Raymond Lovell

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Raymond Lovell
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Born
Raymond Lovell

(1900-04-13)13 April 1900
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Died1 October 1953(1953-10-01) (aged 53)
London, England
OccupationActor
Years active1934–1953
Spouse(s)
(div. 1934)

(m. 1947;div. 1951)
Children Simone Lovell

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

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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.

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Selected stage roles

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References

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

Raymond Lovell at IMDb