David Manners

Personal information

Known for: Acting
Known credits: 42
Gender: Male
Born: April 29, 1900
Died: December 23, 1998
Place of birth: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Also known as: David Joseph MannersDavid J. MannersDave MannersRauff de Ryther Daun AcklomRauff de Ryther Duan AcklomRauff Acklom

Biography

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.