Jack Hobbs (actor)

{{Short description|British actor (1893–1968)}}

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| name = Jack Hobbs

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| birth_date = 28 September 1893

| birth_place = London
United Kingdom

| death_date = 4 June 1968 (aged 74)

| death_place = Brighton, East Sussex
United Kingdom

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| occupation = Actor

| yearsactive = 1915–1940 (film)

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Jack Hobbs (28 September 1893 – 4 June 1968) was a British stage and film actor who appeared in more than forty films.{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f46c515|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170922014427/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f46c515|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 September 2017|title=Jack Hobbs}} After making his debut in the 1915 silent The Yoke Hobbs appeared in a mixture of leading and supporting roles in both the silent and sound eras. He played the hero in several quota quickies of the 1930s, including All That Glitters (1936).Low p.289 He was cast as an effectively glib, smooth-talking antagonist in two George Formby films No Limit (1935) and It's in the Air (1938).{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lXnXDQAAQBAJ&dq=jack+hobbs+The+Encyclopedia+of+British+Film%3A+Fourth+edition&pg=PA358|title=The Encyclopedia of British Film: Fourth edition|first=Brian|last=McFarlane|date=16 May 2016|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9781526111975}}

His West End appearances included The Dancers (1923), Betty in Mayfair (1925) and Admirals All (1934).