Herbert Banemann Rawlinson (15 November 1885 – 12 July 1953) was an English-born stage, film, radio, and television actor.

Rawlinson was born in New Brighton, Cheshire, England, UK on 15 November 1885.

[1] He was one of the four sons and three daughters of Robert Theodore Rawlinson and his wife Emily.

[2][3] He sailed to America on the same ship as Charlie Chaplin and established himself as a leading man in the silent movies, before making the transition as a character actor in the "talkies".

He died of lung cancer in 1953, immediately after starring in Ed Wood's 1954 crime drama Jail Bait.