Born
18 February 1901 (125)
Place of Birth
London, England, UK
Also known as
Matthew Reginald Sheffield Cassan, Eric Desmond
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Reginald Sheffield was born Matthew Reginald Sheffield Cassan in the St. George's, Hanover Square district of London, to Matthew Sheffield Cassan and Alice Mary Field. He had a brother, Edward Sheffield Cassan, and a sister, Flora Kathleen Sheffield Cassan, who became an actress known as Flora Sheffield. His father was born in Ireland and his mother in England. They were married in London in 1892. Matthew died when Reginald was nine. In 1913 Reginald (bill...
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Reginald Sheffield was born Matthew Reginald Sheffield Cassan in the St. George's, Hanover Square district of London, to Matthew Sheffield Cassan and Alice Mary Field. He had a brother, Edward Sheffield Cassan, and a sister, Flora Kathleen Sheffield Cassan, who became an actress known as Flora Sheffield. His father was born in Ireland and his mother in England. They were married in London in 1892. Matthew died when Reginald was nine. In 1913 Reginald (billed as Eric Desmond) appeared in David Copperfield. In 1914, Alice Sheffield and her children emigrated to the United States, where they lived in Queens, New York. Reginald acted on the stage and in films. While his sister Flora was an actress, brother Edward worked as an accountant in a bank and later became a theatrical agent. Sheffield's Broadway performances credited as Reggie Sheffield include Evidence (1914), in which his mother also appeared, The Merry Wives of Windsor (1916), If (1917), The Betrothal (1918), and Helena's Boys (1924). His performances credited as Reginald Sheffield include Youth (1920), The Way Things Happen (1924), Hay Fever (1925), Slaves All (1926), Soldiers and Women (1929), and Dear Old England (1930). Reginald Sheffield was married in 1927 to Louise Van Loon (21 January 1905 – 14 April 1987), a New York-born Vassar College graduate with a liberal arts education. The couple had three children: Mary Alice Sheffield Cassan (born 1928), Jon Matthew Sheffield Cassan (11 April 1931 – 15 October 2010) (aka actor Johnny Sheffield), and William Hart Sheffield Cassan (15 July 1935 – 12 December 2010) (actor Billy Sheffield). As film production became more and more located in Southern California, Sheffield and his wife travelled back and forth between New York City and Los Angeles. After several years they moved permanently to the West Coast. Being a trained stage actor, Sheffield easily made the transition from silent films to talkies. He was a working actor who became memorable in numerous character and supporting roles and appeared with some of the greatest film stars of the day, including Constance Bennett, William Powell, George Arliss, Loretta Young, Gary Cooper, Errol Flynn, Rosalind Russell, Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine. In 1954, he began starring as Professor Mayberry in the television series Rocky Jones, Space Ranger. And after his son, Johnny Sheffield [of first the Tarzan then the Bomba films series], appeared in his last jungle film in 1955, Reginald created, produced and directed a pilot for a television series, Bantu, the Zebra Boy, but a sponsor was not found and the show was never produced as a weekly series. Sheffield acted in both versions, 1938 and 1958, of Cecil B. DeMille's The Buccaneer, the latter being his last screen appearance. Reginald Sheffield died 8 December 1957 at his home in Pacific Palisades, California, aged 56.
Marjorie Morningstar
1958
The Story of Mankind
1957
Secret of Treasure Mountain
1956
23 Paces to Baker Street
1956
The Black Shield of Falworth
1954
Second Chance
1953
The Story of Three Loves
1953
Prison Warden
1949
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
1949
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands
1948
The Three Musketeers
1948
A Woman's Vengeance
1948
The Exile
1947
Singapore
1947
The Searching Wind
1946
Devotion
1946
Three Strangers
1946
Captain Kidd
1945
My Name Is Julia Ross
1945
The Man in Half Moon Street
1945
Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
1944
My Kingdom for a Cook
1943
Appointment in Berlin
1943
Eyes in the Night
1942
Eagle Squadron
1942
Suspicion
1941
The Lady Eve
1941
Hudson's Bay
1940
Arise, My Love
1940
Earthbound
1940
My Son, My Son!
1940
Vigil in the Night
1940
Gunga Din
1939
Female Fugitive
1938
The Buccaneer
1938
The White Angel
1936
Splendor
1935
Society Fever
1935
Cardinal Richelieu
1935
Charlie Chan in London
1934