Billy Bevan

🎂 Data nașterii: 1887-09-29 (Orange, New South Wales, Australia)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Billy Bevan (born William Bevan Harris, 29 September 1887 – 26 November 1957) was an Australian-born vaudevillian, who became an American film actor. He appeared in 254 American films between 1916 and 1950. Bevan was born in the country town of Orange, New South Wales, Australia. He went on the stage at an early age, traveled to Sydney and spent eight years in Australian light opera, performing as Willie Bevan. He sailed to America with the Pollard’s Lilliputian Opera Company in 1912 and later toured Canada. Bevan broke into films with the Sigmund Lubin studio in 1916. When the company disbanded, Bevan became a supporting actor in Mack Sennett movie comedies. An expressive pantomimist, Bevan's quiet scene-stealing attracted attention, and by 1922 Bevan was a Sennett star. He supplemented his income, however, by establishing a citrus and avocado farm at Escondido, California. Usually filmed wearing a derby hat and a drooping mustache, Bevan may not have possessed an indelible screen character like Charlie Chaplin but he had a friendly, funny presence in the frantic Sennett comedies. Much of the comedy depended on Bevan's skilled timing and reactions; the famous "oyster" routine performed on film by Curly Howard, Lou Costello, and Huntz Hall—in which a bowl of "fresh oyster stew" shows alarming signs of life and battles the guy trying to eat it—was originated on film decades earlier by Bevan in the short film Wandering Willies. By the mid-1920s Bevan was often teamed with Andy Clyde; Clyde soon graduated to his own starring series. The late 1920s found Bevan playing in wild marital farces for Sennett. The advent of talking pictures took their toll on the careers of many silent stars, including Billy Bevan. Bevan began a second career in "talkies" as a character actor and bit player in roles such as that of a bus driver in the 1929 film High Voltage, a hotel employee in the Mae Murray film Peacock Alley, and the supporting role of Second Lieutenant Trotter in Journey's End in 1930. His starring roles had come to an end, however, and for the next 20 years he often would play rowdy Cockneys (as in Pack Up Your Troubles with The Ritz Brothers), and affable Englishmen (as in Tin Pan Alley and Terror by Night). He played a friendly bus conductor opposite Greer Garson in one of the opening scenes of Mrs. Miniver. Bevan died in 1957 in Escondido, California, just before new audiences discovered him in Robert Youngson's silent-comedy compilations. (The Youngson films mispronounce his name as "Be-VAN"; Bevan himself offered the proper pronunciation in a Voice of Hollywood reel in 1930.)

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Rebecca

Bringing Up Baby

The Secret Of St. Ives

Terror by Night

Fiica lui Dracula

Suspiciunea

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

Fortunes of Captain Blood

Pop's Pal

The Pearl of Death

Off His Trolley

A Tale of Two Cities

Around the Town: British Film Stars and Studios

The Invisible Man Returns

The Invisible Man's Revenge

Payment Deferred

Mysterious Mr. Moto

Tonight and Every Night

Journey's End

The Girl of the Golden West

Bombs and Bandits

The Lost Patrol

Gold Digger of Weepah

The Girl from Everywhere

The Bicycle Flirt

The Girl from Nowhere

Motorboat Mamas

Hubby's Weekend Trip

Don't Get Jealous

Counter-Espionage

Cavalcade

Calling Hubby's Bluff

Pink Pajamas

Musclebound Music

Hayfoot, Strawfoot?

East of the Water Plug

The Man Who Wouldn't Die

From Rags to Britches

Trimmed in Gold

Should Sleepwalkers Marry?

Should Husbands Marry?

Pitfalls of a Big City

Inbad the Sailor

One Spooky Night

The Cannon Ball Express

Wandering Waistlines

The Crossroads of New York

Little Robinson Corkscrew

Sneezing Beezers

Over Thereabouts

Peaches and Plumbers

Cured in the Excitement

The Bull Fighter

Weak But Willing

God's Country and the Woman

Pirates of the Air

Luxury Liner

His New Stenographer

High Voltage

Butter Fingers

Wandering Willies

Hubby’s Quiet Little Game

Vanity Fair

The Best Man

The Beach Club

Piccadilly Jim

Mrs. Miniver

Sky Devils

Ça, c'est du cinéma

Limehouse Blues

Super-Hooper-Dyne Lizzies

Stingaree

Slave Ship

Hoboken to Hollywood

Lizzies of the Field

Flirty Four-Flushers

Masked Mamas

Astray from the Steerage