
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.)

レベッカ

赤ちゃん教育

オペラハット

Forever and a Day

Be Reasonable

National Velvet

Lloyd's of London

Cluny Brown

The Golden Age of Comedy

The Picture of Dorian Gray

断崖

Fortunes of Captain Blood

The Secret Garden

ミニヴァー夫人

The Pearl of Death

Black Sheep

It Had to Be You

クリスマス・キャロル

Chances

ジェーン・エア

Personal Property

Waterloo Bridge

I Married a Witch

エド・サリヴァン・ショー

A Tale of Two Cities

We Are Not Alone

This Above All

Penny Serenade

Arrest Bulldog Drummond

The Long Voyage Home

The Trespasser

Terror by Night

The Young in Heart

The Lost Patrol

Piccadilly Jim

Private Number

Moss Rose

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Monte Carlo

The Lodger

The Man Who Wouldn't Die

Three Secrets

Counter-Espionage

Journey's End

Luxury Liner

Me and My Gal

Let's Live a Little

Tell It to the Judge

透明人間の逆襲

Lizzies of the Field

Pack Up Your Troubles

Looking Forward

Hans Christian Andersen

Another Dawn

The Earl of Chicago

最後の駐屯兵

吸血鬼蘇る

不思議の国のアリス

The Sky Hawk

Blond Cheat

Let Freedom Ring

Shock

Vanessa: Her Love Story

The White Sin

A Small Town Idol

Mysterious Mr. Moto

女ドラキュラ

Shining Victory

The Extra Girl

Butter Fingers

Stingaree

Devotion

Payment Deferred

Riley the Cop

The Invisible Man's Revenge

カヴァルケード

Transatlantic

The Silent Witness

A Study in Scarlet

Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back

Captain Fury

The Black Arrow

Tonight and Every Night

Tin Pan Alley

Flirty Four-Flushers

Too Much Harmony

Galloping Bungalows

Gertie's Gasoline Glide

Born to Love

Caravan

London Blackout Murders

Cupid In Quarantine

Fight Night

The Widow from Monte Carlo

Distilled Love

Shadows Over Shanghai

Champagne Charlie

One More River

Rogues of Sherwood Forest

The Girl of the Golden West

High Voltage

Slave Ship

Gymnasium Jim

The Wrong Road

Peg o' My Heart

Peacock Alley

The Hollywood Kid

大森林

Vanity Fair

Sky Devils

The Sheik Steps Out

Confirm or Deny

Limehouse Blues

On Patrol

30 Years of Fun

Off His Trolley

Bombs and Bandits

Gold Digger of Weepah

The Girl from Everywhere

The Bicycle Flirt

The Girl from Nowhere

Motorboat Mamas

Calling Hubby's Bluff

Pink Pajamas

Musclebound Music

East of the Water Plug

From Rags to Britches

Should Husbands Marry?

Pitfalls of a Big City

One Spooky Night

Wandering Waistlines

The Crossroads of New York

Little Robinson Corkscrew

Sneezing Beezers

Over Thereabouts

Peaches and Plumbers

Cured in the Excitement

Weak But Willing

Pirates of the Air

His New Stenographer

Wandering Willies

Hubby’s Quiet Little Game

The Best Man

The Beach Club

Ça, c'est du cinéma

Super-Hooper-Dyne Lizzies

Hoboken to Hollywood

Astray from the Steerage

Whispering Whiskers

Who's Who in the Zoo

Scotch

Circus Today

A Sea Dog's Tale

Ice Cold Cocos

Bright Eyes

Somebody's Widow

The Swordsman

When Summer Comes

Wall Street Blues

The Duck Hunter

Three Foolish Weeks

The Golf Nut

She Whoops To Conquer

Nip and Tuck

Temptation

Song and Dance Man

The Quack Doctor

The Iron Nag

The Lion's Whiskers

Honeymoon Hardships

His Unlucky Night

Happy Times and Jolly Moments

The Way to Love

For the Love o' Lil

Are Married Policemen Safe?

Love, Honor and Behave

Married Life