Gibson Gowland
Acting
Born 1877-01-03
Died 1951-09-09
Spennymoor, Durham, England, UK
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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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Greed
The Wolf Man
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Gaslight
Mrs. Miniver
The Phantom of the Opera
Going My Way
Northwest Passage
Under Handicap
Shifting Sands
A Guy Named Joe
The Stoker
Hell Harbor
Sundown
Slightly Dangerous
Doomed to Die
The Private Life of Don Juan
Crossroads
Breakers Ahead
Kitty
The Ape
Blind Husbands
Broadway Limited
The Prairie Wife
Arrowsmith
Don Juan
A House Divided
Without Honor
The Mysterious Island
The Remarkable Andrew
Mutiny in the Arctic
Raffles
Wolves of the Sea
The Moon Is Down
The Isle of Forgotten Women
The Promise
The First Auto
The Red Lily
The Wife of General Ling
King of the Damned
Topsy and Eva
The White Heather
Cotton Queen
Cleaning Up
The Father of Her Child
The House of the Spaniard
The Mystery of the Mary Celeste
Rose-Marie
Gun Cargo
Henry Goes Arizona
The Outsider
Behind the Door
S.O.S. Iceberg
The Land Beyond the Law
Land of Wanted Men
The Sea Bat
The Fighting Shepherdess
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