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The future Broadway and Hollywood star was born Rauff de Ryther Daun Acklom on April 30, 1900, at Harrow House in Halifax, Nova Scotia, to George Morebye and Lilian Manners Acklom.
David manners biography
Distantly related to Princess Diana on his mother's side, Rauff had a noble lineage. His father ran the prestigious Tower Road boys' school Harrow House and later was a literary advisor for E.P. Dutton Publishing Co. in New York.
David had an older sister, Dorothea Cecily, born in 1898, who was called "Cecily."
The Ackloms moved to New York City in 1907 and settled in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York in 1922. It was at Trinity School where David, age sixteen, acted in his first play, Shakespeare's "The Tempest." playing Fernando.
A photo survives from this production that he later captioned, "terribly made costumes." He remembered another famous Trinity alumnus, Humphrey Bogart, who was a year ahead of him. Graduating in 1917, David soon attended the University of Toronto to st