Arthur Hohl


Arthur Hohl was an American stage and motion-picture character actor.

Formative years and family

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 Wolfe
  • The Puritans
  • It Is the Law as Albert Woodruff / Sniffer
  • The Cheat as Defense Attorney
  • The Night of June 13 as Prosecuting Attorney
  • The Sign of the Cross as Titus
  • Island of Lost Souls as Montgomery
  • The Crime of the Century as Announcer
  • Infernal Machine as Ship's Captain
  • The Life of Jimmy Dolan as Herman Malvin
  • The Silk Express as Wallace Myton
  • Private Detective 62 as Hogan
  • The Narrow Corner as Captain Nichols
  • Baby Face as Ed Sipple
  • Captured! as Cocky
  • Brief Moment as Steve Walsh
  • Wild Boys of the Road as Dr. Heckel
  • Footlight Parade as Frazer
  • The Kennel Murder Case as Gamble - the Butler
  • Man's Castle as Bragg
  • College Coach as Seymour Young
  • The World Changes as Mr. Patten
  • Massacre as Dr. Turner
  • As the Earth Turns as George
  • Jimmy the Gent as Joe
  • A Modern Hero as Homer Flint
  • The Defense Rests as James Randolph
  • Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back as Dr. Sothern
  • Girl in Danger as Albert Beckett
  • Among the Missing as Gordon
  • Cleopatra as Brutus
  • Lady by Choice as Kendall
  • Against the Law as Kelly
  • Jealousy as Mike Callahan
  • Romance in Manhattan as Halsey J. Pander
  • The Whole Town's Talking as Detective Sergeant Boyle
  • In Spite of Danger as Steve Lynch
  • I'll Love You Always as Jergens
  • Eight Bells as Williams
  • One Frightened Night as Arthur Proctor
  • Village Tale as Elmer Stevenson
  • Unknown Woman as Lansing
  • After the Dance as Louie
  • Atlantic Adventure as Frank Julian
  • Case of the Missing Man as Steve
  • Guard That Girl as Reynolds
  • Super Speed as Philip Morton
  • We're Only Human as Conroy
  • If You Could Only Cook as Lawyer John Martin
  • The Lone Wolf Returns as Undetermined Supporting Role
  • It Had to Happen as Honest John Pelkey
  • Show Boat as Pete
  • Forgotten Faces as Hi-Jack Eddie
  • The Devil-Doll as Victor Radin
  • Lloyd's of London as First Captain
  • The Road Back as Heinrich
  • Slave Ship as Grimes
  • Mountain Music as Prosecuting Attorney
  • Trapped by G-Men as Henchman Blackie
  • Hot Water as Walter Whittaker
  • The Bad Man of Brimstone as 'Doc' Laramie
  • Penitentiary as Finch
  • Kidnapped as Riach
  • Crime Takes a Holiday as Joe Whitehead
  • Stablemates as Mr. Gale
  • Boy Slaves as Sheriff
  • You Can't Cheat an Honest Man as Burr
  • Help Wanted as Graham - Head of Employment Agency
  • They Shall Have Music as Miller
  • Fugitive at Large as Curtis
  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes as Bassick
  • Blackmail as Rawlins
  • Two Thoroughbreds as Thaddeus Carey
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame as Olivier
  • 20 Mule Team as Salters
  • Blondie Has Servant Trouble as Eric Vaughn
  • Men of Boys Town as Guard
  • Ride on Vaquero as Sheriff Johnny Burns
  • We Go Fast as Hold-Up Man
  • Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake as Captain Greenough
  • Moontide as Jennings
  • Whispering Ghosts as Inspector Norris
  • City Without Men as Convict
  • Idaho as Spike Madagan
  • The Woman of the Town as Robert Wright
  • The Spider Woman as Adam Gilflower
  • The Scarlet Claw as Emile Journet
  • The 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 Clayton
  • Salome, Where She Danced as Bartender
  • The Thin Man Goes Home
  • The Frozen Ghost as Skeptic
  • Love Letters as Jupp
  • Our Vines Have Tender Grapes sa Dvar Svenson
  • The Yearling as Arch Forrester
  • Monsieur Verdoux as Real Estate Agent
  • It Happened on 5th Avenue as Brady - Gates Patrolman
  • The Vigilantes Return as Sheriff
  • The Three Musketeers as Dragon Rouge Host
  • You Gotta Stay Happy as Cemetery Man
  • Down to the Sea in Ships as Blair