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