Lionel Belmore

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Lionel Belmore (left) in Peg o 'My Heart (1922) with Russell Simpson and Laurette Taylor

Lionel Belmore (born May 12, 1867 in Wimbledon , London , † January 30, 1953 in Woodland Hills , Los Angeles ) was a British film and theater actor and silent film director.

Life

Lionel Belmore began his career in the theater , with which he remained connected for over half a century. His younger sister Daisy Belmore also later worked as an actress. He immigrated to America and appeared in over 25 on Broadway from 1899 to 1916 . In 1914 he made his film debut with the short film Taken By Storm , in the same year he made his first film as a director. After 14 films by 1918, Belmore ended his career as a director and then concentrated entirely on his career as an actor. While the corpulent actor in the silent film mostly played larger supporting roles, the size of his appearances in the sound film decreased and Belmore was more and more often not mentioned in the credits.

The actor now mostly appeared in small but distinctive supporting roles in numerous classics of the 1930s, for example David Copperfield , Mutiny on the Bounty , Robin Hood, King of the Vagabonds and The Hunchback of Notre Dame . Mostly Belmore embodied somewhat nervous or pitiable older men, including in his most famous film appearance as the whiny Mayor Vogel in the horror classic Frankenstein from 1931. In 1943, the now over 70-year-old Belmore retired from the Hollywood business after around 180 films , but his last film wasn't released until 1945. Lionel Belmore died in 1953 at the age of 85.

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SURNAME Belmore, Lionel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British film and stage actor and silent film director
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Wimbledon , London
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 1953
Place of death Woodland Hills , Los Angeles