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John Dall
New York City, New York, USA
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…
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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.
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2001
Rope Unleashed
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1997
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1987
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1961
Atlantis: The Lost Continent
Movie Zaren
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1960
Spartacus
Movie Marcus Publius Glabrus
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1957
Perry Mason
TV show Julian Kirk
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1953
General Electric Theater
TV show Lt. Reese
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1951
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV show Hugh Mitchell
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1950
The Man Who Cheated Himself
Movie Andy Cullen
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1950
Gun Crazy
Movie Bart Tare
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1949
Lights Out
TV show
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1949
Miracle in the Rain
Movie
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1949
Suspense
TV show Jim
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1948
Studio One
TV show
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1948
Another Part of the Forest
Movie John Bagtry
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1948
Rope
Movie Brandon Shaw
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1947
Something in the Wind
Movie Donald Read
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1945
The Corn Is Green
Movie Morgan Evans
