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Ivor Novello
Cardiff, Wales, UK
Ivor Novello (born David Ivor Davies; 15 January 1893 – 6 March 1951) was a Welsh composer and actor who became one of the most popular British entertainers of the first half of t…
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Ivor Novello (born David Ivor Davies; 15 January 1893 – 6 March 1951) was a Welsh composer and actor who became one of the most popular British entertainers of the first half of the 20th century, on both screen and stage. He was born into a musical Cardiff family and his mother, Clara Novello Davies, was an internationally known singing teacher and choral conductor. As a child, Novello was a successful singer in various eisteddfodau throughout the country. He was educated privately in Cardiff and then in Gloucester and later won a scholarship to Magdalen College School in Oxford. The family moved to London in 1913 and here Novello's career flourished. In 1914, at the start of World War II, he wrote the words to his most popular song, "Keep the Home Fires Burning". Novello lived in a flat above the Strand Theatre, where he remained until his death in 1951. Since 1955 the internationally prestigious The Ivor Novello Awards ("The Ivors") for songwriting and composing are annually awarded by the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors (BASCA).
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1976
That's Entertainment, Part II
Movie Thanks
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1957
King's Rhapsody
Movie Writer
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1955
King's Rhapsody
Movie Writer
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1950
The Dancing Years
Movie Theatre Play
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1941
Free and Easy
Movie Theatre Play
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1937
The Rat
Movie Theatre Play
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1937
Glamorous Night
Movie Theatre Play
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1934
Autumn Crocus
Movie Andreas Steiner
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1933
I Lived with You
Movie Prince Felix Lenieff
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1933
Sleeping Car
Movie Gaston
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1932
The Lodger
Movie Michel Angeloff
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1932
But the Flesh Is Weak
Movie Theatre Play
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1932
Tarzan the Ape Man
Movie Writer
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1931
Once a Lady
Movie Bennett Cloud
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1930
Symphony in Two Flats
Movie David Kennard
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1929
The Return of the Rat
Movie Pierre Boucheron
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1928
The Gallant Hussar
Movie Lieutenant Stephen Alrik / Feri von Noszty
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1928
A South Sea Bubble
Movie Vernon Winslow
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1928
The Vortex
Movie Nicky Lancaster
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1928
The Constant Nymph
Movie Lewis Dodd
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1927
Downhill
Movie Roddy Berwick
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1927
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
Movie The Lodger Jonathan Drew
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1926
The Triumph of the Rat
Movie Pierre Boucheron, 'the Rat'
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1925
The Rat
Movie Pierre Boucheron
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1923
The Man Without Desire
Movie Count Vittorio Dandolo
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1923
Bonnie Prince Charlie
Movie Prince Charles Stuart
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1923
The White Rose
Movie Joseph
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1922
The Bohemian Girl
Movie Thaddeus
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1921
Carnival
Movie Count Andrea Scipione
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1920
Miarka, la fille à l'ourse
Movie Ivor
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1919
The Call of the Blood
Movie Maurice Delarey
