Born Ernest Frederick McIntyre Bickel in Racine, Wisconsin, he grew up under the influence of a school-teacher mother and a Presbyterian hardware-merchant father, attended local schools, and earned a degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he joined Alpha Delta Phi; after serving as an artillery lieutenant in World War I and a brief stint in banking, he entered the film world in 1920 a… Read more
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
Known for The Best Years of Our Lives 1946 Inherit the Wind 1960 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 1931 Hombre 1967 ★ 7.4 Seven Days in May 1964
President Jordan Lyman ★ 7.1 Hombre 1967
Dr. Alex Favor ★ 7.1 Les Misérables 1935
Jean Valjean / Champmathieu ★ 7.1 Design for Living 1933
Tom Chambers ★ 7 Middle of the Night 1959
Jerry Kingsley ★ 7 The Desperate Hours 1955
Daniel C. Hilliard ★ 7 Executive Suite 1954
Loren Phineas Shaw ★ 7 Death of a Salesman 1951
Willy Loman ★ 6.9 An Act of Murder 1948
Judge Calvin Cooke ★ 6.9 I Married a Witch 1942
Jonathan / Nathaniel / Samuel / Wallace Wooley ★ 6.7 … tick… tick… tick… 1970
Mayor Jeff Parks ★ 6.7 The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit 1956
Ralph Hopkins ★ 6.6 Man on a Tightrope 1953
Karel Cernik ★ 6.6 Anna Karenina 1935
Count Vronsky ★ 6.6 The Eagle and the Hawk 1933
Jerry H. Young ★ 6.4 The Sign of the Cross 1932
Marcus Superbus - Prefect of Rome ★ 6.4 Merrily We Go to Hell 1932
Jerry Corbett ★ 6.3 Nothing Sacred 1937
Wallace "Wally" Cook ★ 6.2 The Iceman Cometh 1973
Harry Hope ★ 6.2 Mary of Scotland 1936
Bothwell ★ 6.2 The Dark Angel 1935
Alan Trent ★ 6.2 The Barretts of Wimpole Street 1934
Robert Browning ★ 6.1 Alexander the Great 1956
Philip of Macedonia ★ 6 The Bridges at Toko-Ri 1954
Rear Adm. George Tarrant ★ 6 Smilin' Through 1932
Kenneth Wayne / Jeremy ★ 5.7 Anthony Adverse 1936
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