John Dall

from New York City, New York, U.S.

Artwork for SpartacusImage of John Dall

Biography

John Dall (May 26, 1918 – 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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Timeline

2001Aged 83

  • Poster for Rope Unleashed

    Self (archive footage)

1997Aged 79

  • Poster for The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender

    Self (archive footage)

1987Aged 69

  • Poster for James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

    Self (archive footage)

1961Aged 43

  • Poster for Atlantis: The Lost Continent

    Zaren

1960Aged 42

  • Poster for Spartacus

    Marcus Publius Glabrus

1950Aged 32

  • Poster for Gun Crazy

    Bart Tare

  • Poster for The Man Who Cheated Himself

    Andy Cullen

1949Aged 31

  • Poster for Miracle in the Rain

    (Unknown)

1948Aged 30

  • Poster for Rope

    Brandon Shaw

  • Poster for Another Part of the Forest

    John Bagtry

1947Aged 29

  • Poster for Something in the Wind

    Donald Read

1945Aged 27

  • Poster for The Corn Is Green

    Morgan Evans