fiction.wikisort.org - Actor

Raymond Lovell (13 April 1900 – 1 October 1953) was a Canadian-born actor who performed in British films. He mainly played supporting roles, often somewhat pompous characters.[1]

Raymond Lovell
in Madness of the Heart (1949)
Born	Raymond Lovell (1900-04-13)13 April 1900 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Died	1 October 1953(1953-10-01) (aged 53) London, England
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1934–1953
Spouse(s)	Margot Ruddock ​ ​ (div. 1934)​ Tamara Desni ​ ​ (m. 1947; div. 1951)​
Children	Simone Lovell

Lovell initially trained as a physician at Cambridge University, but gave up medicine for the stage in the 1920s.[2] On stage he appeared as Henry VIII in The Queen Who Kept Her Head. In 1941 he starred in Vernon Sylvaine's Warn That Man!, then reprised his role for the 1943 film adaptation.

Lovell married Margot Ruddock, an actress, singer and poet, with whom he had a daughter, Simone Lovell. This relationship broke down when Ruddock began an affair with W. B. Yeats in 1934, the year her daughter was born. In 1947 he married Tamara Desni; they divorced in 1951.

Selected filmography

Selected stage roles

• The Queen Who Kept Her Head by Winifred Carter (1934)
• A Lady Mislaid by Kenneth Horne (1950)
• Party Manners by Val Gielgud (1950)

References

External links

Raymond Lovell at IMDb

---