Billy Bevan
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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.)
Fotos
Películas (202)
30 Years of Fun
1963 · (archive footage)
The Golden Age of Comedy
1957 · archive footage
Hans Christian Andersen
1952 · Town Councilman (uncredited)
The Slappiest Days of Our Lives
1951 · (archive footage)
Three Secrets
1950 · Ed Jackson (uncredited)
Rogues of Sherwood Forest
1950 · Will Scarlet
Fortunes of Captain Blood
1950 · Billy Bragg
Tell It to the Judge
1949 · Winston, Kitty's Butler (uncredited)
The Secret Of St. Ives
1949 · Douglas (uncredited)
The Secret Garden
1949 · Barney
Let's Live a Little
1948 · Morton
The Black Arrow
1948 · Dungeon Keeper
The Swordsman
1948 · Old Andrew
It Had to Be You
1947 · Evans
Moss Rose
1947 · Harry, Cab Driver (uncredited)
Cluny Brown
1946 · Uncle Arn Porritt
Devotion
1946 · Mr. Ames (uncredited)
Terror by Night
1946 · Conductor Taking Tickets
The Picture of Dorian Gray
1945 · Malvolio Jones
National Velvet
1945 · Constable (uncredited)
Tonight and Every Night
1945 · Cabbie (uncredited)
The Pearl of Death
1944 · Constable With Food Tray (uncredited)
The Invisible Man's Revenge
1944 · Police Sergeant (uncredited)
The Lodger
1944
Jane Eyre
1943 · Bookie (uncredited)
The Return of the Vampire
1943 · Horace (uncredited)
Forever and a Day
1943 · Wartime Cabby
London Blackout Murders
1943 · Air Raid Warden
Happy Times and Jolly Moments
1943 · (archive footage)
I Married a Witch
1942 · Puritan Vendor (uncredited)
Counter-Espionage
1942 · George Barrow
Mrs. Miniver
1942 · Bus Conductor (uncredited)
This Above All
1942 · Farmer
The Man Who Wouldn't Die
1942 · Phillips
Confirm or Deny
1941 · Mr. Bindle
Suspicion
1941 · Ticket Taker (uncredited)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1941 · Mr. Weller
Shining Victory
1941 · Chivers
Penny Serenade
1941 · McDougal (uncredited)
Tin Pan Alley
1940 · Stage Doorman
The Long Voyage Home
1940 · Joe
Rebecca
1940 · Policeman (uncredited)
The Invisible Man Returns
1940 · Jim (uncredited)
The Earl of Chicago
1940 · Castle Guide
We Are Not Alone
1939 · Mr. Jones
Pack Up Your Troubles
1939 · British Sergeant
Captain Fury
1939 · Duffy
Let Freedom Ring
1939 · Cockney (uncredited)
A Christmas Carol
1938 · Street Watch Leader
Arrest Bulldog Drummond
1938 · Aquarium Guard
Shadows Over Shanghai
1938 · Gallicuddy
Mysterious Mr. Moto
1938 · Customs Official
The Young in Heart
1938 · Kennel Man (uncredited)
Blond Cheat
1938 · Bartender (uncredited)
The Girl of the Golden West
1938 · Nick
Bringing Up Baby
1938 · Joe (uncredited)
The Wrong Road
1937 · McLean
The Sheik Steps Out
1937 · Munson
Another Dawn
1937 · Pvt. Hawkins
Slave Ship
1937 · Atkins
Personal Property
1937 · Frank (uncredited)
God's Country and the Woman
1937 · Plug Hat
Lloyd's of London
1936 · Innkeeper
Piccadilly Jim
1936 · Taxi Driver
Private Number
1936 · Frederick
Dracula's Daughter
1936 · Albert
Champagne Charlie
1936 · Mr. Boswick
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
1936 · Cabby (uncredited)
Song and Dance Man
1936 · Curtis
A Tale of Two Cities
1935 · Jerry Cruncher
The Widow from Monte Carlo
1935 · Officer Watkins
The Last Outpost
1935 · Private Foster
Black Sheep
1935 · Alfred
Vanessa: Her Love Story
1935 · Horse Auctioneer
Mystery Woman
1935 · Jepson
Caravan
1934 · Police Sergeant
Limehouse Blues
1934 · Herb
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back
1934 · Man in Hotel Room
One More River
1934 · Cloakroom Attendant
Shock
1934 · Meadows
Stingaree
1934 · Mac
The Lost Patrol
1934 · Hale
Pop's Pal
1933 · Grandpa
Alice in Wonderland
1933 · Two of Spades (uncredited)
The Way to Love
1933 · M. Prial
Too Much Harmony
1933 · Stage Director
The Big Squeal
1933 · Jake Burke
Thundering Taxis
1933 · One of the Taxi Boys
Peg o' My Heart
1933 · Detective #2 (uncredited)
A Study in Scarlet
1933 · Will Swallow
Uncle Jake
1933 · Uncle Jake
Looking Forward
1933 · Mr. Barker
Techno-Crazy
1933 · Mary's Father - the Mayor
Cavalcade
1933 · George Grainger
Luxury Liner
1933 · Schultz
She Whoops To Conquer
1933
Me and My Gal
1932 · Ashley, Arguing Drunk (uncredited)
Payment Deferred
1932 · Charlie Hammond
Honeymoon Beach
1932 · Billy Bevan
The Spot on the Rug
1932 · Gerald J. Fitzgerald
Vanity Fair
1932 · Joseph Sedley
Sky Devils
1932 · Colonel
The Silent Witness
1932 · Horace Ward
Who's Who in the Zoo
1931 · Father
Waterloo Bridge
1931 · Soldier on the Make (uncredited)
Transatlantic
1931 · Hodgkins
Chances
1931 · Cuthbert (uncredited)
Born to Love
1931 · Departing British Soldier (uncredited)
For the Love o' Lil
1930 · Edward O. Walker
Monte Carlo
1930 · Train Conductor (uncredited)
Temptation
1930 · Sam
Journey's End
1930 · Trotter
Scotch
1930 · Gilbert - Addie's Brother
Peacock Alley
1930 · Walter
Weak But Willing
1929 · George Downing
The Trespasser
1929 · Reporter (uncredited)
High Voltage
1929 · Gus Jones
Don't Get Jealous
1929 · Billy Blake
Pink Pajamas
1929 · Billy Brooks
Calling Hubby's Bluff
1929 · Billy Barton
The Sky Hawk
1929 · Tom Berry
His New Stenographer
1928 · Billy Brooks
The Lion's Roar
1928 · Jake Higgs - Katie's Brother
Riley the Cop
1928 · Paris Cabman
Hubby's Weekend Trip
1928 · Bill Blake
Motorboat Mamas
1928 · Billy Bender
His Unlucky Night
1928 · Billy Trotter
The Girl from Nowhere
1928 · Constable Billy Barnes
The Bicycle Flirt
1928 · Doty Bassett - The Bicycle Flirt
The Best Man
1928 · Best Man
The Beach Club
1928 · Billy Doolittle
The Girl from Everywhere
1927 · Messenger
The Bull Fighter
1927 · Pete De Tour
Gold Digger of Weepah
1927 · The Barber
The Golf Nut
1927 · Billy Divott
Cured in the Excitement
1927 · Professor Brawn
A Small Town Princess
1927 · Joe Whiffet
Peaches and Plumbers
1927 · Bill the Plumber
Easy Pickings
1927 · The Detective
Should Sleepwalkers Marry?
1927 · Charley Carter
Flirty Four-Flushers
1926 · Jerry Connors / Archibald De Shyster
Masked Mamas
1926 · Casey McCorkle
Should Husbands Marry?
1926 · The Cop
Hoboken to Hollywood
1926 · Billy Judkins
Hubby’s Quiet Little Game
1926 · Billy Foote
A Sea Dog's Tale
1926 · Wilbur Watts
Ice Cold Cocos
1926 · Gus Gander
Musclebound Music
1926 · Billy Hornby
Fight Night
1926 · Walter Moore
Hayfoot, Strawfoot?
1926 · Pete
Wandering Willies
1926 · Percy Nudge
Circus Today
1926 · Gus Barnum
Trimmed in Gold
1926 · Otto Stropp
Whispering Whiskers
1926 · The Drifter
From Rags to Britches
1925 · Joe Bush
Over Thereabouts
1925 · Joe Dobell
Butter Fingers
1925 · Nick
The Iron Nag
1925 · Joe Gobb
Sneezing Beezers
1925 · Joe Honck - Taxi Driver
Super-Hooper-Dyne Lizzies
1925 · Hiram Case
The Lion's Whiskers
1925 · Otto Klutch
Giddap!
1925 · Gaspard De Brie
Honeymoon Hardships
1925 · Farmer
Off His Trolley
1924 · The Traffic Cop
The Cannon Ball Express
1924 · Adam Fargo - Baggage Master
Galloping Bungalows
1924 · John Syrup Soother
Wandering Waistlines
1924 · Sandy Hook - Sailor
Little Robinson Corkscrew
1924 · The Sheriff
Three Foolish Weeks
1924 · King of Anchovia
Lizzies of the Field
1924 · Bud Gasket
East of the Water Plug
1924 · The Sheriff
Wall Street Blues
1924 · The Janitor
The Hollywood Kid
1924 · Studio Organist
The White Sin
1924 · Travers Dale
One Spooky Night
1924 · A.J. Bird Jr.
Inbad the Sailor
1923 · Jake aka Inbad the Sailor
One Cylinder Love
1923 · The Bachelor's Butler / Chauffeur / Footman
The Extra Girl
1923 · Comedian
Pitfalls of a Big City
1923 · Barfly (uncredited)
Nip and Tuck
1923 · Sailor
When Summer Comes
1922 · Lyons - the Tenderfoot
The Crossroads of New York
1922 · Press Agent
Gymnasium Jim
1922 · Jim
On Patrol
1922 · The Amateur Cop
The Duck Hunter
1922 · The Sportsman
Around the Town: British Film Stars and Studios
1921 · Himself
Bright Eyes
1921 · The Nosey Butler
Be Reasonable
1921 · A Rolling Stone
Love and Doughnuts
1921 · The Burglar
Astray from the Steerage
1921 · A steerage passenger
A Small Town Idol
1921 · Director
Love, Honor and Behave
1920 · A Fake Lawyer
The Quack Doctor
1920 · The Hired Lady's Sweetheart, Director
Married Life
1920 · Hospital Staff / Janitor (uncredited)
Distilled Love
1920
Cupid In Quarantine
1918 · The Father
Her Rustic Romeo
1918
Are Married Policemen Safe?
1918
Somebody's Widow
1918 · Secretary
Bombs and Bandits
1917 · The Chief of Police
Pirates of the Air
1916 · The Bartender
Gertie's Gasoline Glide
1916 · The Minister
