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Ben Lyon is a Actor American born on 6 february 1901 at Atlanta (USA)

Ben Lyon

Ben Lyon
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Nationality USA
Birth 6 february 1901 at Atlanta (USA)
Death 22 march 1979 (at 78 years) at Honolulu (USA)

Ben Lyon (February 6, 1901 – March 22, 1979) was an American actor and a studio executive at 20th Century Fox.

Biography

Lyon married actress Bebe Daniels in June 1930. They had two children: daughter Barbara in 1932 and a son Richard whom they adopted. Daniels suffered a severe stroke in 1963 and withdrew from public life. She suffered a second stroke in late 1970. She died at the couple's London home in March 1971.

In 1974, Lyon married the actress Marian Nixon whom he had known since the 1920s. They remained married until his death.

Best films

Hell's Angels (1930)
(Actor)

Usually with

Bebe Daniels
Bebe Daniels
(7 films)
Ray June
Ray June
(4 films)
Earl Luick
Earl Luick
(5 films)
Ernest Haller
Ernest Haller
(3 films)
George Irving
George Irving
(4 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Ben Lyon (51 films)

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Actor

The Dark Tower, 1h33
Directed by John Harlow, John Fawcett
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Circus films
Actors Herbert Lom, Anne Crawford, David Farrar, Ben Lyon, Frederick Burtwell, William Hartnell
Roles Phil Danton
Rating60% 3.0020253.0020253.0020253.0020253.002025
Stephen Torg (Lom) seeks work at a struggling traveling circus. While there, a lion escapes; Torg is able to control it with his skill at hypnotism. Phil Danton (Lyon), the head of the circus, is so impressed, he hires the newcomer. Then someone comes up with an idea. Torg hypnotizes Mary (Crawford) so that she can perform a dangerous aerial stunt without props. Her partner and boyfriend, Tom Danton (Farrar) is suspicious, but is overruled by the others.
This Was Paris, 1h17
Directed by John Harlow
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Spy
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Ann Dvorak, Ben Lyon, Mary Maguire, Griffith Jones, Robert Morley, Harold Huth
Roles Butch, Sydney Chronicle Reporter
Rating57% 2.870182.870182.870182.870182.87018
British Captain Bill Hamilton meets and is attracted to American fashion designer Ann Morgan in Paris during the Phoney War stage of hostilities. He also makes the acquaintance of Sydney-Chronicle reporter Butch. Later, he is assigned by MI5 to investigate Ann. The fashion house where she works is a center of German fifth columnists, headed by Van Der Stuyl and Madame Florien. MI5 suspects Ann herself is a spy, but Bill is certain she is innocent. Her friend, Count Raul De La Vague, however, has been gulled by Van Der Stuyl and Madame Florien into believing that they are working for Franco-German peace and cooperation against communism. The count is told to donate an ambulance to the French cause. A German spy conceals a message inside the door.
Confidential Lady, 1h14
Directed by Arthur B. Woods
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Ben Lyon, Jane Baxter, Athole Stewart, Ronald Ward, Jean Cadell, Frederick Burtwell
Roles Jim Brent

Jill Trevor (Baxter) vows revenge on newspaper baron Sir Joshua Morple (Athole Stewart), who she holds responsible for ruining her father. Her very public antics to draw attention to Morple's despicable conduct come to the notice a rival newspaper, who send journalist Jim Brent (Lyon) to offer to write up Jill's story, in the hope that he will be able to dig up some dirt on Morple. Jim is initially sceptical, seeing Jill as a silly attention-seeking airhead, but as he gets to know her he changes his mind and realises there is substance to her claims, so the pair join forces to discredit Morple publicly, at the same time as starting to fall in love with each other.
I Killed the Count
Directed by Friedrich Zelnik
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Crime
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Ben Lyon, Terence De Marney, Athole Stewart, Barbara Blair, Antoinette Cellier, David Burns
Roles Bernard Froy
Rating60% 3.015133.015133.015133.015133.01513
Cockney comedian Syd Walker plays it more or less straight as Scotland Yard Detective Inspector Davidson, at present trying to determine who murdered the much-hated Count Mattoni (Leslie Perrins). The dilemma isn't that the Detective is suffering from a lack of witnesses. In fact, four different people come forth to confess to the killing – each of them with plenty of motive and opportunity.
Dancing Feet, 1h10
Directed by Joseph Santley
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Actors Ben Lyon, Joan Marsh, Edward J. Nugent, Isabel Jewell, James Burke, Purnell Pratt
Roles Peyton Wells
Rating66% 3.3036053.3036053.3036053.3036053.303605
Frisco Waterfront, 1h6
Directed by Arthur Lubin, Joseph Santley
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Ben Lyon, Helen Twelvetrees, Rod La Rocque, Russell Hopton, James Burke, Henry Kolker
Roles Glenn Burton
Rating52% 2.6120252.6120252.6120252.6120252.612025
California gubernatorial candidate Burton (Lyon) is about to cast his vote, when a truck crashes into the polling booth, critically injuring him and his opponent. A flashback traces his career from unemployed veteran to dockworker in San Francisco to lawyer. A side story traces his tortured relationship with his wife,
Navy Wife
Navy Wife (1935)
, 1h9
Directed by Allan Dwan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Claire Trevor, Ralph Bellamy, Jane Darwell, Warren Hymer, Ben Lyon, Kathleen Burke
Roles Dr. Peter Milford
Rating58% 2.917412.917412.917412.917412.91741
I Cover the Waterfront, 1h15
Directed by James Cruze
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists
Actors Ben Lyon, Claudette Colbert, Ernest Torrence, Hobart Cavanaugh, Wilfred Lucas, Maurice Black
Roles H. Joseph 'Joe' Miller
Rating61% 3.0971353.0971353.0971353.0971353.097135
San Diego Standard reporter H. Joseph Miller (Ben Lyon) has been covering the city's waterfront for the past five years and is fed up with the work. He longs to escape the waterfront life and land a newspaper job back East so he can marry his Vermont sweatheart. Miller is frustrated by the lack of progress of his current assignment investigating the smuggling of Chinese people into the country by a fisherman named Eli Kirk (Ernest Torrence). One morning after wasting a night tracking down bad leads, his editor at the Standard orders him to investigate a report of a girl swimming naked at the beach. There he meets Julie Kirk (Claudette Colbert), the daughter of the man he's been investigating.