Arthur Hohl (May 21, 1889 â€" March 10, 1964) was an American stage
and motion-picture character actor. He was born in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania and began appearing in films in 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.Hohl's two performances seen most often today
are as Pete, the nasty boat engineer who tells the local sheriff about
Julie (Helen Morgan) and her husband's (Donald Cook) secret
interracial marriage in Show Boat (1936), and as Mr. Montgomery, the
man who helps Richard Arlen and Leila Hyams to make their final escape
in Island of Lost Souls (1932). He also played Brutus opposite Warren
William's Julius Caesar in Cecil B. DeMille's version of Cleopatra
(1934), starring Claudette Colbert.Among his other notable roles were
as Olivier, King Louis XI's right-hand man, in The Hunchback of Notre
Dame (1939), as the real estate agent in Charlie Chaplin's Monsieur
Verdoux (1947), and as Journet, a bereaved innkeeper who seeks to
avenge his daughter's murder in the Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes
film The Scarlet Claw (1944). Hohl also played a Christian named Titus
(no relation to Titus Andronicus) in Cecil B. DeMille's religious epic
The Sign of the Cross (1932).
and motion-picture character actor. He was born in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania and began appearing in films in 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.Hohl's two performances seen most often today
are as Pete, the nasty boat engineer who tells the local sheriff about
Julie (Helen Morgan) and her husband's (Donald Cook) secret
interracial marriage in Show Boat (1936), and as Mr. Montgomery, the
man who helps Richard Arlen and Leila Hyams to make their final escape
in Island of Lost Souls (1932). He also played Brutus opposite Warren
William's Julius Caesar in Cecil B. DeMille's version of Cleopatra
(1934), starring Claudette Colbert.Among his other notable roles were
as Olivier, King Louis XI's right-hand man, in The Hunchback of Notre
Dame (1939), as the real estate agent in Charlie Chaplin's Monsieur
Verdoux (1947), and as Journet, a bereaved innkeeper who seeks to
avenge his daughter's murder in the Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes
film The Scarlet Claw (1944). Hohl also played a Christian named Titus
(no relation to Titus Andronicus) in Cecil B. DeMille's religious epic
The Sign of the Cross (1932).
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