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David Manners

Acting · Born April 29, 1900 · Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

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.

Movies with David Manners

• Dracula (1931) — John Harker
• The Mummy (1932) — Frank Whemple
• The Black Cat (1934) — Peter Alison
• The Millionaire (1931) — Bill Merrick
• Lady with a Past (1932) — Donnie Wainwright
• From Hell to Heaven (1933) — Wesley Burt
• Sweet Mama (1930) — Jimmy
• The Many Faces of Dracula (2000) — John Harker (archive footage)
• The Death Kiss (1932) — Franklyn Drew
• The Warrior's Husband (1933) — Theseus
• A Woman Rebels (1936) — Lieutenant Alan Craig Freeland
• The Miracle Woman (1931) — John Carson