John Dall

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John Dall
from the Rope film trailer, 1948.
Birth name	John Dall Thompson
Born	May 26, 1918 New York, New York, USA
Died	January 15, 1971 Hollywood, Hollywood, USA

John Dall (born May 26, 1918 in New York, New York; died January 15, 1971 from a heart attack in Hollywood, California, aged 52) was an American actor. Other sources report that he died of a punctured lung. He is best remembered today for the part of the cool-minded intellectual killer in Alfred Hitchcock's Rope, but first came to fame as the young prodigy who comes alive under the tutelage of Bette Davis in The Corn is Green. He worked primarily in theatre.

[edit] Selected filmography

• The Corn is Green (1945) (nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor)
• Another Part of the Forest (1948)
• Something in the Wind (1947)
• Rope (1948)
• Gun Crazy (1949)
• The Man Who Cheated Himself (1950)
• Spartacus (1960)
• Atlantis, the Lost Continent (1961)

[edit] External links

• John Dall at the Internet Movie Database