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Alexander Kirkland is a Actor and Scriptwriter Mexicain born on 15 september 1901 at Mexico City (Mexique)

Alexander Kirkland

Alexander Kirkland
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Birth name William Alexander Kirkland
Nationality Mexique
Birth 15 september 1901 at Mexico City (Mexique)
Death 1 january 1986 (at 84 years)

William Alexander Kirkland (September 15, 1901, Mexico City, Mexico – circa 1986) was a leading man in Hollywood during the early sound era, as well as a notable stage actor.

He attended the Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He toured as one of the Yale Puppeteers and then worked with the troupe at the Turnabout Theatre in Los Angeles, which operated from 1941 to 1956. His friend and theater colleague Forman Brown used him as the model for one of his characters in the early gay romance novel Better Angel (1933).

On radio, Kirkland played David Brewster in the soap opera Big Sister in the early 1940s, Curt Lansing in John's Other Wife, and Russell Barrington in Society Girl in that same era.

He married entertainer Gypsy Rose Lee in 1942. They separated after three months and
finally were divorced in 1944. From 1944 to 1950, he was married to socialite, actress, and TV producer Phyllis Adams Jenkins (1923-2004).

Little is known about his later years, but there have been no sources indicating his death, save from a source on IMDB, claiming his death sometime in the 1980s.

Usually with

Ralph Morgan
Ralph Morgan
(4 films)
Ralph Bellamy
Ralph Bellamy
(2 films)
Bradley King
Bradley King
(2 films)
Lee Garmes
Lee Garmes
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Alexander Kirkland (11 films)

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Actor

A Face in the Crowd, 2h6
Directed by Elia Kazan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about television, Musical films, Political films
Actors Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Anthony Franciosa, Walter Matthau, Lee Remick, Marshall Neilan
Roles Jim Collier
Rating81% 4.0951954.0951954.0951954.0951954.095195
In late 1950s America, a drunken drifter, Larry Rhodes (Andy Griffith), is plucked out of a rural Arkansas jail by Marcia Jeffries (Patricia Neal) to sing on a radio show at station KGRK. His raw voice, folksy humor and personal charm bring about a strong local following, and he lands a television show in Memphis, Tennessee under the stage name "Lonesome" Rhodes, given to him on a whim by Jeffries.
Strange Interlude, 1h49
Directed by Robert Z. Leonard
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Norma Shearer, Clark Gable, Alexander Kirkland, Ralph Morgan, Robert Young, May Robson
Roles Sam Evans
Rating56% 2.805862.805862.805862.805862.80586
Gordon Shaw was a flyer who was shot down and killed during World War I. Nina would have married him before he left, but her father forbade the marriage. Charlie is a friend, but Nina does not love him and he is too timid, too shy, to tell her the way that he feels about her. Sam is her husband and her love disappears after the ceremony when she finds out that there is mental illness in his family and that there can be no children.
Charlie Chan's Chance, 1h13
Directed by John G. Blystone
Origin USA
Genres Crime
Themes Children's films
Actors Warner Oland, Alexander Kirkland, H. B. Warner, Marian Nixon, James Kirkwood Sr., Ralph Morgan
Roles John R. Douglas
Rating68% 3.4404953.4404953.4404953.4404953.440495
Charlie Chan is in New York City attending a police convention when he is the intended murder victim here, and he avoids death only by chance. To find his would-be-killer (or would-be-killers), Charlie must outguess police reps from both Scotland Yard and New York City police.
A Passport to Hell, 1h15
Directed by Frank Lloyd
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Elissa Landi, Paul Lukas, Warner Oland, Alexander Kirkland, Donald Crisp, Earle Foxe
Roles Lt. Erich von Sydow
Rating65% 3.2718353.2718353.2718353.2718353.271835
Almost Married, 50minutes
Directed by William Cameron Menzies
Origin USA
Genres Thriller
Actors Violet Heming, Ralph Bellamy, Alexander Kirkland, Alan Dinehart, Sr., Mischa Auer
Roles Louis Capristi aka Charles Pringle
Rating47% 2.3644652.3644652.3644652.3644652.364465
Tarnished Lady, 1h23
Directed by George Cukor
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Tallulah Bankhead, Clive Brook, Alexander Kirkland, Phoebe Foster, Eric Blore, Osgood Perkins
Roles DeWitt Taylor
Rating60% 3.0019953.0019953.0019953.0019953.001995
Nancy Courtney, a once wealthy socialite, has had to struggle to maintain a facade of prosperity ever since her father's death. Although she loves writer DeWitt Taylor, who is indifferent to amassing a fortune, her mother urges her to marry stockbroker Norman Cravath instead. Nancy acquiesces to her mother's wishes but, despite the fact her new husband does everything he can to please her, she is miserable in her marriage.
Surrender
Surrender (1931)
, 1h9
Directed by William K. Howard
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Warner Baxter, Leila Hyams, Ralph Bellamy, C. Aubrey Smith, Alexander Kirkland, Bodil Rosing
Roles Major Dietrich Reichendorf
Rating60% 3.0482453.0482453.0482453.0482453.048245
During World War I, the wily and attractive French POW Sergeant Dumaine is sequestered in a prison camp near the castle of a prideful Prussian nobleman and military general, Count Reichendorf, who lives for the day that his four sons will march triumphantly into Paris. Having lost three sons to the French and English armies, and left with only one son, Dietrich, Reichendorf laments the days when his family made Prussia "the might of land." He is forced to recruit military men from the prison camp. Axelle, the daughter of one of the sons, who became his ward when her parents died, lives in the Reichendorf castle and makes periodic goodwill visits to the prison compound, where she first encounters Dumaine. Captain Ebbing, the martinet and disfigured prison commandant, develops an interest in Axtelle. He courts her, but Axelle shows little interest in him, and when he reminds her how he dazzled her before he went into battle, she rejects his affections and tells him that she is engaged to Dietrich. Ebbing pleads with her, insisting that his love for her is more intense and enduring than that of any other man, but she is not swayed.

Scriptwriter