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Alan Dinehart, Sr. is a Actor and Scriptwriter American born on 3 october 1889 at Saint Paul (USA)

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Birth name Alan Mason Dinehart
Nationality USA
Birth 3 october 1889 at Saint Paul (USA)
Death 17 july 1944 (at 54 years) at Hollywood (USA)

Alan Mason Dinehart, Sr. (born October 3, 1889 in St. Paul, Minnesota - died July 17, 1944, in Hollywood, California), was an American actor, director, writer, and stage manager. He became a character actor and supporting player in at least eighty-eight films between 1931 and 1944. Earlier, he appeared in more than twenty Broadway plays.

He left school to appear on stage with a repertory company and had no screen experience when he signed a contract with Fox in May 1931.

Dinehart's likeness was drawn in caricature by Alex Gard for Sardi's, the New York City theater district restaurant. The picture is now part of the collection of the New York Public Library.

Dinehart's first wife was the stage actress Louise Dyer (1895-1934), a native of Nassau County, New York. They were divorced in 1932. In 1933, Dinehart married the film actress Mozelle Britton (May 12, 1912 - May 18, 1953), a native of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. They are entombed together at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.

Dinehart had two sons: from the first marriage, Alan Dinehart, Jr. (1918-1992), and from the second marriage, Mason Alan Dinehart, aka Alan Dinehart, III, born in Los Angeles in 1936.

Mason Alan Dinehart was cast in several 1950s television series, including the role of a young Bat Masterson in the ABC/Desilu Studios western, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, starring Hugh O'Brian in the title role.

Biography

Alan Dinehart entame sa carrière d'acteur au théâtre et joue à Broadway (New York) entre 1918 et 1941, exclusivement dans des pièces. Pour la scène new-yorkaise, il est également dramaturge (deux pièces) et metteur en scène (dix pièces, une revue et une comédie musicale). Il est notamment l'auteur (conjointement avec Joseph Carole) de la dernière pièce qu'il interprète à Broadway, Separate Rooms, représentée 613 fois de mars 1940 à septembre 1941, aux côtés de Glenda Farrell et Lyle Talbot.

Au cinéma, son premier film est The Brat de John Ford (où il partage la vedette avec Sally O'Neil et Frank Albertson), sorti en 1931. Il contribue en tout à quatre-vingt-neuf films américains (musicaux entre autres), les sept derniers sortis en 1944, année de sa mort prématurée d'une crise cardiaque.

Parmi ses autres films notables, citons Jimmy the Gent de Michael Curtiz (1934, avec James Cagney et Bette Davis), L'Enfer d'Harry Lachman (1935, avec Spencer Tracy et Claire Trevor), L'amiral mène la danse de Roy Del Ruth (1936, avec Eleanor Powell et James Stewart), ou encore Hôtel pour femmes de Gregory Ratoff (1939, avec Ann Sothern et Linda Darnell).