Arthur Hohl
Arthur Hohl was an American stage and motion-picture character actor.
Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on May 21, 1889, Hohl began appearing in films during the early 1920s. He played a great number of villainous or mildly larcenous roles, although his screen roles usually were small, but he also played a few sympathetic characters.
In 1920, Hohl married Jessie E. Gray, who survived him when he died in 1964. The couple had no children.
Career
Hohl's two performances seen most often today are as Pete, the nasty boat engineer who tells the local sheriff about Julie and her husband 's secret interracial marriage in Show Boat, and as Mr. Montgomery, the man who helps Richard Arlen and Leila Hyams make their final escape in Island of Lost Souls. He also played Brutus opposite Warren William's Julius Caesar in Cecil B. DeMille's version of Cleopatra, starring Claudette Colbert.
Among his other notable roles were as Olivier, King Louis XI's right-hand man, in The Hunchback of Notre Dame, as the real estate agent in Charlie Chaplin's Monsieur Verdoux, and as Journet, a bereaved innkeeper who seeks to avenge his daughter's murder in the Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes film The Scarlet Claw. Hohl also played a Christian named Titus in Cecil B. DeMille's religious epic The Sign of the Cross.
Many sources claim that Hohl played a monk in the 1943 film classic The Song of Bernadette, but he is nowhere to be seen in the finished film.
Hohl also appeared on the Broadway stage in plays by William Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw, and Henrik Ibsen. Some of his stage roles, such as Sir Andrew Aguecheek in a 1930 Broadway revival of Twelfth Night, were considerably larger than his film roles.
Filmography
Wolfe and Montcalm as Gen. James WolfeThe Puritans It Is the Law as Albert Woodruff / SnifferThe Cheat as Defense Attorney The Night of June 13 as Prosecuting AttorneyThe Sign of the Cross as TitusIsland of Lost Souls as MontgomeryThe Crime of the Century as Announcer Infernal Machine as Ship's CaptainThe Life of Jimmy Dolan as Herman MalvinThe Silk Express as Wallace MytonPrivate Detective 62 as HoganThe Narrow Corner as Captain NicholsBaby Face as Ed SippleCaptured! as CockyBrief Moment as Steve WalshWild Boys of the Road as Dr. HeckelFootlight Parade as FrazerThe Kennel Murder Case as Gamble - the ButlerMan's Castle as BraggCollege Coach as Seymour YoungThe World Changes as Mr. PattenMassacre as Dr. TurnerAs the Earth Turns as GeorgeJimmy the Gent as JoeA Modern Hero as Homer FlintThe Defense Rests as James RandolphBulldog Drummond Strikes Back as Dr. SothernGirl in Danger as Albert BeckettAmong the Missing as GordonCleopatra as BrutusLady by Choice as KendallAgainst the Law as KellyJealousy as Mike CallahanRomance in Manhattan as Halsey J. PanderThe Whole Town's Talking as Detective Sergeant BoyleIn Spite of Danger as Steve LynchI'll Love You Always as JergensEight Bells as WilliamsOne Frightened Night as Arthur ProctorVillage Tale as Elmer StevensonUnknown Woman as LansingAfter the Dance as LouieAtlantic Adventure as Frank JulianCase of the Missing Man as SteveGuard That Girl as ReynoldsSuper Speed as Philip MortonWe're Only Human as Conroy If You Could Only Cook as Lawyer John MartinThe Lone Wolf Returns as Undetermined Supporting Role It Had to Happen as Honest John PelkeyShow Boat as PeteForgotten Faces as Hi-Jack EddieThe Devil-Doll as Victor RadinLloyd's of London as First CaptainThe Road Back as HeinrichSlave Ship as GrimesMountain Music as Prosecuting Attorney Trapped by G-Men as Henchman BlackieHot Water as Walter WhittakerThe Bad Man of Brimstone as 'Doc' LaramiePenitentiary as Finch Kidnapped as RiachCrime Takes a Holiday as Joe WhiteheadStablemates as Mr. GaleBoy Slaves as SheriffYou Can't Cheat an Honest Man as BurrHelp Wanted as Graham - Head of Employment Agency They Shall Have Music as MillerFugitive at Large as CurtisThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes as BassickBlackmail as RawlinsTwo Thoroughbreds as Thaddeus CareyThe Hunchback of Notre Dame as Olivier20 Mule Team as SaltersBlondie Has Servant Trouble as Eric VaughnMen of Boys Town as GuardRide on Vaquero as Sheriff Johnny BurnsWe Go Fast as Hold-Up ManSon of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake as Captain GreenoughMoontide as JenningsWhispering Ghosts as Inspector NorrisCity Without Men as Convict Idaho as Spike MadaganThe Woman of the Town as Robert WrightThe Spider Woman as Adam GilflowerThe Scarlet Claw as Emile JournetThe Eve of St. Mark as Sheep-Wagon Driver Shadows in the Night as Riggs Irish Eyes Are Smiling as Barker Mystery of the River Boat as ClaytonSalome, Where She Danced as BartenderThe Thin Man Goes Home The Frozen Ghost as SkepticLove Letters as Jupp Our Vines Have Tender Grapes sa Dvar Svenson The Yearling as Arch Forrester Monsieur Verdoux as Real Estate AgentIt Happened on 5th Avenue as Brady - Gates Patrolman The Vigilantes Return as SheriffThe Three Musketeers as Dragon Rouge Host You Gotta Stay Happy as Cemetery ManDown to the Sea in Ships as Blair