Ralph Morgan
Ralph Morgan ( born July 6, 1883 in New York City, New York, † June 11, 1956 ibid; native Raphael Kuhner Wuppermann ) was an American film and theater actor.
Life
Ralph Morgan was born as one of eleven children of George Diogracia and his wife Josephina Wupperman Wright, a New York merchant family, who had specialized in the distribution of Angostura liqueur. He had five brothers and five sisters, however, three of whom died in infancy. Morgan, the older brother of Frank Morgan, completed before his acting career at Columbia University, where he earned a degree in law. In March 1909, he debuted in The Bachelor of Clyde Fitch on Broadway, and put in this way the foundation for his career. So he stood in the coming four decades in over 20 plays on the stage. His most successful engagement was his role in the play Lightnin 'of the author pair Winchell Smith and Frank Bacon, in which Morgan between August 1918 and August 1921 no less than 1291 embodied the main role.
Morgan was also active as a film actor, who appeared in over 100 movies before the camera from 1915. One of his most famous films was the drama The Life of Emile Zola in 1937, which won three Oscars. In 1933, Morgan had on the side of Spencer Tracy a role in The Power and the Glory. Another well-known film in which Morgan was to see was Hitler 's Madman, where the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich was discussed. In 1933, Morgan was instrumental in the founding of the Screen Actors Guild ( SAG), the Screen Actors Guild in Hollywood, involved, its first president, he was also briefly in the same year. In 1938 he was re-elected president, and held the office until 1940. During the same year Morgan was honored for his achievements in the SAG with an honorary Oscar.
Ralph Morgan was married to the actress Grace Arnold; In 1911, he was the only time father. His daughter Claudia Morgan was later also an actress. Ralph Morgan died at the age of 72 years in New York. Today, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at him.