David Manners

David Manners

출생 : 1900-04-30, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

사망 : 1998-12-23

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David Joseph Manners (born Rauff de Ryther Duan Acklom, April 30, 1900 – December 23, 1998) was a Canadian-American actor who played John Harker in Todd Browning's 1931 horror classic Dracula. The following year he portrayed the archaeologist Frank Whemple in another pre-Code thriller by Universal Pictures, The Mummy. Manners abandoned his film career in 1936, and his theatrical career seventeen years later.

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David Manners
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The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
Self (archive footage)
A film scrapbook, images, phrases from our past, hiding their meanings behind veils. Let's lift those veils, one by one, to find how images, at one time seeming innocent, have revealed, after decades, to have homosexual overtones.
A Woman Rebels
Lieutenant Alan Craig Freeland
A Victorian-era woman struggles to break free of the moral codes established by society and enforced by her father.
Hearts in Bondage
Raymond Jordan
Best friends Kenneth Reynolds and Raymond Jordan are U.S. Navy officers, and Kenneth is engaged to Raymond's sister. But the eruption of the Civil War divides them, as Raymond stands by his native Virginia while Kenneth remains on duty as a Northern officer. Kenneth's uncle, John Ericsson, designs a new kind of ship, an ironclad he calls the Monitor. Eventually the war pits Kenneth, on board the Monitor, against his friend Raymond, serving aboard the South's own ironclad, the Merrimac (as it is called here). A naval battle ensues, one that will go down in history.
Lucky Fugitives
Jack Wycoff / Cy King
Jack Wycoff is a successful young author whose double is the notorious gangster Cy King. Mistakenly arrested, Wyckoff finds himself handcuffed to an attractive lady. Wycoff escapes custody and flees across the country with the law in hot pursuit, refusing to establish either his true identity or his innocence until the lady unwillingly trapped at his side agrees to marry him.
Jalna
Eden Whiteoaks
A young poet, accompanied by his new bride, returns home to his large family at their Canadian farm.
The Perfect Clue
David Mannering
Mona Stewart, madcap, spoiled daughter of a wealthy man, becomes upset when she learns that her father is engaged to a woman she hates. She runs away, via various modes of transportation, and hires an ex-con, David Mannering, to drive her around as she eludes the all-out search conducted by her father and her fiancée, Ronnie Van Zandt. A romance is blossoming until her chauffeur is arrested for the murder of a crime-syndicate boss.
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Edwin Drood
A choirmaster addicted to opium and obsessed with a beautiful young woman will stop at nothing to possess her.
The Moonstone
Franklin Blake
A valuable gem from India is stolen in an old dark mansion and it is up to Scotland Yard inspector Charles Irwin to find out who did it among all the suspects who were in the house.
The Great Flirtation
Larry Kenyon
An actor is jealous of his wife's stardom.
The Black Cat
Peter Alison
After a road accident in Hungary, the American honeymooners Joan and Peter and the enigmatic Dr. Werdegast find refuge in the house of the famed architect Hjalmar Poelzig, who shares a dark past with the doctor.
The Luck of a Sailor
Captain Colin
In this romantic comedy, the king of Ruritania marries an impoverished commoner after he is exiled. Trouble shows up when the king must return to his country and marry an heiress. Fortunately, his first bride has fallen for an army officer and is happy to have her royal marriage annulled.
Torch Singer
Michael 'Mike' Gardner
When she can't support her illegitimate child, an abandoned young woman puts her up for adoption and pursues a career as a torch singer. Years later, she then searches for the child she gave up.
The Devil's in Love
Captain Jean Fabien
The French Foreign Legion is the setting for this episodic adventure yarn. Victor Jory plays a Legion doctor falsely accused of murdering his commander over the love of Loretta Young. Jory escapes prosecution by heading for parts unknown, but when a deadly illness strikes his old fort, he returns to aid his comrades. He is arrested, but clears himself of the murder charge and ends up with Young. Devil's in Love is distinguished by the surprise appearance of Bela Lugosi, who shows up unbilled as a relentless prosecuting attorney in the courtroom scenes.
The Girl in 419
Dr. Martin Nichols
A hospital surgeon (James Dunn) protects a mystery woman (Gloria Stuart) who knows too much about a card-game murder.
The Warrior's Husband
Theseus
The Warrior's Husband is a satire of the male and female roles in society set in 800 B.C.. Queen Hippolyta (Marjorie Rambeau) rules Pontus with masculine authority; in fact, it is the women of Pontus who do all the laboring, fighting, and governing. Hippolyta's husband Sapiens (Ernest Truex) is truly a sissy of the first order, and is not unlike most of Pontus' male inhabitants.
From Hell to Heaven
Wesley Burt
The various residents and occupants of a resort hotel await the outcome of a horse race at a nearby track, as it will affect each of their lives in different ways.
로마 스캔들
Josephus
A kind-hearted young man is thrown out of his corrupt home town of West Rome, Oklahoma. He falls asleep and dreams that he is back in the days of olden Rome, where he gets mixed up with court intrigue and a murder plot against the Emperor.
The Death Kiss
Franklyn Drew
When a movie actor is shot and killed during production, the true feelings about the actor begin to surface. As the studio heads worry about negative publicity, one of the writers tags along as the killing is investigated and clues begin to surface.
They Call It Sin
James E. 'Jimmy' Decker
An innocent, young, small town church organist is thrown out of her home, told she was adopted and that her mother was an evil woman. She follows a crush to the big-city and left fending for herself.
이혼 증서
Kit Humphreys
Hilary Fairfield returns home after fifteen years in an asylum with his sanity restored. But he is disturbed to find that everything has changed: his daughter grown and about to marry; his wife divorced and also about to marry.
Crooner
Ted 'Teddy' Taylor
Fame goes to a priggish singer's head and almost costs him his girlfriend.
Stranger in Town
Jerry Fleming
Crickle is a tenacious small-town grocer who stubbornly resists the efforts of a monopolistic chain-store firm to purchase his establishment. The chain manager retaliates by cutting off Crickles' supply of produce, whereupon his friends and neighbors save his business by supplying him with goods from their own farms.
Man Wanted
Thomas 'Tom' / 'Tommy' Sherman
A female editor of a magazine falls in love with her male secretary.
Beauty and the Boss
Baron Paul von Ullrich
An ultra-efficient Plain Jane secretary blossoms when she accompanies her boss on a business trip to Paris.
Lady with a Past
Donnie Wainwright
A wealthy girl hires a male escort to make one of her male friends jealous. She spreads rumours about her character that makes her popular amongst all bachelors in the city including her friend.
The Greeks Had a Word for Them
Dey Emery
A trio of money-hungry women rent a luxurious penthouse, spending their dough on drink and debonair clothing, backbiting and catfighting as they steal each other's boyfriends.
미이라
Frank Whemple
1921년 이집트의 유적발굴 현장에서 미이라 하나가 발견된다. 그것은 신성모독을 이유로 사형선고를 받고 생매장되었던 이집트 왕자 이모텝의 미이라였다. 또한 그의 무덤에서는 죽은 사람을 부활시키는 주문이 적힌 토드신의 두루마리도 함께 발견된다. 어느날 밤 발굴단원 중 한 젊은이가 호기심을 이기지 못하고 두루마리의 내용을 낭독하게 되고, 그로 인해 자신이 이모텝을 부활시켰음을 알게 되면서 정신착란을 일으키고 만다. 10년 후, 이모텝의 미이라는 보통의 이집트 사람처럼 분장한 채 살아가고 있다. 그는 고대에 자신의 연인이었던 아낙수나문 공주와 만나려 하고 있었는데, 그녀는 현재 아름다운 여인으로 환생해 있었다.
The Ruling Voice
Dick Cheney
A mob boss has a change of heart when his daughter convinces him to move on from crime.
The Last Flight
Shep Lambert
Cary, Shep, Bill, and Francis are pilots during World War I. The four friends, haunted by the devastation of the war, head to Paris instead of home, where they meet Nikki, an eccentric and wealthy young woman. Nikki is drawn to Cary, and the five friends, tagged by the boorish reporter, Frink, drink their way from Paris to Lisbon.
기적의 여인
John Carson
플로렌스는 목사였던 아버지의 사망 이후 신에 대한 믿음을 버린다. 이후 사기꾼 밥과 함께 사람들 앞에서 거짓 기적을 연기하며 살아가던 그녀는 시각 장애인 존을 만나 조금씩 세상을 다른 눈으로 보기 시작한다. 바바라 스탠윅의 인상적인 연기와 함께 프랭크 카프라의 ‘선’에 대한 관점이 잘 그려진 작품. (2019년 한국시네마테크협의회 - 클래식: 멜로와 코미디)
The Millionaire
Bill Merrick
A millionaire automaker retires upon the advice of his doctor, but becomes so bored he buys half interest in a gas station and works it on the sly.
드라큘라
John Harker
동유럽의 카르파티아 산중에 드라큘라 백작이 살고 있다. 런던에 있는 카팩스 수도원 양도 문제 때문에 그를 찾아가는 한 신사에게, 마을 사람들은 드라큘라가 흡혈귀라며 위험하니 가지 말라고 극구 말린다. 하지만 렌필드가 약속 때문에 가야 한다고 단호히 말하자, 한 노파가 그를 보호해줄 물건이라며 십자가를 쥐어준다. 겁도 없이 험난한 산길을 타고 허름하고 음산한 고성에 당도한 렌필드는 백작이 건네준 술을 마시고 정신을 잃는다. 드라큘라에게 피를 빨린 렌필드는 그에게 맹목적으로 복종하는 노예가 되어 함께 배를 타고 런던으로 향한다. 도중에 폭풍우를 만나 배는 난파되고 선원들은 모두 죽는다. 유일한 생존자 렌필드는 정신착란 상태로 발견돼 시워드 정신병원에 수감된다. 시워드 박사와 이웃이 된 드라큘라는 다음 희생타자로 박사의 딸 미나에게 눈독을 들인다. 시워드는 갑자기 쇠약해진 딸의 건강을 염려해 그 방면의 전문가인 홀란드의 밴 헬싱 교수를 초청해 도움을 청한다. 한편 미나의 친구인 루시가 원인 모를 과다출혈로 사망하고, 아이들이 습격을 당해 목을 물리는 사건이 발생한다. 최근 미나의 목에 생긴 자국과, 렌필드가 특정 약초에 대해 민감하게 반응하는 점, 그리고 드라큘라의 반영이 거울에 나타나지 않는 것과, 박쥐와 늑대의 출현 등을 종합해 미루어 헬싱은 백작의 정체를 의심하고 뱀파이어를 물리치기 위해 대책을 세운다. 미나의 약혼자 존 하커는 흡혈귀란 단지 허구 속 인물이라며 교수의 말을 웃어넘긴다. 그러다 정신병원을 탈출해 몰래 수도원으로 가는 렌필드를 뒤따라간 하커는 미나의 비명소리를 듣게 되는데... 순간 해가 떠오르고, 낮 동안 휴식을 취하고자 관 속으로 들어간 드라큘라를 찾아낸 교수는 심장에 말뚝을 박음으로써 그를 영구히 처치한다.
The Right to Love
Joe Copeland
A woman becomes estranged from her daughter when the girl learns that she is illegitimate.
Mothers Cry
Arthur 'Artie' Williams
Having raised four children alone, widow Mary Williams still manages to love her eldest son, vicious and sadistic Danny Williams, who has led a life of crime and now returns to inflict his insane behavior on the family household.
The Truth About Youth
Richard Dane 'The Imp'
A young man falls into the clutches of a nightclub singer who corrupts him.
Kismet
Caliph Abdallah
Hajj, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the castle himself. This film is believed lost.
An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee
Self
Mr. and Mrs. Warner Bros. Pictures and their precocious offspring, Little Miss Vitaphone, host a dinner in honor of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee, attended by most of the major players and song writers under contract to WB at that time.
Sweet Mama
Jimmy
A young girl falls in love with a member of a gang of crooks. She determines to bring the rest of the gang to justice so she can save the man she loves.
He Knew Women
Austin Lowe
A novelist has to chose between his wealthy patron and a penniless romantic.
Journey's End
James Raleigh
In France, 1917, an alcoholic captain is afraid that his new replacement, his sweetheart's brother, will betray his downfall.