- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- January 15, 1893
- Place of Birth
- Cardiff, Wales, UK
- Died
- March 6, 1951
Ivor Novello
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 and then in Gloucester and later won a scholarship to Magdalen College School in Oxford. The family moved to London in 1913 and here Novello's career flourished. In 1914, at the start of World War II, he wrote the words to his most popular song, "Keep the Home Fires Burning". Novello lived in a flat above the Strand Theatre, where he remained until his death in 1951. Since 1955 the internationa…
Filmography
King's Rhapsody
movieKing's Rhapsody
1957 · Writer, Music
movieKing's Rhapsody
1955 · Writer
movieThe Dancing Years
1950 · Theatre Play
movieFree and Easy
1941 · Theatre Play
movieThe Rat
1937 · Theatre Play
movieGlamorous Night
1937 · Theatre Play
movieAutumn Crocus
1934 · Andreas Steiner
movieI Lived with You
1933 · Prince Felix Lenieff, Theatre Play
movieSleeping Car
1933 · Gaston
movieThe Lodger
1932 · Michel Angeloff
movieBut the Flesh Is Weak
1932 · Theatre Play, Writer
movieTarzan the Ape Man
1932 · Writer
movieOnce a Lady
1931 · Bennett Cloud
movieSymphony in Two Flats
1930 · David Kennard, Theatre Play
movieThe Return of the Rat
1929 · Pierre Boucheron, Theatre Play
The Gallant Hussar
movieThe Gallant Hussar
1928 · Lieutenant Stephen Alrik / Feri von Noszty
A South Sea Bubble
movieA South Sea Bubble
1928 · Vernon Winslow
movieThe Vortex
1928 · Nicky Lancaster
movieThe Constant Nymph
1928 · Lewis Dodd
movieDownhill
1927 · Roddy Berwick, Original Story
movieThe Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
1927 · The Lodger Jonathan Drew
movieThe Triumph of the Rat
1926 · Pierre Boucheron, 'the Rat'
movieThe Rat
1925 · Pierre Boucheron, Writer
movieThe Man Without Desire
1923 · Count Vittorio Dandolo, Producer
movieBonnie Prince Charlie
1923 · Prince Charles Stuart, Music
movieThe White Rose
1923 · Joseph
movieThe Bohemian Girl
1922 · Thaddeus
movieCarnival
1921 · Count Andrea Scipione
movieMiarka, la fille à l'ourse
1920 · Ivor
movieThe Call of the Blood
1919 · Maurice Delarey