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

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

1977

End of the World

as Com. Joseph Beckerman

1981

1978

Damien - Omen II

as Bill Atherton

1978

Suddenly, Love

as Mr. Graham

1929

The Kiss

as Pierre Lassalle

1936

Shakedown

as Bob Sanderson

1930

The Doorway to Hell

as Louie Ricarno

1953

Donovan's Brain

as Dr. Patrick J. Cory

1948

Johnny Belinda

as Dr. Robert Richardson

1950

The Capture

as Lin Vanner / Lindley Brown

1946

The Dark Mirror

as Dr. Scott Elliott

1974

1938

Holiday

as Ned Seton

1942

Fingers at the Window

as Oliver Duffy

1962

Advise & Consent

as The Vice President

1953

No Escape

as John Howard Tracy

1932

Okay, America!

as Larry Wayne

1933

State Fair

as Pat Gilbert

1941

Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day

as Dr. James Kildare

1947

The Unfaithful

as Larry Hannaford

1940

Dr. Kildare Goes Home

as Dr. James Kildare

1940

Dr. Kildare's Crisis

as Dr. James Kildare

1971

Earth II

as President Charles Carter Durant

1938

Young Dr. Kildare

as Dr. James Kildare

1941

The People Vs. Dr. Kildare

as Dr. James Kildare

1939

The Secret of Dr. Kildare

as Dr. James Kildare

1940

Dr. Kildare's Strange Case

as Dr. James Kildare

1939

Calling Dr. Kildare

as Dr. James Kildare

1942

Dr. Kildare's Victory

as Dr. James Kildare

1941

Maisie Was a Lady

as Bob Rawlston

1939

Broadway Serenade

as James Geoffrey 'Jimmy' Seymour

1951

New Mexico

as Capt. Hunt

1930

East Is West

as Billy Benson

1940

The Golden Fleecing

as Henry Twinkle

1938

King of the Newsboys

as Jerry Flynn

1937

The Crime Nobody Saw

as Nick Milburn

1932

The Impatient Maiden

as Dr. Myron Brown

1933

Don't Bet on Love

as Bill McCaffrey

1931

Iron Man

as Kid Mason

1936

Murder with Pictures

as Kent Murdock

1936

Panic on the Air

as Jerry Franklin

1939

The Ice Follies of 1939

as Eddie Burgess

1939

These Glamour Girls

as Philip S. Griswold III

1935

Spring Tonic

as Caleb Enix

1972

The Man

as Noah Calvin

1938

Rich Man, Poor Girl

as Henry Thayer

1939

Remember?

as Sky Ames

1937

1938

Spring Madness

as Sam Thatcher

1930

Common Clay

as Hugh Fullerton

1984

2004

Checking Out: Grand Hotel

as Self (archive footage)

1933

My Weakness

as Ronnie Gregory

1931

Up for Murder

as Robert Marshall

1932

Night World

as Michael Rand

1978

Battlestar Galactica

as President Adar

1974

Heatwave!

as Dr. Grayson

1934

Cross Country Cruise

as Norman Winthrop

1929

Big News

as Copyboy (uncredited)

1980

Reunion

as Bob Hollander

1929

The Sophomore

as Sophomore Fraternity Brother (uncredited)

1973

The Stranger

as Prof. Dylan MacAuley

1934

1964

The Carpetbaggers

as 'Mac' McAllister

1931

1984

1972

She Waits

as Dr. Sam Carpenter

1934

Servants' Entrance

as Erik Landstrom

1986

Under Siege

as John Pace

1994

1936

The Leathernecks Have Landed

as Woodruff 'Woody' Davis

1937

Hold 'Em Navy

as Tommy Graham

1947

The Way of Peace

as Narrator (voice)

1931

The Spirit of Notre Dame

as Edward Aloysius "Bucky" O'Brian

1935

The Lottery Lover

as Cadet Frank Harrington

1934

Let’s Be Ritzy

as Jimmy Sterling

1935

Silk Hat Kid

as Eddie Howard

1972

1936

Lady Be Careful

as Chester aka Dynamite

1946

1976

That's Entertainment, Part II

as (archive footage)

1938

Scandal Street

as Joe McKnight

1991

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

as actor 'Advise and 'Consent' (archive footage) (uncredited)

1979

Letters from Frank

as Dan Miller

1968

Cocoon

as The Governor

1931

Many a Slip

as Jerry Brooks

1956

One Against Many

as Dr. John Mohler

1960

Production

1936

1976

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