John Dall
Actor
Biography
John Dall (May 26, 1920 â 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 (nÊe Worthington). Dall died in Hollywood, California. Sources indicate he died of a heart attack.
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Filmography
Spartacus
as Marcus Publius Glabrus 1960
Gun Crazy
as Bart Tare 1950
Atlantis: The Lost Continent
as Zaren 1961
The Man Who Cheated Himself
as Andy Cullen 1950
The Corn Is Green
as Morgan Evans 1945
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
as Self (archive footage) 1997
Another Part of the Forest
as John Bagtry 1948
Something in the Wind
as Donald Read 1947
Rope Unleashed
as Self (archive footage) 2001
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
as Self (archive footage) 1987