Ty Worked With... Actors - Second Leads, page 3

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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.

Rudy Vallee

Born
July 28, 1901, Island Pond, Vermont

Died
July 3, 1986, North Hollywood, California

Filmography

Film career spanned
1929-1976 (additional television in 1981)

Movie with Ty
Second Fiddle (1939) .... Roger Maxwell

Other Movies
George White's Scandals (1934)
Gold Diggers in Paris (1938)
Too Many Blondes (1941)
Unfaithfully Yours (1948)

Tidbit
Rudy Vallee was a famous crooner of the 1920's and 1930s, with a radio program, Fleishmann Hour. He was popular as a night club singer and recording artist. He played lead roles in his early films but was later cast in supporting roles. His first marriage, to Leonie Cauchois in 1928, was annulled. He married Fay Webb in 1931. They divorced in 1936. In 1943, he married actress Jane Greer, but their marriage lasted only a year. His last marriage, to Eleanor Norris, lasted from 1946 until his death.

Basil Rathbone

Born
June 13, 1892, Johannesburg, South Africa

Died
July 21, 1967, New York, New York (heart attack)

Filmography

Film career spanned
1921-1966

Movie with Ty
The Mark of Zorro (1940) .... Captain Esteban Pasquale

Other Movies
Romeo and Juliet (1936)
If I Were King (1938)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)

Tidbit
Basil Rathbone was a wonderful actor, as well as a great swordsman. He appeared in various swashbucklers. He is equally famous for the Sherlock Holmes films that he did, fourteen or fifteen in all. In 1924, he appeared with Ty's father, Tyrone Power Sr., in Trouping with Ellen. Rathbone and first wife, Marion Foreman whom he married in 1914 and divorced in 1926, had one son. He and his second wife, Ouida Bergère, had one daughter. Rathbone and Ouida Bergère were married from 1926 until his death in 1967.

Paul Lukas

Born
May 26, 1887, Budapest, Austria-Hungary (now Budapest, Hungary)

Died
August 15, 1971, Tangier, Morocco (heart failure)

Filmography

Film career spanned
1918-1968 (additional television in 1970)

Movie with Ty
Ladies in Love (1936) .... John Barta

Other Movies
Little Women (1933)
Dodsworth (1936)
The Lady Vanishes (1938)
20000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)

Tidbit
Paul Lukas was a fine stage and screen actor. He appeared in several Broadway productions, including 1950's Call Me Madam, which starred Ethel Merman>. He made close to one hundred films, beginning with the silent era. He won an Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading Role for 1943's Watch on the Rhine, which he had performed two years earlier on Broadway. He played Kurt Muller in both the film and the Broadway production. He and his wife, Gizella, were married 35 years, from 1927 until her death in 1962. On November 7, 1963, he married Annette M. Driesens, to whom he was married until his death in 1971.

John Payne

Born
May 23, 1912, Roanoke, Virginia

Died
December 6, 1989, Malibu, California (congestive heart failure)

Filmography

Film career spanned
1936-1968 (gap in career from 1958-1967)

Movie with Ty
The Razor's Edge (1946) .... Gray Maturin

Other Movies
Tin Pan Alley (1940)
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
Kansas City Confidential (1952)
Sun Valley Serenade (1941)

Tidbit
John Payne was a professional singer in the 1930's. He made his film debut in a supporting role in 1936's Dodsworth. He made a number of musicals for 20th Century-Fox, but he played other types of roles as well. He had a rather long gap in his movie career, due to a terrible car accident. He married Anne Shirley in 1937, but they were divorced in 1943. They had one daughter, Julie Payne. The next year, he married Gloria DeHaven . They had two children, Kathleen and Thomas, before their marriage ended in divorce in 1950. He next married Sandy Crowell Curtis, to whom he was married at the time of his death in 1989.

John McIntire

Born
June 27, 1907, Spokane, Washington

Died
January 30, 1991, Pasadena, California (emphysema/cancer)

Filmography

Film career spanned
1947-1989

Movie with Ty
The Mississippi Gambler (1953) .... Kansas John Polly

Other Movies
A Lion Is in the Streets (1953)
The Far Country (1954)
The Tin Star (1957)
Two Rode Together (1961)

Tidbit
John McIntire was a fine character actor, with close to 100 movie credits. Many of his movies were Westerns. One of his most famous television roles was from 1961-1965, as Christopher Hale, wagonmaster on Wagon Train, a popular series. He met Jeanette Nolan in 1935, and they were married for fifty-seven years, until his death 1991. They had two children, Tim McIntire and Holly McIntire. Both John McIntire and his wife co-starred in The Virginian, from 1967-1970, as Clay Grainger and Holly Grainger. His last movie was in 1989's Turner & Hooch, where he appeared in the supporting role of Amos Reed.

Robert Morley

Born
May 26, 1908, Semley, Wiltshire, England

Died
June 3, 1992, Wargrave, Berkshire, England (stroke)

Filmography

Film career spanned
1938-1989

Movie with Ty
Marie Antoinette (1938) .... King Louis XVI

Other Movies
The African Queen (1951)
Melba (1953)
Beat the Devil (1954),
Theatre of Blood (1973)

Tidbit
Robert Morley made his movie debut in Marie Antoinette , for which he earned an Oscar nomination. Prior to that, he had spent ten years on the London stage. He worked steadily throughout his film career, often in supporting roles. There were some plum starring roles, however, such as 1960's Oscar Wilde, 1952's Curtain Up, and 1953 The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan. He was married to Joan Buckmaster from 1940 until his death in 1992. They had three children, Sheridan Morley, Annabel Morley, and Wilton Morley .

James Whitmore

Born
October 1, 1921, White Plains, New York

Filmography

Film career spanned
1949-present

Movie with Ty
The Eddy Duchin Story (1956) .... Lou Sherwood

Other Movies
Battleground (1949)
The Next Voice You Hear (1950)
Battle Cry (1955)
Give 'em Hell, Harry! (1975)

Tidbit
James Whitmore has given great performances in about seventy-five movies, most often in character roles but sometimes as the star. He was nominated for an Oscar for 1975's Give 'em Hell, Harry!, in which he played the lead role of President Harry S. Truman. He and his first wife, Nancy Mygatt, married and divorced each other twice. They had three children. Their son, James Whitmore, Jr. , a former actor, is a director of telvision shows. In 1971, he married Audra Lindley, and they were married until her death in 1997. He has been married since 2001 to Noreen Nash .

Randolph Scott

Born
January 23, 1898, Orange County, Virginia

Died
March 2, 1987, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California

Filmography

Film career spanned
1928-1962

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

Other Movies
The Tall T (1957)
Ride Lonesome (1959)
Comanche Station (1960)
Ride the High Country (1962)

Tidbit
Randolph Scott is most known as a star of Western films, many of which he produced. He did venture into other genres, however. Among his non-Westerns were such films as Roberta, a 1935 musical comedy; She, a 1935 adventure; Bombardier, a 1943 war movie; My Favorite Wife, a 1940 romantic comedy; and Home, Sweet Homicide , a 1946 mystery comedy. Scott was married three times. He and Vivian Gaye were married in 1934 and divorced in 1936. His second wife was Marion duPont Somerville, whom he married in 1936 and divorced in 1939. They had two children. He was married forty-three years, until his death in 1987, to his last wife, Patricia Stillman, whom he married in 1944.