Back in Britain he was generally typecast as shifty opportunists, public servants, domineering fathers or military types. He alternated smoothly between charming or dependable and menacing or sinister. Generally typed as a quintessential Englishman.
Just a few of his many films include Rhodes of Africa 1936, The Four Just Men 1939, The Farmers Wife 1941, The Big Blockade 1942, Next of Kin (as the Naval Captain pictured) 1942, as Major Ortler in Went the Day Well 1942, Jassy 1947, Captain Smollett in Treasue island 1950, Ivanhoe 1952 and The Dambusters 1955.
He died in 1968.