John Boles (actor)

John Boles ( born October 27, 1895 in Greenville, Texas, † February 27, 1969 in San Angelo, Texas) was an American stage and film actor.

Career

John Boles was the son of a wealthy banker and initially pursue a career in the military. During World War II he worked as a secret agent of the Allies in Europe and Turkey. After the war he gave up his job and became an actor. First, he played on various stages, and in 1925 was his big screen debut in the silent film So This is Marriage? . However, Boles breakthrough as an actor appeared only with the onset of the talkies. The musical film Rio Rita of 1929 brought him a number of other roles as a romantic hero in operettas and musicals. Tall, dark -haired and with a deep, sonorous voice, Boles was initially at Universal under contract and had one of his greatest successes in 1931 as Victor Moritz in the horror classic Frankenstein. Also in the film version of Fannie Hurst Bestsellers Backstreet, which portrays the sad face of a young woman, played by Irene Dunne, which is the mistress of a successful entsagungsreiche, selbstüchtigen politician for decades, he convinced. 1933 Boles was in Only Yesterday, again to see the screen debut of Margaret Sullavan, as selbstüchtiger man who Sullavan seat leaves you with an illegitimate child. In the first film adaptation of Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence in 1934, he was next to Irene Dunne to see.

The constant repetition of this stereotype, as in 1934 next to Ann Harding in The Life of Vergie Winters, quickly led to a decrease of its popularity. 1943 John Boles returned to the film 's back and returned to the stage. His last more than 50 film credits include Babes in Baghdad, a low-budget production from 1952 next to Paulette Goddard and Gypsy Rose Lee, two also come into the years icons of yesteryear. On television, he was unlike many of his colleagues never see. John Boles died on 27 February 1969 from a heart attack at the age of 73 years. He left behind his wife and two daughters.

Filmography ( excerpt)

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