Robert Adolph Wilton Morley, CBE (26 May 1908 – 3 June 1992) was an English actor who, often in supporting roles, was usually cast as a pompous English gentleman

Gentleman

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 representing the Establishment

The Establishment

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. In Movie Encyclopedia, film critic Leonard Maltin

Leonard Maltin

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 describes Morley as "recognizable by his ungainly bulk, bushy eyebrows, thick lips, and double chin, […] particularly effective when cast as a pompous windbag". More politely, Ephraim Katz

Ephraim Katz

Ephraim Katz was a writer, journalist, and filmmaker who devoted his life to gathering the information in his book, The Film Encyclopedia, first published in 1979....

 in his International Film Encyclopaedia describes Morley as a "a rotund, triple-chinned, delightful character player of the British and American stage and screen."
Morley was born in Semley

Semley

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, Wiltshire

Wiltshire

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, England

England

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, the son of Gertrude Emily (née Fass) and Robert Wilton Morley, a Major in the British Army.