Ivor Novello

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1893-01-15

Deathday 1951-03-06 (58 years old)

Place of Birth Cardiff, Wales, UK

Also Known As David Ivor Davies, David L'Estrange

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

Actor

1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as The Lodger (archive footage) (uncredited)

1934
Autumn Crocus

as Andreas Steiner

1933
I Lived with You

as Prince Felix Lenieff

1933
Sleeping Car

as Gaston

1932
The Lodger

as Michel Angeloff

1931
Once a Lady

as Bennett Cloud

1930
Symphony in Two Flats

as David Kennard

1929
The Return of the Rat

as Pierre Boucheron

1928
The Gallant Hussar

as Lieutenant Stephen Alrik / Feri von Noszty

1928
A South Sea Bubble

as Vernon Winslow

1928
The Vortex

as Nicky Lancaster

1928
The Constant Nymph

as Lewis Dodd

1927
Downhill

as Roddy Berwick

1927
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog

as The Lodger Jonathan Drew

1926
The Triumph of the Rat

as Pierre Boucheron, 'the Rat'

1925
The Rat

as Pierre Boucheron

1923
The Man Without Desire

as Count Vittorio Dandolo

1923
Bonnie Prince Charlie

as Prince Charles Stuart

1923
The White Rose

as Joseph

1922
The Bohemian Girl

as Thaddeus

1921
Carnival

as Count Andrea Scipione

1919
The Call of the Blood

as Maurice Delarey

Writer

1955
King's Rhapsody

as Writer

1950
The Dancing Years

as Theatre Play

1941
Free and Easy

as Theatre Play

1937
The Rat

as Theatre Play

1937
Glamorous Night

as Theatre Play

1933
I Lived with You

as Theatre Play

1932
But the Flesh Is Weak

as Theatre Play

1932
1932
1930
Symphony in Two Flats

as Theatre Play

1929
The Return of the Rat

as Theatre Play

1927
Downhill

as Original Story

1925
The Rat

as Writer

Producer

1923

Sound