--- name: "Conway Tearle" canonical: "https://film.one/person/conway-tearle" roles: ["Actor"] born: "17 May 1878" died: "1 October 1938" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "actor" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-19T23:18:16.551200+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Conway Tearle Actor. Born 17 May 1878 in New York City, New York, USA. Died 1 October 1938. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 17 May 1878, New York City, New York, USA - **Died:** 1 October 1938 - **Also known as:** Frederick Conway Levy, Frederick Levy, Конвей Тирль, Конвэй Тирль - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway_Tearle, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2062124, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0853604/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/131232 ## Biography Conway Tearle (born Frederick Conway Levy, 17 May 1878 – 1 October 1938) was an American stage and screen actor. He was born in New York City, the son of cornetist Jules Levy and actress Marianne 'Minnie' Conway. He adopted the surname of his stepfather, the British actor and theatre manager Osmond Tearle, and began his stage career in the late 1890s. His half-brother Godfrey Tearle also became an actor. Tearle appeared in numerous stage productions before making his film debut in 1914. He worked in silent films and early sound pictures until 1936, when he played Escalus in the MGM adaptation of *Romeo and Juliet*. He died in Los Angeles at the age of 60. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *Romeo and Juliet* (1936), Fi1m 63, as Escalus — [page](https://film.one/film/romeo-and-juliet.md) ## Complete filmography (86) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Romeo and Juliet* (1936), as Escalus — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/film/romeo-and-juliet.md) - *The Preview Murder Mystery* (1936), as Edwin Strange - *Klondike Annie* (1936), as Vance Palmer - *Desert Guns* (1936), as Kirk Allenby / Bob Enright - *The Headline Woman* (1935), as Frank Desmond - *Sing Sing Nights* (1934), as Floyd Cooper - *Fifteen Wives* (1934), as Insp. Decker Dawes - *Stingaree* (1934), as Sir Julian Kent - *Should Ladies Behave* (1933), as Max Lawrence - *Day of Reckoning* (1933), as George Hollins - *Her Mad Night* (1932), as Steven Kennedy - *The King Murder* (1932), as Detective Chief Henry Barton - *Two Lips and Juleps; or, Southern Love and Northern Exposure* (1932), as Van Patter - *The Hurricane Express* (1932), as The Railroad Attorney - *Man About Town* (1932), as Bob Ashley - *Vanity Fair* (1932), as Rawdon Crawley - *The False Madonna* (1931), as Grant Arnold - *Morals for Women* (1931), as Van Dyne - *Pleasure* (1931), as Gerald Whitney - *How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 9: 'The Driver'* (1931), Actor - *The Lady Who Dared* (1931), as Jack Norton - *Captivation* (1931), as Hugh Somerton - *The Truth About Youth* (1930), as Richard Carewe - *The Lost Zeppelin* (1929), as Commander Donald Hall - *Evidence* (1929), as Harold Courtenay - *Gold Diggers of Broadway* (1929), as Stephen Lee - *Smoke Bellew* (1929), as Kit 'Smoke' Bellew - *The Isle of Forgotten Women* (1927), as Bruce Paine - *Moulders of Men* (1927), as Dr. William Matthews - *Altars of Desire* (1927), as David Elrod - *My Official Wife* (1926), as Alexander, aka Sascha - *The Sporting Lover* (1926), Actor - *The Greater Glory* (1926), as Count Maxim von Hurtig - *Dancing Mothers* (1926), as Jerry Naughton - *The Dancer of Paris* (1926), Actor - *Morals for Men* (1925), as Joe Strickland - *The Mystic* (1925), as Michael Nash - *Just a Woman* (1925), as Robert Holton - *School for Wives* (1925), as Richard Keith - *The Heart of a Siren* (1925), as Gerald Rexford - *The Great Divide* (1925), as Stephen Ghent - *Bad Company* (1925), as James Hamilton - *Flirting with Love* (1924), as Wade Cameron - *The White Moth* (1924), as Robert Vantine - *Lilies of the Field* (1924), as Louis Willing - *The Next Corner* (1924), as Robert Maury - *Black Oxen* (1923), as Lee Clavering - *The Dangerous Maid* (1923), as Capt. Miles Prothero - *The Common Law* (1923), as Louis Neville - *Ashes of Vengeance* (1923), as Rupert de Vrieac - *The Rustle of Silk* (1923), as Arthur Fallaray - *Bella Donna* (1923), as Mahmoud Baroudi - *One Week of Love* (1922), as Buck Fearnley - *The Eternal Flame* (1922), as Général de Montriveau - *Love's Masquerade* (1922), as Russell Carrington - *A Wide Open Town* (1922), as Billy Clifford - *Shadows of the Sea* (1922), as Captain Dick Carson - *A Man of Stone* (1921), as Capt. Dearing - *After Midnight* (1921), as Gordon Phillips - *The Fighter* (1921), as Caleb Conover - *Bucking the Tiger* (1921), as Ritchie MacDonald - *Society Snobs* (1921), as Lorenzo Carilo / Duke d'Amunzi · Story - *The Road of Ambition* (1920), as Bill Matthews - *Whispering Devils* (1920), as Rev. Michael Faversham - *Marooned Hearts* (1920), as Dr. Paul Carrington - *April Folly* (1920), as Kerry Sarle - *The Forbidden Woman* (1920), as Malcolm Kent - *Two Weeks* (1920), Actor - *She Loves and Lies* (1920), as Ernest Lismore - *A Virtuous Vamp* (1919), as James Crowninshield - *Mind the Paint Girl* (1919), as Capt. Nicholas Jeyes - *Human Desire* (1919), as Robert Lane - *Her Game* (1919), as Alan Rutherford / Bruce Armitage - *Atonement* (1919), as Theodore Proctor - *The Way of a Woman* (1919), as Anthony Weir - *Virtuous Wives* (1918), as Andrew Forrester - *Stella Maris* (1918), as John Risca - also spelled John Riska - *The World for Sale* (1918), as Max Ingolby - *The Fall of the Romanoffs* (1918), as Prince Felix Yussepov - *The Judgment House* (1917), as Ian Stafford - *The Heart of the Hills* (1916), as Redgell - *The Common Law* (1916), as Neville - *The Foolish Virgin* (1916), as Jim Anthony - *Heléne of the North* (1915), as Ralph Connell, a.k.a. Lord Traverse - *The Seven Sisters* (1915), as Count Horkoy - *The Nightingale* (1914), as Charles Marden ## Gallery - ![Conway Tearle](https://film.one/media/person/1229228/gallery-b233603aa7c8.jpg) Conway Tearle — Mabel Rowland inc., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/Conway_Tearle_03.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Portrait of Conway Tearle (1916)](https://film.one/media/person/1229228/gallery-f0971c5016b7.jpg) Portrait of Conway Tearle (1916) — Celebrity N.Y.C., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Conway_Tearle_MP_1916-11.jpg/1280px-Conway_Tearle_MP_1916-11.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Altars of Desire Subjects (LCTGM): motion pictures, actors, actresses (1926)](https://film.one/media/person/1229228/gallery-2af21ee844f9.jpg) Altars of Desire Subjects (LCTGM): motion pictures, actors, actresses (1926) — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/1926_publicity_still_of_Conway_Tearle_and_Mae_Murray_in_Altars_of_Desire_-_%28SAYRE_14211%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-1926_publicity_still_of_Conway_Tearle_and_Mae_Murray_in_Altars_of_Desire_-_%28SAYRE_14211%29_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Anna Q. Nilsson and Conway Tearle Subjects (LCTGM): actresses, actors (1926)](https://film.one/media/person/1229228/gallery-c8a3e89ac0ae.jpg) Anna Q. Nilsson and Conway Tearle Subjects (LCTGM): actresses, actors (1926) — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Anna_Q_Nilsson_and_Conway_Tearle_%28SAYRE_14170%29.jpg/1280px-Anna_Q_Nilsson_and_Conway_Tearle_%28SAYRE_14170%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Conway Tearle](https://film.one/media/person/1229228/gallery-f51f7f52177e.jpg) Conway Tearle — Image via TMDB - ![Conway Tearle](https://film.one/media/person/1229228/gallery-f0ca1a6fcf5b.jpg) Conway Tearle — Image via TMDB - ![Conway Tearle](https://film.one/media/person/1229228/gallery-eb4839266bdf.jpg) Conway Tearle — Image via TMDB - ![Conway Tearle (left) and Madge Kennedy in Bad Company (1925)](https://film.one/media/person/1229228/gallery-3b13ce17ddda.jpg) Conway Tearle (left) and Madge Kennedy in Bad Company (1925) — St. Regis Pictures, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Conway_Tearle_and_Madge_Kennedy_in_Bad_Company.jpg/1280px-Conway_Tearle_and_Madge_Kennedy_in_Bad_Company.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Boyd Irwin and Conway Tearle in Ashes of Vengeance, with unidentified actors in the background (1923)](https://film.one/media/person/1229228/gallery-65448693ad00.jpg) Boyd Irwin and Conway Tearle in Ashes of Vengeance, with unidentified actors in the background (1923) — Norma Talmadge Film Co., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/26/Boyd_Irwin_and_Conway_Tearle_in_Ashes_of_Vengeance.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Conway Tearle](https://film.one/media/person/1229228/gallery-779838e1a101.jpg) Conway Tearle — Image via TMDB --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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