Personal info
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 4/29/1900
- Birthplace
- Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Died
- 12/23/1998 (aged 98)
- Gender
- Male
- Also known as
- David Joseph Manners, David J. Manners, Dave Manners, Rauff de Ryther Daun Acklom, Rauff de Ryther Duan Acklom
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.
12 titles
Dracula
1931
John Harker
The Mummy
1932
Frank Whemple
The Black Cat
1934
Peter Alison
The Miracle Woman
1931
John Carson
A Bill of Divorcement
1932
Kit Humphreys
The Death Kiss
1932
Franklyn Drew
Roman Scandals
1933
Josephus
A Woman Rebels
1936
Lieutenant Alan Craig Freeland
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
1997
Self (archive footage)
The Last Flight
1931
Shep Lambert
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
1935
Edwin Drood
Man Wanted
1932
Thomas 'Tom' / 'Tommy' Sherman
