Lew Ayres
Personal Info
Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1908-12-28 (88 years old)
Deathday
1996-12-30
Place of Birth
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Also known As
Lewis Frederick Ayre III
Lew Ayres
Biography
Lew Ayres was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and raised in San Diego, California. A college dropout, he was found by a talent scout in the Coconut Grove nightclub in Los Angeles and entered Hollywood as a bit player. He was leading man to Greta Garbo in The Kiss (1929), but it was the role of Paul Baumer in All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) that was his big break. He was profoundly affected by the anti-war message of that film, and when, in 1942, the popular star of Young Dr. Kildare (1938) and subsequent Dr. Kildare films was drafted, he was a conscientious objector. America was outraged, and theaters vowed never to show his film...
Acting
1930
as Paul Bäumer
1977
as Com. Joseph Beckerman
1973
as Mandemus
1981
as Candy
1978
as Bill Atherton
1978
as Mr. Graham
1929
as Pierre Lassalle
1936
as Bob Sanderson
1930
as Louie Ricarno
1953
as Dr. Patrick J. Cory
1948
as Dr. Robert Richardson
1950
as Lin Vanner / Lindley Brown
1946
as Dr. Scott Elliott
1974
as Vaslovik
1938
as Ned Seton
1942
as Oliver Duffy
1962
as The Vice President
1953
as John Howard Tracy
1932
as Larry Wayne
1933
as Pat Gilbert
1941
as Dr. James Kildare
1947
as Larry Hannaford
1940
as Dr. James Kildare
1940
as Dr. James Kildare
1971
as President Charles Carter Durant
1938
as Dr. James Kildare
1941
as Dr. James Kildare
1939
as Dr. James Kildare
1940
as Dr. James Kildare
1939
as Dr. James Kildare
1942
as Dr. James Kildare
1941
as Bob Rawlston
1939
as James Geoffrey 'Jimmy' Seymour
1951
as Capt. Hunt
1930
as Billy Benson
1940
as Henry Twinkle
1938
as Jerry Flynn
1937
as Nick Milburn
1932
as Dr. Myron Brown
1933
as Bill McCaffrey
1931
as Kid Mason
1936
as Kent Murdock
1936
as Jerry Franklin
1939
as Eddie Burgess
1939
as Philip S. Griswold III
1935
as Caleb Enix
1972
as Noah Calvin
1938
as Henry Thayer
1939
as Sky Ames
1937
as Bill Dexter
1938
as Sam Thatcher
1930
as Hugh Fullerton
1984
as Doc
2004
as Self (archive footage)
1933
as Ronnie Gregory
1931
as Robert Marshall
1932
as Michael Rand
1978
as President Adar
1974
as Dr. Grayson
1934
as Norman Winthrop
1969
as Dr. Andrew Swanson
1929
as Copyboy (uncredited)
1980
as Bob Hollander
1929
as Sophomore Fraternity Brother (uncredited)
1973
as Prof. Dylan MacAuley
1934
as Larry Wilson
1964
as 'Mac' McAllister
1931
as States
1984
as Himself
1972
as Dr. Sam Carpenter
1934
as Erik Landstrom
1986
as John Pace
1994
as Professor Cabel
1989
as Martin
1936
as Woodruff 'Woody' Davis
1937
as Tommy Graham
1947
as Narrator (voice)
1976
as Allen Dulles
1931
as Edward Aloysius "Bucky" O'Brian
1935
as Cadet Frank Harrington
1934
as Jimmy Sterling
1935
as Eddie Howard
1972
as Mr. Ames
1978
as Noah
1936
as Chester aka Dynamite
1946
as Self
1932
as Lew Ayres
1940
1976
as (archive footage)
1939
as Self
1938
as Joe McKnight
1991
as actor 'Advise and 'Consent' (archive footage) (uncredited)
1979
as Dan Miller
1968
as The Governor
1931
as Jerry Brooks
1956
as Dr. John Mohler
1960
as Dr. Kildare
Production
1936
as Director
1976
as Director
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