Gibson Gowland
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1877-01-03
Day of Death
1951-09-09 (74 years old)
Place of Birth
Spennymoor, Durham, England, UK
Gibson Gowland
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.
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Acting
(1949)
Gun Cargo
as Henry Morgan
(1945)
Kitty
as Prison Guard (uncredited)
(1944)
Gaslight
as Servant (uncredited)
(1944)
Going My Way
as Parishioner (uncredited)
(1944)
(1944)
(1943)
A Guy Named Joe
as Bartender (uncredited)
(1943)
Slightly Dangerous
as Opera patron (uncredited)
(1943)
The Moon Is Down
as Villager (uncredited)
(1942)
Mrs. Miniver
as Man on Boat (uncredited)
(1942)
Crossroads
as Reporter (uncredited)
(1942)
The Remarkable Andrew
as Jurist
(1941)
The Wolf Man
as Villager (uncredited)
(1941)
Sundown
as Churchgoer in Wheelchair (uncredited)
(1941)
Broadway Limited
as Cafe Customer (uncredited)
(1941)
Mutiny in the Arctic
as Crewman (uncredited)
(1940)
Northwest Passage
as MacPherson
(1940)
The Ape
as Posse Member
(1940)
Doomed to Die
as Doctor (uncredited)
(1939)
Raffles
as Villager (uncredited)
(1939)
Henry Goes Arizona
as Rancher (uncredited)
(1937)
Cotton Queen
as Gaoler
(1937)
The Wife of General Ling
as Mike
(1936)
Wolves of the Sea
as Cafe Customer (edited from 'Hell's Harbor') (uncredited)
(1936)
The House of the Spaniard
as 1st Captain
(1935)
King of the Damned
as Priest
(1935)
The Mystery of the Mary Celeste
as Andy Gilling
(1935)
The Stoker
as Steve
(1934)
The Secret of the Loch
as Angus
(1934)
The Private Life of Don Juan
as Don Alfredo, Carmen's Poor Husband
(1934)
(1933)
S.O.S. Iceberg
as John Dragan
(1933)
S.O.S. Iceberg
as John Dragan
(1932)
Without Honors
as Mike Donovan
(1932)
The Doomed Battalion
as Innerhofer
(1931)
Arrowsmith
as Committee Member (uncredited)
(1931)
A House Divided
as Bartender (uncredited)
(1931)
Land of Wanted Men
as Terry
(1930)
The Sea Bat
as Limey
(1930)
Hell Harbor
as Henry Morgan
(1930)
Cleaning Up
as Burke
(1929)
The Mysterious Island
as Dmitry
(1928)
Rose-Marie
as Black Bastien
(1927)
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
as Angry Driver (uncredited)
(1927)
The First Auto
as The Blacksmith
(1927)
The Night of Love
as Bandit
(1927)
The Broken Gate
as Ephraim Adamson
(1927)
The Land Beyond the Law
as Silent 'Oklahoma' Joe
(1927)
Topsy and Eva
as Simon Leegree
(1926)
Don Juan
as Gentleman of Rome (uncredited)
(1926)
The Outsider
as Shadow
(1925)
The Phantom of the Opera
as Simon Buquet
(1925)
The Prairie Wife
as Ollie
(1924)
Greed
as John McTeague
(1924)
The Red Lily
as Le Turc
(1924)
Love and Glory
as Jules Malicorne
(1924)
The Border Legion
as Gulden
(1923)
Hutch Stirs 'em Up
as Sir Arthur Blackrose
(1923)
Shifting Sands
as Samuel Thayer
(1921)
Ladies Must Live
as Michael Le Prim
(1920)
The Fighting Shepherdess
as Bowers
(1920)
The Right of Way
as Jo Portugais
(1919)
Blind Husbands
as Silent Sepp
(1919)
Behind the Door
as Gideon Blank
(1919)
The White Heather
as The Captain
(1919)
The Four-Gun Bandit
as Secondary Role (uncredited)
(1918)
Breakers Ahead
as Mike Burley
(1917)
Bashful
as Musician (uncredited)
(1917)
Under Handicap
as Batt Truxton
(1917)
The Promise
as Stromberg
(1917)
The Secret of Black Mountain
as Jack Rance
(1916)
The Father of Her Child
as Rufus Strong
(1915)
Jewel
as Dr. Ballard (as T.W. Gowland)