Ivor Novello

Acteur, Schrijver, Componist

15 januari 1893 — 6 maart 1951 (58 years)
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 internationally prestigious The Ivor Novello Awards ("The Ivors") for songwriting and composing are annually awarded by the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors (BASCA).

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
    The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog1927
  • Downhill
    Downhill1927

Known For

  • The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
    The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog1927
  • Tarzan the Ape Man
    Tarzan the Ape Man1932
  • Downhill
    Downhill1927
  • The Phantom Fiend
    The Phantom Fiend1932
  • -But the Flesh Is Weak
    -But the Flesh Is Weak1932
  • I Lived with You
    I Lived with You1933
  • The Bohemian Girl
    The Bohemian Girl1922
  • Symphony in Two Flats
    Symphony in Two Flats1930

Cinematografie

2009
1934
Autumn Crocus · as Andreas Steiner
1933
I Lived with You · as Prince Felix Lenieff
1933
Sleeping Car · as Gaston
1932
The Phantom Fiend · as Michel Angeloff
1931
Once a Lady · as Bennett Cloud
1930
Symphony in Two Flats · as David Kennard
1928
A South Sea Bubble · as Vernon Winslow
1928
The Constant Nymph · as Lewis Dodd
1927
Downhill · as Roddy BerwickOp Plex
1927
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog · as The Lodger Jonathan DrewOp Plex
1926
The Triumph of the Rat · as Pierre Boucheron, 'the Rat'
1925
The Rat · as Pierre Boucheron
1923
Bonnie Prince Charlie · as Prince Charles Stuart
1923
The White Rose · as Joseph
1922
The Bohemian Girl · as Thaddeus