Raymond Lovell

Canadian actor (1900–1953)

Margot Ruddock

(div. 1934)

Tamara Desni

(m. 1947; div. 1951)

ChildrenSimone Lovell

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

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

Love, Life and Laughter (1934) – Saville (uncredited)
Warn London (1934) – Prefect
The Third Clue (1934) – Robinson – Butler
The Case of Gabriel Perry (1935) – Defence
Crime Unlimited (1935) – Delaney
Sexton Blake and the Mademoiselle (1935) – Captain
Someday (1935) – Carr
King of the Damned (1935) – Captain Torres
Troubled Waters (1936) – Carter
Gaol Break (1936) – Duke
Not So Dusty (1936) – Mr. Holding
Fair Exchange (1936) – Sir Reeves Willoughby
Gypsy Melody (1936) – Court Chamberlain
Secret Lives (1937) – German Secret Service Chief
Behind Your Back (1937) – Adam Adams
Glamorous Night (1937) – Ship's Officer (uncredited)
Midnight Menace (1937) – Harris
Under Secret Orders (1937) – Col. von Steinberg
Murder Tomorrow (1938) – Inspector Travers
Q Planes (1939) – Northern Salvage Company Manager (uncredited)
Contraband (1940) – Van Dyne
He Found a Star (1941) – Nick Maurier
49th Parallel (1941) – Lieutenant Kuhnecke
The Common Touch (1941) – Cartwright
The Goose Steps Out (1942) – Schmidt
Let the People Sing (1942) – Bit Role (uncredited)
Alibi (1942) – Prof. Winkler
Uncensored (1942) – von Koerner
The Young Mr. Pitt (1942) – George the Third
Warn That Man (1943) – Hausemann / Lord Buckley
The Man in Grey (1943) – The Prince Regent
Candlelight in Algeria (1944) – Von Alven
Hotel Reserve (1944) – Robert Duclos
The Way Ahead (1944) – Mr. Jackson – Garage Owner
Caesar and Cleopatra (1945) – Lucius Septimius
Night Boat to Dublin (1946) – Paul Faber
Appointment with Crime (1946) – Gus Loman
The End of the River (1947) – Porpino
Easy Money (1948) – Mr. Cyprus
Who Killed Van Loon? (1948) – John Smith / Johann Schmidt
The Three Weird Sisters (1948) – Owen Morgan-Vaughan
So Evil My Love (1948) – Edgar Bellamy
Snowbound (1948) – Undetermined Role (uncredited)
The Calendar (1948) – Lord Willie Panniford
My Brother's Keeper (1948) – Bill Wainwright
The Blind Goddess (1948) – Frank Mainwaring KC
Quartet (1948) – Sir Frederick Bland (segment "The Alien Corn")
But Not in Vain (1948) – Jan Alting
Once Upon a Dream (1949) – Mr. Trout
The Bad Lord Byron (1949) – John Hobhouse
Fools Rush In (1949) – Sir Charles Leigh
Madness of the Heart (1949) – Comte de Vandiere
The Romantic Age (1949) – Hedges
The Mudlark (1950) – Sergeant Footman Naseby
Time Gentlemen, Please! (1952) – Sir Digby Montague
The Pickwick Papers (1952) – Aide
The Steel Key (1953) – Inspector Forsythe
I vinti (1953) – (final film role)

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

^ "Raymond Lovell". BFI. Archived from the original on 21 July 2012.
^ Criterion DVD commentary for 49th Parallel by Bruce Eder.

External links

Raymond Lovell at IMDb

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