John Dall

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Sensitive, soulful-eyed actor John Dall was trained at the Theodore Irvine School of the Theater and the Pasadena Playhouse. On the strength of his leading role in the original 1944 Broadway production of Dear Ruth, Dall was brought to Hollywood. In 1946, he earned an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of bookish, young Welsh coal miner Morgan Evans, the alter ego of playwright Emlyn Williams, in the cinema adaptation of Williams' play The Corn Is Green. Though his subsequent screen work was limited, he was most impressive as the homosexual murderer in Hitchcock's Rope (1948) and the fire arms-obsessed bank robber in Joseph H. Lewis' Gun Crazy (1949). After a long absence from the screen, Dall returned in 1960 to essay character roles in the costume dramas Spartacus (1960) and Atlantis, the Lost Continent (1961). John Dall succumbed to a heart attack at the age of 52. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

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John Dall
from the Rope film trailer, 1948
Born	John Jenner Thompson May 26, 1918(1918-05-26) New York City, New York, U.S.
Died	January 15, 1971(1971-01-15) (aged 52) Hollywood, California, U.S.

John Dall (May 26, 1918 – 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).^[1] Dall died in Hollywood, California. Sources indicate he died of a heart attack.^[2]

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References

^ Burroughs Hannsberry, Karen (2003). Bad boys: the actors of film noir. McFarland. pp. 176. ISBN0786414847.
^ Obituary New York Times, January 18, 1971.

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Name	Dall, John
Alternative names	Thompson, John Dall
Short description	Actor
Date of birth	May 26, 1918(1918-05-26)
Place of birth	New York, New York, U.S.
Date of death	1971-1-15
Place of death	Hollywood, California, U.S.

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