Name
Ivor Novello
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1893-01-15
Deathday
1951-03-06 (58 years old)
Place of Birth
Cardiff, Wales, UK
Biography
Ivor Novello (born David Ivor Davies; 15 January 1893 – 6 March 1951) was a Welsh composer and actor who became one of the most popular British entertainers of the first half of the 20th century, on both screen and stage.
He was born into a musical Cardiff family and his mother, Clara Novello Davies, was an internationally known singing teacher and choral conductor. As a child, Novello was a successful singer in various eisteddfodau throughout the country. He was educated privately in Cardiff and then in Gloucester and later won a scholarship to Magdalen College School in Oxford.
The family moved to London in 1913 and here Novello's career flourished. In 1914, at the start of World War II, he wrote the words to his most popular song, "Keep the Home Fires Burning".
Novello lived in a flat above the Strand Theatre, where he remained until his death in 1951.
Since 1955 the internationally prestigious The Ivor Novello Awards ("The Ivors") for songwriting and composing are annually awarded by the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors (BASCA).
Known For
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- 1921 Carnival as Count Andrea Scipione
- 1928 The Constant Nymph as Lewis Dodd
- 1928 A South Sea Bubble as Vernon Winslow
- 1923 The White Rose as Joseph
- 1933 I Lived with You as Prince Felix Lenieff
- 1932 The Lodger as Michel Angeloff
- 1934 Autumn Crocus as Andreas Steiner
- 1923 The Man Without Desire as Count Vittorio Dandolo
- 1925 The Rat as Pierre Boucheron
- 1931 Once a Lady as Bennett Cloud
- 1928 The Vortex as Nicky Lancaster
- 1922 The Bohemian Girl as Thaddeus
- 1926 The Triumph of the Rat as Pierre Boucheron, 'the Rat'
- 1929 The Return of the Rat as Pierre Boucheron
- 1923 Bonnie Prince Charlie as Prince Charles Stuart
- 1930 Symphony in Two Flats as David Kennard
- 1928 The Gallant Hussar as Lieutenant Stephen Alrik / Feri von Noszty
- 1933 Sleeping Car as Gaston
- 1927 Downhill as Roddy Berwick
- 1919 The Call of the Blood as Maurice Delarey
- 1920 Miarka, la fille à l'ourse as Ivor
