Billy Bevan's show-business career began in his native Australia, with the Pollard theatrical organization. The company had two theater troupes, one which toured Asia and the other traveling to North America. Bevan wound up in the latter, performing in skits and plays all over Canada and Alaska then down into the continental US. While in a road company of the play "A Knight for a Day", Bevan was noticed by comedy pioneer 'Mack Sennett' . He made his last film in 1950, then retired. He died in Escondido, CA, in 1957.
Appeared in Mack Sennett films/shorts, 1919 to 1929.
Mispronounced "Bee-Van" in several Robert Youngson compilations, his last name actually rhymes with "seven".
Upon his death, his remains were interred at Oak Hill Memorial Park in Escondido, San Diego County, California. His location plot is Section 5, Lot 24, Grave 4.
He appeared in three Best Picture Academy Award winners: Cavalcade , Rebecca and Mrs. Miniver .
Second wife, Betsy Rees, was in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1922.
First wife, Leona Kohn was a sister of actress Edith Roberts but was a different person from Leona Roberts. The marriage produced two daughters.
