Guy Newall
Guy Newall | |
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Born | 25 May 1885 |
Died | 25 February 1937 (aged 51) |
Occupation | Film actor Screenwriter Film director |
Years active | 1915 - 1937 |
Guy Newall (25 May 1885 – 25 February 1937) was a British actor, screenwriter and film director. He was born on the Isle of Wight on 25 May 1885. He began his film career by acting in the 1915 film The Heart of Sister Ann. In 1920 he directed his first film, and went on to direct a further ten including The Chinese Puzzle before his death in 1937. He established a production company with George Clark whom he had met during the First World War, and they raised finance to construct a new studios at Beaconsfield Studios. Newall was married twice, to actresses Ivy Duke and Dorothy Batley.[1]
Partial filmography[]
Director
- The Bigamist (1921)
- Fox Farm (1922)
- Boy Woodburn (1922)
- A Maid of the Silver Sea (1922)
- The Starlit Garden (1923)
- What the Butler Saw (1924)
- Rodney Steps In (1931)
- The Rosary (1931)
- The Marriage Bond (1932)
- The Chinese Puzzle (1932)
- Chin Chin Chinaman (1932)
- The Admiral's Secret (1934)
Actor
- The Heart of Sister Ann (1915)
- Esther (1916)
- Driven (1916)
- Money for Nothing (1916)
- Mother Love (1916)
- Trouble for Nothing (1916)
- The Manxman (1916)
- Comradeship (1919)
- The Garden of Resurrection (1919)
- I Will (1919)
- Fancy Dress (1919)
- The Lure of Crooning Water (1920)
- Duke's Son (1920)
- The Bigamist (1921)
- Boy Woodburn (1922)
- A Maid of the Silver Sea (1922)
- The Starlit Garden (1923)
- Ghost Train (1927)
- Number 17 (1928)
- The Road to Fortune (1930)
- The Eternal Feminine (1931)
- Potiphar's Wife (1931)
- The Marriage Bond (1932)
- Grand Finale (1936)
- Merry Comes to Town (1937)
References[]
External links[]
- Guy Newall at IMDb
Categories:
- 1885 births
- 1937 deaths
- English male film actors
- English male silent film actors
- English film directors
- Actors from the Isle of Wight
- 20th-century English male actors
- English actor stubs