Billy Bevan Trivia
Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2021 12:41 pm
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Real Life Quail Helper; Reel Life Duck Hunters
Blue Book of the Screen
In Australia
In Escondido (an edited sampling)
Depression era charity work
Other local residents
When The Kinema (see clip #2) became
the Pala, Billy + a pal were there
How Billy became a rancher !!
Another silent film resident ?
Bill the exhibitor (his own prints?)
{Click image below to see Hoboken To Hollywood}
Hawaii (1912) was the first stop in this Pollard tour of the USA and its territories.
“The Lord Mayor” was “The Mikado” — perhaps retitled in Hawaii to avoid offending the Japanese people, who — coincidently — were to lose their reigning Emperor on July 30, 1912
Sergeant Brue — not so new as the Fargo (1912) story suggests — is remembered today for having introduced Wodehouse’s first recorded and published show tune.
Alaska (1913), another distant stop on Willie Bevan’s road to Hollywood
Networking in 1913 Canada with a future Oscar nominee.
Oddly, bio does not specifically mention Pollard Company by name; he also worked for Broncho Billy Anderson’s Gaiety Company
Anderson’s Theatre — homebase for his company
Was Bevan in The Candy Shop?
Lewis & Wolf — Another Bevan touring company ?
Billie Bevins
Bille Bevan
Billy Bevan
Willie Bivins
Mr. Bevins
“Saving The Safe”—an unmade or retitled film?
IMDb lists his (unconfirmed) first film as an Alice Howell Phil Dunham short released on 2/27/1916
(Photo from Phil Dunham Collection)
“You Haven’t Backed Yet?”
Real Life Quail Helper; Reel Life Duck Hunters
Blue Book of the Screen
In Australia
In Escondido (an edited sampling)
Depression era charity work
Other local residents
When The Kinema (see clip #2) became
the Pala, Billy + a pal were there
How Billy became a rancher !!
Another silent film resident ?
Bill the exhibitor (his own prints?)
{Click image below to see Hoboken To Hollywood}
Hawaii (1912) was the first stop in this Pollard tour of the USA and its territories.
“The Lord Mayor” was “The Mikado” — perhaps retitled in Hawaii to avoid offending the Japanese people, who — coincidently — were to lose their reigning Emperor on July 30, 1912
Sergeant Brue — not so new as the Fargo (1912) story suggests — is remembered today for having introduced Wodehouse’s first recorded and published show tune.
Alaska (1913), another distant stop on Willie Bevan’s road to Hollywood
Networking in 1913 Canada with a future Oscar nominee.
Oddly, bio does not specifically mention Pollard Company by name; he also worked for Broncho Billy Anderson’s Gaiety Company
Anderson’s Theatre — homebase for his company
Was Bevan in The Candy Shop?
Lewis & Wolf — Another Bevan touring company ?
Billie Bevins
Bille Bevan
Billy Bevan
Willie Bivins
Mr. Bevins
“Saving The Safe”—an unmade or retitled film?
IMDb lists his (unconfirmed) first film as an Alice Howell Phil Dunham short released on 2/27/1916
(Photo from Phil Dunham Collection)
“You Haven’t Backed Yet?”