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Laurence Hanray is a Actor born on 15 may 1874

Laurence Hanray

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Birth 15 may 1874
Death 28 november 1947 (at 73 years)

Laurence Hanray (16 May 1874 – 28 November 1947), sometimes credited as Lawrence Hanray, was a British film and theatre actor born in London, England. He is also credited as the author of several plays and music hall songs.

Laurence Hanray was born Laurence (or Lawrence) Henry Jacobs in St. John's Wood, on 16 May 1874, the son of Angelo Jacobs (c. 1851-1910), a glass manufacturer, and Leah Nathan (1850-1946). His father changed his name to Angelo Jacobs Hanray, and with it the family name, after becoming bankrupt in 1897, although Laurence had been using the name Hanray professionally from at least 1892, when he appeared as a member of the Hermann Vezin Theatre Company in supporting roles in Hamlet and Macbeth at Her Majesties Theatre, Dundee. Australian newspapers show he was in Australia and New Zealand from around 1901 to 1904, appearing as Carraway Bones the undertaker in the farce Turned Up at the Theatre Royal, Perth, in May, 1901, and subsequently at most of the main cities until June 1904. Travel records show him departing Sydney for Auckland in August 1901, and sailing from Sydney for London on 7 October 1904. He then resumed touring in Britain. In the 1911 census, Laurence Hanray (36), actor, is listed as residing at the Woolton Hall Hydropathic Hotel, Much Woolton, Lancashire, England.

Hanray married Dorothy Mary Chambers Farnsworth (1884-1918) in the Birkenhead district during the first quarter of 1914. She petitioned for divorce in 1917, but then died suddenly in London on 16 August 1918. Hanray married Lois Grace Heatherley (1892-1966) in Paddington during the same quarter his first wife died. Lois was also an actress and performed with Laurence at the Booth Theatre, Broadway, in 1921. They were also together in The Faithful Heart, she as Ginger and Laurence as Major Lestrade, at the Comedy Theatre, Haymarket. Travel records then show the couple arriving in New York in September 1922. Laurence appeared in John Galsworthy's play Loyalties at the Gaeity Theatre on Broadway. They arrived in Liverpool in May 1923. The couple also played together in Escape at the Booth Theatre, Broadway in 1927, she as Miss Grace and he as The Fellow Convict, The Old Gentleman and The Farmer.

Laurence and Lois had a daughter, Ursula Susan Edith Hanray, on 16 November 1923. According to travel records, the family visited America from September 1927. Laurence also went on his own to Canada in September 1931, and also during 1939-1940. Ursula became a child actress, playing the title role in the first televised production of Alice Through The Looking Glass in 1937, and the young Queen Victoria in a London theatre in 1940.

Laurence worked almost up to his death; The Times reported in early September 1947 that he was to appear in a play at Dunfermline Abbey Theatre. He died aged 73 on 28 November 1947, following an operation at the Middlesex Hospital, London. Lois Grace Hanray died aged 74 on 25 April 1966.

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Filmography of Laurence Hanray (58 films)

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Mine Own Executioner, 1h48
Directed by Anthony Kimmins
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Medical-themed films
Actors Burgess Meredith, Dulcie Gray, Michael Shepley, Christine Norden, Kieron Moore, Walter Fitzgerald
Roles Dr. Lefage
Rating66% 3.34283.34283.34283.34283.3428
Felix Milne (Meredith) is an overworked psychologist with psychological problems of his own. Molly Lucian has a husband traumatized from having been in a Japanese POW camp, and she needs Milne's help in treating her husband, Adam. Adam is about to become severely schizophrenic. To make matters worse, Felix finds his own home life deteriorating.
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, 1h48
Directed by Alberto Cavalcanti
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Stanley Holloway, Derek Bond, Cedric Hardwicke, Sally Ann Howes, Mary Merrall, Cathleen Nesbitt
Roles Mr. Gride
Rating68% 3.440633.440633.440633.440633.44063
After the patriarch of the family dies and leaves them with no source of income, Nicholas Nickleby, his mother, and his younger sister Kate venture to London to seek help from their wealthy, cold-hearted uncle Ralph, an investor who arranges for Nicholas to be hired as a tutor at Dotheboys Hall in Yorkshire and finds Kate work as a seamstress. Nicholas meets Mr. Squeers just as he concludes business with Mr. Snawley, who is "boarding" his two unwanted stepsons.
Waterloo Road, 1h13
Directed by Sidney Gilliat
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Political films
Actors John Mills, Stewart Granger, Alastair Sim, Joy Shelton, Alison Leggatt, Beatrice Varley
Rating63% 3.1968853.1968853.1968853.1968853.196885
John Mills plays an AWOL soldier who returns to south London to save his wife from the advances of a philandering draft-dodger played by Stewart Granger.
Hotel Reserve
Directed by Mutz Greenbaum, Lance Comfort
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Spy
Themes Spy films
Actors James Mason, Lucie Mannheim, Raymond Lovell, Herbert Lom, Martin Miller, Frederick Valk
Roles Police Commissioner
Rating62% 3.1005253.1005253.1005253.1005253.100525
In 1938, refugee Peter Vadassy (James Mason) decides to take a vacation at the Hotel Reserve to celebrate both his completion of medical school and his impending French citizenship. When he goes to pick up some photographs at the local pharmacy, he is taken away and questioned by Michel Beghin (Julien Mitchell) of French naval intelligence. When his negatives had been developed, some of them turned out to be of French military installations. It is discovered that while the camera is the same make as Peter's, the serial number is different. Peter is released on condition that he find out which other hotel guests have cameras like his.
Love Story
Love Story (1944)
, 1h53
Directed by Leslie Arliss
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Margaret Lockwood, Stewart Granger, Patricia Roc, Tom Walls, Reginald Purdell, Walter Hudd
Roles Angus Rossiter
Rating65% 3.289313.289313.289313.289313.28931
Concert pianist Lissa Campbell (Margaret Lockwood) decides to leave her successful music career behind and devote herself to something more directly connected to the British war effort. After announcing her retirement from the concert stage, she applies for a position with the RAF as a WASP, but is rejected for health reasons. Soon after, she learns from her doctor that she is suffering from a heart condition and that she does not have long to live.
My Learned Friend, 1h14
Directed by Basil Dearden, Will Hay
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Comedy thriller, Crime
Actors Will Hay, Ronald Shiner, Charles Victor, Claude Hulbert, Eddie Phillips, Mervyn Johns
Roles Sir Norman
Rating69% 3.472823.472823.472823.472823.47282
This comedy sees Will Hay playing a seedy lawyer, who finds himself marked for assassination by a forger whom he previously defended unsuccessfully. He teams up with an incompetent solicitor to try to prevent the deaths of others involved.
Old Mother Riley's Circus, 1h20
Directed by Thomas Bentley
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors John Longden, Edgar Driver, Roy Emerton, O. B. Clarence, Syd Crossley, Hector Abbas
Roles Cheddar, KC
Rating49% 2.4643052.4643052.4643052.4643052.464305
Old Mother Riley is the ringmaster after taking over a big top with flagging fortunes. Although the circus is plagued by the disappearance of its owner, and the bailiffs are at the door, the show somehow manages to go on. Money starts to pour in, financial disaster is avoided, and Mother Riley discovers her long-lost daughter is in fact the star of the show.
Quiet Wedding, 1h20
Directed by Anthony Asquith
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy
Actors Margaret Lockwood, Derek Farr, David Tomlinson, A. E. Matthews, Athene Seyler, Jean Cadell
Roles Mr. Williamson
Rating66% 3.310223.310223.310223.310223.31022
A young couple become engaged, but enjoy a number of comedic adventures before their wedding day.
The Ghost of St. Michael's, 1h22
Directed by Marcel Varnel
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Will Hay, Claude Hulbert, Charles Hawtrey, John Laurie, Raymond Huntley, Felix Aylmer
Roles Clerk of Court
Rating66% 3.3434053.3434053.3434053.3434053.343405
An ineffectual science teacher William Lamb (Will Hay) is hired by a school recently transferred because of World War II to the remote Dunbain Castle on the Isle of Skye, Scotland. Posing as (amongst many other things) an Old Etonian, Lamb settles down into his new surroundings and becomes acquainted with the various local Scottish traditions and legends that abound and strikes up a friendship with one of the other masters, Hilary Teasdale (Claude Hulbert).
Quiet Wedding, 1h20
Directed by Michael Anderson, Anthony Asquith
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Margaret Lockwood, Derek Farr, Athene Seyler, Jean Cadell, David Tomlinson, Peggy Ashcroft
Roles Mr. Williamson
Rating66% 3.310223.310223.310223.310223.31022
Dallas Chaytor et Janet Boyd viennent de se fiancer et voudraient un mariage sans histoires. Mais amis et famille ont d'autres idées en tête...
21 Days
21 Days (1940)
, 1h12
Directed by Basil Dean
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, Leslie Banks, Francis L. Sullivan, David Horne, Robert Newton
Roles Solicitor
Rating60% 3.04973.04973.04973.04973.0497
Larry Durrant (Laurence Olivier) is a bit of a disappointment to his family, and even more so when he kills Henry Wallen (Esme Percy), the husband of his lover Wanda (Vivien Leigh). The long-missing Henry shows up on Wanda’s doorstep and threatens to kill her. Larry accidentally kills him in the ensuing fight.