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Actor
John Dall
- Born May 26, 1920 in New York City, New York, USA
- Died January 15, 1971
John Dall (May 26, 1920 – January 15, 1971) was an American actor. Primarily a stage actor, he is best remembered today for two film roles; the cool-minded intellectual killer in Alfred Hitchcock's film Rope, and the trigger-happy lead in the 1950 noir Gun Crazy. He first came to fame as the young prodigy who comes alive under the tutelage of Bette Davis in The Corn Is Green, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
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Dall was born John Jenner Thompson in New York City, New York, the second son of Charles Jenner Thompson, a civil engineer, and his wife Henry (née Worthington). Dall died in Hollywood, California. Sources indicate he died of a heart attack. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Dall, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Rope1948
Spartacus1960
Gun Crazy1950
Perry Mason1957
The Man Who Cheated Himself1950
Atlantis: The Lost Continent1961
The Corn Is Green1945
Studio One1948
Filmography
- 2001Rope UnleashedFilmSelf (archive footage)
- 1997The Silver Screen: Color Me LavenderFilmSelf (archive footage)
- 1987James Stewart: A Wonderful LifeFilmSelf (archive footage)
- 1961Atlantis: The Lost ContinentFilmZaren
- 1960SpartacusFilmMarcus Publius Glabrus
- 1957Perry MasonSeriesJulian Kirk, Edward Franklin, Colin Durant, Roan Daniel
- 1953General Electric TheaterSeriesLt. Reese
- 1951Schlitz Playhouse of StarsSeriesHugh Mitchell
- 1950Gun CrazyFilmBart Tare
- 1950The Man Who Cheated HimselfFilmAndy Cullen
- 1949SuspenseSeriesJim
- 1949Lights OutSeries
- 1949Miracle in the RainFilm
- 1948RopeFilmBrandon Shaw
- 1948Studio OneSeries
- 1948Another Part of the ForestFilmJohn Bagtry
- 1947Something in the WindFilmDonald Read
- 1945The Corn Is GreenFilmMorgan Evans