Known For
Acting
Born
Jan 15, 1893
Died
Mar 06, 1951
Place of Birth
Cardiff, Wales, UK
Credits
30 titles
Ivor Novello
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
Filmography
King's Rhapsody
Writer
King's Rhapsody
Writer
The Dancing Years
Theatre Play
Free and Easy
Theatre Play
The Rat
Theatre Play
Glamorous Night
Theatre Play
Autumn Crocus
Andreas Steiner
I Lived with You
Prince Felix Lenieff
Sleeping Car
Gaston
The Lodger
Michel Angeloff
But the Flesh Is Weak
Theatre Play
Tarzan the Ape Man
Writer
Once a Lady
Bennett Cloud
Symphony in Two Flats
David Kennard
The Return of the Rat
Pierre Boucheron
The Gallant Hussar
Lieutenant Stephen Alrik / Feri von Noszty
A South Sea Bubble
Vernon Winslow
The Vortex
Nicky Lancaster
The Constant Nymph
Lewis Dodd
Downhill
Roddy Berwick
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
The Lodger Jonathan Drew
The Triumph of the Rat
Pierre Boucheron, 'the Rat'
The Rat
Pierre Boucheron
The Man Without Desire
Count Vittorio Dandolo
Bonnie Prince Charlie
Prince Charles Stuart
The White Rose
Joseph
The Bohemian Girl
Thaddeus
Carnival
Count Andrea Scipione
Miarka, la fille à l'ourse
Ivor
The Call of the Blood
Maurice Delarey