John Dall
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John Dall (May 26 1918 in New York, New York – January 15 1971 in Hollywood, California) was an American actor.
Dall is best remembered today for the parts of the cool-minded intellectual killer in Alfred Hitchcock's Rope and the trigger-happy lead in the 1950 film noir Gun Crazy, but 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. However, he worked primarily in the theatre.
There appears to be some uncertainty surrounding Dall's cause of death. Some sources indicate he died of a heart attack.Template:Fact Others, including his nephew, report that he died of a punctured lung.Template:Fact
Selected filmography
- The Corn Is Green (1945)
- Another Part of the Forest (1948)
- Something in the Wind (1947)
- Rope (1948)
- Gun Crazy (1949)
- The Man Who Cheated Himself (1950)
- Spartacus (1960)
- Atlantis, the Lost Continent (1961)
