David Torrence (actor)

For the American/Peruvian athlete, see David Torrence (athlete).

David Torrence
Torrence from a 1922 ad
Born	David Tayson (1864-01-17)17 January 1864 Edinburgh, Scotland
Died	26 December 1951(1951-12-26) (aged 87) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1913-1951

David Torrence (17 January 1864 – 26 December 1951) was a Scottish film actor. His birth name was David Tayson. He appeared in 104 films between 1913 and 1939. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He was the brother of actor Ernest Torrence. He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland and died in Los Angeles, California. He is interred at Inglewood Park Cemetery.

Partial filmography

• The Prisoner of Zenda (1913)
• Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1913)
• Tess of the Storm Country (1922)
• Trimmed in Scarlet (1923)
• The Sawdust Trail (1924)
• The Mystic (1925)
• Her Husband's Secret (1925)
• The Third Degree (1926)
• Brown of Harvard (1926)
• Undressed (1928)
• Strong Boy (1929)
• The Black Watch (1929)
• Disraeli (1929)
• City Girl (1930)
• Raffles (1930)
• The Bachelor Father (1931)
• A Successful Calamity (1932)
• The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932)
• Berkeley Square (1933)
• Queen Christina (1933) as Archbishop
• What Every Woman Knows (1934)
• Charlie Chan in London (1934)
• Bonnie Scotland (1935)
• Black Sheep (1935)
• Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) as Lord Hood
• Annie Laurie (1936)
• Lost Horizon (1937) as Prime Minister (uncredited)
• Stanley and Livingstone (1939)
• Rulers of the Sea (1939)

External links

• David Torrence at IMDb
• David Torrence at the Internet Broadway Database