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.

Movies & TV Shows

1. Rope (1948) — Brandon Shaw
2. Spartacus (1960) — Marcus Publius Glabrus
3. Gun Crazy (1950) — Bart Tare
4. Perry Mason (1957) — Julian Kirk
5. The Man Who Cheated Himself (1950) — Andy Cullen
6. Atlantis: The Lost Continent (1961) — Zaren
7. The Corn Is Green (1945) — Morgan Evans
8. The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender (1997) — Self (archive footage)
9. Studio One (1948)
10. Another Part of the Forest (1948) — John Bagtry
11. Suspense (1949) — Jim
12. Something in the Wind (1947) — Donald Read
13. Rope Unleashed (2001) — Self (archive footage)
14. General Electric Theater (1953) — Lt. Reese
15. Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (1951) — Hugh Mitchell
16. Lights Out (1949)
17. James Stewart: A Wonderful Life (1987) — Self (archive footage)
18. Miracle in the Rain (1949)