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