Lennox Pawle
John Lennox Pawle (born April 27, 1872 in Marylebone , Middlesex , † February 22, 1936 in Los Angeles , California ) was a British theater and film actor.
life and career
Lennox Pawle was born to London solicitor John Christopher Pawle and his wife Maria. His birth year is debatable majority is called 1872, but also 1871. He first worked as a newspaper editor and as Publikant horse racing before he discovered acting for themselves. After attending drama actress Sarah Torne's drama school, Pawle made a name for himself as a performer of comic characters in London theaters, including regularly in Maude Adams ' theater company , during the 1890s . In 1910 Lennox Pawle moved to the United States and in the same year he appeared in Louis N. Parker's play The Pomander Walk , which was a great success. In another Parker play, he appeared as Mr. Micawber in a modern adaptation by David Copperfield . Pawle married Parker's daughter Dorothy; his first marriage had ended in divorce in 1909. He and his wife returned to England during World War I and stayed there during the war years.
Arrived in England, the corpulent character actor appeared in some silent films, which meant his film debut. In 1919 the couple returned to Broadway, where Pawle was a busy performer in the 1920s. However, his wife moved back to England in 1924 without him. Since the beginning of the sound film in the late 1920s, Pawle also worked in parallel in Hollywood , where he appeared as an actor in comic supporting roles. Of his 16 film appearances, the role of the crazy but lovable Mr. Dick in David Copperfield (1935) became his most famous. He received good reviews but died of intracerebral hemorrhage just a year after the film .
Filmography
- 1918: The Admirable Chrichton
- 1918: All the Sad World Needs
- 1920: The Temptress
- 1929: The Glorious Adventure
- 1929: Married in Hollywood
- 1929: The Sky Hawk
- 1929: Hot for Paris
- 1931: The Sin of Madelon Claudet (The Sin of Madelon Claudet)
- 1931: Mata Hari
- 1935: David Copperfield
- 1935: The Gay Deception
- 1935: Sylvia Scarlet
Web links
- Lennox Pawle in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Lennox Pawle in the Internet Broadway Database (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pawle, Lennox |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pawle, John Lennox |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 27, 1872 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Marylebone , Middlesex |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 22, 1936 |
| Place of death | Los Angeles , California |