Biography
David Manners (born Rauff de Ryther Duan Acklom) was a Canadian-American actor. He appeared as John Harker in Tod Browning's Dracula (1931) and as Bill Merrick in The Millionaire (1931). Other notable film roles include Frank Whemple in The Mummy (1932), Peter Alison in The Black Cat (1934), John Carson in The Miracle Woman (1931) and Kit Humphreys in A Bill of Divorcement (1932).
Manners began his career on stage and made his screen debut in Journey's End (1930). He left film acting in 1936 and retired from the theatre in 1953. He was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and died in Santa Barbara, California, on 23 December 1998.
