Ivor Novello

Ivor Novello

Ivor Novello (born David Ivor Davies; 15 January 1893 – 6 March 1951) was a Welsh composer and actor who became one of the most popular British entertainers of the first half of the 20th century, on both screen and stage. He was born into a musical Cardiff family and his mother, Clara Novello Davies, was an internationally known singing teacher and choral conductor. As a child, Novello was a successful singer in various eisteddfodau throughout the country. He was educated privately in Cardiff and then in Gloucester and later won a scholarship to Magdalen College School in Oxford. The family moved to London in 1913 and here Novello's career flourished. In 1914, at the start of World War II, he wrote the words to his most popular song, "Keep the Home Fires Burning". Novello lived in a flat above the Strand Theatre, where he remained until his death in 1951. Since 1955 the internationally prestigious The Ivor Novello Awards ("The Ivors") for songwriting and composing are annually awarded by the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors (BASCA).

  • Title: Ivor Novello
  • Popularity: 1.716
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1893-01-15
  • Place of Birth: Cardiff, Wales, UK
  • Homepage: http://www.ivornovello.com/
  • Also Known As: David Ivor Davies, David L'Estrange
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Ivor Novello Movies

  • 1927
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    The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog

    The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog

    7.1 1927 HD

    London. A mysterious serial killer brutally murders young blond women by stalking them in the night fog. One foggy, sinister night, a young man who...

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  • 1921
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    Carnival

    Carnival

    1 1921 HD

    An actor playing Othello in a stage production of Shakespeare's play becomes jealous of his wife's supposed infidelity and seems bound to kill her in...

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  • 1928
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    The Constant Nymph

    The Constant Nymph

    1 1928 HD

    Sanger, an eccentric expatriate composer, dies in his house in the Austrian Alps, leaving his daughters penniless. The young composer Lewis Dodd, a...

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  • 1928
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    A South Sea Bubble

    A South Sea Bubble

    1 1928 HD

    'Girl reporter and insane fiancé join pirate's descendant in treasure hunt.' (British Film Catalogue)

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  • 1923
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    The White Rose

    The White Rose

    7 1923 HD

    A wealthy young Southern aristocrat, Joseph, graduates from a seminary and, before he takes charge of his assigned parish, decides to go out and see...

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  • 1933
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    I Lived with You

    I Lived with You

    5.4 1933 HD

    In London a young lady meets a homeless and apparently penniless Russian prince. She introduces him to her middle-class Fulham family and he moves...

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  • 1932
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    The Lodger

    The Lodger

    5.2 1932 HD

    An elderly couple's lodger, a British musician (Ivor Novello), becomes the suspect in a series of killings.

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  • 1934
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    Autumn Crocus

    Autumn Crocus

    7 1934 HD

    A teacher falls in love with the married owner of the guest house in which she is staying during a holiday to Austria.

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  • 1923
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    The Man Without Desire

    The Man Without Desire

    5 1923 HD

    A grief-stricken 18th-century Venetian gentleman is thwarted in love and placed in suspended animation. When he wakes up 200 years later, he finds...

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  • 1925
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    The Rat

    The Rat

    1 1925 HD

    When bored courtesan Zelie de Chaumet begs her lover, the corrupt and powerful Stetz, to take her slumming, the pair encounter Pierre Boucheron,...

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  • 1931
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    Once a Lady

    Once a Lady

    3.5 1931 HD

    A young Russian woman marries a wealthy Englishman, and has a daughter with him. After she has an affair with one of his friends, she is forced to...

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  • 1928
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    The Vortex

    The Vortex

    6 1928 HD

    A young man is shocked to discover that his fiancé is the mistress of his mother's lover.

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  • 1922
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    The Bohemian Girl

    The Bohemian Girl

    6.6 1922 HD

    A Polish officer posing as a gypsy loves a gypsy girl who is really the count's daughter.

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  • 1926
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    The Triumph of the Rat

    The Triumph of the Rat

    6 1926 HD

    Pierre Boucheron, alias 'The Rat' and a former underworld notoriety, is now living the high life as the kept man of Zelie de Chaumet. But when she...

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  • 1929
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    The Return of the Rat

    The Return of the Rat

    5.8 1929 HD

    The rich, amoral Zelie is married to Pierre Boucheron, "The Rat" - but her interest in another man is an open secret. Forced to defend his honour,...

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  • 1923
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    Bonnie Prince Charlie

    Bonnie Prince Charlie

    1 1923 HD

    In the Jacobite Rising of 1745, the Young Pretender Bonnie Prince Charlie leads an insurrection to overthrow the Protestant House of Hanover and...

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  • 1930
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    Symphony in Two Flats

    Symphony in Two Flats

    1 1930 HD

    A young composer goes blind, and shortly afterward enters his most recent work in a competition. He believes he's won, but doesn't know that his wife...

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  • 1928
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    The Gallant Hussar

    The Gallant Hussar

    1 1928 HD

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  • 1933
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    Sleeping Car

    Sleeping Car

    4 1933 HD

    A French sleeping-car attending with an eye for the ladies hooks up with a wealthy widow and they get married. What he doesn't know is that she...

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  • 1927
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    Downhill

    Downhill

    5.7 1927 HD

    Roddy, first son of the rich Berwick family, is expelled from school when he takes the blame for his friend Tim's charge. His family sends him away...

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  • 1919
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    The Call of the Blood

    The Call of the Blood

    1 1919 HD

    An Englishman commits adultery with a Sicilian woman.

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  • 1929
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    The Return of the Rat

    The Return of the Rat

    5.8 1929 HD

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  • 1925
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    The Rat

    The Rat

    1 1925 HD

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  • 1923
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    The Man Without Desire

    The Man Without Desire

    5 1923 HD

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  • 1932
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    But the Flesh Is Weak

    But the Flesh Is Weak

    6 1932 HD

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  • 1932
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    But the Flesh Is Weak

    But the Flesh Is Weak

    6 1932 HD

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  • 1937
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    The Rat

    The Rat

    7.5 1937 HD

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  • 1955
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    King's Rhapsody

    King's Rhapsody

    3 1955 HD

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  • 1950
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    The Dancing Years

    The Dancing Years

    5.2 1950 HD

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  • 1941
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    Free and Easy

    Free and Easy

    5.5 1941 HD

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  • 1933
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    I Lived with You

    I Lived with You

    5.4 1933 HD

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  • 1923
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    Bonnie Prince Charlie

    Bonnie Prince Charlie

    1 1923 HD

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  • 1930
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    Symphony in Two Flats

    Symphony in Two Flats

    1 1930 HD

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  • 1932
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    Tarzan the Ape Man

    Tarzan the Ape Man

    6.624 1932 HD

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  • 1927
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    Downhill

    Downhill

    5.7 1927 HD

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  • 1937
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    Glamorous Night

    Glamorous Night

    6 1937 HD

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  • 1955
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    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    7.736 1955 HD

    A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.

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