13 Facts About David Manners

David Joseph Manners was born in Canada at 108 Tower Road in Halifax, Nova Scotia on April 30,1900.

David Manners was the younger child and only son of British parents, writer George Moreby Acklom and Lilian Manners, as well as being the nephew of Cecil Ryther Acklom, a senior officer in the United Kingdom's Royal Navy.

David Manners had an elder sister, Dorothea Cecily Acklom.

The Ackloms by January 1920 had relocated again, then to West 123rd Street in Manhattan, where 19-year-old David Manners continued to reside with his parents.

David Manners was employed as an assistant publisher and seemed destined to repeat his father's own career choice and live out his life as an editor and publisher.

Soon, perhaps in an effort to chart an entirely different course for himself professionally, David Manners stopped working as an assistant publisher and returned to Canada to study forestry at the University of Toronto.

David Manners found the curriculum there boring; however, he was attracted to stage work on campus.

In late 1930 David Manners filmed his best remembered role, as Jonathan Harker opposite Bela Lugosi, in Universal's horror classic Dracula.

David Manners grew increasingly frustrated with his roles in Hollywood and with his film career in general, despite all its successes.

David Manners did continue to perform regularly on stage for another 17 years, appearing in various productions on tour, in summer stock, and on Broadway, including the ill-fated 1946 play Hidden Horizon.

David Manners became a published novelist in 1941 with Convenient Season; a second novel, Under Running Laughter, followed in 1943.

In 1998,20 years after William Mercer's death, David Manners died at age 98 in the health centre of a retirement community in Santa Barbara, California.

David Manners's body was cremated and the ashes were taken to San Bernardino County and scattered at Rancho Yucca Loma in Victor Valley.