Harry Vine

(b. Leyton, Essex, **/**/1889 – d. **/**/****). 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, whose father, H.J. Gandar, was a joint manager of the Union-Castle Line. In 1935 Harry was appointed Consul of Norway based in Mombasa and in 1939 he became a member of the Table Bay Harbour Advisory Board. Harry and Adele’s son, born in January 1915, was Laurence Gandar, the highly respected and crusading editor of the Rand Daily Mail. (FO)