George Zucco
George Zucco
George Zucco was a British character actor who appeared in plays and 96 films, mostly American-made, during a career spanning over two decades. He was known for The Dreyfus Case (1931), Victoria Regina, and appeared with Gary Cooper and George Raft in Souls at Sea (1937). Next he played Professor Moriarty in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939), opposite Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson. Zucco earned a reputation as a bespectacled, nefarious character in films such as After the Thin Man, Fast Company, Arrest Bulldog Drummond, Charlie Chan in Honolulu, The Cat and the Canary, and My Favorite Blonde. During the 1940s, he was in The Mummy's Hand (1940), The Mummy's Tomb (1942), The Mad Monster (1942), The Mad Ghoul (1943), Dead Men Walk (1943), The Mummy's Ghost (1944), House of Frankenstein (1944), and Tarzan and the Mermaids (1948).
