Raymond Lovell

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Raymond Robinson Lovell (born April 13, 1900 in Montreal , Canada , † October 1, 1953 in London , United Kingdom ) was a Canadian-born, almost exclusively in Great Britain active stage and film actor .

Live and act

Raymond Robinson Lovell came to England at a young age, where he studied medicine at Cambridge University in the 1920s. But soon he decided to change his profession and went to the theater in the same decade. A central role to be fuller British king was Henry VIII. In the play The Queen Who Kept Her Head . Since 1934 there has been an abundance of film offers. The corpulent Lovell mostly played supporting roles, only in the film adaptation (1943) of his greatest stage success Warn That Man! (1941), where he played the Nazi spy Hausemann alias Lord Buckley, who plans to kidnap the British premiere Winston Churchill , he received one of his very few film leading roles.

The corpulent, moon-faced Lovell was mostly presented on the screen with roles of serious, massive representatives of the upper class, sometimes also of the (British) royal family. Several times he also played threatening-looking German military and Nazi agents: For example, he was seen as the head of the German secret service in Brigitte Horney's English movie Secret Lives , as Colonel von Steinberg in Under Secret Orders , as a submarine driver Lieutenant Kuhnecke in the largely cliché-free propaganda film 49th Parallel , as Professor Winkler in the crime thriller Alibi , as George III. in the large-scale politician portrait The Young Mr. Pitt , as the Prince Regent in the popular costume drama The Lord in Gray , as Lucius Septimus in the opulent historical and antique drama Caesar and Cleopatra , as Sir Frederick Bland in the meticulous episode film Quartet and in 1951 as Julius Caesar in the television adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's drama Androclus and the Lion .

Private

Lovell was first married to the singer, actress and poet Margot Ruddock (1907-1951). From this marriage in 1934 a daughter, the future actress Simone Lovell , emerged. In 1947, Raymond Lovell married the German-Russian Tamara Desni , also an actress. In 1951 the couple divorced.

Filmography

  • 1934: Warn London
  • 1934: The Third Clue
  • 1935: Crime Unlimited
  • 1935: Someday
  • 1935: King of the Damned
  • 1936: Troubled Waters
  • 1936: Fair Exchange
  • 1936: Gypsy Melody
  • 1937: Secret Lives
  • 1937: Glamorous Night
  • 1937: Midnight Menace
  • 1938: Murder Tomorrow
  • 1939: Test flight QE 97 (Q Planes)
  • 1940: Contraband
  • 1939-41: 49th Parallel
  • 1941: The Goose Steps Out
  • 1942: Alibi
  • 1942: Uncensored
  • 1942: The Young Mr. Pitt
  • 1943: The Man in Gray (The Man in Gray)
  • 1943: Candlelight in Algeria
  • 1943: Hotel Reserve
  • 1944: The Way Ahead
  • 1945: Caesar and Cleopatra (Caesar and Cleopatra)
  • 1946: Drugs on board ( Night Boat to Dublin)
  • 1946: Appointment with Crime
  • 1947: Adventure in Brazil (The End of the River)
  • 1947: Toto-Glück (Easy Money)
  • 1948: Victory and Place (The Calendar)
  • 1948: The Man Without a Conscience (My Brother's Keeper)
  • 1948: quartet (Quartet)
  • 1948: The Sinful Poet (The Bad Lord Byron)
  • 1949: Whom Women Dream (Once Upon a Dream)
  • 1949: So check whoever binds forever (Fools Rush In)
  • 1949: The Rival (Madness of the Heart)
  • 1949: The Romantic Age
  • 1950: The Dirty Sparrow and the Queen (The Mudlark)
  • 1951: Androcles and the Lion (TV movie)
  • 1952: Time Gentlemen, Please!
  • 1952: Mr. Pickwick (The Pickwick Papers)
  • 1953: The Steel Key
  • 1953: Children of Our Time (I vinti)

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personal data
SURNAME Lovell, Raymond
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lovell, Raymond Robinson (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-Canadian stage and film actor
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Montreal , Canada
DATE OF DEATH October 1, 1953
Place of death London , UK