Farley Granger
Farley Granger ( born July 1, 1925 in San Jose, California, † March 27, 2011 in New York City, New York; actually Farley Earle Granger II ) was an American actor.
Biography
Granger was born in 1925 in California, the son of a car dealer. 1929 forced the great stock market crash, the family to move from San Jose to Los Angeles. Even as a high school student at North Hollywood High School, he began to play the theater before he was discovered by Samuel Goldwyn for the film. This was followed in 1943 made his screen debut in Lewis Milestone War film The North Star, in the Granger slipped beside Walter Huston and Anne Baxter in the role of a Russian adolescents. A year later, Granger was awarded the role of Sergeant Howard Clinton in The Purple Heart, this time directed by Milestone. From 1944 to 1946 Granger served in the U.S. Army and was the end of the 1940s, again in front of the camera.
In 1948, Alfred Hitchcock hired Granger for the student's role in Phillip Morgan Rope, opposite John Dall and Jimmy Stewart. In the same year, Granger turned to the side of David Niven and Teresa Wright melodrama dupes youth. In 1949 followed Granger's first starring role in Nicholas Ray's film noir They live by night, in the Granger starred alongside Cathy O'Donnell. Through his roles as a sensitive, moody young hero a successful Hollywood career he was told ahead. With Strangers on a train followed in 1951 another collaboration with Hitchcock. Although this was the first major film success for Granger, he received from the mid- 1950s offers only for some smaller productions and for supporting roles.
1954, therefore, he went to Italy and was longing to see next Alida Valli, directed by Luchino Visconti in the romantic period drama, but returned to the United States. Granger focused from this time on his career on stage and frequently appeared on television. In 1959 he made his debut with the musical First Impressions on Broadway. In the 1960s he was a member of Eva Le Galliennes National Repertory Company. There he played roles like that of Constantine Treplev in Chekhov's The Seagull (1964 ), of John Proctor in Arthur Miller's The Crucible (1964 ) and Tom Wingfield in Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie (1965). One of his greatest achievements was winning the 1986 off-Broadway theater Obie Award for the production of Lanford Wilson's Tally & Son
In recognition of his work on American television Granger was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 2007 his autobiography Include Me Out, in which he outed himself as bisexual. He also known among other liaisons with Ava Gardner and Leonard Bernstein as well as long -standing relationships with Shelley Winters and his life partner, the producer Robert Calhoun, who died in 2008.