John Dall
Actor
- Born
- May 26, 1920 · New York City, New York, USA
- Died
- January 15, 1971 (age 50)
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.
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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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Known for
Rope
February 1, 1948
Spartacus
October 13, 1960
Gun Crazy
January 20, 1950
The Man Who Cheated Himself
December 26, 1950
Atlantis: The Lost Continent
May 3, 1961
The Corn Is Green
March 29, 1945
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
November 1, 1997
Another Part of the Forest
May 18, 1948
Something in the Wind
July 21, 1947
Rope Unleashed
March 6, 2001
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
March 13, 1987
Miracle in the Rain
February 14, 1949
Acting12
- 2001Rope Unleashed as Self (archive footage)
- 1997The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender as Self (archive footage)
- 1987James Stewart: A Wonderful Life as Self (archive footage)
- 1961Atlantis: The Lost Continent as Zaren
- 1960Spartacus as Marcus Publius Glabrus
- 1950The Man Who Cheated Himself as Andy Cullen
- 1950Gun Crazy as Bart Tare
- 1949Miracle in the Rain
- 1948Another Part of the Forest as John Bagtry
- 1948Rope