Film Career
He played the leading role of Reggie Ogden in the film The Shadow in 1933, and also starred in Alfred Hitchcock's 'bravest failure', Rich and Strange, US title East of Shanghai (1931).
Kendall dismisses his own cinematic work, perhaps because several of his films were quota quickies, with the remark that he "commenced film career 1931, and has appeared in innumerable pictures". But Halliwell notes that his films included:
- Tilly of Bloomsbury (1921)
- French Leave (1930)
- Rich and Strange (1931)
- The Iron Stair (1933)
- The Man Outside (1933)
- The Ghost Camera (1933)
- The Shadow (1933)
- Counsel's Opinion (1933)
- King of the Ritz (1933)
- Timbuctoo (1933)
- This Week of Grace (1933)
- The Flaw (1933)
- The Girl in Possession (1934)
- Death at Broadcasting House (1934)
- The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss (1936)
- School for Husbands (1937)
- The Compulsory Wife (1937)
- It's Not Cricket (1937)
- The Butler's Dilemma (1943)
- 29 Acacia Avenue (1945)
- The Voice of Merrill (1952)
- An Alligator Named Daisy (1955)
- Shadow of the Cat (1961)
- Nothing Barred (1961)
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