Ivor Novello
Birthday
1893/01/15
Day of death
1951/03/06 (58 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Cardiff, Wales, UK
Also know as
David Ivor Davies, David L'Estrange
Biography
Ivor Novello (born David Ivor Davies; 15 January 1893 – 6 March 1951) was a Welsh composer and actor who became one of the most popular British entertainers of the first half of the 20th century, on both screen and stage. He was born into a musical Cardiff family and his mother, Clara Novello Davies, was an internationally known singing teacher and choral conductor. As a child, Novello was a successful singer in various eisteddfodau throughout the country. He was educated privately in Cardiff ...Read more
Acting
(1927) The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
as The Lodger Jonathan Drew
(1921) Carnival
as Count Andrea Scipione
(1928) The Constant Nymph
as Lewis Dodd
(1928) A South Sea Bubble
as Vernon Winslow
(1923) The White Rose
as Joseph
(1933) I Lived with You
as Prince Felix Lenieff
(1932) The Lodger
as Michel Angeloff
(1934) Autumn Crocus
as Andreas Steiner
(1923) The Man Without Desire
as Count Vittorio Dandolo
(1925) The Rat
as Pierre Boucheron
(1931) Once a Lady
as Bennett Cloud
(1928) The Vortex
as Nicky Lancaster
(1922) The Bohemian Girl
as Thaddeus
(1926) The Triumph of the Rat
as Pierre Boucheron, 'the Rat'
(1929) The Return of the Rat
as Pierre Boucheron
(1923) Bonnie Prince Charlie
as Prince Charles Stuart
(1930) Symphony in Two Flats
as David Kennard
(1928) The Gallant Hussar
as Lieutenant Stephen Alrik / Feri von Noszty
(1933) Sleeping Car
as Gaston
(1927) Downhill
as Roddy Berwick
(1919) The Call of the Blood
as Maurice Delarey
(1955) Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as The Lodger (archive footage) (uncredited)