Person
David Manners
- Specialty
- Acting
- Birth
- April 29, 1900 · 98 years
- Death
- December 23, 1998
- Origin
- Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Technical Alias
David Joseph MannersDavid J. MannersDave MannersRauff de Ryther Daun AcklomRauff de Ryther Duan Acklom
Professional Trajectory
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.
