Percy Marmont

Percy Marmont
Percy Marmont
	Marmont c. 1920
Born	25 November 1883; London, England
Died	3 March 1977 (aged 93); London, England
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1916–1968
Spouses	; Elsie Marguerite Davison (m. 1908, divorced) Dorothy Stewart-Dawson;
Children	2, including Patricia Marmont

Percy Marmont (25 November 1883 – 3 March 1977) was an English film actor.^[1]^[2]

Biography

Marmont appeared in more than 80 films between 1916 and 1968. A veteran film actor by 1923, he scored a big hit that year in If Winter Comes, later remade by MGM in 1947. He is best remembered today for playing the title character in Lord Jim (1925), the first film version of Joseph Conrad's novel, and for playing one of Clara Bow's love interests in the Paramount Pictures film Mantrap (1926).

He was born and died in London, England. Marmont had two daughters with his wife Dorothy, Patricia Marmont, an actress then theatrical agent at one time married to actor Nigel Green, and Pamela, a stage actress married to actor Moray Watson.

Filmography

De Voortrekkers (1916) as Horseman (uncredited)
The Monk and the Woman (1917) as Brother Paul^[3]
Rose of the World (1918) as Lieutenant Belhune
The Lie (1918) as Nol Dibdin
The Turn of the Wheel (1918) as Frank Grey
In the Hollow of Her Hand (1918) as Brandon Booth
The Indestructible Wife (1919) as Schuyler Horne
Three Men and a Girl (1919) as Dr. Henry Forsyth
The Winchester Woman (1919) as David Brinton
The Climbers (1919) as Ned Warden
The Vengeance of Durand (1919) as Tom Franklin
Slaves of Pride (1920) as Brewster Howard
The Sporting Duchess (1920) as Douglas, Duke of Desborough
Away Goes Prudence (1920) as Hewitt Harland
The Branded Woman (1920) as Douglas Courtenay
Dead Men Tell No Tales (1920) as George Stevenson Cole
What's Your Reputation Worth? (1921) as Anthony Blake
Love's Penalty (1921) as Steven Saunders
Without Benefit of Clergy (1921)
Wife Against Wife (1921) as Stannard Dole
The First Woman (1922) as Paul Marsh
Married People (1922) as Robert Cluer
If Winter Comes (1923) as Mark Sabre
The Midnight Alarm (1923) as Captain Harry Westmore
The Light That Failed (1923) as Dick Heldar
Broadway Broke (1923) as Tom Kerrigan
You Can't Get Away with It (1923) as Charles Hemingway
The Man Life Passed By (1923) as John Turbin
The Shooting of Dan McGrew (1924) as Jim, Lou's Husband
The Marriage Cheat (1924) as Paul Mayne
When a Girl Loves (1924) as Count Michael
The Enemy Sex (1924) as Garry Lindaberry
The Legend of Hollywood (1924) as John Smith
The Clean Heart (1924) as Philip Wriford
Broken Laws (1924) as Richard Heath
K – The Unknown (1924)) as 'K' Le Moyne
Idle Tongues (1924) as Dr. Ephraim Nye
Daddy's Gone A-Hunting (1925) as Julian
Just a Woman (1925) as George Rand
The Street of Forgotten Men (1925) as Easy Money Charley
A Woman's Faith (1925) as Donovan Steele
The Shining Adventure (1925) as Dr. Hugo McLean
Fine Clothes (1925) as Peter Hungerford
Lord Jim (1925) as Lord Jim
Infatuation (1925) as Sir Arthur Little
The Miracle of Life (1926) as Blair Howell
Fascinating Youth (1926) as Percy Marmont
Aloma of the South Seas (1926) as Bob Holden
Mantrap (1926) as Ralph Prescott
San Francisco Nights (1928) as John Vickery
The Stronger Will (1928) as Clive Morton
Yellow Stockings (1928) as Gavin Sinclair
Sir or Madam (1928) as Sir Ralph Wellalone
The Warning (1928) as Jim
The Lady of the Lake (1928) as James FitzJames
The Silver King (1929) as Wilfred Denver
The Squeaker (1930) as Captain Leslie
Cross Roads (1930) as Jim Wyndham
The Loves of Ariane (1931) as Anthony Fraser
The Written Law (1931) as Sir John Rochester
Rich and Strange (1931) as Commander Gordon
The Silver Greyhound (1932) as Norton Fitzwarren
Blind Spot (1932) as Holland Janney
Say It with Music (1932) as Philip Weston
Her Imaginary Lover (1933) as Lord Michael Ware
The White Lilac (1935) as Tollitt
Vanity (1935) as Jefferson Brown
Secret Agent (1936) as Caypor
The Captain's Table (1936) as John Brooke
David Livingstone (1936) as David Livingstone
Conquest of the Air (1936) as Wilbur Wright (uncredited)
Action for Slander (1937) as William Cowbit
The Pearls of the Crown (1937) as Le cardinal Wolsey (uncredited)
Young and Innocent (1937) as Col. Burgoyne
Those Kids from Town (1942) as Earl
Penn of Pennsylvania (1942) as Holme
I'll Walk Beside You (1943) as Vicar
Loyal Heart (1946) as John Armstrong
No Orchids for Miss Blandish (1948) as John Blandish
Dark Secret (1949) as Vicar
The Gambler and the Lady (1952) as Lord Willens-Hortland
Four Sided Triangle (1953) as Sir Walter
The Million Pound Note (1954) as Lord Hurlingham (uncredited)
Knave of Hearts (1954) as Catherine's Father (uncredited)
Footsteps in the Fog (1955) as Magistrate
Lisbon (1956) as Lloyd Merrill
The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960) as Guest at Theatre (uncredited)
Hostile Witness (1968) as Justice Matthew Gregory

References

^ McFarlane, Brian; Slide, Anthony (28 March 2019). The Encyclopedia of British Film: Fourth Edition. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-7190-9139-1. Retrieved 28 March 2019 – via Google Books.
^ Slide, Anthony (12 September 2010). Silent Players: A Biographical and Autobiographical Study of 100 Silent Film Actors and Actresses. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 978-0-8131-2708-8. Retrieved 28 March 2019 – via Google Books.
^ "STARS of Our EARLY FILMS". The Sun. No. 1786. New South Wales, Australia. 20 June 1937. p. 11 (MAGAZINE). Retrieved 15 August 2024 – via National Library of Australia.