Personal Info
Birth date
1877-01-03 (148 Years)
Day of death
1951-09-09
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Spennymoor, Durham, England, UK
Also known as
Thomas Gowland
T.H. Gowland
T.H. Gibson-Gowland
T.H. Gibson Gowland
G.H. Gowland
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gibson Gowland, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
Gaslight
7.493
Overview:
A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.The Phantom of the Opera
7.1
Overview:
The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make the woman he loves a star.The Wolf Man
7.01
Overview:
After his brother's death, Larry Talbot returns home to his father and the family estate. Events soon take a turn for the worse when Larry is bitten by a werewolf.Mrs. Miniver
7.1
Overview:
Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charming granddaughter of the local nobility as represented by Lady Beldon. Then the war comes and Vin joins the RAF.Going My Way
6.7
Overview:
Youthful Father Chuck O'Malley led a colorful life of sports, song, and romance before joining the Roman Catholic clergy. After being appointed to a run-down New York parish, O'Malley's worldly knowledge helps him connect with a gang of boys looking for direction, eventually winning over the aging, conventional Parish priest.The Ape
4.8
Overview:
Dr. Bernard Adrian is a kindly scientist who seeks to cure a young woman's polio. He needs human spinal fluid to complete the formula for his experimental serum. Meanwhile, a vicious circus ape has broken out of its cage, and is terrorizing the townspeople. Can there be a connection?Greed
7.4
Overview:
A lottery win of $5,000 forever changes the lives of a miner turned dentist and his wife.Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
7.838
Overview:
A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.The Private Life of Don Juan
6.111
Overview:
What do women want? Don Juan is aging. He's arrived secretly in Seville after a 20 year absence. His wife Dolores, whom he hasn't lived with in five years, still loves him. He refuses to see her; he fears the life of a husband. She has bought his debts and will remand him to jail for two years if he won't come to her. Meanwhile, an impostor is climbing the balconies of Seville claiming to be Don Juan.Northwest Passage
6.4
Overview:
Based on the Kenneth Roberts novel of the same name, this film tells the story of two friends who join Rogers' Rangers, as the legendary elite force engages the enemy during the French and Indian War. The film focuses on their famous raid at Fort St. Francis and their marches before and after the battle.It Happened Tomorrow
6.678
Overview:
A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This brings more problems than fortune, especially as his new girlfriend is part of a phony clairvoyant act.Crossroads
5.9
Overview:
A French diplomat who's recovered from amnesia is blackmailed over crimes he can't remember.Don Juan
6.5
Overview:
If there was one thing that Don Juan de Marana learned from his father Don Jose, it was that women gave you three things - life, disillusionment and death. In his father's case it was his wife, Donna Isobel, and Donna Elvira who supplied the latter. Don Juan settled in Rome after attending the University of Pisa. Rome was run by the tyrannical Borgia family consisting of Caesar, Lucrezia and the Count Donati. Juan has his way with and was pursued by many women, but it is the one that he could not have that haunts him. It will be for her that he suffers the wrath of Borgia for ignoring Lucrezia and then killing Count Donati in a duel. For Adriana, they will both be condemned to death in the prison on the river Tigre.The Lodger
6.3
Overview:
In Victorian era London, the inhabitants of a family home with rented rooms upstairs fear the new lodger is Jack the Ripper.The Mysterious Island
5.167
Overview:
On a volcanic island near the Kingdom of Hetvia rules Count Dakkar, a benevolent leader and scientist who has eliminated class distinction among the island's inhabitants. Dakkar, his sister Sonia and her fiance, engineer Nicolai Roget have designed a submarine which Roget pilots on its initial voyage just before the island is overrun by Baron Falon, despotic ruler of Hetvia. Falon sets out after Roget in a second submarine and the two craft, diving to the ocean's floor, discover a strange land populated by dragons, giant squid and an eerie undiscovered humanoid race.Sundown
5.4
Overview:
Englishmen fighting Nazis in Africa discover an exotic mystery woman living among the natives and enlist her aid in overcoming the Germans.Doomed to Die
5.478
Overview:
Shipping magnate Cyrus Wentworth, downcast over a disaster to his ocean liner 'Wentworth Castle' (carrying, oddly enough, an illicit shipment of Chinese bonds) is shot in his office at the very moment of kicking out his daughter's fiance Dick Fleming. Of course, Captain Street arrests Dick, but reporter Bobbie Logan, the attractive thorn in Street's side, is so convinced he's wrong that she enlists the help of detective James Lee Wong to find the real killer.Raffles
6
Overview:
Man about town and First Class cricketer A.J. Raffles keeps himself solvent with daring robberies. Meeting Gwen from his schooldays and falling in love all over again, he spends the weekend with her parents, Lord and Lady Melrose. A necklace presents an irresistible temptation, but also in attendance is Scotland Yard's finest, finally on the trail.Blind Husbands
6.4
Overview:
An Austrian military officer and rogue attempts to seduce the wife of a surgeon. The two men confront each other in a test of abilities that ends surprisingly.Arrowsmith
6.444
Overview:
A medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use of a vaccine.Kitty
5.5
Overview:
Pickpocket Kitty's life changes when painter Thomas Gainsborough makes her portrait. The artwork gains the attention of Sir Hugh Marcy, who later decides to use her for his benefit.Bashful
6.9
Overview:
In order to claim his inheritance, our hero must first produce a wife and family.The Moon Is Down
6.7
Overview:
The story of a small town in Norway that resists German occupation during World War II. Based on a John Steinbeck novel.The Remarkable Andrew
8.2
Overview:
When Andrew Long, hyper-efficient small town accountant, finds a $1240 discrepancy in the city budget, his superiors try to explain it away. When he insists on pursuing the matter, he's in danger of being blamed himself. In his trouble, the spirit of Andrew Jackson, whom he idolizes, visits him, and in turn, summons much high-powered talent from American history...which only Andrew can see.A Guy Named Joe
6.558
Overview:
A cocky Air Force pilot stationed in England during World War II falls for a daring female flier. After he's killed on a mission, he is sent back to Earth by heavenly General with a new assignment.Broadway Limited
4.625
Overview:
A publicity stunt staged on a train known as the Broadway Limited gets out of control, as no one wants to be responsible for the baby that was brought in for it.The Outsider
NYR
Overview:
Leontine Sturdee and her dancing partner Basil Owen tour Hungry. They meet Anton Ragatzy, a mystic faith healer who falls in love with the young woman. When she is injured during an acrobatic dance move, she is taken to London where the doctors pronounce her an incurable cripple. Anton follows her to London where he offers her aid but is denounced by the doctors. Finally he obtains admission to see Leontine. After several failures she is able to rise and walk at his command. Leontine realizes that it was not his healing abilities but their mutual love that wrought the cure. A lost film.Gun Cargo
NYR
Overview:
A Maritime Board of Inquiry investigates the loss of the merchant ship, the Black Rover . Its captain, Jim Parker, offers the following testimony on his own behalf: Jim is recommended by Fred Winthrop to his father, owner of the Winthrop Shipping Line, to command the Black Rover after its captain and crew refuse to make the voyage. Jim, who has just received his captain's papers, agrees, unaware that Winthrop is illegally running a cargo of contraband weapons. The film has never had a theatrical release. Production began in 1930 under the title "Contraband," stopped when the producers ran out of money, then began again under the title "Contraband Cargo." Production soon stopped again and was not resumed until 1939, when new footage was shot and footage from HELL HARBOR (1930) was edited in. The film was still deemed not suitable for theatrical distribution, and it was not until 1949 that it was finally released... for late night airing on television.The Red Lily
6.5
Overview:
Jean and Marise, young lovers forced from their homes, flee to Paris. Irrevocably separated there, their lives deviate into the slums and hard labor of low-class French society. All the while, the two desperately search for one another.Ladies Must Live
NYR
Overview:
Schooled by her wealthy brother-in-law William Hollins, Christine Bleeker plans to marry Ralph Lincourt when he is divorced. He, however, is equally pursued by Nancy Barron, whom Christine dislikes. Ned Klegg loves social secretary Barbara, and resents the attention paid her by Barron, Nancy's elderly husband. Nell Martin, a servant in the Hollins home, is in love with the gardener but is persecuted by the butler. Aviator Mulvain and his mechanic Le Prim arrive, and Le Prim absconds with Nancy in an auto, pursued by Mulvain and Christine, who force him to release her. Christine announces her engagement to Mulvain, who declares he is a poor man. In the resulting commotion, it transpires that Nell, threatened with exposure, has drowned herself. The shock brings a change of emotion: Barbara rejects Barron and accepts Klegg, and Christine accepts Mulvain, content to share his poverty. Considered a lost film.Acting
1949Gun Cargo as Henry Morgan
1945Kitty as Prison Guard (uncredited)
1944Gaslight as Servant (uncredited)
1944It Happened Tomorrow as Unknown
1944The Lodger as Unknown
1944Going My Way as Parishioner (uncredited)
1943A Guy Named Joe as Bartender (uncredited)
1943Slightly Dangerous as Opera patron (uncredited)
1943The Moon Is Down as Villager (uncredited)
1942Crossroads as Reporter (uncredited)
1942Mrs. Miniver as Man on Boat (uncredited)
1942The Remarkable Andrew as Jurist
1941The Wolf Man as Villager (uncredited)
1941Sundown as Churchgoer in Wheelchair (uncredited)
1941Broadway Limited as Cafe Customer (uncredited)
1941Mutiny in the Arctic as Crewman (uncredited)
1940The Ape as Posse Member
1940Doomed to Die as Doctor (uncredited)
1940Northwest Passage as MacPherson
1939Henry Goes Arizona as Rancher (uncredited)
1939Raffles as Villager (uncredited)
1937Cotton Queen as Gaoler
1937The Wife of General Ling as Mike
1936The House of the Spaniard as 1st Captain
1936Wolves of the Sea as Cafe Customer (edited from 'Hell's Harbor') (uncredited)
1935King of the Damned as Priest
1935The Mystery of the Mary Celeste as Andy Gilling
1935The Stoker as Steve
1934The Secret of the Loch as Angus
1934Nordpol - Ahoi! as Unknown
1934The Private Life of Don Juan as Don Alfredo, Carmen's Poor Husband
1933S.O.S. Iceberg as John Dragan
1933S.O.S. Iceberg as John Dragan
1932The Doomed Battalion as Innerhofer
1932Without Honor as Mike Donovan
1931Arrowsmith as Committee Member (uncredited)
1931A House Divided as Bartender (uncredited)
1931Land of Wanted Men as Terry
1930Cleaning Up as Burke
1930The Sea Bat as Limey
1930Hell Harbor as Henry Morgan
1929The Mysterious Island as Dmitry
1928Rose-Marie as Black Bastien
1927Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans as Angry Driver (uncredited)
1927Topsy and Eva as Simon Leegree
1927The First Auto as The Blacksmith
1927The Land Beyond the Law as Silent 'Oklahoma' Joe
1927The Broken Gate as Ephraim Adamson
1927The Night of Love as Bandit
1926Don Juan as Gentleman of Rome (uncredited)
1926The Outsider as Shadow
1925The Phantom of the Opera as Simon Buquet
1925The Prairie Wife as Ollie
1924Love and Glory as Jules Malicorne
1924Greed as John McTeague
1924The Border Legion as Gulden
1924The Red Lily as Le Turc
1923Shifting Sands as Samuel Thayer
1923Hutch Stirs 'em Up as Sir Arthur Blackrose
1923The Harbour Lights as Mark Helstone
1921Ladies Must Live as Michael Le Prim
1920The Fighting Shepherdess as Bowers
1920The Right of Way as Jo Portugais
1919Behind the Door as Gideon Blank
1919Blind Husbands as Silent Sepp
1919The Four-Gun Bandit as Secondary Role (uncredited)
1919The White Heather as The Captain
1918Breakers Ahead as Mike Burley
1917Bashful as Musician (uncredited)
1917The Secret of Black Mountain as Jack Rance
1917Under Handicap as Batt Truxton
1917The Promise as Stromberg
1916The Father of Her Child as Rufus Strong
1915Jewel as Dr. Ballard (as T.W. Gowland)