia, where he worked as an actor, writer, and director, contributing to the Australian film industry, then tried his luck in Hollywood in the thirties, participating in gangster films, until he felt frustrated and returned to Australia, then he called him William Wyler and offered him a role in the film Wuthering Heights (1939), and he stayed after that in Hollywood, working in cinema and on television. He died on February 28, 1973, in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, of atherosclerosis.

- Nationality:
- South Africa
- Date of Birth:
- 22 August 1890
- Died on:
- 28 February 1973

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Filmography

Actor (19)
- - - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
    - 1967 - Movie
- - - Spinout
    - 1966 - Movie
- - - Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte
    - 1964 - Movie
- - - Quick, Let's Get Married
    - 1964 - Movie
- - - Tammy Tell Me True
    - 1961 - Movie
- - - The Prodigal
    - 1955 - Movie
- - - Young Bess
    - 1953 - Movie
- - - My Wife's Best Friend
    - 1952 - Movie
- - - Francis Goes to the Races
    - 1951 - Movie
- - - Harvey
    - 1950 - Movie
- - - Joan of Arc
    - 1948 - Movie
- - - Portrait of Jennie
    - 1948 - Movie
- - - The Postman Always Rings Twice
    - 1946 - Movie
- - - The Letter
    - 1940 - Movie
- - - South of Suez
    - 1940 - Movie
- - - The Mummy's Hand
    - 1940 - Movie
- - - Intermezzo
    - 1939 - Movie
- - - Wuthering Heights
    - 1939 - Movie
- - - Night Spot
    - 1938 - Movie

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Cecil Kellaway was born in Cape Town, South Africa, on August 22, 1890, as Cecil Lauriston Kellaway. He married Doreen Elizabeth Joubert (1919-1973), had two children, and remained...Read more with her until his death. Among his most important films are The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946), Harvey (1950), Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964), and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967). Despite being born in South Africa, he spent many years in Australia, where he worked as an actor, writer, and director, contributing to the Australian film industry, then tried his luck in Hollywood in the thirties, participating in gangster films, until he felt frustrated and returned to Australia, then he called him William Wyler and offered him a role in the film Wuthering Heights (1939), and he stayed after that in Hollywood, working in cinema and on television. He died on February 28, 1973, in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, of atherosclerosis.