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2 unusual facts about Henry Daniell


Henry Daniell

In the 1950s and 1960s, he did much television, and also appeared as the malevolent Dr. Emil Zurich in Edward L. Cahn's The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake (1959), and in an episode of Maverick, "Pappy" opposite James Garner the same year.

In 1957, Daniell appeared as King Charles II of England in the NBC anthology series The Joseph Cotten Show in the episode "The Trial of Colonel Blood", with Michael Wilding in the title role.


Sherlock Holmes in Washington

George Zucco played Professor Moriarty in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939), while Henry Daniell would portray him in the subsequent Holmes film The Woman in Green (1945).


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Frederick Cardozo

Cardozo's mother, Simone, was the daughter of Henry Daniell, who ran a china and antiques business in Wigmore Street, London; through his trade interests he had helped to organise the Wallace Collection and the Pierpont Morgan Collection.