1877-01-03 ( 148 years old ) in Spennymoor, Durham, England, UK
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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.
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Movies
Gun Cargo
1949-10-05
Kitty
1945-10-16
Gaslight
1944-05-04
It Happened Tomorrow
1944-03-31
The Lodger
1944-01-19
Going My Way
1944-01-01
A Guy Named Joe
1943-12-24
Slightly Dangerous
1943-04-01
The Moon Is Down
1943-03-14
Crossroads
1942-07-23
Mrs. Miniver
1942-07-03
The Remarkable Andrew
1942-03-05
The Wolf Man
1941-12-12
Sundown
1941-10-31
Broadway Limited
1941-06-13
Mutiny in the Arctic
1941-04-17
The Ape
1940-09-30
Doomed to Die
1940-08-12
Northwest Passage
1940-02-23
Henry Goes Arizona
1939-12-08
Raffles
1939-11-11
Cotton Queen
1937-06-01
The Wife of General Ling
1937-04-07
The House of the Spaniard
1936-11-01
Wolves of the Sea
1936-06-05
King of the Damned
1935-12-31
The Mystery of the Mary Celeste
1935-04-27
The Stoker
1935-01-01
The Secret of the Loch
1934-05-07
Nordpol - Ahoi!
1934-04-17
The Private Life of Don Juan
1934-01-01
S.O.S. Iceberg
1933-09-22
S.O.S. Iceberg
1933-08-30
The Doomed Battalion
1932-04-30
Without Honors
1932-01-02
Arrowsmith
1931-12-07
A House Divided
1931-12-05
Land of Wanted Men
1931-10-30
Cleaning Up
1930-09-27
The Sea Bat
1930-07-05
Hell Harbor
1930-03-14
The Mysterious Island
1929-10-05
Rose-Marie
1928-02-11
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
1927-11-04
Topsy and Eva
1927-07-26
The First Auto
1927-06-27
The Land Beyond the Law
1927-06-05
The Broken Gate
1927-02-15
The Night of Love
1927-01-22
Don Juan
1926-08-06
The Outsider
1926-01-17
The Phantom of the Opera
1925-09-22
The Prairie Wife
1925-02-23
Love and Glory
1924-12-07
Greed
1924-12-04
The Border Legion
1924-10-19
The Red Lily
1924-09-08
Shifting Sands
1923-11-11
Hutch Stirs 'em Up
1923-08-01
Ladies Must Live
1921-10-29
The Fighting Shepherdess
1920-03-01
The Right of Way
1920-02-29
Behind the Door
1919-12-14
Blind Husbands
1919-10-21
The Four-Gun Bandit
1919-07-05
The White Heather
1919-06-29
Breakers Ahead
1918-03-25
Bashful
1917-12-23
The Secret of Black Mountain
1917-09-21
Under Handicap
1917-09-03
The Promise
1917-02-19
The Father of Her Child
1916-09-23
Jewel
1915-08-30
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