John Dall

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1918-05-26 (53 years old)

Deathday

1971-01-15

Place of Birth

New York City, New York, USA

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, Califo...

Acting

1960

Spartacus

as Marcus Publius Glabrus

1948

Rope

as Brandon Shaw

1945

The Corn Is Green

as Morgan Evans

1947

Something in the Wind

as Donald Read

1950

1950

Gun Crazy

as Bart Tare

1948

2001

Rope Unleashed

as Self (archive footage)

1987

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

as Self (archive footage)

1997

The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender

as Self (archive footage)

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