Glenn Anders

Charles Glenn Anders ( born September 1, 1889 in Los Angeles, California, † October 26, 1981 in Englewood, New Jersey) was an American theater and film actor.

Life

Glenn Anders was born in 1889 as the son of Swedish immigrant and entrepreneur Charles Gustave other in Los Angeles. His mother Etta Arvilla Slade, who was born in Vermont, was of Scotch- Irish descent. His parents were devout Methodists, which is why they were against it at first, that Anders wanted to be an actor. After he received his degree at the Los Angeles High School in 1908, initially agreed to his mother, and finally his father that Anders was allowed to visit the local Wallace Dramatic School. His professional stage debut, he delivered a walk-on role in Shakespeare's Macbeth. After that, he appeared as a performer in vaudeville theaters. In 1919 he went to New York to study at Columbia University. In the same year he made ​​his Broadway debut in the play Just Around the Corner. From then on he became a regular on the theater stage on, among other things, in the plays Strange Interlude by Eugene O'Neill and A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway 's novel based on. Over the years he has performed with major actresses, including Judith Anderson, Lynn Fontanne, Ruth Gordon, Helen Hayes and Gertrude Lawrence.

1925 was different in DW Griffith's Sally of the Sawdust next WC Fields for the first time in front of the movie camera. However, it was followed by only a few other screen credits. His most famous film role was that of the agent George Grisby in Orson Welles' film noir classic The Lady from Shanghai ( The Lady from Shanghai, 1947), in which Rita Hayworth played the title role and him as a femme fatale is fatal. In 1951 he retired from the film business. Until 1958 he continued to play theater on Broadway. He then went into retirement, and spent several years in Guadalajara, Mexico. In the late 1970s he returned to the United States to spend his last years in Englewood, New Jersey. He died in 1981 at the age of 92 years and was interred in the Kensico Cemetery in Westchester County.

Filmography (selection)

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