Paul Cavanagh

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English actor (1888–1964)

title: "Paul Cavanagh" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1888-births", "1964-deaths", "20th-century-english-male-actors", "actors-from-the-london-borough-of-bromley", "actors-from-the-metropolitan-borough-of-gateshead", "alumni-of-emmanuel-college,-cambridge", "british-military-personnel-of-world-war-i", "english-expatriates-in-canada", "english-male-film-actors", "english-male-television-actors", "male-actors-from-county-durham", "male-actors-from-kent", "military-personnel-from-tyne-and-wear", "people-educated-at-the-royal-grammar-school,-newcastle-upon-tyne", "people-from-chislehurst", "people-from-felling", "royal-canadian-mounted-police-officers"] description: "English actor (1888–1964)" topic_path: "history" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Cavanagh" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary English actor (1888–1964) ::

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namePaul Cavanagh
imagePaul Cavanagh in The Woman in Green.jpg
captionCavanagh in The Woman in Green, 1945
birth_nameWilliam Grigs Atkinson
birth_date
birth_placeFelling, County Durham, England
death_date
death_placeLondon, England
resting_placeLorraine Park Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland
occupationActor
yearsactive1928–1959
spouseCatherine Layfield Luhn (1946–1964)
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allegianceUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
serviceyears1914–1918
battlesFirst World War
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| name = Paul Cavanagh | image = Paul Cavanagh in The Woman in Green.jpg | caption = Cavanagh in The Woman in Green, 1945 | birth_name = William Grigs Atkinson | birth_date = | birth_place = Felling, County Durham, England | death_date = | death_place = London, England | resting_place= Lorraine Park Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland | occupation = Actor | yearsactive = 1928–1959 | spouse = Catherine Layfield Luhn (1946–1964) | children = 1 |module = {{Infobox military person |embed = yes |allegiance = United Kingdom United Kingdom |branch = |serviceyears = 1914–1918 |battles = First World War William Grigs Atkinson (8 December 1888 – 15 March 1964), known professionally as Paul Cavanagh, was an English film and stage actor. He appeared in more than 100 films between 1928 and 1959.

Life and career

Cavanagh was born in Felling, Durham. He attended the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle upon Tyne, and Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he was an undergraduate student. Cavanagh studied law in England, earning a master of arts degree at Cambridge. A newspaper article published 17 June 1931, reported, "It is on record that Cavanagh won high honors in mathematics and history."

Cavanagh practised "for several years" before he changed professions. He went to Canada "for a year of sightseeing and wandering" before he joined and served nine months with the Royal North-West Mounted Police.

After serving in World War I, he returned to Canada, where he practised law, including revising the statutes of Alberta, but eventually went back to England to practise law. Cavanagh went onto the stage after a stroke of bad luck in 1924 caused him to lose his savings, and later he went into films.

In 1926, Cavanagh lost $22,000 in one evening on a roulette wheel in Monte Carlo. An observer offered to provide a letter "to some of my theatrical acquaintances" in London, England. Those contacts led to Cavanagh's role in Walter Hackett's It Pays to Advertise. He also appeared in Eden Phillpotts' Blue Comet in the West End.

After appearing in a handful of British silent films he moved to the United States. Cavanagh's first film contract and film came in 1929 with Paramount Pictures.

Cavanagh died in London from a heart attack in 1964, aged 75, and is buried in Lorraine Park Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland.

Filmography

Television

References

References

  1. (May 2012). "Catherine Cavanagh Obituary". [[The Baltimore Sun]].
  2. "Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Cavanagh, 125 F.2d 366 (9th Cir. 1942)". Justia.
  3. (28 August 1937). "Studio Flashes". The Age.
  4. (17 June 1931). "English Scholars in New Bennett Film". The Evening News.
  5. (19 May 1941). "Play's Villain Once a Lawyer". Oakland Tribune.
  6. (4 July 1937). "A Prince Who Clips No Words". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
  7. (6 December 1935). "Ex-Mountie Now in Films". Oakland Tribune.
  8. (5 July 1931). "Screen Life In Hollywood". Bluefield Daily Telegraph.
  9. (7 November 1935). "Behind the Scenes in Hollywood". The Bristol Daily Courier.
  10. (9 October 1931). "Paid Though Idle Failed to Suit Paul Cavanagh". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
  11. 978-1-59393-660-0.

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