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Gibson Gowland (4 January 1877, Spennymoor, County Durham – 9 September 1951, London) was an English film actor. Early sources had his birthplace as Newcastle upon Tyne. He started work as a sailor and later became the mate on a ship. For several years from the age of 25 he went to South Africa, where he hunted for big game, prospected for diamonds and also organised a theatrical company in Johannesburg, and acted in it. He also prospected in Canada, where he made his debut on the legitimate stage. Gowland went to the United States from Britain, by way of Canada, in 1913 where he met Beatrice Bird, also from Great Britain, whom he married. They moved to Hollywood, working as bit players. In 1914 he acted in D.W. Griffith's : ''Birth of a Nation'', followed by ''Intolerance''. In 1916, his son, actor and photographer Peter Gowland, was born. Often cast as a villain, his only starring role (out of 63 films) was in ''Greed'' (1924), directed by Erich von Stroheim, based on the Frank Norris novel ''McTeague'', and costarring ZaSu Pitts. The film has since become a classic, despite its having been cut to one-fifth its original length for commercial release by MGM. Gowland portrayed the protagonist, dentist John McTeague. Von Stroheim also directed Gowland in his 1919 film ''Blind Husbands''. Gowland was cast as Simon Buquet in the 1925 film version of ''The Phantom of the Opera''. He had bit parts in dozens of films〔http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0332998/〕 from 1938 to 1945, but was rarely credited on-screen. After two divorces, Gowland returned to England in 1944. He died in London at the age of 74 from a lethal case of diarrhoea. He is buried in Golders Green Crematorium, London. ==Selected filmography== * ''The Birth of a Nation'' (1915) * ''The Climber'' (1917) * ''Blind Husbands'' (1919) * ''Behind the Door'' (1919) * ''Ladies Must Live'' (1921) * ''Hutch Stirs 'em Up'' (1923) * ''The Harbour Lights'' (1923) * ''Greed'' (1924) * ''The Prairie Wife'' (1925) * ''The Phantom of the Opera'' (1925) * ''The Outsider'' (1926) * ''Don Juan'' (1926) * ''The Night of Love'' (1927) * ''The First Auto'' (1927) * ''Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans'' (1927) (uncredited) * ''The Isle of Forgotten Women'' (1927) * ''Rose-Marie'' (1928) * ''The Mysterious Island'' (1929) * ''Without Honor'' (1932) * ''S.O.S. Eisberg'' (1933) * ''The Private Life of Don Juan'' (1934) * ''King of the Damned'' (1935) * ''The Stoker'' (1935) * ''The House of the Spaniard'' (1936) * ''Highland Fling'' (1936) * ''The Wife of General Ling'' (1937) * ''Cotton Queen'' (1937) * ''The Wolf Man'' (1941) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gibson Gowland」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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