David Torrence
David Torrence, David Bryce Thomson, ( born January 17, 1864 in Edinburgh, Scotland, † December 26, 1951 in Los Angeles, California ) was a British actor.
Life
David Torrence was born as the second of eleven children. His younger brother Ernest Torrence was later also an actor. David grew up in Germany and England, and later he made the theater career. His film debut in David Torrence 1913 in an early version of the prisoner of Zenda, as well as on the side of the theater stars Minnie Maddern Fiske in Tess of the D' Urbervilles. These two film appearances remained until 1921 its only because he retired to Broadway and his Mexican ranch. In 1921 he continued his film career and turned in the next 20 years, around 100 films. In the silent era David Torrence played some major roles, yet his sound film appearances today are far better known. Frequently Torrence embodied respectable figures who often were but strict and humorless.
In the Oscar-winning drama Disraeli he played eg the anti-Semitic leader of the English bank. In addition to bankers, he embodied also lawyers, judges, merchants or governors. His most famous appearances today had David Torrence, 1935 in adventure movies Mutiny on the Bounty and Captain Blood, as well as in the Laurel and Hardy comedy We're the Scottish Infantry Regiment, in which he embodied a testament administrator. At that time, his roles have become increasingly smaller, even if they were mostly mentions in the credits.
In 1939 he retired from the film business. He had a brief comeback in the film published in 1953, The ship of convicts on the side of Alan Ladd. David Torrence died at the age of 87 years and was buried in the Inglewood Park Cemetery. He has a star for his film work on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.