Acting
69
Man
3 Jan 1877
9 Sept 1951 (74)
Spennymoor, Durham, England, UK
Gibson Gowland
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Gibson Gowland (4 January 1877 Spennymoor, Durham, England, UK – 9 September 1951 London, England, UK) was an English film actor. Gowland came to the United States from England, by way of Canada, in 1913 where he met Beatrice Bird, also from England, whom he married. They moved to Hollywood, working as bit players. In 1916, his son, actor and photographer Peter Gowland, was born. His only starring role (out of 63 films) was in Greed (1924), directed by Erich von Stroheim, based on the Frank Norris novel McTeague, and costarring ZaSu Pitts. The film has since become a classic, despite its having been cut to one-fifth its original length for commercial release by MGM. Gowland portrayed the protagonist, dentist John McTeague. Von Stroheim also directed Gowland in his 1919 film Blind Husbands. Gowland was cast as Simon Buquet in the 1925 film version of The Phantom of the Opera. He had bit parts in dozens of films from 1938 to 1945, but was rarely credited on-screen. After two divorces, Gowland returned to England in 1944. He died in London at age 74 from a lethal case of diarrhea. He is buried in Golders Green Crematorium. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gibson Gowland, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Year | Movie / TV show / Other | Role |
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1949 | Gun Cargo | Henry Morgan |
1945 | Kitty | Prison Guard (uncredited) |
1944 | Gaslight | Servant (uncredited) |
1944 | Going My Way | Parishioner (uncredited) |
1944 | The Lodger | |
1944 | It Happened Tomorrow | |
1943 | A Guy Named Joe | Bartender (uncredited) |
1943 | The Moon Is Down | Villager (uncredited) |
1943 | Slightly Dangerous | Opera patron (uncredited) |
1942 | Mrs. Miniver | Man on Boat (uncredited) |
1942 | Crossroads | Reporter (uncredited) |
1942 | The Remarkable Andrew | Jurist |
1941 | The Wolf Man | Villager (uncredited) |
1941 | Sundown | Churchgoer in Wheelchair (uncredited) |
1941 | Broadway Limited | Cafe Customer (uncredited) |
1941 | Mutiny in the Arctic | Crewman (uncredited) |
1940 | Northwest Passage | MacPherson |
1940 | The Ape | Posse Member |
1940 | Doomed to Die | Doctor (uncredited) |
1939 | Raffles | Villager (uncredited) |
1939 | Henry Goes Arizona | Rancher (uncredited) |
1937 | Cotton Queen | Gaoler |
1937 | The Wife of General Ling | Mike |
1936 | The House of the Spaniard | 1st Captain |
1936 | Wolves of the Sea | Cafe Customer (edited from 'Hell's Harbor') (uncredited) |
1935 | King of the Damned | Priest |
1935 | The Stoker | Steve |
1934 | The Private Life of Don Juan | Don Alfredo, Carmen's Poor Husband |
1934 | The Secret of the Loch | Angus |
1934 | Nordpol - Ahoi! | |
1933 | S.O.S. Iceberg | John Dragan |
1933 | S.O.S. Iceberg | John Dragan |
1932 | Without Honors | Mike Donovan |
1932 | The Doomed Battalion | Innerhofer |
1931 | Arrowsmith | Committee Member (uncredited) |
1931 | A House Divided | Bartender (uncredited) |
1931 | Land of Wanted Men | Terry |
1930 | Hell Harbor | Henry Morgan |
1930 | The Sea Bat | Limey |
1930 | Cleaning Up | Burke |
1929 | The Mysterious Island | Dmitry |
1928 | Rose-Marie | Black Bastien |
1927 | Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans | Angry Driver (uncredited) |
1927 | The First Auto | The Blacksmith |
1927 | The Night of Love | Bandit |
1927 | The Broken Gate | Ephraim Adamson |
1927 | The Land Beyond the Law | Silent 'Oklahoma' Joe |
1927 | Topsy and Eva | Simon Leegree |
1926 | Don Juan | Gentleman of Rome (uncredited) |
1926 | The Outsider | Shadow |
1925 | The Phantom of the Opera | Simon Buquet |
1925 | The Prairie Wife | Ollie |
1924 | Greed | John McTeague |
1924 | The Red Lily | Le Turc |
1924 | The Border Legion | Gulden |
1924 | Love and Glory | Jules Malicorne |
1923 | Hutch Stirs 'em Up | Sir Arthur Blackrose |
1921 | Ladies Must Live | Michael Le Prim |
1920 | The Fighting Shepherdess | Bowers |
1920 | The Right of Way | Jo Portugais |
1919 | Blind Husbands | Silent Sepp |
1919 | Behind the Door | Gideon Blank |
1919 | The Four-Gun Bandit | Secondary Role (uncredited) |
1918 | Breakers Ahead | Mike Burley |
1917 | Bashful | Musician (uncredited) |
1917 | The Promise | Stromberg |
1917 | Under Handicap | Batt Truxton |
1916 | The Father of Her Child | |
1915 | Jewel | Dr. Ballard (as T.W. Gowland) |