Tom Tully
Thomas " Tom" Tully ( born August 21, 1908 in Durango, Colorado, USA, † April 27, 1982 in Newport Beach, California, USA) was an American film and theater actor.
Life
As a young man Tully joined the United States Navy, where he remained several years. Although his debut in 1932 was as an actor - he was bound in a small supporting role in the film version of the Bible The Sign of the Cross - beganns Tully's career after his retirement from the Navy, in 1937, on Broadway. After he was able to gain experience in 10 plays to 1943, he moved in 1943 to the final medium of film, and therefore made his comeback in the film drama Mission to Moscow as a film actor.
Tully's filmmaking, which extended over a period of three decades, was crowned sustained mainly by the mid- 1950s with success. To fall into this time of the 1954 war film produced The Caine Mutiny, for which the actor received a 1955 Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor. In the second half of his career Tully's performances were largely limited to guest appearances on television series, including, inter alia, 1964 in Perry Mason and both in 1965 as well as 1967 in two episodes of Bonanza.
At the beginning of the 1970s - during the Vietnam War - was Tully member of the United Service Organizations, the Bob Hope belonged among others, and thus entertainer of U.S. troops. In 1971, Tully suffered a severe blow when he became infected in Vietnam with a roundworm, which can cause, among other things elephantiasis. Back in the United States and in Laguna Beach, Tully had due to a clogged vein both legs amputated. But that's not enough, Tully's health deteriorated rapidly. So he suffered from pleurisy, was nearly deaf, and suffered from acute hair loss. Although he was still trying to 1973 to participate in a few television films and series, including 1972 in an episode of Mission: Impossible assume Tully was forced to retire.
Recently the actor was suffering even from cancer, to which he in April 1982, aged 73 years, died.
About Tully's private life is only known that he was married three times, most recently by Ida Johnson, who had been his wife since 1954.
Tom Tully is today dedicated a star on the Walk of Fame.