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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1918-05-26 (106 years old)

Place of Birth

New York City, New York, USA

John Dall

Biography:

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). Dall died in Hollywood, California. Sources indicate he died of a heart attack.

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Known For

Acting

2001

Rope Unleashed as Self (archive footage)

1997

The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender as Self (archive footage)

1988

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life as Self (archive footage)

1961

1960

Spartacus as Marcus Publius Glabrus

1957

Perry Mason as Julian Kirk
Perry Mason as Edward Franklin
Perry Mason as Colin Durant
Perry Mason as Roan Daniel

1953

1951

1950

Gun Crazy as Bart Tare

1949

1948

Rope as Brandon Shaw

1947

Something in the Wind as Donald Read

1945

The Corn Is Green as Morgan Evans