The Amateur Gentleman is a 1920 British drama film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Langhorn Burton, Madge Stuart and Cecil Humphreys. The film is adapted from the 1913 novel The Amateur Gentleman by Jeffery Farnol.
Story filmed again in 1926 as The Amateur Gentleman starring Richard Barthelmess and in 1936 as The Amateur Gentleman starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Contents
Premise
In Regency Britain a young man tries to establish his father's innocence of an accused crime, by travelling to London disguised as a gentleman.
Cast
Langhorn Burton as Barnabas Barty
Madge Stuart as Lady Cleone Meredith
Cecil Humphreys as Wilfred Chichester
Herbert Synott as John Barty
Pardoe Woodman as Ronald Barrymaine
Alfred Paumier as Prince Regent
Gerald McCarthy as Viscount Horatio Debenham
Geoffrey Wilmer as Captain Slingsby
Sydney Seaward as Sir Mortimer Carnaby
E. Vivian Reynolds as Jasper Gaunt
Dalton Somers as Natty Bell
Teddy Arundell as Digby Smivvle
Will Corrie as Captain Chumley
Judd Green as Jerry the Bosun