Ty Worked With... Actors - Second Leads, page 1

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This set of pages is dedicated to the actors who played only one time, in a second lead role or had a large role as the villain, in a Tyrone Power film. Some of these actors were often lead actors in other Hollywood films. Others were usually character actors.

pictured at left, Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, and Henry Hull in a scene from Jesse James.

The first three actors listed below appeared in The Sun Also Rises. All of them played major characters of fairly equal importance in the movie; thus, they are included in this "second lead" page, rather than the "supporting actor" pages.

Mel Ferrer

Born
August 25, 1917, Elberon, New Jersey

Filmography

Film career spanned
1947-1989 (a few additional television credits until 1989)

Movie with Ty
The Sun Also Rises (1957) .... Robert Cohn

Other Movies
Scaramouche (1952)
War and Peace (1956)
The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)
Brannigan (1975)

Tidbit
Mel Ferrer has appeared most often in supporting roles in American films, though sometimes in starring roles. More often, he has made movies abroad. He has also directed a few films, most notably 1945's The Girl of the Limberlost, 1950's Vendetta, and 1959's Green Mansions, which starred Audrey Hepburn, to whom he was married at the time (from 1954-1968). He was married three other times: to Barbara C. Tripp, Frances Pilchard, and Elizabeth Soukutine.

Errol Flynn

Born
June 20, 1909, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

Died
October 14, 1959, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (heart attack)

Filmography

Film career spanned
1933-1959

Movie with Ty
The Sun Also Rises (1957) .... Mike Campbell

Other Movies
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)
They Died with Their Boots On (1941)
Objective, Burma! (1945)

Tidbit
When one thinks of "swashbuckler", two of the names that would come quickly to mind are Errol Flynn and Tyrone Power. Errol Flynn was to Warner Brothers what Ty was to 20th Century-Fox. Flynn played a variety of roles, yet he is most remembered for his romantic adventure films, like Captain Blood , The Adventures of Robin Hood, and The Sea Hawk. What a delight it would have been to see these two swashbucklers dueling it out, yet this was not to be. The Sun Also Rises just wasn't that type of film. Even so, these two screen greats created memorable characters in The Sun Also Rises , and it is fortunate for fans that it was made. Ty would die from a heart attack about one year after the movie was released, and Errol Flynn only eleven months after Ty's death, also from a heart attack. Flynn's last movie, Cuban Rebel Girls, was released just a couple months after his death. Flynn was married three times. He and Lili Damita were married from 1935-1942, and they had one child. He married Nora Eddington in 1943. They had two daughters but were divorced in 1948. He married Patrice Wymore in 1950, and they were married until his death on October 14, 1959. They had one child.

Eddie Albert

Born
April 22, 1908, Rock Island, Illinois

Died
May 26, 2005 Pacific Palisades, California (pneumonia)

Filmography

Film career spanned
1938-1994

Movie with Ty
The Sun Also Rises (1957) .... Bill Gorton

Other Movies
Roman Holiday (1953)
Oklahoma! (1955)
The Longest Day (1962)
The Longest Yard (1974)

Tidbit
Before he settled on acting as a career, Eddie Albert was a circus trapeze performer. He broke into movies with a light comedic performance in 1938's Brother Rat and worked steadily through the years, sometimes in starring roles but often in character roles. In addition to his successful movie career, he has also performed extensively on television, in special appearances and in the television comedy series, Green Acres, which ran from 1965-1971. Albert and his wife, Margo, a Spanish actress and dancer, had two children. Their son Edward Albert , born in 1951, also became an actor. Eddie Albert and Margo were married for forty years, from 1945 until her death in 1985.

Charles Laughton

Born
July 1, 1899, Victoria Hotel, Scarborough, Yorkshire, England

Died
December 15, 1962, Hollywood, California (cancer)

Filmography

Film career spanned
1928-1962

Movie with Ty
Witness for the Prosecution .... Sir Wilfrid Robarts

Other Movies
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
The Canterville Ghost (1944) ;
Captain Kidd (1945) ;

Tidbit
Charles Laughton directed the acclaimed film, Night of the Hunter in 1955, his only outing into film directing. He was also a stage producer, director, writer, and performer. He directed the stage play, John Brown's Body, in which Tyrone Power, Raymond Massey, and Dame Judith Anderson (replaced by Anne Baxter) starred. The play was performed on tour as well as on Broadway. Laughton and the wonderful character actress, Elsa Lanchester, were married from 1929 until his death in 1962.

Henry Fonda

Born
May 16, 1905, Grand Island, Nebraska

Died
August 12, 1982, Los Angeles, California (cardiorespiratory arrest)

Filmography

Film career spanned
1935-1981

Movie with Ty
Jesse James (1939) .... Frank James

Other Movies
Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
Mister Roberts (1955)

Tidbit
Henry Fonda had a long, distinguished career, playing a variety of roles. He ended his career by finally winning an Oscar, for his 1981 performance in On Golden Pond, which was his last movie. He was also a stage actor, with numerous Broadway credits, with the most notable being the highly successful Mister Roberts. (Tyrone Power played the same role in Mr. Roberts in England at the London Colesium.) He married actress Margaret Sullavan on Christmas day, 1931. They were divorced a year later. He was married to Frances Seymour Brokaw from 1936 until her death in April 1950. Their two children, Jane Fonda and Peter Fonda , also became actors. In December of 1950, Henry Fonda married Susan Blanchard, but they divorced in 1956. His next marriage was to Afdera Franchetti, from March 1957-January 1961. In 1965, he married Shirley, to whom he was married until his August 23, 1982, death.

Cecil Kellaway

Born
August 22, 1893, Capetown, South Africa

Died
February 28, 1973, Hollywood, California (arteriosclerosis)

Filmography

Film career spanned
1933-1970

Movie with Ty
The Luck of the Irish (1948) .... Horace (Leprechaun)

Other Movies
The House of the Seven Gables (1940)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
Portrait of Jennie (1948)
Harvey (1950)

Tidbit
After working in the 1930's in Australia as an actor and director, he got his big break in American films in 1939's Wuthering Heights. He worked steadily throughout most of the rest of his life, usually in character parts. His last film was 1970's Getting Straight, starring Elliott Gould and Candice Bergen. In 1949, he was nominated for "Best Actor in a Supporting Role" for The Luck of the Irish. In 1968, he was nominated for his supporting role in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.

Clifton Webb

Born
November 11, 1889, Indianapolis, Indiana

Died
October 13, 1966 Beverly Hills, California (heart attack)

Filmography

Film career spanned
1920-1962

Movie with Ty
The Razor's Edge (1946) .... Elliott Templeton

Other Movies
The Dark Corner (1946)
Sitting Pretty (1948)
Cheaper by the Dozen (1950)
Stars and Stripes Forever (1952)

Tidbit
As a child, Clifton Webb studied music and dance. He sang with the Boston Opera Company when he was 17. He was a professional ballroom dancer and stage actor early on, with a number of Broadway credits before his film career took off. Though he began his film career in silent films in 1920's Polly with a Past (uncredited role), he didn't really have much of a film career until 1944. From 1920 until 1944, there were only a total of four movies, two of which were uncredited roles. Then, in 1944, he was cast in Laura, which set his career in high gear. He began getting bigger and better roles, more often than not with star billing.

Cesar Romero

Born
February 15, 1907, New York, New York

Died
January 1, 1994, Santa Monica, California (bronchial pneumonia)

Filmography

Film career spanned

Movie with Ty
Captain from Castile (1947) .... Hernando Cortez

Other Movies
The Thin Man (1934)
Show Them No Mercy! (1935)
Julia Misbehaves (1948)
Ocean's Eleven (1960)

Tidbit
Romero began his show business career as a professional dancer. He appeared in a number of the 20th Century-Fox musicals, but he also played many other kinds of roles, including gangsters and slapstick comedy. His role as Hernando Cortez in Captain from Castile is considered one of the high points of his career, and the role was his own personal favorite. In addition to his movies, he made a number of guest appearances on television.