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This set of pages is dedicated to the actors who appeared in more than one picture with Ty. These actors were primarily character actors, though a few of them also appeared in some lead roles. All were an important part of the mix that helped make Tyrone Power movies great!
Pictured to left are Tyrone Power and John Carradine , from a scene in Son of Fury.
John Justin
Born
November 23, 1917,
London, England
Died
November 29, 2002,
London, England
Filmography
Film career spanned
1940-1983
Movies with Ty
King of the Khyber Rifles (1953) .... Lt. Geoffrey Heath
Untamed (1955) .... Shawn Kildare
Other Movies
The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
Crest of the Wave (1954)
Safari (1956)
The Big Sleep (1978)
Tidbit
John Justin appeared mostly in films produced by British companies. He appeared in about a half dozen American films.
Charley Grapewin
Born
December 20, 1869,
Xenia, Ohio
Died
February 2, 1956,
Corona, California
Filmography
Film career spanned
1929-1951 (also, a couple comedy film shorts dating back to 1900)
Movies with Ty
Crash Dive (1943) (uncredited) .... Pop
Johnny Apollo (1940) .... Judge Emmett T. Brennan
Other Movies
The Petrified Forest (1936)
The Good Earth (1937)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Tobacco Road (1941)
Tidbit
Though he had over one hundred film credits, he is undoubtedly best remembered for his role as Dorothy's Uncle Henry in 1939's The Wizard of Oz.
Gregory Ratoff
Born
April 20, 1897,
St. Petersburg, Russia
Died
December 14, 1960,
Solothurn, Switzerland (leukemia)
Filmography
Film career spanned
1932-1960
Movies with Ty
Cafe Metropole (1937) .... Paul/THE Penayev
The Sun Also Rises (1957) .... Count Mippipopolous
Other Movies
What Price Hollywood? (1932)
I'm No Angel (1933)
All About Eve (1950)
Exodus (1960)
Tidbit
Gregory Ratoff split his time between acting and directing. He directed thirty movies, with two of them starring Tyrone Power ( Day-Time Wife and Rose of Washington Square).
Thomas Gomez
Born
July 10, 1905,
New York, New York
Died
June 18, 1971,
Santa Monica, California (car accident)
Filmography
Film career spanned
1942-1970
Movies with Ty
Captain from Castile (1947) .... Father Bartolome Romero
Pony Soldier (1952) .... Natayo Smith
Other Movies
Phantom Lady (1944)
Ride the Pink Horse (1947)
Key Largo (1948)
Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)
Tidbit
Like so many of his contemporaries, Gomez began his career on stage. He played in three different productions of Shakespeare's Hamlet, playing a different character each time. In 1925, he played "Reynaldo"; in 1934, "Guildenstern"; and, in 1945, "Claudius". In addition to Hamlet, he played other dramas and comedies. His film career consisted of character roles in about sixty films.
Laird Cregar
Born
July 28, 1914,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Died
December 9, 1944,
Los Angeles, California (heart attack)
Filmography
Film career spanned
1940-1944
Movies with Ty
The Black Swan (1942) .... Captain Sir Henry Morgan
Blood and Sand (1941) .... Natalio Curro
Other Movies
I Wake Up Screaming (1941)
Ten Gentlemen from West Point (1942)
The Lodger (1944)
Hangover Square (1945)
Tidbit
Laird Cregar was a huge man, 6'3" and weighing about 300 pounds. He was in sixteen movies in his short career as a character actor. He wanted to be a leading man, and he undertook a rigorous
diet to lose weight. He had lost about 100 pounds, when he suffered a heart attack. It is said that the crash diet contributed to his fatal heart attack. Hangover Square was released after his death.
Jack Elam
Born
November 13, 1918
Miami, Arizona
Died
October 20, 2003,
Ashland, Oregon
Filmography
Film career spanned
1944-1995
Movies with Ty
American Guerrilla in the Philippines (1950) .... The Speaker
Rawhide (1951) .... Tevis
Other Movies
High Noon (1952)
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)
Rio Lobo (1970)
Tidbit
Jack Elam has well over one hundred credits in film and over one hundred credits in television. More often than not, he played the "bad guy". He was in countless television Westerns of the 1950's and 1960's. Many of his movies were Westerns or gangster films.
Montagu Love
Born
March 15, 1877,
Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
Died
May 17, 1943,
Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California
Filmography
Film career spanned
1914-1943
Movies with Ty
Lloyd's of London (1936) .... Hawkins
Mark of Zorro (1940) .... Don Alejandro Vega
Other Movies
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
Gunga Din (1939)
All This, and Heaven Too (1940)
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942)
Tidbit
Montagu Love (often credited as Montague Love) began his career as a stage actor. Between the years 1913-1915, he was in a dozen Broadway productions. He continued to play on Broadway, now and then, until 1934. In 1926, he appeared in the movie, Out of the Storm, with Tyrone Power, Sr. (Tyrone Power's dad). Beginning his film career in the silent era and continuing well into the "talkies", he worked in films up until the year of his death.
J. Edward Bromberg
(photo, left, from Ladies in Love)
Born
December 25, 1903,
Temesvár, Austria-Hungary (now Timisoara, Romania)
Died
December 6, 1951,
London, England (heart attack)
Filmography
Film career spanned
1936-1950
Movies with Ty
Girls' Dormitory (1936) .... Dr. Spindler
Ladies in Love (1936) .... Franz Brenner
Second Honeymoon (1937).... Herbie
Suez (1938) .... Prince Said
Jesse James (1939) .... Mr. Runyan
The Mark of Zorro (1940) .... Don Luis Quintero
Other Movies
Seventh Heaven (1937)
Strange Cargo (1940)
Phantom of the Opera (1943)
Son of Dracula (1943)
Tidbit
J. Edward Bromberg was a fine character actor, with over fifty movie credits when he fell victim to the blacklist caused by the House on Un-American Activities. He went to England to try to re-establish his career, but he suffered a fatal heart attack. Stress was said to have factored into his heart attack.
John Carradine
Born
February 5, 1906,
New York, New York
Died
November 27, 1988,
Milan, Italy
Filmography
Film career spanned
1930-1988 (excludes the films released after his death.)
Movies with Ty
Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938) .... cab driver
Jesse James (1939) .... Bob Ford
Brigham Young - Frontiersman (1940) .... Porter Rockwell
Blood and Sand (1941) .... Nacional
Son of Fury (1942).... Caleb Green
Other Movies
Stagecoach (1939)
Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
The Shootist (1976)
Tidbit
John Carradine was a fine character actor who worked steadily. He is the father of actors David Carradine, Keith Carradine, and Robert Carradine.
Lon Chaney, Jr.
(photo, left, from Son of Dracula)
Born
February 10, 1906
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Died
July 12, 1973,
San Clemente, California (liver failure)
Filmography
Film career spanned
1932-1971
Movies with Ty
Love Is News (1937) .... uncredited, news man
Second Honeymoon (1937) .... uncredited, reporter
Thin Ice (1937) .... uncredited, reporter
Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938) .... uncredited, photographer
Jesse James (1939) .... James Gang member
Other Movies
The Wolf Man (1941)
The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942)
The Mummy's Tomb (1942)
Son of Dracula (1943)
Tidbit
Like his father (Lon Chaney, silent film star), Lon Chaney, Jr. achieved his greatest
fame in horror roles.
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