Bryan Gilbert Powley (16 September 1871 – 18 December 1962) was a British stage and film actor. He began his career in the era of
silent film
A silent film is a film with no synchronized Sound recording and reproduction, recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) ...
.
Life
Powley was born on 16 September 1871 in Reading, the son of the Rev. Matthew Powley and Louisa Jane Tinker.
His father was at that time Vicar of
Whitley, Reading
Whitley is a suburb of the town of Reading, in the English county of Berkshire. It is also an electoral ward of the Borough of Reading.
Geography
Whitley, commonly known as one of the larger suburbs of Reading, is bounded to the north and ...
, but had formerly been Chaplain to the British Community in
Málaga and a
Canon in
Gibraltar.
On 7 September 1904, Powley married Evelyn Mary Foster at All Saints Church, Hampstead.
[Marriage Register of All Saints Church, Hampstead, 1904, p.212] Evelyn Mary Foster was the daughter of
Joseph Foster Joseph Foster may refer to:
* Joseph Foster (politician) (born 1959), American politician in New Hampshire
*Joseph Foster (genealogist) (1844–1905), English genealogist
*Joey Foster (born 1982), British racing driver
*Slaughter Joe (born 1960), B ...
, the eminent genealogist.
On 19 May 1905, Bryan Powley and Evelyn Foster had a daughter, Esmay Margaret Powley.
Powley was the uncle of
Bruce Belfrage and
Cedric Belfrage.
He died in
Worthing
Worthing () is a seaside town in West Sussex, England, at the foot of the South Downs, west of Brighton, and east of Chichester. With a population of 111,400 and an area of , the borough is the second largest component of the Brighton and H ...
,
Sussex, on 18 December 1962.
[Obituary in ''The Stage Year Book''. Published by Carson & Comerford Limited, 1963]
Selected filmography
* ''
The Harbour Lights'' (1914)
* ''
Fancy Dress
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'' (1919)
* ''
The Nonentity'' (1921)
* ''
The Old Curiosity Shop
''The Old Curiosity Shop'' is one of two novels (the other being ''Barnaby Rudge'') which Charles Dickens published along with short stories in his weekly serial ''Master Humphrey's Clock'', from 1840 to 1841. It was so popular that New York r ...
'' (1921)
* ''
Open Country
"Open Country" is a designation used for some UK access land.
It was first defined under the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 (and extended by the Countryside Act 1968), and was land over which an appropriate access agreeme ...
'' (1922)
* ''
The Glorious Adventure'' (1922)
* ''
Wee MacGregor's Sweetheart
''Wee MacGregor's Sweetheart'' is a 1922 British silent romance film directed by George Pearson and starring Betty Balfour, Donald Macardle and Nora Swinburne. The plot is based on two of the " Wee Macgreegor" books by John Joy Bell; ''Oh Ch ...
'' (1922)
* ''
The Poisoned Diamond'' (1933)
* ''
Cross Currents'' (1935)
* ''
Moonlight Sonata'' (1937)
* ''
Love from a Stranger
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'' (1937)
* ''
Strange Boarders'' (1938)
* ''
Old Mother Riley Joins Up'' (1940)
References
External links
*
1871 births
1962 deaths
English male stage actors
English male film actors
English male silent film actors
People from Reading, Berkshire
19th-century English male actors
20th-century English male actors
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