Billy Bevan






























Billy Bevan

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Billy Bevan

Born
William Bevan Harris


(1887-09-29)29 September 1887

Orange, New South Wales, Australia

Died 26 November 1957(1957-11-26) (aged 70)

Escondido, California, U.S.

Years active 1916–1950
Spouse(s) Leona Roberts (1917–52)
Children 2

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.




Contents






  • 1 Career


  • 2 Selected filmography


  • 3 Gallery


  • 4 See also


  • 5 References


  • 6 External links





Career


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.[1] He sailed to America with the Pollard’s Lilliputian Opera Company in 1912 and later toured Canada.[2] 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).[3] 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.)



Selected filmography





  • Distilled Love (1920, Short)


  • Married Life (1920) - Hospital Staff / Janitor (uncredited)


  • Love, Honor and Behave! (1920) - A Fake Lawyer


  • A Small Town Idol (1921) - Director


  • Home Talent (1921) - Minor Role (uncredited)


  • The Crossroads of New York (1922) - Press Agent


  • Oh, Daddy! (1922)


  • The Extra Girl (1923) - Comedian


  • The White Sin (1924) - Travers Dale


  • Flirty Four-Flushers (1926, Short) - Jerry Connors / Archibald De Shyster


  • Easy Pickings (1927) - The Detective


  • The Girl from Everywhere (1927) - Messenger


  • Riley the Cop (1928) - Paris Cabman (uncredited)


  • High Voltage (1929) - Gus (The Driver)


  • The Trespasser (1929) - Reporter (uncredited)


  • The Sky Hawk (1929) - Tom Berry


  • Peacock Alley (1930)


  • Journey's End (1930)


  • Chances (1931)


  • Transatlantic (1931)


  • Cavalcade (1933)


  • Luxury Liner (1933)


  • A Study in Scarlet (1933)


  • Too Much Harmony (1933)


  • The Lost Patrol (1934)


  • A Tale of Two Cities (1935)


  • Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)


  • Dracula's Daughter (1936)


  • Private Number (1936)


  • Another Dawn (1937)


  • The Wrong Road (1937)


  • The Girl of the Golden West (1938)


  • Let Freedom Ring (1939)


  • Rebecca (1940)


  • The Earl of Chicago (1940)


  • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)


  • Shining Victory (1941)


  • Confirm or Deny (1941)


  • Mrs. Miniver (1942)


  • Counter-Espionage (1942)


  • The Invisible Man's Revenge (1944)


  • The Pearl of Death (1944)


  • Scotland Yard Investigator (1945)


  • The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)


  • Terror by Night (1946)


  • The Swordsman (1948)


  • The Black Arrow (1948)


  • Rogues of Sherwood Forest (1950)




Gallery




See also


  • List of actors who have appeared in multiple Best Picture Academy Award winners


References





  1. ^ "Healesville and Yarra Glen Guardian" (Vic. : 1900 - 1942), Fri 29 Dec 1911, Page 2, "Christmas Entertainments" Accessed 22 December 2016


  2. ^ Referee (Sydney, NSW : 1886 - 1939), Wed 8 Jan 1913, Page 15, "Theatrical Gazette" Accessed 22 December 2016


  3. ^ Anthony Slide (2012)Hollywood Unknowns: A History of Extras, Bit Players, and Stand-Ins P.162, University Press of Mississippi. .mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}
    ISBN 978-1617034749. Slide also notes this of Clyde Cook





External links








  • Billy Bevan on IMDb


  • Billy Bevan at Virtual History








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