John Dall
Biography
John Dall (May 26, 1920 – 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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Full filmography
- Perry Mason (1957) as Julian Kirk
- Perry Mason (1957) as Edward Franklin
- Perry Mason (1957) as Colin Durant
- Perry Mason (1957) as Roan Daniel
- Lights Out (1949)
- Studio One (1948)
- Suspense (1949) as Jim
- Suspense (1949)
- Spartacus (1960) as Marcus Publius Glabrus
- Rope (1948) as Brandon Shaw
- General Electric Theater (1953) as Lt. Reese
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (1951) as Hugh Mitchell
- Gun Crazy (1950) as Bart Tare
- Atlantis: The Lost Continent (1961) as Zaren
- The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender (1997) as Self (archive footage)
- The Man Who Cheated Himself (1950) as Andy Cullen
- James Stewart: A Wonderful Life (1987) as Self (archive footage)
- The Corn Is Green (1945) as Morgan Evans
- Rope Unleashed (2001) as Self (archive footage)
- Something in the Wind (1947) as Donald Read
- Another Part of the Forest (1948) as John Bagtry
- Miracle in the Rain (1949)