High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Herbert Mundin (21 August 1898 5 March 1939) was an English-born Hollywood character actor. He was frequently typecast in films as older cheeky eccentrics, a type helped by his jowled features and cheerful Cockney disposition. He was born Herbert Thomas Mundin in St Helens, then in Lancashire (now part of Merseyside). His father was a nomadic, Primitive Methodist home missionary. His family moved within a short time of his birth to St Albans in Hertfordshire (the 1901 census data reveals that the family lived at St Helens Villa, Paxton Road, St Albans; his parents William and Jane apparently naming their house after the town where they first met and where Herbert was born).