John Dall
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1918-05-26
Day of Death
1971-01-15 (52 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)
Atlantis: The Lost Continent
as Zaren
(1960)
Spartacus
as Marcus Publius Glabrus
(1950)
Gun Crazy
as Bart Tare
(1950)
The Man Who Cheated Himself
as Andy Cullen
(1949)
(1948)
Rope
as Brandon Shaw
(1948)
Another Part of the Forest
as John Bagtry
(1947)
Something in the Wind
as Donald Read
(1945)
The Corn Is Green
as Morgan Evans