
Gibson Gowland
Born: 1877-01-03
Place of Birth: Spennymoor, Durham, England, UK
Biography
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.
Known For

Behind the Door

Gaslight

Greed

Without Honor

The Broken Gate

The Lodger

Blind Husbands

Slightly Dangerous

S.O.S. Iceberg

Gun Cargo

Arrowsmith

Raffles

The Outsider

Bashful

Rose-Marie

The Right of Way

Kitty

The Secret of Black Mountain

Sundown

The Secret of the Loch

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

Under Handicap

The Phantom of the Opera

Wolves of the Sea

The Wolf Man

Mrs. Miniver

Going My Way

Jewel

Hell Harbor

The Fighting Shepherdess

The Four-Gun Bandit

Topsy and Eva

The Private Life of Don Juan

Breakers Ahead

The White Heather

Nordpol - Ahoi!

Northwest Passage

It Happened Tomorrow

A Guy Named Joe

The Red Lily

Doomed to Die

Don Juan

The Moon Is Down

Land of Wanted Men

King of the Damned

The Mysterious Island

The Night of Love

Crossroads

The Prairie Wife

A House Divided

The House of the Spaniard

Love and Glory

The Ape

The Mystery of the Mary Celeste

The Land Beyond the Law

The Remarkable Andrew

The First Auto

The Promise

Henry Goes Arizona

S.O.S. Iceberg

Cotton Queen

Broadway Limited

The Sea Bat

Mutiny in the Arctic

The Doomed Battalion

Ladies Must Live

The Border Legion

The Harbour Lights
