Philip Merivale

Philip Merivale (2 November 1886 – 12 March 1946) was an English film and stage actor and screenwriter.

Philip Merivale
Merivale (right) with Edward G. Robinson in The Stranger (1946)
Born(1886-11-02)2 November 1886
Rehutia, Manickpur, India
Died12 March 1946(1946-03-12) (aged 59)
Los Angeles, California, United States
OccupationActor, screenwriter
Spouse(s)
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m. 1912; died 1934)

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m. 1937)
Children4, including John
Parent(s)Walter Merivale
Emma Magdalene

Life and career

Merivale was born in Rehutia, Manickpur, India, to railway engineer Walter Merivale (1855–1902) and Emma Magdalene ("Maggie"; née Pittman, 1854–1940); his father's profession meant the family lived in India, Costa Rica, and Barbados (where he was Manager of the Barbados Railway) before settling at Chiswick. Philip's sister, Dorothea, was married to the civil servant Sir Henry Bunbury, Accountant-General of the Post Office.[1][2][3]

Merivale was a respected stage actor who entered the cinema during the silent era. Merivale appeared in twenty films and also scripted one. He died from a heart ailment aged 59.

He was twice married to:

Broadway roles
After creating the role of Col. Pickering in the London production of Pygmalion, Philip Merivale (second from right) played Henry Higgins opposite Mrs. Patrick Campbell (right) when Shaw's play was taken to Broadway (1914)
Philip Merivale and Patricia Collinge in the Broadway production of Pollyanna (1916)

Filmography

References
  1. United States of America Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the 87th Congress, First Session, vol. 107, part 9, United States Government Printing Office (Washington), 1961, p. 12008
  2. http://www.turtlebunbury.com/family/bunburyfamily_bunburys/bunbury_family_bunburys_johnstown.html
  3. https://archives.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/repositories/2/resources/2982
  4. London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921
  5. Passenger Manifest SS Philadelphia 4 August 1906
  6. The Play-pictorial: Volume 20


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