David Manners
Known for Acting
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.
Filmography
Dracula
1931
as John Harker
The Mummy
1932
as Frank Whemple
The Black Cat
1934
as Peter Alison
The Miracle Woman
1931
as John Carson
A Bill of Divorcement
1932
as Kit Humphreys
Kismet
1930
as Caliph Abdallah
The Many Faces of Dracula
2000
as John Harker (archive footage)
The Death Kiss
1932
as Franklyn Drew
A Woman Rebels
1936
as Lieutenant Alan Craig Freeland
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
1935
as Edwin Drood
Roman Scandals
1933
as Josephus
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
1997
as Self (archive footage)
The Girl in 419
1933
as Dr. Martin Nichols
From Hell to Heaven
1933
as Wesley Burt
They Call It Sin
1932
as James E. 'Jimmy' Decker
Beauty and the Boss
1932
as Baron Paul von Ullrich
Man Wanted
1932
as Thomas 'Tom' / 'Tommy' Sherman
Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
1991
as John Harker (archive footage)
An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee
1930
as Self
Torch Singer
1933
as Michael 'Mike' Gardner