Warburton Gamble

Evelyn Charles Warburton Gamble (16 December 1882 – 27 August 1945) was a British stage and film actor. Gamble 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.

Warburton Gamble
Gamble in ad for As a Man Thinks (1919)
Born	Evelyn Charles Warburton Gamble (1882-12-16)16 December 1882 London, England, UK
Died	27 August 1945(1945-08-27) (aged 62) London, England, UK
Occupation	Actor

Gamble with Elsie Ferguson in A Society Exile 1919.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1917	The Unforseen	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	The 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.

External links

• Warburton Gamble on IMDb
• Warburton Gamble at the Internet Broadway Database
• 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)