Morton Lowry
Morton Lowry ( born February 13, 1914 in Lancashire, England as Edward Morton Lowater; † 26 November 1987 in San Francisco, California ) was a British actor.
Life and career
Morton Lowry was born the son of a mechanic in England. In his childhood, the family of Lancashire moved to London in the near Russell Square. He began his career in the early 1930s under his birth name of Edward Lowater and occurred mainly in London Reveus. In 1937 he went to the U.S. and turned there in 1938 with his first film The Dawn Patrol.
His second role in the crime classic, The Hound of the Baskervilles is also one of his most famous Lowry played the naturalist John Stapleton, who seeks the lords of the castle ( Richard Greene) after its life in order to inherit the castle. Finally, it is of Sherlock Holmes - represented by Basil Rathbone - unmasked. For this movie is a fourteen -part series in which Lowry with Dangerous Mission starred again developed. Even otherwise, Lowry was usually laid on the incarnation unsympathetic characters, he played about in Green Was My Valley a cruel teacher. The film received ten Oscar nominations.
Mid -1940s was by Lowry's success, so in 1947 he made his last film in America. He returned to the UK and tried there as a television actor, but only with moderate success. Along with his Hound of the Baskervilles colleagues Greene, he played in twelve episodes of the series The Adventures of Robin Hood. In 1960 he also shot his last film there, and returned to the U.S., where, however, he never should have a film or television appearance again.
At his death in 1987 from cardiac arrest, he lived in great poverty, his grave in Sebastopol had to be financed by the state. Lowry was 73 years old. He was married three times, his first wife, 1934-1936 Diana Whally ( 1912-1990 ), then a short time in 1938., The daughter of Woolf Barnato racing driver who had a child by him Presumably, he married a third time. This marriage ended in divorce.