Personal Info
Birth date
1878-05-17 (147 Years)
Day of death
1938-10-01
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
New York City, New York, USA
Also known as
Frederick Conway Levy
Frederick Levy
Conway Tearle
Biography
Conway Tearle (born Frederick Conway Levy) was an American stage actor who went on to perform in silent and early sound films.
Filmography
Stingaree
5.9
Overview:
A young lady named Hilda who works as a servant for the wealthy Clarksons, sheep farmers, and dreams of being a great singer. An upcoming visit by Sir Julian, a famous composer arriving from London, drives jealous Mrs. Clarkson (an interfering biddy who fancies she can sing - but can't) to send away Hilda, so he doesn't hear Hilda has a good voice. Meanwhile, an infamous outlaw named Stingaree has just arrived in town and kidnaps Sir Julian, then poses as him at the Clarksons, where he meets Hilda a few hours before she is to leave.The Mystic
6.6
Overview:
Zara, a phony psychic in a Hungarian carnival who, under the guidance of a Svengali-like con man crashes — and proceeds to swindle — American high society.The Hurricane Express
5.2
Overview:
The Wrecker wrecks trains on the L & R Railroad. One of his victims is Larry Baker's father. Baker wants to find the evildoer, among a host of suspects, but it will be difficult since the Wrecker can disguise himself to look like almost anyoneBlack Oxen
5.2
Overview:
A Manhattan playboy falls for a mysterious European woman, whom he notices is an exact double for a famous socialite who disappeared at the turn of the century. At first he thinks it's just a coincidence, as the beautiful young woman he's romancing is much younger than the woman who vanished, who would be in her late 50s or early 60s by now. Soon, however, he begins to believe that maybe it's not such a coincidence after all.Sing Sing Nights
3.3
Overview:
A respected war correspondent is found murdered, with three bullets--from three different guns--in him. Three different men are arrested, convicted and sentenced to death for the murder, but only one can be the actual killer. A criminologist sets out to find who is really guilty.Evidence
NYR
Overview:
Lord Cyril Wimborne, a barrister, divorces his wife, Myra, and takes custody of their child, Kenyon, when he finds her name linked with the profligate Major Pollock. Myra goes into seclusion while Pollock, intending to conceal Myra's innocence, goes to Burma. A few years later Myra sees Kenyon in the park with Mrs. Debenham, a widow with designs on Wimborne. Noting the resemblance between the lady in the park (whom he calls his "princess") and a photograph of his mother, Kenyon invites Myra to dinner at a time when his father, who has curtailed the visits to the park, plans to be away. At the same time Harold Courtenay, an old family friend, sees an opportunity to reunite the estranged couple.Romeo and Juliet
6.2
Overview:
Young love is poisoned by a generations long feud between two noble families.The Greater Glory
NYR
Overview:
Fanny von Berg's engagement to Count Maxim von Hurtig is suddenly broken off and she is denounced by her family for a suspected indiscretion. When they are reduced to starvation by the war, the family members accept her earnings without acknowledging the source. As the hostess of a Viennese night club, Fanny becomes the mistress of a rich war profiteer. The Count, loving her still, prevents her from making further sacrifices for her or his people, and they find ultimate happiness in the prospect of a new life together. A lost film.Vanity Fair
4
Overview:
An ambitious and ruthless young woman advances from the position of governess to the heights of British society.Morals for Men
NYR
Overview:
Joe (Tearle) and Bessie (Ayres), living in sin and just scraping by. Bessie thinks Joe has stolen their meagre savings, so she leaves him and becomes a manicurist eventually marrying a wealthy man who turns out to be stingy and cruel. Joe saves heiress Marion (Mills) from drowning, makes good as a civil engineer and eventually marries her. Joe and Bessie meet again by chance and Joe, in helping her to keep her secret, incurs Marion's jealousy. Bessie, extorted by a former acquaintance in desperation, decides to tell everything to her husband. However, to aid Joe she accuses Wallace (Miljan), with whom Marion is preparing to go away. Finally, Joe and Marion are reconciled, but Bessie learns that the world never forgives a woman who sins even when she has reformed.The Great Divide
NYR
Overview:
Alone and unprotected in an isolated wilderness cabin, Ruth Jordan is discovered by three drunken brutes who begin to barter for her. In desperation, she appeals to Stephen Ghent, the least degraded of the desperadoes, promising herself to him if he saves her from the others. Ghent buys off Shorty with a chain of gold nuggets and knocks Dutch senseless. Ghent then sends Dutch off with Shorty and takes Ruth to the next town, where he forces her to marry him. During the 3-day ride across the desert to Ghent's gold mine, the idealistic Ruth learns that he is a man of rough passions.Day of Reckoning
5
Overview:
In this brutal prison drama a hen-pecked husband is sentenced to prison after getting caught with his hand in the company till. He is sent to a high-rise facility in LA. It seems the fellow was only following the instructions of his domineering, constantly nagging wife who, as soon as he is put away, takes up with a more successful businessman. This causes her new lover's ex-lover to get insanely jealous and kill the conniving wife.Stella Maris
6.8
Overview:
Stella Maris is a beautiful, crippled girl, who is cared for by a rich family. They shield her from the harsh realities of the world, so that she has no idea of the cruel things that some people do. Unity Blake is a poor orphan all too familiar with the harsh realities of the real world. These two young women both fall in love with John, love which is complicated by the fact that he is still married to (though separated from) a bad wife.Klondike Annie
6.4
Overview:
A San Francisco singer flees Chinatown on murder charges and poses as a missionary in Alaska.Fifteen Wives
1
Overview:
Shortly after his arrival from South America to New York, Steven Humbolt is found dead in his apartment at the Savoia Hotel. Inspector Decker Dawes investigates the case and although the cause of death is described as apoplexy, Dawes is convinced it as murder, especially after he learns that Humbolt had been married fifteen times.Desert Guns
NYR
Overview:
Kirk Allenby is hired by the Cattleman's Association to track down and arrest a rancher who they believe is stealing cattle. Allenby finds his quarry but is astounded to discover that that man, Bob Enright, looks enough like him to be his twin. He is forced to shoot Enright, but as the man lay dying he gets Allenby to promise that he will help Enright's sister, who is being forced to marry the real boss of the cattle rustling operation, who has framed Enright in order to take over his ranch.The Seven Sisters
2
Overview:
Mici is the middle of seven sisters, who all believe if a younger sister marries first, the oldest sisters all doomed to be old maids. The elder sisters conspire to have the younger, pretty Mici sent away to a convent school. Mici manages to slip away and attend a fancy party, where she meets Count Horkoy. They fall in love and to the delight of Mici's sisters, the Count also finds suitable husbands for all of them.Moulders of Men
NYR
Overview:
In order to raise money for surgery for his crippled brother, Jim Barry accepts a job with Warner, leader of a gang of narcotics smugglers.A Virtuous Vamp
6
Overview:
A flirtatious young woman takes a job in a busy office, where her presence is terribly disruptive. None of the men in the office can concentrate on their jobs while her charms are on display. Of course, she sets her eye on the one man who seems oblivious to her.A Man of Stone
NYR
Overview:
Capt. Deering, a British war hero whose exploits in the Arabian desert have earned him the nickname "The Man of Stone", returns home to London to discover that his fiancé, the wealthy Lady Mary Fortescue, has left him for another man. Devastated, he returns to the desert and begins to drink heavily, which results in his becoming gravely ill. He is cared for by the lovely Laila, an Arab woman who falls in love with him. Meanwhile, Lady Mary has broken up with the man she dumped Deering for and travels to the desert, determined to get him back and to let nothing stand in her way.The Sporting Lover
NYR
Overview:
Captain Terrance Connaughton loses his stable of horses in a card game with Algernon Cravens.Society Snobs
NYR
Overview:
Lorenzo Carilo selects more-or-less menial jobs at which to make a living, other more "select" jobs not paying enough, and then he meets and falls in love with Vivian Forrester the daughter of a new-rich family. What's a poor boy to do? He might pose as a French Duke.The Fall of the Romanoffs
NYR
Overview:
The overthrow of Czar Nicholas II in Russia was such big news that the then-fledgling art of cinema couldn't help but jump on it immediately and create a couple of dramatizations.The Next Corner
NYR
Overview:
While honeymooning in Paris Elsie is rescued from attentions of a man.Her hero is Don Arturo who takes her to Countess Longueval after her husband must go for work to Argentine.When her husband returns he is shocked how have Elsie change.Elsie goes to a party in Arturos hunting lodge,where he forces himself on her.Arturo is shot by a Stranger and Elsie confesses all to her forgiving husband.Juan Serafin is found shot.After Midnight
NYR
Overview:
Wallace Phillips is tricked out of his share of his father's fortune by his brother Gordon. Wallace changes places with his brother and manages to fool even Gordon's wife. A lost film.The Dangerous Maid
NYR
Overview:
Barbara Winslow helps her rebel brother, Rupert, escape from the king's forces by disguising herself as him. Captain Prothero captures her, but he has fallen for Barbara's charms so he lets her go. As a result they are both arrested and imprisoned.April Folly
7
Overview:
April Poole (Davies), a young writer in love with publisher Kerry Sarle (Tearle), visits the office of Mr. Sarle and his partner Ronald Kenna (Frank) and reads her latest story to them. She has made Sarle the hero, Kenna the villain, and herself the heroine. In the story, April changes places with Lady Diana Mannister (Marshall), who is being sent to South Africa to separate her from her lover, a young artist. A famous diamond that Lady Diana is to deliver at the end of her journey is given to April. Thieves trail her during her journey. With efforts by Kenna to steal the diamond prevented by the intervention of Sarle, the story comes to a close.Acting
1942Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10) as Self (archive footage)
1936Romeo and Juliet as Escalus
1936The Preview Murder Mystery as Edwin Strange
1936Klondike Annie as Vance Palmer
1936Desert Guns as Kirk Allenby / Bob Enright
1935The Headline Woman as Frank Desmond
1934Sing Sing Nights as Floyd Cooper
1934Fifteen Wives as Insp. Decker Dawes
1934Stingaree as Sir Julian Kent
1933Should Ladies Behave as Max Lawrence
1933Day of Reckoning as George Hollins
1932Her Mad Night as Steven Kennedy
1932The King Murder as Detective Chief Henry Barton
1932Two Lips and Juleps; or, Southern Love and Northern Exposure as Van Patter
1932The Hurricane Express as The Railroad Attorney
1932Man About Town as Bob Ashley
1932Vanity Fair as Rawdon Crawley
1931The False Madonna as Grant Arnold
1931Morals for Women as Van Dyne
1931Pleasure as Gerald Whitney
1931How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 9: 'The Driver' as Unknown
1931The Lady Who Dared as Jack Norton
1931Captivation as Hugh Somerton
1930The Truth About Youth as Richard Carewe
1929The Lost Zeppelin as Commander Donald Hall
1929Evidence as Harold Courtenay
1929Gold Diggers of Broadway as Stephen Lee
1929Smoke Bellew as Kit 'Smoke' Bellew
1927Moulders of Men as Dr. William Matthews
1927Altars of Desire as David Elrod
1926My Official Wife as Alexander, aka Sascha
1926The Sporting Lover as Unknown
1926The Greater Glory as Count Maxim von Hurtig
1926Dancing Mothers as Jerry Naughton
1926The Dancer of Paris as Unknown
1925Morals for Men as Joe Strickland
1925The Mystic as Michael Nash
1925School for Wives as Richard Keith
1925The Heart of a Siren as Gerald Rexford
1925The Great Divide as Stephen Ghent
1924Flirting with Love as Wade Cameron
1924The White Moth as Robert Vantine
1924Lilies of the Field as Louis Willing
1924The Next Corner as Robert Maury
1923Black Oxen as Lee Clavering
1923The Dangerous Maid as Capt. Miles Prothero
1923The Common Law as Louis Neville
1923Ashes of Vengeance as Rupert de Vrieac
1923The Rustle of Silk as Arthur Fallaray
1923Bella Donna as Mahmoud Baroudi
1922One Week of Love as Buck Fearnley
1922The Eternal Flame as Général de Montriveau
1922Love's Masquerade as Russell Carrington
1922Shadows of the Sea as Captain Dick Carson
1921A Man of Stone as Capt. Dearing
1921After Midnight as Gordon Phillips
1921The Fighter as Caleb Conover
1921Bucking the Tiger as Ritchie MacDonald
1921Society Snobs as Lorenzo Carilo / Duke d'Amunzi
1920Marooned Hearts as Dr. Paul Carrington
1920April Folly as Kerry Sarle
1920The Forbidden Woman as Malcolm Kent
1920Two Weeks as Unknown
1920She Loves and Lies as Ernest Lismore
1919A Virtuous Vamp as Unknown
1919Mind the Paint Girl as Capt. Nicholas Jeyes
1919Human Desire as Robert Lane
1919Atonement as Theodore Proctor
1919The Way of a Woman as Anthony Weir
1918Virtuous Wives as Andrew Forrester
1918Stella Maris as John Risca - also spelled John Riska
1918The Fall of the Romanoffs as Prince Felix Yussepov
1917The Judgment House as Ian Stafford
1916The Heart of the Hills as Redgell
1916The Common Law as Neville
1916The Foolish Virgin as Jim Anthony
1915The Seven Sisters as Count Horkoy
1914The Nightingale as Charles Marden
Writing
1921Society Snobs ... Story