Ty Worked With... Actors - Second Leads, page 2

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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.

Al Jolson

Born
May 1885 Srednik, Lithuania

Died
October 23, 1950, San Francisco, California (heart attack)

Filmography

Film career spanned
1923-1949

Movie with Ty
Rose of Washington Square (1939) .... Ted Cotter

Other Movies
The Jazz Singer (1927)
Mammy (1930)
Wonder Bar (1934)
Swanee River (1939)

Tidbit
Often called the "The World's Greatest Entertainer", Al Jolson worked in vaudeville; then hit Broadway, where he was a huge success; then became a top recording artist. Though he was considered a great entertainer, he wasn't known as a great actor. Nonetheless, he made more than a dozen films. Some of the music in which he was one of the composers (also performed these songs): Me And My Shadow ; California Here I Come ; Sonny Boy ; Avalon. He was married four times and divorced three times: to Henrietta Keller, 1906-1919; to Ethel Delmar, 1922-1926; to Ruby Keeler (1928-1939). In 1945, he married Erle Chennault Galbraith. They were married until his death on October 23, 1950,

Dana Andrews

Born
January 1, 1909, Covington County, Mississippi

Died
December 17, 1992, Los Alamitos, California (pneumonia/heart failure)

Filmography

Film career spanned
1940-1992

Movie with Ty
Crash Dive (1943) .... Lt. Cmdr. Dewey Connors

Other Movies
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
Laura (1944)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Battle of the Bulge (1965)

Tidbit
During the years that some Hollywood stars were going off to serve in World War II (including Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, James Stewart, Clark Gable, etc.), there was a shortage of actors who had been the leading men. Actors such as Gregory Peck and Dana Andrews, among others, helped fill the gap caused by the absence of these top stars who were serving in the military. Andrews's portrayal of Det. Lt. Mark McPherson in 1944's Laura was very good, and it gave him his first really great starring role. In his fifty years in films, Dana Andrews made about 75 movies, some starring roles and others supporting roles. Dana Andrews was married to Janet Murray from December 31, 1932, until her death in 1935. They had one child. His marriage to Mary Todd lasted from November 17, 1939, until his death on December 17, 1992. They had three children.

Jack Hawkins

Born
September 14, 1910, Wood Green, London, England

Died
July 18, 1973 London, England (throat cancer)

Filmography

Film career spanned
1930-1973

Movie with Ty
The Black Rose (1950) .... Tritram Griffin

Other Movies
Land of the Pharaohs (1955)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Ben-Hur (1959)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Tidbit
Jack Hawkins worked on the London stage as a very young man, prior to coming to Hollywood. He had three Broadway appearances: 1929's Journey's End, 1939's Dear Octopus; and 1951's Romeo and Juliet . Though he was active in filmmaking in the 1930's and 1940's, he achieved his most success in the 1950's. He was married for ten years to actress Jessica Tandy (1932 - 1942), whose second husband was Hume Cronyn, to whom she was married until her death in 1994. Hawkins married Doreen Lawrence in 1946. They were married until his death, in 1973. In 1966, due to throat cancer, Hawkins had his larynx surgically removed. He continued making films, with his voice dubbed by others.

Richard Egan

Born
July 29, 1921, San Francisco, California

Died
July 20, 1987 Los Angeles, California (prostate cancer)

Filmography

Film career spanned
1949-1979 (additional television 1982)

Movie with Ty
Untamed (1955) .... Kurt Hout

Other Movies
Underwater! (1955)
Violent Saturday (1955)
A Summer Place (1959)
The Big Cube (1969)

Tidbit
Richard Egan was well-educated, receiving his bachelor's degree from the University of San Francisco and his master's degree from Stanford. He was an Army officer during World War II. Egan abandoned a teaching career and came to Hollywood, where he got his first movie role in an uncredited part in 1949's The Story of Molly X. He worked steadily making movies throughout the fifties, in both supporting and starring roles. By the early sixties, his film career had slowed, and he began doing television as well as movies. Eagan and his wife, Patricia Hardy, to whom he was married from June 7, 1958 until his July 20, 1987 death, had five children.

Freddie Bartholomew

Born
March 28, 1924, Dublin, Ireland

Died
January 23, 1992, Sarasota, Florida (emphysema)

Filmography

Film career spanned
1930-1944 (returned in 1951 for one last film, Benny the Dip )

Movie with Ty
Lloyd's of London (1936) .... Young Jonathan Blake

Other Movies
Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936)
Captains Courageous (1937)
Kidnapped (1938)
The Swiss Family Robinson (1940)

Tidbit
Freddie Bartholomew was one of the most popular child stars in film history, and, for a time, was one of the top box-office stars. For that reason, though he was in Lloyd's of London a relatively short period of time as the young Jonathan Blake (Ty's character as a child), he received top billing. (This was Ty's first movie with a substantial part, and, though the story was about his character, he was fourth billed, behind Madeleine Carroll and Guy Standing). As Bartholomew grew up, his cute looks faded, his stardom slipped, and, by the time he was twenty, his film career was over. He did return in 1951 for a supporting role in Benny the Dip.

George Brent

Born
March 15, 1899, Shannonsbridge, County Dublin, Ireland

Died
May 26, 1979, Solana Beach, California

Filmography

Film career spanned
1930-1956 (returned in 1978 for one last role Born Again)

Movie with Ty
The Rains Came (1939).... Tom Ransome

Other Movies
42nd Street (1933)
Jezebel (1938)
Dark Victory (1939)
The Spiral Staircase (1946)

Tidbit
George Brent was a very good actor who was under contract to Warner Brothers for about twenty years (loaned to 20th Century Fox for The Rains Came). His acting style was sophisticated and restrained. He worked steadily, usually in starring and some supporting roles, but he was overshadowed at his home studio by such actors as James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart, who were much more showy in their acting styles. By 1956, Brent's career had slowed down considerably, and he retired from the screen. He did return in 1978, for a supporting role in Born Again, a film about Watergate figure Charles Colson's born- again Christian conversion. Brent was married and divorced three times: to Ruth Chatterton (1932-1934); to Constance Worth (1937-1937); and to Ann Sheridan (1942-1943).

Edward Arnold

Born
February 18, 1890, New York, New York

Died
April 26, 1956, Encino, California (cerebral hemorrhage)

Filmography

Film career spanned
1916-1956

Movie with Ty
Johnny Apollo (1940) .... Robert Cain Sr

Other Movies
You Can't Take It with You (1938)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941)
Annie Get Your Gun (1950)

Tidbit
Edward Arnold, like so many actors of his generation, was a stage actor. He appeared, from the years 1919 and 1932, in more than a dozen Broadway productions. Though Arnold began his film career in 1916, many of the films made prior to 1932 were shorts. There was a hiatus in his film career between the years 1924 and 1932. In 1932, however, he returned to Hollywood and his career took off. He worked steadily until his death, playing major, often imposing, supporting roles. Arnold was married three times and divorced twice. He and Harriet Marshall (1917-1927) had three children. He was married to Olive Emerson from 1929-1948. He and his last wife, Cleo McClain, were married from 1951 until his death.

Guy Standing

Born
September 1, 1873, London, England

Died
February 24, 1937, Hollywood Hills, California (rattlesnake bite)

Filmography

Film career spanned
1930-1937

Movie with Ty
Lloyd's of London (1936) .... John Julius Angerstein

Other Movies
The Eagle and the Hawk (1933)
Bulldog Drummond Escapes (1937)
Death Takes a Holiday (1934)
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935)

Tidbit
Guy Standing was a distinguished British stage actor. He appeared in thirty Broadway productions, with his first being Lord and Lady Algy, which opened on October 16, 1899. He performed on Broadway fairly steadily, through the year before his death. A few of his Broadway shows: Clair de Lune ; The Sorceress ; Mrs. Moonlight ; Comtesse Coquette ; and Mrs. Dane's Defense. He had nineteen movie credits in his relatively short film career. He was married three times: to Isabel Urquehart; to Blanche Burton; and to Dorothy Hammond.