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Ivor Novello (David Ivor Davies) was born on 15 January, 1893 in Cardiff, Wales, UK, is a soundtrack,writer,actor. Discover Ivor Novello's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 58 years old?

Popular As David Ivor Davies
Occupation soundtrack,writer,actor
Age 58 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 15 January 1893
Birthday 15 January
Birthplace Cardiff, Wales, UK
Date of death 6 March, 1951
Died Place Aldwych, London, England, UK
Nationality United Kingdom

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Ivor Novello Height, Weight & Measurements

At 58 years old, Ivor Novello height is 5' 11" (1.81 m) .

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He is currently single. He is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about He's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, He has no children.

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Ivor Novello Net Worth

His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Ivor Novello worth at the age of 58 years old? Ivor Novello’s income source is mostly from being a successful Soundtrack. He is from United Kingdom. We have estimated Ivor Novello's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.

Net Worth in 2024 $1 Million - $5 Million
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Source of Income Soundtrack

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1893

While his special gifts seemed to lie in music and composing, the dapper, multi-talented Welsh actor Ivor Novello (ne David Ivor Davies), with his leading-man good looks, had a strong affinity for the camera. Born in Cardiff, Wales, in 1893, he was the son of a tax-collector father and a well-known singing teacher mother. His prodigious musical skills were evident fairly early. Trained at the Magdalen College Choir School on a soprano scholarship, he soon began writing songs under the name Ivor Novello. In his overall career, Novello would write over 250 songs, a large percentage of them uplifting, touchingly sentimental and war-inspired morale boosters.

1914

He moved with his family to London in 1914, and became an overnight celebrity after composing the patriotic World War I standard "Keep the Home Fires Burning," which was introduced much later in the film The Lost Squadron (1932).

1921

Novello then switched to pursue acting and debuted with a role in The Call of the Blood (1921) [The Call of the Blood], a French romantic melodrama which earned him promising notices.

1923

Other roles that ensured his status as a screen idol followed, including The Man Without Desire (1923), which he produced.

1924

He wrote and appeared in the successful 1924 play "The Rat," which transferred quite well to film the following year (The Rat (1925)).

1926

This also inspired two sequels -- The Triumph of the Rat (1926) and The Return of the Rat (1929).

1927

The actor's film peak occurred headlining two of Alfred Hitchcock's early suspense thrillers, serving as the put-upon protagonist in both the silent classic The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927) and the lesser-received When Boys Leave Home (1927). Novello had a fine, well-modulated speaking voice that transferred easily to talkies.

1930

Into the 1930s, he wrote and starred in Symphony in Two Flats (1930) and went on to remake The Phantom Fiend (1932) successfully.

1932

During this time he also wrote the dialogue for Tarzan the Ape Man (1932), the first of the jungle series to star Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O'Sullivan.

1934

Novello's last film was Autumn Crocus (1934), after which he decided to devote himself full time to music and theater.

1935

He went on to earn rave reviews for his opulent, romantically melodramatic stagings of "Glamorous Night" (1935), "The Dancing Years" (1939) and "Perchance to Dream" (1945). He wrote eight musicals in all and appeared in six of them, all of them non-singing parts.

1944

He was jailed for eight weeks in 1944 for misusing petrol coupons during a WWII rationing period. Some say he never got over the public humiliation.

1956

To honor the work and memory of Mr. Novello, since 1956 the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors (BASCA), honour and reward excellence in British and Irish songwriting and composing by presenting The Ivor Novello Award. The award has been sponsored by PRS for Music since 1974.

2001

Portrayed by Jeremy Northam in the largely fictional Gosford Park (2001).

2009

On 27th June 2009 a 7' tall bronze statue of Ivor Novello was unveiled near the Millennium Centre in Cardiff Bay, Cardiff, Wales. The statue shows Novello seated at work on a manuscript. It was created by Peter Nicholas, a celebrated Welsh sculptor who lives in Swansea, and was paid for by public subscription. Apart from a plaque on the house where he was born, it is the only memorial to Ivor Novello in the city of his birth. There are various memorials to Ivor in London including a "blue plaque" between the Novello Theatre and the Waldorf Hotel marking the entrance to the flat above the theatre where he lived until his death in 1951. There is a memorial at Golders Green Crematorium where he was cremated, a plaque in St Paul's Church, Covent Garden (the Actors' Church) and a memorial in the crypt of St Paul's Cathedral, London where his ashes were placed.