Robert Graves on AllMovie

Onscreen from 1925, bespectacled supporting actor Robert Graves (not to be confused with the belletrist and historian of the same name) usually played officious types, often in Westerns. Demoted to bit roles after the changeover to sound, Graves -- who numbered fluency in French among his accomplishments -- often portrayed headwaiters, doormen, ship's captains (piloting the near empty "Ile de France" across the Atlantic in The King and the Chorus Girl, 1937), and of course chefs.