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Billy Bevan(1887-1957)

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  • Director
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Billy Bevan
Billy Bevan's show-business career began in his native Australia, with the Pollard theatrical organization. The company had two theater troupes, one which toured Asia and the other traveling to North America. Bevan wound up in the latter, performing in skits and plays all over Canada and Alaska then down into the continental US. While in a road company of the play "A Knight for a Day", Bevan was noticed by comedy pioneer Mack Sennett, who hired him on the spot. Bevan made many one- and two-reel shorts for Sennett over a ten-year period, and then transitioned into a reliable comic actor in many Hollywood comedies over the next 20 years or so (even doing voice-overs for cartoons). He made his last film in 1950, then retired. He died in Escondido, CA, in 1957.
BornSeptember 29, 1887
DiedNovember 26, 1957(70)
BornSeptember 29, 1887
DiedNovember 26, 1957(70)
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Billy Bevan, Johnny Burke, and Daphne Pollard in The Lion's Roar (1928)
Billy Bevan, Reginald Denny, and Victor McLaglen in The Lost Patrol (1934)
Billy Bevan and Paul Hanson in The Lost Patrol (1934)
Billy Bevan in The Lost Patrol (1934)
Billy Bevan and Alice Howell in Lizzie's Lingering Love (1916)
Billy Bevan in Super-Hooper-Dyne Lizzies (1925)
Billy Bevan and John J. Richardson in Super-Hooper-Dyne Lizzies (1925)
Billy Bevan in Even as Him and Her (1917)
Billy Bevan and Greta Nissen in The Silent Witness (1932)
Billy Bevan and Jennifer Jones in Cluny Brown (1946)
Alma Bennett, Billy Bevan, and Vernon Dent in The Best Man (1928)
Billy Bevan in The Best Man (1928)

Known for

Ingrid Bergman, Spencer Tracy, and Lana Turner in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
6.8
  • Mr. Weller
  • 1941
Myrna Loy and Montagu Love in Vanity Fair (1932)
Vanity Fair
5.6
  • Joseph Sedley
  • 1932
Elizabeth Allan, Ronald Colman, and Donald Woods in A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
A Tale of Two Cities
7.8
  • Jerry Cruncher
  • 1935
Colin Clive and David Manners in Journey's End (1930)
Journey's End
7.0
  • 2nd Lt. Trotter
  • 1930

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  • Hans Christian Andersen (1952)
    Hans Christian Andersen
    • (uncredited)
  • David Alpert and Frances Rafferty in Your Jeweler's Showcase (1952)
    Your Jeweler's Showcase
    • (as William Bevan)
  • Patricia Neal, Eleanor Parker, and Ruth Roman in Three Secrets (1950)
    Three Secrets
    • (uncredited)
  • Rogues of Sherwood Forest (1950)
    Rogues of Sherwood Forest
    • (as William Bevan)
  • Fortunes of Captain Blood (1950)
    Fortunes of Captain Blood
    • (as William Bevan)
  • Robert Cummings and Rosalind Russell in Tell It to the Judge (1949)
    Tell It to the Judge
    • (uncredited)
  • Errol Flynn, Robert Young, Greer Garson, and Walter Pidgeon in That Forsyte Woman (1949)
    That Forsyte Woman
    • (uncredited)
  • Vanessa Brown and Richard Ney in The Secret of St. Ives (1949)
    The Secret of St. Ives
    • (uncredited)
  • The Secret Garden (1949)
    The Secret Garden
  • Hedy Lamarr and Robert Cummings in Let's Live a Little (1948)
    Let's Live a Little
    • (uncredited)
  • Janet Blair and Louis Hayward in The Black Arrow (1948)
    The Black Arrow
    • (as William Bevan)
  • Ellen Drew and Larry Parks in The Swordsman (1948)
    The Swordsman
    • (as William Bevan)
  • Ginger Rogers and Cornel Wilde in It Had to Be You (1947)
    It Had to Be You
    • (as William Bevan)
  • Love from a Stranger (1947)
    Love from a Stranger
    • (uncredited)
  • Ethel Barrymore, Victor Mature, and Peggy Cummins in Moss Rose (1947)
    Moss Rose
    • (uncredited)

Director

  • Billy Armstrong, Billy Bevan, and Louise Fazenda in The Quack Doctor (1920)
    The Quack Doctor

Soundtrack

  • Ellen Drew and Larry Parks in The Swordsman (1948)
    The Swordsman
    • (uncredited)
  • Paul Cavanagh and Helen Wood in Champagne Charlie (1936)
    Champagne Charlie
    • (uncredited)
  • Carole Lombard, William Boyd, and Diane Ellis in High Voltage (1929)
    High Voltage
    • (uncredited)

Personal details

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    • September 29, 1887
    • Orange, New South Wales, Australia
    • November 26, 1957
    • Escondido, California, USA(undisclosed)
    • October 16, 1954 - November 26, 1957 (his death)
  • Stage and opera actor.
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    He appeared in three Best Picture Academy Award winners: Cavalcade (1933), Rebecca (1940) and Mrs. Miniver (1942). He was also in four other Best Picture nominees: A Tale of Two Cities (1935), Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), The Long Voyage Home (1940) and Suspicion (1941).

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