Billy Bevan actor
- All known tv series 1
- Total known movies 198
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaBilly 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, Bevans 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 Bevans 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 Journeys 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 Youngsons 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.)
Policeman (uncredited)
Movie 1940
Joe (uncredited)
Movie 1938
Douglas (uncredited)
Movie 1949
Conductor Taking Tickets
Movie 1946
Ticket Taker (uncredited)
Movie 1941
Cabby (uncredited)
Movie 1936
Billy Bragg
Movie 1950
Grandpa
Movie 1933
Constable With Food Tray (uncredited)
Movie 1944
The Traffic Cop
Movie 1924
Jerry Cruncher
Movie 1935
Himself
Movie 1921
Jim (uncredited)
Movie 1940
Police Sergeant (uncredited)
Movie 1944
Charlie Hammond
Movie 1932
Customs Official
Movie 1938
Cabbie (uncredited)
Movie 1945
Trotter
Movie 1930
The Chief of Police
Movie 1917
Hale
Movie 1934
The Barber
Movie 1927
Messenger
Movie 1927
Doty Bassett - the Bicycle Flirt
Movie 1928
Constable Billy Barnes
Movie 1928
Billy Bender
Movie 1928
Bill Blake
Movie 1928
Billy Blake
Movie 1929
George Barrow
Movie 1942
Horace - (archive footage)
Movie 1986
Billy Barton
Movie 1929
Billy Brooks
Movie 1929
Billy Hornby
Movie 1926
Pete
Movie 1926
The Sheriff
Movie 1924
Phillips
Movie 1942
Joe Bush
Movie 1925
Otto Stropp
Movie 1926
Charley Carter
Movie 1927
The Cop
Movie 1926
Barfly (uncredited)
Movie 1923
Jake aka Inbad the Sailor
Movie 1923
A.J. Bird Jr.
Movie 1924
Adam Fargo - Baggage Master
Movie 1924
Sandy Hook - Sailor
Movie 1924
Press Agent
Movie 1922
The Sheriff
Movie 1924
Joe Honck - Taxi Driver
Movie 1925
Joe Dobell
Movie 1925
Bill the Plumber
Movie 1927
Professor Brawn
Movie 1927
Pete De Tour
Movie 1927
George Downing
Movie 1929
The Bartender
Movie 1916
Schultz
Movie 1933
Billy Brooks
Movie 1928
Gus Jones
Movie 1929
Nick
Movie 1925
Percy Nudge
Movie 1926
Billy Foote
Movie 1926
Joseph Sedley
Movie 1932
Best Man
Movie 1928
Movie 1928
Taxi Driver
Movie 1936
Bus Conductor (uncredited)
Movie 1942
Colonel
Movie 1932
(archive footage)
Movie 1951
Herb
Movie 1934
Hiram Case
Movie 1925
Billy Judkins
Movie 1926
Bud Gasket
Movie 1924
Jerry Connors / Archibald De Shyster
Movie 1926
Casey McCorkle
Movie 1926
A steerage passenger
Movie 1921
A Rolling Stone
Movie 1921
Jepson
Movie 1935
Tom Berry
Movie 1929
The Drifter
Movie 1926
McLean
Movie 1937
Studio Organist
Movie 1924
Father
Movie 1931
Gilbert - Addie's Brother
Movie 1930
Chivers
Movie 1941
Walter
Movie 1930
Gallicuddy
Movie 1938
John Syrup Soother
Movie 1924
Gus Barnum
Movie 1926
Mr. Barker
Movie 1933
Town Councilman (uncredited)
Movie 1952
Wilbur Watts
Movie 1926
Gus Gander
Movie 1926
Alfred
Movie 1935
Frederick
Movie 1936
Jim
Movie 1922
Harry, Cab Driver (uncredited)
Movie 1947
The Nosey Butler
Movie 1921
The Burglar
Movie 1921
The Detective
Movie 1927
McDougal (uncredited)
Movie 1941
Two of Spades (uncredited)
Movie 1933
Secretary
Movie 1918
The Minister
Movie 1916
Bartender (uncredited)
Movie 1938
Mr. Boswick
Movie 1936
Departing British Soldier (uncredited)
Movie 1931
Police Sergeant
Movie 1934
Cockney (uncredited)
Movie 1939
Jake Burke
Movie 1933
Old Andrew
Movie 1948
Lyons - the Tenderfoot
Movie 1922
The Amateur Cop
Movie 1922
The Janitor
Movie 1924
The Bachelor's Butler / Chauffeur / Footman
Movie 1923
The Sportsman
Movie 1922
Movie 1918
Bookie (uncredited)
Movie 1943
King of Anchovia
Movie 1924
Evans
Movie 1947
Munson
Movie 1937
Hodgkins
Movie 1931
Pvt. Hawkins
Movie 1937
Meadows
Movie 1934
Castle Guide
Movie 1940
Movie 1944
Air Raid Warden
Movie 1943
Billy Divott
Movie 1927
Dungeon Keeper
Movie 1948
Will Scarlet
Movie 1950
Detective #2 (uncredited)
Movie 1933
One of the Taxi Boys
Movie 1933
Horse Auctioneer
Movie 1935
Stage Doorman
Movie 1940
Horace Ward
Movie 1932
Movie 1933
Private Foster
Movie 1935
Sailor
Movie 1923
Sam
Movie 1930
Ashley (uncredited)
Movie 1932
Frank (uncredited)
Movie 1937
Duffy
Movie 1939
Puritan Vendor (uncredited)
Movie 1942
Train Conductor (uncredited)
Movie 1930
Uncle Jake
Movie 1933
Reporter (uncredited)
Movie 1929
Gaspard De Brie
Movie 1925
Kennel Man (uncredited)
Movie 1938
Constable (uncredited)
Movie 1945
Billy Bevan
Movie 1932
Curtis
Movie 1936
Travers Dale
Movie 1924
Malvolio Jones
Movie 1945
Director
Movie 1921
The Hired Lady's Sweetheart
Movie 1920
Horace (uncredited)
Movie 1943
The Father
Movie 1918
Joe Gobb
Movie 1925
Otto Klutch
Movie 1925
Farmer
Movie 1925
Billy Trotter
Movie 1928
(archive footage)
Movie 1943
Walter Moore
Movie 1926
Joe Whiffet
Movie 1927
Cuthbert (uncredited)
Movie 1931
Morton
Movie 1948
Officer Watkins
Movie 1935
Ed Jackson (uncredited)
Movie 1950
archive footage
Movie 1957
Soldier on the Make (uncredited)
Movie 1931
Cloakroom Attendant
Movie 1934
Barney
Movie 1949
Farmer
Movie 1942
Mr. Ames (uncredited)
Movie 1946
M. Prial
Movie 1933
Edward O. Walker
Movie 1930
Winston, Kitty's Butler (uncredited)
Movie 1949
Will Swallow
Movie 1933
(archive footage)
Movie 1963
Mary's Father - the Mayor
Movie 1933
Movie 1920
Self
Tv 1948
