Oliver Peters Heggie Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Oliver Peters Heggie (17 September 1877 – 7 February 1936) was an Australian film and theatre actor.He was born at Angaston, South Australia to a local sheep farmer and educated at Whinham College and the Adelaide Conservatoire of Music. He died in Los Angeles of pneumonia. He is buried at Woodside Cemetery, Yarmouth Port, Barnstable County, Massachusetts.
Hollywood character actor of the late 20s and earlier 30s remembered for his role as the blind hermit who befriends the Creature, portrayed so memorably by Boris Karloff, with wine and tobacco in 'Bride of Frankenstein' (1935).
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Heggie was born in Angaston, in South Australia's Barossa Valley, the son of a sheep farmer. He was educated at Whinham College and the Adelaide Conservatoire of Music and started working life as a bank clerk. He began acting on stage at the Theatre Royal in Adelaide in 1899. He performed in Australia and New Zealand, before moving to Britain and, from there, to America. There, he first acted on Broadway in 1907 and entered films with MGM in 1928.
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In 1916 Heggie appeared on Broadway in a drama called Justice, which marked a turning point in the career of the leading man, 34 year-old John Barrymore. In the final scene of the play, Barrymore lies dead on the stage while Heggie speaks a eulogy over him. After the play had been running a while, the supposedly dead Barrymore would attempt to make Heggie laugh during his speech by mumbling obscenities, pretending to kill cockroaches, or stifling sneezes. Finally Heggie walked out, forcing an understudy to take his part for three performances. After Barrymore promised to behave himself and gave him a bottle of champagne as a peace offering, Heggie returned to the play.
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Immigrated to the United States in 1901.
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Heggie's was the performance parodied by Gene Hackman in Mel Brooks's 'Young Frankenstein' (1974).
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Prisoner of Shark Island
1936
Dr. MacIntyre
Ginger
1935
Rexford Whittington
Chasing Yesterday
1935
Sylvestre Bonnard
Bride of Frankenstein
1935
Hermit
A Dog of Flanders
1935
Grandfather Jehan Daas
Anne of Green Gables
1934
Matthew
Peck's Bad Boy
1934
Duffy
The Count of Monte Cristo
1934
Abbe Faria
Midnight
1934
Edward Weldon
Zoo in Budapest
1933
Dr. Grunbaum
The King's Vacation
1933
Joel Thorpe
Smilin' Through
1932
Dr. Owen
Devotion
1931
Mr. Mortimer
The Woman Between
1931/II
John Whitcomb
Too Young to Marry
1931
Cyrus Bumpstead
East Lynne
1931
Lord Mount Severn
Sunny
1930
Peters
Playboy of Paris
1930
Philibert
The Bad Man
1930
Henry Taylor
One Romantic Night
1930
Father Benedict
The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu
1930
Inspector Nayland Smith
The Vagabond King
1930
King Louis XI
The Mighty
1929
J.K. Patterson
The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu
1929
Inspector Nayland Smith
The Wheel of Life
1929
Col. John Dangan
The Letter
1929
Howard Joyce
The Actress
1928
Vice-Chancellor Sir William Gower
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
Bride of Frankenstein
1935
performer: "Ave Maria Op.52 No.1" 1825 - uncredited
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
Universal Horror
1998
TV Movie documentary
It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein
1994
TV Movie documentary
The Horror Show
1979
TV Movie documentary
Don Adams' Screen Test
1975
TV Series
Known for movies
Bride of Frankenstein (1935) as Hermit
Midnight (1934) as Edward Weldon
The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936) as Dr. MacIntyre
$12 Million
