Ivor Novello: Ivor Novello. Writer: Downhill. While his special gifts seemed to lie in music and composing, the dapper, multi-talented Welsh actor Ivor Novello (ne David Ivor Davies), with his leading-man good looks, had a strong affinity for the camera.
Born in Cardiff, Wales, in 1893, he was the son of a tax-collector father and a well-known singing teacher mother. His prodigious musical skills were evident fairly early. Trained at the Magdalen College...
Known For:
Downhill (Writer(as David L'Estrange, uncredited)),
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (The Lodger),
Gosford Park (Soundtrack("Waltz of My Heart", "Glamorous Night", "Nuts in May", "The Land of Might-Have-Been", "And Her Mother Came Too", "I Can Give You the Starlight", "What a Duke Should Be?", "Why Isn't It You", "Keep the Home Fires Burning")),
Atonement (Soundtrack("Keep the Home Fires Burning"))
