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 board member and joint manager of the Union-Castle Line. In 1935 Harry 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 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)