Billy Bevan
俳優1887-09-29Orange, New South Wales, Australia
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.)
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出演作品（177）
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