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词条 Frank Harvey (Australian screenwriter)
释义

  1. Biography

     Early career  Return to Australia  Cinesound  Radio 

  2. Personal

  3. Plays

     As writer  As actor 

  4. Filmography

     Unproduced Projects 

  5. Radio credits

  6. Sources

  7. References

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Frank Harvey (22 December 1885 – 10 October 1965) was a British-born actor, producer and writer best known for his work in Australia.

Biography

Frank Harvey was born Harvey Ainsworth Hilton, in 1883 in Earls Court, London, his father was John Ainsworth Hilton and mother was Elizabeth Hilton. His occupation in the British 1911 Census was "actor" and was married with Grace Hilton, née Ackerman. He had 3 sisters, called Maria, Cora and Caroline according to British 1891 Census.

Caroline Gladys Hilton was married to Hanns Wyldeck and from that union was born in 1914 Harvey Martin Wyldeck also an actor who died in England 1989. He was the cousin to Frank Harvey, Harvey Ainsworth Hilton's son from Grace Hilton. Martin Wyldeck's son Christopher Wyldeck also moved to Australia in the 1970s and is a TV director. {{Citation needed|date=April 2013}}

Harvey's father was also a writer.[1]

Early career

Harvey studied acting under Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree and played Shakespearean parts in the Lyceum Theatre in London. In 1914 he was engaged by J. C. Williamson to play in Australia with Nancye Stewart, and did not return to Britain until 1926.[2]

In 1922 and 1923 he played the leading man in a number of J & N Tait productions with the Emélie Polini troupe and toured Australia and New Zealand.[3]

When Harvey returned to Britain, it took him several months to re-establish himself there, but was cast in The Transit of Venus and then had little difficulty finding work, being particularly well regarded for a role in Jew Suss. Acting in this saw him have a nervous breakdown and he was ordered to take three months off.[4]

Harvey also had two plays produced, The Last Enemy and Cape Forlorn.[5]

Return to Australia

By 1931 he was back in Melbourne to appear in a series of plays for J.C. Williamson, including On the Spot and a production of his own Cape Forlorn.[6][7] Harvey said he preferred working on stage to screen:

An actor on the screen is not an actor at all, but a robot. In the days of the silent films, an actor could have a distinct screen personality; but now that speech has come, all that is ended. After the novelty has worn off, talking films will settle down here, as they have abroad, into a mere substitute for the silent films, and will not interfere in any way with the prosperity of the legitimate theatre. The screen should stick to the sphere in which it is really capable – the sphere of spectacular production, such as Iies outside the ambit of the legitimate stage. It is really a glorified sideshow.[8]

Harvey returned to London in October 1931,[9] but was back in Australia in 1933 to work for F. W. Thring at Efftee Productions as an actor and screenwriter.

In 1935 he moved to Sydney and began writing and acting for ABC radio. This involvement later led to full-time appointment as senior drama producer in 1944, directing such stars as Queenie Ashton (in early episodes of Blue Hills), Lyndall Barbour and Nigel Lovell. Older Australians may remember him as Nestor the story-teller in the Argonauts Club for most of the '40s.[10] His play False Colours was staged by Doris Fitton's Independent Theatre.[11]

In 1936 he founded a school of voice production and dramatic art with Claude Flemming.

Cinesound

That year Harvey also went to work for Ken G. Hall at Cinesound Productions as a studio dialogue director and in-house screenwriter. Starting with It Isn't Done (1937), Harvey wrote or co-wrote nine produced feature film scripts for Cinesound over the next four years, often playing small roles in them as well.[12]

Radio

During World War II, Harvey served in the Volunteer Defence Corps until 1944, when he left the army and went under contract to ABC as a radio actor and producer.[13] He eventually became ABC's head of radio drama.[14]

By the time Harvey retired in 1952 he had directed many hundreds of radio plays. He was appreciated by actors for his wit and communication skills.

Personal

He married Grace Ackerman in 1910 and divorced her in 1923 on grounds of desertion.[15]

On 3 April 1924 he married Helen Rosamond "Bobbie" McMillan, an actress with the Emélie Polini troupe and daughter of Sir William McMillan, Minister for Railways in New South Wales, Australia.[16][17]

A son (1912–1981) by his first marriage, also called Frank Harvey, was a British playwright and novelist who wrote the play Saloon Bar and screenplays for British movies including Seven Days to Noon (1950) and I'm Alright Jack (1960).[18]

He had a daughter, Helen, by his second wife.[19]

Plays

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As writer

  • The Last Enemy (1929)[20] (later played by a young Laurence Olivier)[21]
  • Cape Forlorn (1930)
  • Ann Chisolm (1933)[22]
  • False Colours (1935)[23]

As actor

  • Joseph and His Brethren (1914) w/ Nancye Stewart (her debut)
  • Within the Law (1915)w/ Muriel Starr
  • The Marriage of Kitty (1916) w/ Marie Tempest
  • Annabelle (1916) w/ Marie Tempest
  • A Pair of Silk Stockings (1917) w/ Marie Tempest and Nancye Stewart[24]
  • The Easiest Way (1918) w/ Muriel Starr[25]
  • The Silent Witness (1919) w/ Muriel Starr[26]
  • Adam and Eva (1921) w/ Maud Hannaford
  • Scandal (1922 in New Zealand) w/ Emélie Polini
  • My Lady's Dress (1923 in New Zealand) w/ Emélie Polini[27]
  • The Flaw (1923 in New Zealand) w/ Emélie Polini
  • De Luxe Annie (1923 in New Zealand) w/ Emélie Polini
  • The Bird of Paradise (1923) w/ Muriel Starr[28]
  • The Garden of Allah (1924) w/ Muriel Starr
  • A Royal Divorce (1925) w/ Muriel Starr[29]
  • So This Is London (1925) w/ Muriel Starr and Mayne Lynton[30]
  • Secrets (1925)[31]
  • Within the Law (1925)[32]
  • Monsieur Beaucaire (1925) w/ Mary Hinton
  • Seventh Heaven (1925) w/ Remy Carpen
  • The Silver King (1926) w/ Remy Carpen and Mayne Lynton
  • East Lynne (1929) in New Zealand w/ Muriel Starr[33]
  • The Transit of Venus – in London
  • Jew Suss as the Duke
  • Cape Forlorn (1930) in London
  • The Calendar (1931) w/ Campbell Copelin and Coral Brown (her debut)
  • On the Spot (1931) in Melbourne w/ Campbell Copelin[34]
  • Cape Forlorn – start 29 August 1930 – Criterion Theatre, Sydney – w/ Harvey Adams and Charles Wheeler[35]
  • My Lady's Dress (1931) playing seven different roles w/ Iris Darbyshire
  • The Man with a Load of Mischief (November 1931) – Haymarket, London
  • Rope (1932) w/ Campbell Copelin
  • Mother of Pearl (1934) starring Alice Delysia and Campbell Copelin, (also written and directed by him)
  • Her Past (1934) starring Alice Delysia and Campbell Copelin (also directed)
  • Black Limelight (1939) w/ Henry Mollison and Lina Basquette at newly opened Minerva Theatre
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Filmography

  • Within Our Gates (1915) – director
  • Cape Forlorn (1931) – original play, actor
  • The Mayor's Nest (1932) actor
  • Up for the Derby (1933) actor
  • The Streets of London (1934) – actor
  • A Ticket in Tatts (1934) – actor
  • Sheepmates (1934) (abandoned) – actor
  • Clara Gibbings (1934)[36] – writer
  • Heritage (1935) – actor
  • White Death (1936)
  • It Isn't Done (1937) cowriter Carl Dudley, actor
  • Tall Timbers (1937) – writer, actor
  • Lovers and Luggers aka Vengeance of the Deep (1937) – writer, actor
  • The Broken Melody aka The Vagabond Violinist (1938) – writer, actor[37]

for trivia fans: this movie is notable for appearance of a very young Gough Whitlam![38]

  • Dad and Dave Come to Town (1938) – writer, actor
  • Let George Do It (1938) – writer, actor
  • Mr. Chedworth Steps Out (1939) – writer
  • Gone to the Dogs (1939) – writer, actor
  • Dad Rudd, MP (1940) – writer, actor

Unproduced Projects

  • musical version of Robbery Under Arms (1934)[39]
  • film version of Collitts Inn (circa 1934)[39]

Radio credits

  • Monsieur Beaucaire (1935) – actor
  • Scandal(1935) – actor
  • My Lady's Dress (1935) – actor
  • Dead or Alive by Edmund Barclay (1936) – actor
  • The Fire on the Snow (1941 original production by Frank Clewlow) as Robert Falcon Scott
  • Macbeth (1948) with Lloyd Berrell and Lyndall Barbour – director
  • Waterloo Bridge (1948) with Max Osbiston – director

Sources

  • The Golden Age of Australian Drama Richard Lane, Melbourne University Press 1994 {{ISBN|0-522-84556-8}}
  • Biography by Stephen Vagg
  • {{IMDb name|0367518}} at IMDB
  • Frank Harvey Australian theatre credits at AusStage
  • Frank Harvey at the National Film and Sound Archive

References

1. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article83689857 |title=music and Drama. |newspaper=Queensland Figaro |location=Brisbane, QLD |date=21 March 1931 |accessdate=7 December 2012 |page=5 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
2. ^Canberra Times Thursday 17 March 1927
3. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article23696247 |title=MUSIC AND DRAMA. |newspaper=The Mercury |location=Hobart, Tas. |date=5 December 1923 |accessdate=9 March 2014 |page=5 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
4. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article83125784 |title=PERSONAL. |newspaper=The Daily News |location=Perth |date=7 December 1929 |accessdate=7 December 2012 |page=2 Edition: FINAL SPORTING EDITION |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
5. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article54171618 |title=FRANK HARVEY BACK. |newspaper=The Register News-Pictorial |location=Adelaide |date=12 January 1931 |accessdate=7 December 2012 |page=9 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
6. ^Melbourne Argus Monday 5 January 1931
7. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article16732243 |title=MR. FRANK HARVEY. |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=21 November 1930 |accessdate=7 December 2012 |page=6 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
8. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article16745329 |title=MR. FRANK HARVEY. |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=13 January 1931 |accessdate=7 December 2012 |page=13 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
9. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article29868696 |title=PERSONAL. |newspaper=The Advertiser |location=Adelaide |date=13 October 1931 |accessdate=7 December 2012 |page=8 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
10. ^The Golden Age of the Argonauts Rob Johnson, Hodder & Stoughton 1997 {{ISBN|0-7336-0528-1}}
11. ^"False Colours – New Play by Frank Harvey" Sydney Morning Herald 27 May 1935
12. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article39735107 |title=WRITER, ACTOR, INSTRUCTOR. |newspaper=The Courier-Mail |location=Brisbane |date=17 March 1938 |accessdate=8 January 2012 |page=4 Section: Second Section. |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
13. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article64389438 |title=Advertising. |newspaper=Portland Guardian |location=Vic. |date=22 May 1944 |accessdate=7 December 2012 |page=1 Edition: EVENING |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
14. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article18266045 |title=Music And Drama. |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=24 May 1952 |accessdate=7 December 2012 |page=7 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
15. ^Melbourne Sun Thursday 6 September 1923
16. ^Good Iron Mac Peter M Gunnar, Federation Press 1995 {{ISBN|1-86287-176-0}}
17. ^[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1300&dat=19330829&id=IP5hAAAAIBAJ&sjid=qpUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7361,5265398]
18. ^AustLit biography of Frank Harvey
19. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article69593056 |title=STARS OF THE AIR. FRANK HARVEY – ACTOR, PRODUCER, WRITER AND TALENT-SCOUT. |newspaper=Wodonga and Towong Sentinel |location=Vic. |date=27 September 1946 |accessdate=1 April 2012 |page=4 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
20. ^Melbourne Argus Tuesday 26 April 1932
21. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article69593056 |title=STARS OF THE AIR. FRANK HARVEY – ACTOR, PRODUCER, WRITER AND TALENT-SCOUT. |newspaper=Wodonga and Towong Sentinel |location=Vic. |date=27 September 1946 |accessdate=7 December 2012 |page=4 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
22. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article61727640 |title=STAGE ASIDES. |newspaper=Townsville Daily Bulletin |location=Qld. |date=21 September 1933 |accessdate=7 December 2012 |page=3 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
23. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article47480910 |title=Intimate Jottings. |newspaper=The Australian Women's Weekly | date=1 June 1935 |accessdate=7 December 2012 |page=25 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
24. ^Adelaide Advertiser Thursday 27 September 1917
25. ^Adelaide Advertiser Saturday 6 April 1918
26. ^Adelaide Advertiser Monday 15 September 1919
27. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article47480593 |title="HEARTS Don't REALLY BREAK". |newspaper=The Australian Women's Weekly | date=10 August 1935 |accessdate=7 December 2012 |page=22 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
28. ^Melbourne Argus Saturday 14 April 1923
29. ^Melbourne Argus Monday 19 October 1925
30. ^Melbourne Argus Saturday 7 March 1925
31. ^Melbourne Argus Saturday 4 July 1925
32. ^Melbourne Argus Monday 24 August 1925
33. ^N T Times Friday 26 September 1930
34. ^Melbourne Argus Monday 16 February 1931
35. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article16810746 |title="CAPE FORLORN.". |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=31 August 1931 |accessdate=7 December 2012 |page=5 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
36. ^{{IMDb name|0367518}}
37. ^http://australianscreen.com.au/titles/the-broken-melody/
38. ^The Australian Film and Television Companion Tony Harrison, Simon & Schuster Australia 1994 {{ISBN|0-7318-0455-4}}
39. ^1 {{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article61874368 |title=STACK ASIDES. |newspaper=Townsville Daily Bulletin |location=Qld. |date=29 October 1934 |accessdate=7 December 2012 |page=10 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
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