David Manners
Born: 1900-04-29 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Died: 1998-12-23
Known For: Acting
Biography
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.
Filmography
2000
- The Many Faces of Dracula as John Harker (archive footage)
1997
- The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender as Self (archive footage)
1991
- Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook as John Harker (archive footage)
1963
- Dracula as John (archive footage)
1936
- Hearts in Bondage as Raymond Jordan
- A Woman Rebels as Lieutenant Alan Craig Freeland
- Lucky Fugitives as Jack Wycoff / Cy King
1935
- Jalna as Eden Whiteoaks
- The Mystery of Edwin Drood as Edwin Drood
- The Perfect Clue as David Mannering
1934
- The Moonstone as Franklin Blake
- The Great Flirtation as Larry Kenyon
- The Black Cat as Peter Alison
- The Luck of a Sailor as Captain Colin
1933
- Torch Singer as Michael 'Mike' Gardner
- Roman Scandals as Josephus
- The Girl in 419 as Dr. Martin Nichols
- From Hell to Heaven as Wesley Burt
- The Devil's in Love as Captain Jean Fabien
- The Warrior's Husband as Theseus
1932
- The Mummy as Frank Whemple
- The Death Kiss as Franklyn Drew
- Lady with a Past as Donnie Wainwright
- Man Wanted as Thomas 'Tom' / 'Tommy' Sherman
- Crooner as Ted 'Teddy' Taylor
- The Greeks Had a Word for Them as Dey Emery
- A Bill of Divorcement as Kit Humphreys
- Beauty and the Boss as Baron Paul von Ullrich
- They Call It Sin as James E. 'Jimmy' Decker
1931
- Dracula as John Harker
- The Last Flight as Shep Lambert
- The Millionaire as Bill Merrick
- The Miracle Woman as John Carson
- The Ruling Voice as Dick Cheney
- Stranger in Town as Jerry Fleming
1930
- Mothers Cry as Arthur 'Artie' Williams
- Kismet as Caliph Abdallah
- Sweet Mama as Jimmy
- The Right to Love as Joe Copeland
- Journey's End as James Raleigh
- An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee as Self
- The Truth About Youth as Richard Dane 'The Imp'
- He Knew Women as Austin Lowe