David Manners
Personal Info
Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1900-04-29 (98 years old)
Deathday
1998-12-23
Place of Birth
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Also known As
David Joseph Manners
David J. Manners
Dave Manners
Rauff de Ryther Daun Acklom
Rauff de Ryther Duan Acklom
Rauff Acklom
David Manners
Biography
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. Manners abandoned his film career in 1936, and his theatrical career seventeen years later.
Acting
1931
as John Harker
1934
as Peter Alison
1932
as Dey Emery
1933
as Josephus
1932
as Frank Whemple
1930
as James Raleigh
1931
as John Carson
1933
as Michael 'Mike' Gardner
1932
as Kit Humphreys
1935
as Edwin Drood
1932
as Thomas 'Tom' / 'Tommy' Sherman
1932
as Franklyn Drew
1932
as James E. 'Jimmy' Decker
1932
as Donnie Wainwright
1931
as Shep Lambert
1936
as Raymond Jordan
1932
as Baron Paul von Ullrich
1991
as John Harker (archive footage)
2000
as John Harker (archive footage)
1933
as Dr. Martin Nichols
1934
as Franklin Blake
1933
as Wesley Burt
1932
as Ted 'Teddy' Taylor
1935
as David Mannering
1930
as Richard Dane 'The Imp'
1930
as Joe Copeland
1931
as Dick Cheney
1931
as Jerry Fleming
1931
as Bill Merrick
1933
as Captain Jean Fabien
1930
as Caliph Abdallah
1933
as Theseus
1936
as Lieutenant Alan Craig Freeland
2022
as John Harker (archive footage)
1930
as Austin Lowe
1930
as Arthur 'Artie' Williams
1935
as Eden Whiteoaks
1963
as John (archive footage)
1934
as Captain Colin
1930
as Jimmy
1934
as Larry Kenyon
1997
as Self (archive footage)
1936
as Jack Wycoff / Cy King
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