Philip Merivale was an English film and stage actor and screenwriter.
Merivale in The Stranger (1946)
After creating the role of Col. Pickering in the London production of Pygmalion, Philip Merivale (second from right) played Henry Higgins opposite Mrs. Patrick Campbell (right) when Shaw's play was taken to Broadway (1914)
Philip Merivale and Patricia Collinge in the Broadway production of Pollyanna (1916)
The Stranger is a 1946 American thriller film noir directed and co-written by Orson Welles, starring Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young and Orson Welles. Welles's third completed feature film as director and his first film noir, it centers on a war crimes investigator tracking a high-ranking Nazi fugitive to a Connecticut town. It is the first Hollywood film to present documentary footage of the Holocaust.
Theatrical release poster
Left to right: Edward G. Robinson, Richard Long, Loretta Young, Martha Wentworth, Orson Welles, Philip Merivale, Byron Keith, and an unidentified actress in The Stranger (1946)
Welles and Billy House in The Stranger
Wilson (Edward G. Robinson) steps into the projected image of the Holocaust footage in The Stranger