Bryan Powley Explained

Bryan Powley
Birth Name:	Bryan Gilbert Powley
Birth Date:	1871 9, df=yes
Birth Place:	Reading, Berkshire, England
Death Place:	Worthing, Sussex, England
Relatives:	Nephews: Bruce Belfrage and Cedric Belfrage
Occupation:	Actor

Bryan Gilbert Powley (16 September 1871 – 18 December 1962) was a British stage and film actor.^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]} He began his career in the era of silent film.^{[6] [7]}

Life

Powley was born on 16 September 1871 in Reading, the son of the Rev. Matthew Powley and Louisa Jane Tinker.^[8] His father was at that time Vicar of Whitley, Reading, but had formerly been Chaplain to the British Community in Málaga and a Canon in Gibraltar.^[9]

On 7 September 1904, Powley married Evelyn Mary Foster at All Saints Church, Hampstead.^[10] Evelyn Mary Foster was the daughter of Joseph Foster, the eminent genealogist.^[10] On 19 May 1905, Bryan Powley and Evelyn Foster had a daughter, Esmay Margaret Powley.^[11]

Powley was the uncle of Bruce Belfrage and Cedric Belfrage.^[8] He died in Worthing, Sussex, on 18 December 1962.^{[12] [13]}

Selected filmography

• The Harbour Lights (1914)
• Fancy Dress (1919)
• The Nonentity (1921)
• The Old Curiosity Shop (1921)
• Open Country (1922)
• The Glorious Adventure (1922)
• Wee MacGregor's Sweetheart (1922)
• The Poisoned Diamond (1933)
• Cross Currents (1935)
• Moonlight Sonata (1937)
• Love from a Stranger (1937)
• Strange Boarders (1938)
• Old Mother Riley Joins Up (1940)

References

1. Web site: Who's who in the Theatre: A Biographical Record of the Contemporary Stage. 7 June 2019. Pitman. 7 June 2019. Google Books.
2. Web site: Bryan Powley - Theatricalia. theatricalia.com.
3. Web site: Bryan Powley. https://web.archive.org/web/20090118043127/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/18475. dead. 2009-01-18.
4. Web site: Bryan Powley.
5. Web site: Bryan Powley - Movies and Filmography - AllMovie. AllMovie.
6. Web site: The British Film Yearbook. Peter. Noble. 7 June 2019. British Yearbooks.. 7 June 2019. Google Books.
7. Book: Connelly, Robert B.. The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36. 7 June 1998. December Press. 9780913204368. 7 June 2019. Google Books.
8. Book: Belfrage, Bruce. One man in his time.. 7 June 2019. Hodder and Stoughton. 7897336.
9. Web site: Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886 .... University of. Oxford. 7 June 1888. Parker and Company. 7 June 2019. Google Books.
10. Marriage Register of All Saints Church, Hampstead, 1904, p.212
11. Web site: Ancestry® - Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History Records. www.ancestry.co.uk. 7 June 2019.
12. Death Notice, The Times, December 19, 1962, p.1
13. Obituary in The Stage Year Book. Published by Carson & Comerford Limited, 1963