John Ireland (actor)
John Benjamin Ireland ( born January 30, 1914 in Vancouver, British Columbia, † March 21, 1992 in Santa Barbara, California ) was a Canadian stage actor, film actor and director.
Life
Ireland was raised in New York City, where he performed (including in several William Shakespeare productions ) and on Broadway in the late 1930s in the theater. The mid-1940s began the tall, slender former swimmer film career in Hollywood. After his debut in A Walk in the Sun 1945 he played in My Darling Clementine by John Ford and Howard Hawks of the Red River. For his performance in The man who wanted to rule, he received an Oscar nomination as Best Supporting Actor.
Except in another Hollywood movie played Ireland in numerous television series such as Bonanza and occasionally worked as a director. In 1959 he took over the male part in Judy Garland's Capitol Records released a concept album The Letter, one of Gordon Jenkins for orchestra, choir and soloists, composed and arranged suite to a pair of lovers at the end of his relationship. From 1960 to 1962 he played the leading role of the British television series The Cheaters, was often to be seen in connection as guest stars of series and shifted from 1967 the focus of his film credits to Europe, especially to Italy, where he worked in many genre films, including several spaghetti westerns, to was seen. Again and again, however, he returned for a play performed on the stage. Twice in the 1950s, he was co-director of his own films.
Ireland, whose name has been repeatedly mentioned in relation to very young starlets, was married three times. He died in 1992 from leukemia.