Harry Vine

(b. Leyton, London, **/**/1889 – d. 04/03/1960). Actor. British-born Harry Vine, who acted opposite Adele Fillis in the film version of H. De Vere Stacpoole's novel The Vulture’s Prey (Dick Cruikshanks & William Bowden/1922), seems to have been a once-off actor and may only have been cast because he was married to Ms. Fillis. In fact, his full name was Harry Vine Gandar and he married Adele Vicenta Fillis on 25 March 1913. His father, H.J. Gandar, was a board member and joint manager of the Union-Castle Line and by 1923 Harry himself was "in shipping". In the 1920s his travelling records gives his occupation as "shipping clerk", but by 1943 he is a "shipping manager". In 1935 he was appointed Honorary Consul of Norway based in Mombasa and the following year he became a member of the Kenya and Uganda Harbour Advisory Board. In 1939 this probably led to him being appointed to the Table Bay Harbour Advisory Board. Harry and Adele’s son, born on 29 January 1915, was Laurence Gandar, the highly respected anti-apartheid editor of the Rand Daily Mail. (FO)

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