Gilbert Emery

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Gilbert Emery Bensley Pottle (born June 11, 1875 in Naples , New York , † October 28, 1945 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American actor, author and poet.

life and career

Gilbert Emery was born in New York to William L. Pottle and Hariette G. Gilbert, but spent his childhood in England . He later returned to the United States and graduated from the prestigious Amherst College in 1899 . After a few years as a newspaper editor, Emery began his career in the theater, where he worked in various roles as an actor, writer and director and commuted between England and the United States for many years. He also began a promising career as a poet and writer of short stories , which he later put aside and wrote plays. Emery was, among other things, the author of the drama The Hero , which premiered on Broadway in 1921 with Blanche Friderici and Grant Mitchell . In the comedy Love in a Mist, starring Sidney Blackmer and Frieda Inescort , Emery was not only a writer but also a director of the Broadway production. However, during the 1920s, Emery also appeared as an actor in other plays that were not written by him. A total of five works by Emery were filmed between 1923 and 1946.

During the First World War Emery worked as a medic and a member of the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 .

In 1921 Emery made his film debut in the silent film comedy Cousin Kate , where he impersonated the male lead. However, he only made one more silent film. With the start of talkies , Emery came to Hollywood in the late 1920s , where he had a bigger role than aristocrat Sir Frederick Bruce in his third film, Behind That Curtain . The tall, black-haired character actor spent most of his subsequent life in Hollywood; apart from a trip to Broadway for three plays between 1932 and 1933. In his films, Emery was mostly committed to supporting roles of a venerable aristocratic nature, often as a British. His better-known film appearances have included the pipe-smoking police chief from the horror film Dracula's Daughter (1936) and Mae West's Manager in Goin 'to Town (1935). One of the historical figures, which Emery embodied in his film career, was Thomas Jefferson in The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe from 1942. Until the year of his death he played in over 80 films, in addition he was in some films such as Mata Hari with Greta Garbo also active as a dialogue author.

Gilbert Emery died in Los Angeles in 1945 at the age of 70.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gilbert Emery at Litencyc
  2. ↑ Gilbert Emery at the Internet Broadway Database
  3. ↑ Gilbert Emery at World Facts ( Memento of the original from October 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / welt-ffekten.de
personal data
SURNAME Emery, Gilbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Emery Bensley Pottle, Gilbert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actor, writer, and poet
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Naples , New York
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 1945
Place of death Los Angeles , California