Percy Marmont

Percy Marmont
Film still from Mantrap (1926) with Ernest Torrence, Clara Bow, and Percy Marmont
Born	25 November 1883 London, England
Died	3 March 1977 (aged 93) London, England
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1916–1968
Spouse(s)	Dorothy Stewart-Dickson (1885-1985); (two daughters)

Percy Marmont (25 November 1883 – 3 March 1977) was an English film actor. He appeared in more than 80 films between 1916 and 1968. A veteran film actor by 1923, he scored a big hit that year in If Winter Comes, later remade by MGM in 1947 as If Winter Comes. He is best remembered today for playing the title character in Lord Jim (1925) the first film version of Joseph Conrad's novel, and for playing one of Clara Bow's love interests in the Paramount Pictures film Mantrap (1926).

He was born and died in London, England. Marmont had two daughters with his wife Dorothy, Patricia Marmont, born in 1921. Patricia was at one time married to actor Nigel Green. She was an actress before becoming a successful theatrical agent and Pamela Marmont (1923-1999) an actress married to actor Moray Watson.

Selected filmography

• The Monk and the Woman (1917)
• Rose of the World (1918)
• The Lie (1918)
• The Turn of the Wheel (1918)
• In the Hollow of Her Hand (1918)
• Three Men and a Girl (1919)
• The Climbers (1919)
• Away Goes Prudence (1920)
• Without Benefit of Clergy (1921)
• If Winter Comes (1923)
• The Enemy Sex (1924)
• Broken Laws (1924)
• Daddy's Gone A-Hunting (1925)
• Just a Woman (1925)
• The Street of Forgotten Men (1925)
• Lord Jim (1925)
• Aloma of the South Seas (1926)
• Mantrap (1926)
• Sir or Madam (1928)
• The Warning (1928)
• The Silver King (1929)
• Rich and Strange (1931)
• Blind Spot (1932)
• Say It with Music (1932)
• Her Imaginary Lover (1933)
• The White Lilac (1935)
• Vanity (1935)
• Secret Agent (1936 film) (1936)
• The Captain's Table (1936)
• Young and Innocent (1937)
• Action for Slander (1937)
• Penn of Pennsylvania (1941)
• Those Kids from Town (1942)
• I'll Walk Beside You (1943)
• Four Sided Triangle (1953)
• Knave of Hearts (1954)
• Footsteps in the Fog (1955)
• Lisbon (1956)
• Hostile Witness (1968)

External links

• Percy Marmont at the Internet Movie Database