David Hawthorne (actor)

David Hawthorne
Born	22 May 1888 Kettering United Kingdom
Died	June 18, 1942 (aged 54) London United Kingdom
Occupation	Film actor Stage actor
Years active	1920 - 1936 (film)

David Hawthorne (May 22, 1888 – June 18, 1942) was a British stage and film actor. He played the leading man in a number of films during the silent era, but later switched to character roles. One of his more notable roles was that of Rob Roy MacGregor in the 1922 film Rob Roy.^[1]

Selected filmography

• Testimony (1920)
• The Autumn of Pride (1921)
• The Fortune of Christina McNab (1921)
• Class and No Class (1921)
• Open Country (1922)
• Rob Roy (1922)
• A Soul's Awakening (1922)
• A Prince of Lovers (1922)
• The Conspirators (1924)
• The Presumption of Stanley Hay, MP (1925)
• The Mating of Marcus (1926)
• His House in Order (1928)
• Birds of Prey (1930)
• Creeping Shadows (1931)
• Glamour (1931)
• The Woman Between (1931)
• The Other Woman (1931)
• Mr. Bill the Conqueror (1932)
• The Lad (1935)
• Laburnum Grove (1936)

References

1. Richards p.187

Bibliography

• Low, Rachael. History of the British Film, 1918-1929. George Allen & Unwin, 1971.
• Richards, Jeffrey. Films and British National Identity: From Dickens to Dad's Army. Manchester University Press, 1997.

External links

• David Hawthorne at the Internet Movie Database