Edward Norris
Septimus Edward Norris ( born March 10, 1911 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, † 18 December 2002 in Fort Bragg, California ) was an American film actor.
Life
Edward Norris 1911 was born into a respected, Philadelphia-based family and attended the Culver Military Academy in Indiana. After he was for a time worked as a newspaper reporter, he began in the early 1930s his career in film. He had his first screen appearance as an extra in Rouben Mamoulians Drama Queen Christina (Queen Christina, 1933) with Greta Garbo in the title role. Louis B. Mayer at MGM then took him under contract to build him as a romantic hero for his studio. However, when the young Robert Taylor also signed a contract with MGM and was quickly established as an idol, Mayer gave up his plans for Norris and cast him in the following years as crooks or gangsters in numerous B- movies.
Perhaps his most famous role as Norris had a petty criminal who wants to save his brother from a similar fate, in MGM's award-winning film Boys Town ( Boys Town, 1938) on the side of Spencer Tracy and Mickey Rooney. In both Western The Man from the Alamo ( The Man from the Alamo, 1953) with Glenn Ford and The Man from Kentucky (The Kentuckian, 1955) with Burt Lancaster Norris was seen last two times on the big screen. In 1951, he appeared in a number of U.S. television series, before he retired in 1963 from show business. With good investments, he was over the years become a rich man who henceforth devoted himself to collecting cars, weapons and horses. In 1978, he made headlines when his house was destroyed by a forest fire in Malibu.
Norris was married five times. From his first marriage (1927-1932) with Virginia Bell Hiller went forth a son. His marriage to actress Lona Andre was canceled in 1935 after four months. From 1936 to 1939 Norris was married to his third marriage to actress Ann Sheridan. By Mickey June Satterlee Norris was divorced in 1943 after less than a year and his last marriage with Sheila Ryan, which was closed in 1947, ended in divorce. Edward Norris died in 2002 at the age of 91 years in Fort Bragg, California.