Overview
Known for
Acting
Gender
Other
Birthday
Apr 29, 1900 (125 years old)
Death date
Dec 23, 1998
David Manners
Known For
49min
Movie
2000
The Many Faces of Dracula
Hosted by Christopher Lee, this documentary examines the different actors...
1h 40m
Movie
1997
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
A film scrapbook, images, phrases from our past, hiding their...
Biography
David Joseph Manners (born Rauff de Ryther Duan Acklom, April 30, 1900 – December 23, 1998) was a Canadian-American actor who played John Harker in Todd Browning's 1931 horror classic Dracula. The following year he portrayed the archaeologist Frank Whemple in another pre-Code thriller by Universal Pictures, The Mummy. Manners abandoned his film career in 1936, and his theatrical career seventeen years later.