Emerging from New York’s public schools, he left college early, roamed the Americas and Europe on a tramp steamer, then helped on his brother’s farm before joining a musical comedy chorus, experiences that shaped his stagecraft. After touring with stock companies and vaudeville circuits, he returned to New York and secured Broadway roles in productions such as Kid Boots and The Weavers, later amas… Read more
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
Known for Captain Blood 1935 Baby Face 1933 The Life of Emile Zola 1937 They Were Expendable 1945 Series ★ 7.9 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour 1962
Stoney Likens ★ 7.3 Baby Face 1933
Nick Powers ★ 7.2 The Time of Their Lives 1946
Maj. Putnam ★ 6.7 The Life of Emile Zola 1937
Major Walsin-Esterhazy ★ 7.1 The Mayor of Hell 1933
Fred Smith ★ 6.7 Union Pacific 1939
Duke Ring ★ 6.8 Wild Boys of the Road 1933
Judge R.H. White ★ 6.8 Road to Utopia 1946
Sperry ★ 7.1 Heroes for Sale 1933
Max Brinker ★ 6.8 Road to Rio 1947
Johnson ★ 6.7 The Baron of Arizona 1950
Judge Adams Series ★ 6.7 Mister Ed 1961
★ 6.6 Go West 1940
'Red' Baxter ★ 6.9 Picture Snatcher 1933
Grover, Graphic News Owner ★ 7 Johnny Come Lately 1943
Bill Swain ★ 6.6 Northwest Passage 1940
Humphrey Towne ★ 6.6 Black Legion 1937
Brown (uncredited) ★ 6.5 They Were Expendable 1945
The General ★ 6.6 Marie Antoinette 1938
Citizen-Officer (uncredited) ★ 6.5 The Charge of the Light Brigade 1936
Count Igor Volonoff ★ 6.6 Charlie Chan in Honolulu 1938
Captain Johnson ★ 6.5 The Trail of the Lonesome Pine 1936
Buck Falin ★ 6.5 I Love Trouble 1948
Lt. Quint ★ 6.4 The Last of the Mohicans 1936
Chingachgook ★ 6.4 Fog Over Frisco 1934
Thorne ★ 6.2 Gambling Lady 1934
Mike Lee ★ 6.1 San Antonio 1945
Colonel Johnson ★ 6.3 Distant Drums 1951
Gen. Zachary Taylor ★ 6.2 Mary of Scotland 1936
Morton ★ 6.1 The Sea of Grass 1947
Judge Seth White ★ 6 Wonder Bar 1934
Hugo Von Ferring ★ 6 Here Comes the Navy 1934
Commander Denny ★ 6.2 Joan of Arc 1948
Jacques d'Arc, Joan's Father ★ 5.8 Strangler of the Swamp 1946
Christian Sanders ★ 5.9 Bordertown 1935
Padre ★ 6.1 The Kennel Murder Case 1933
Archer Coe ★ 5.9 Allegheny Uprising 1939
Duncan ★ 5.5 American Guerrilla in the Philippines 1950
Gen. Douglas MacArthur ★ 5.5 The Kid from Texas 1950
General Wallace ★ 5.6 Secret of the Blue Room 1933
Paul, Butler ★ 5.2 Canadian Pacific 1949
William Van Horne ★ 5.2 Flight to Mars 1951
Tillamar ★ 5.2 Dakota 1945
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