Conway Tearle

Biography

Conway Tearle was a renowned American stage actor born Frederick Conway Levy on May 17, 1878, in New York City. He began his acting career at an early age and by ten could recite Shakespearean plays from memory. A direct descendant of William Augustus Conway, a British Shakespearean actor, Tearle adopted the surname Osmond to become Conway Tearle, with whom he achieved notable roles in silent films like "Klondike Annie" (1936) and "The Mystic" (1925).