Robert Greig

Biography

Robert Greig (December 27, 1879 – June 27, 1958) was an Australian-American actor who appeared in more than 100 films between 1930 and 1949, usually as the dutiful butler.

Known For

The Lady Eve

The Palm Beach Story

Sullivan's Travels

You Can't Take It with You

Trouble in Paradise

The Thief of Bagdad

Unfaithfully Yours

Lloyd's of London

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Les Misérables

Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake

Les Misérables

Acting

1941

The Lady Eve

as

Burrows

1947

The Sin of Harold Diddlebock

as

Algernon McNiff

1932

Love Me Tonight

as

Major Domo Flammand

1942

The Palm Beach Story

as

Third Member Ale and Quail Club

1932

Jewel Robbery

as

Man Reading 'Wiener Journal' (uncredited)

1936

Stowaway

as

Captain

1939

Tower of London

as

Friar Cautioning John Wyatt (uncredited)

1936

The Devil-Doll

as

Emil Coulvet

1941

Moon Over Miami

as

Brearley, Boulton's Butler

1933

Dangerously Yours

as

White

1941

Sullivan's Travels

as

Burroughs

1933

Midnight Mary

as

Tom's Butler Potter (uncredited)

1944

Summer Storm

as

Gregory

1935

The Gay Deception

as

Adolph

1944

Mrs. Parkington

as

Mr. Orlando (uncredited)

1934

Cockeyed Cavaliers

as

The Duke

1941

Hudson's Bay

as

Sir Robert

1936

Small Town Girl

as

Childers, Dakin's Butler

1938

The Adventures of Marco Polo

as

Chamberlain

1939

It Could Happen to You

as

Pedley

1933

Men Must Fight

as

Albert

1934

Easy to Love

as

Andrews

1934

Stingaree

as

The Innkeeper

1936

The Unguarded Hour

as

Henderson

1935

I Live for Love

as

Nightclub patron

1937

Lady Behave!

as

Alfred

1938

You Can't Take It with You

as

Lord Melville (uncredited)

1938

Midnight Intruder

as

Willetts

1933

The Mind Reader

as

Swami (uncredited)

1936

Rose Marie

as

Hotel Manager

1933

Pleasure Cruise

as

Crum

1938

Algiers

as

Giraux

1945

Love, Honor and Goodbye

as

Charles, the Butler

1934

Upperworld

as

Marc Caldwell

1932

Trouble in Paradise

as

Jacques (the Butler)

1935

The Bishop Misbehaves

as

Rosalind

1931

Tonight or Never

as

Conrad

1933

Peg o' My Heart

as

Jarvis (butler)

1932

Beauty and the Boss

as

Chappel

1943

Three Hearts for Julia

as

Cairns, Anton's Butler (uncredited)

1935

Clive of India

as

Mr. Pemberton

1935

Folies Bergère

as

Henri

1936

Theodora Goes Wild

as

Uncle John

1937

Easy Living

as

Butler

1942

Girl Trouble

as

Fields

1937

My Dear Miss Aldrich

as

The Major Domo

1933

Broadway to Hollywood

as

'Diamond Jim' Brady

1932

The Tenderfoot

as

Mack

1931

Born to Love

as

Hansom Cabby (uncredited)

1939

Tower of London

as

Friar Cautioning John Wyatt

1939

Way Down South

as

Judge Ravenal

1939

Charlie McCarthy, Detective

as

2nd Buther

1939

Drums Along the Mohawk

as

Mr. Borst

1997

Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line

as

Self (archive footage)

1933

Wonderland of California

as

Self

1949

Bride of Vengeance

as

Councillor

1940

The Thief of Bagdad

as

Man of Basra (uncredited)

1942

Laugh Your Blues Away

as

Wilfred

1930

Animal Crackers

as

Hives

1932

Horse Feathers

as

Biology Professor (uncredited)

1948

Unfaithfully Yours

as

Jules

1936

Three Live Ghosts

as

John Ferguson, Brockton's Butler

1940

No Time for Comedy

as

Robert

1944

Million Dollar Kid

as

Spevin

1933

Meet the Baron

as

Explorer (uncredited)

1945

Earl Carroll Vanities

as

Vonce the Butler

1942

I Married a Witch

as

Town Crier (uncredited)

1942

Arabian Nights

as

Eunuch

1933

It's Great to Be Alive

as

Perkins

1935

Mark of the Vampire

as

Fat Man (uncredited)

1936

Lloyd's of London

as

Lord Drayton

1945

The Picture of Dorian Gray

as

Sir Thomas

1932

Merrily We Go to Hell

as

Baritone Bartender (uncredited)

1935

Les Misérables

as

Prison Governor at Jean's Release (uncredited)

1936

The Great Ziegfeld

as

Ziegfeld's Butler (uncredited)

1933

Female

as

James, Alison's Main Butler (Uncredited)

1932

Robbers' Roost

as

Tulliver the Butler

1936

Trouble for Two

as

Fat Man

1942

The Mad Martindales

as

Wallace Butler

1942

Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake

as

Judge

1988

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

as

Self (archive footage)

1936

Easy to Take

as

Judd

1934

One More River

as

Blore

1945

Hollywood and Vine

as

Jenkins

1945

The Cheaters

as

MacFarland

1935

Woman Wanted

as

Peedles

1932

Jitters the Butler

as

Jitters, the butler

1933

They Just Had to Get Married

as

Radcliff

1932

The Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood

as

Chesterfield

1937

Michael O'Halloran

as

Craig, the Butler

1935

Les Misérables

as

Prison Governor at Jean's Release

Production

Crew

Directing