James Craig (actor)
James Craig ( born February 4, 1912 in Nashville, Tennessee, † June 28, 1985 in Santa Ana, California ), actually James Henry Meador, was an American actor.
Life
Following his education at Rice University Craig took acting lessons with Cyril Delevanti. After a few extras roles in 1937 he received his first speaking role as a waiter in Sophie Lang Goes West with Buster Crabbe. In 1938, he also starred on Broadway in the comedy Missouri Legend alongside Karl Malden and José Ferrer. By 1940, he made a number of feature films, but is usually referred to without uncredited; only with his role as Dr. Mark iron in the film drama Miss Kitty on the side of Ginger Rogers, he made himself a name in the movie business. In it the following year he starred opposite Edward Arnold and Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster. He then got a film contract with Metro -Goldwyn -Mayer and played for several years leading roles in B-movies, including some Western. However, none of these films was an outstanding commercial success, and so his commitments were increasingly rare. In the 1960s, he starred in another western, including The Highwaymen with Howard Keel and Yvonne De Carlo. The mid-1970s he retired completely from the film business and instead worked as a real estate broker.