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David Joseph Manners (born Rauff de Ryther Duan Acklom; April 30, 1900 – December 23, 1998) was a Canadian-American actor who played John Harker in Tod Browning's 1931 horror classic Dracula, which starred Bela Lugosi in the title role.
David Manners. Actor: Dracula. A dapper, debonair, darkly attractive leading man of 1920s stage and '30s screen, actor David Manners was born Rauff de Ryther Duan Acklom on April 30, 1900, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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David Manners was a Canadian-born actor who starred in stage and film in the 1920s and 1930s. He is best known for his roles as John Harker in Dracula (1931) and Frank Whemple in The Mummy (1932).
- April 30, 1900
- December 23, 1998
Acting Career. In 1930, British director James Whale, who had seen Manners on stage in New York, invited him to Hollywood to play a supporting role in the motion picture version of the play Journey’s End. The film was a critical and box-office success, launching Manners’s career as a movie star.
Jan 4, 1999 · David Manners, stage and film actor best remembered as the quarry for Bela Lugosi’s “Dracula” in 1931, has died. He was 98. Manners died Dec. 23 at a retirement care facility in Santa...
Between 1930 and 1936 David Manners made 38 Hollywood feature films, beginning with Journey's End, the film that also launched the careers of James Whale and Colin Clive. He is best remembered today for his work in the Bela Lugosi Dracula, The Mummy, and The Black Cat.
Dec 23, 1998 · David Joseph Manners (born Rauff de Ryther Duan Acklom, April 30, 1900 – December 23, 1998) was a Canadian-American actor who played John Harker in Todd Browning's 1931 horror classic Dracula. The following year he portrayed the archaeologist Frank Whemple in another pre-Code thriller by Universal Pictures, The Mummy.
