Cyril Delevanti

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Cyril Delevanti (film scene 1945)

Harry Cyril Delevanti (born February 23, 1889 in London , † December 13, 1975 in Hollywood , California ) was a British - American stage and film actor .

Live and act

The son of the Italian music professor Edward Prospero Richard Delevanti (1859-1911) and his wife Mary Elizabeth began to play in their native London theater in the 1910s. Cyril Delevanti married in 1913 and had three children between 1913 and 1915. With his wife Eva Kitty Peel, their daughter and two younger sons, Delevanti emigrated to the USA in 1921, where he continued his stage activities. Ten years later, Delevanti first stepped in front of a film camera.

Especially since the outbreak of World War II, the gaunt actor, now over 50 years old, has been a busy screen batch. He played butlers and servants of all kinds, but also mostly nameless bookmakers, coroners, stage managers, taxi drivers, beggars, bellboys, businessmen, shoemakers, professors, secretaries, a diplomat in Billy Wilder's I kiss your hand, Madame, as well as a postman in Monsieur Verdoux - The women murderer of Paris and an aging clown in the limelight , both productions by Charlie Chaplin .

White-haired and wrinkled in the last decades of his life, Cyril Delevanti, an American citizen since February 1943, also appeared as a guest in a plethora of television series and, now well over 70 years old, starred in the literary film The Night of the Iguana and the Two Walt Disney - box office success Mary Poppins and Bedknobs and Broomsticks striking, knittergesichtige characters in supporting roles. His performance as a 98-year-old poet in The Night of the Iguana by John Huston earned him a nomination for the Golden Globe Award as Best Supporting Actor one. Cyril Delevanti died just a few months after his wife, who also died in 1975 and with whom he had been married for 62 years.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cyril Delevanti on ancestry.com
personal data
SURNAME Delevanti, Cyril
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Delevanti, Harry Cyril (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-American stage and film actor
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH December 13, 1975
Place of death Hollywood , California