VARIED CAREER

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 December 1940, Page 9

VARIED CAREER

OF WELL KNOWN ACTOR. Miles Mander, who appears as Lieutenant Strope, commander of H.M.S. Beetle, in ‘Captain Caution,” looks back on a career as varied as a patchwork quilt. He was born in .1888 in England, scion of a wealthy paint manufacturing family. He received his early ■ education in his native land, but at the age of 18 he ran away from home and entered McGill University of Montreal, Canada. He manifested only( a mild interest in college. At 21 he inherited a fortune of almost £200,000. He went through it in four years. Before he entered motion pictures in England he farmed sheep in New Zealand, raced automobiles and aeroplanes and was an automobile salesman./ He was four and a-half years with the British Army during the Great War. He emerged from the fracas with the title of major and a severe case of shell shock, from which he took eight months to recover. During the days of the silent screen he was a producer, director and actor in England. He made one of England’s biggest money-making films “The First Born.” Mr Mander went to Hollywood in 1935 as a producer-writer-actor, but for some time he has concentrated in the latter field.