Evelyn Charles Warburton Gamble (16 December 1882 – 27 August 1945) was a British stage and film actor.
Gamble was born on 16 December 1882 in London and acted on stage professionally as early as 1905. His work on stage included a season of acting with the Theater Guild Repertory Company in San Francisco. He debuted on Broadway in Love and the Man (1905), appeared with Auriol Lee in Milestones (1912) and last performed on Broadway in Tonight or Never (1930).
Gamble's film debut occurred in The Unforeseen (1917). He spent a number of years working in Hollywood during the silent and early sound eras. He played the role of Doctor Watson in the 1933 Sherlock Holmes film A Study in Scarlet. His final two films were at Ealing Studios.
Gamble was married to English actress Gillian Scaife. He died on 27 August 1945 in London.
Filmography Year Title Role Notes1917 The Unforeseen Henry Traquair 1918 Thirty a Week Freddy Ruyter 1919 The Silver King Herbert Skinner 1919 The Two Brides Count Gabrielle di Marchesi 1919 As a Man Thinks Benjamin De Lota 1919 A Society Exile Lord Bissett 1919 La Belle Russe Phillip Sackton 1919 The Invisible Bond Otis Vale 1920 The Paliser Case Monty Paliser 1920 The Cost Mowbray Langdon 1920 The Law of the Yukon Medford Delaney 1921 Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby Gordon Pell 1921 Fine Feathers John Brand 1921 Dangerous Lies Leonard Pearce 1923 Lights of London Clifford Armytage 1931 Tonight or Never Count Albert von Gronac 1932 As You Desire Me Baron 1932 Fast Life Halstead 1933 Tonight Is Ours Alex 1933 Child of Manhattan Eggleston 1933 A Study in Scarlet Dr. Watson 1933 By Candlelight Baron von Ballin 1936 Blind Man's Bluff Tracy 1936 Lonely Road Fedden 1940 Spare a Copper Sir Robert (final film role)
Bibliography Hardy, Phil. The BFI Companion to Crime. University of California Press, 1997.
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Warburton Gamble (striped pants) in the 1915 Broadway play Outcast with costars Charles Cherry, Elsie Ferguson, and J. Woodall Birde (University of Washington, Sayre Digital Collection)