- Born
- Died
- Birth nameHugh Fitzroy Emerton
- Roy Emerton was a big, brawny character actor whose scarred face and resounding deep voice made him a natural for menacing roles. One of his best and most typical was as the evil Boss McGinty in The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes (1935).
- IMDb mini biography by: Peter W. Many, Jr. (pmsusana)
- SpouseCatherine Lacey(1936 - 1944) (his death)
- Saw military service in World War I.
- Prior to acting on the Shakespearean stage in London, he was variously employed as a fireman, miner, stevedore, railroad worker and cowboy.
- He died only eight days after the release of his final film Henry V (1944).
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