John Dall
Biography
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. 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
All Movies (12)
- Rope Unleashed2001 · as Self (archive footage)
- The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender1997 · as Self (archive footage)
- James Stewart: A Wonderful Life1987 · as Self (archive footage)
- Atlantis: The Lost Continent1961 · as Zaren
- Spartacus1960 · as Marcus Publius Glabrus
- The Man Who Cheated Himself1950 · as Andy Cullen
- Gun Crazy1950 · as Bart Tare
- Miracle in the Rain1949
- Another Part of the Forest1948 · as John Bagtry
- Rope1948 · as Brandon Shaw
- Something in the Wind1947 · as Donald Read
- The Corn Is Green1945 · as Morgan Evans
All TV Shows (10)
- Perry Mason1957 · as Julian Kirk
- Perry Mason1957 · as Edward Franklin
- Perry Mason1957 · as Colin Durant
- Perry Mason1957 · as Roan Daniel
- General Electric Theater1953 · as Lt. Reese
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars1951 · as Hugh Mitchell
- Lights Out1949
- Suspense1949 · as Jim
- Suspense1949
- Studio One1948