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Ernest Truex is a Actor American born on 18 september 1889 at Kansas City (USA)

Ernest Truex

Ernest Truex
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Nationality USA
Birth 18 september 1889 at Kansas City (USA)
Death 26 june 1973 (at 83 years) at Fallbrook (USA)

Ernest Truex (September 19, 1889 – June 26, 1973) was an American actor of stage, film, and television.

Biography

Durant sa carrière, Ernest Truex est très actif au théâtre (où il débute enfant). En particulier, il apparaît régulièrement à Broadway (New York), de 1908 à 1951, dans des pièces principalement, mais également dans une revue, deux opérettes et cinq comédies musicales ; sur les planches new-yorkaises, il est aussi (occasionnellement) metteur en scène et producteur. Par la suite, il ne retourne jouer à Broadway que dans trois pièces, respectivement en 1960, 1962 et 1965 — voir la rubrique "Théâtre" ci-dessous —.

Au cinéma, il tourne seize films muets américains (dont plusieurs courts métrages), de 1913 à 1923. Sa première apparition à l'écran est dans Caprice, avec Mary Pickford ; il retrouve l'actrice en 1914 dans Un bon petit diable — adaptation de la pièce française éponyme de Rosemonde Gérard et Maurice Rostand, que Pickford et Truex avaient d'abord créée à Broadway, aux côtés de Lillian Gish, en 1913 —.

Après l'avènement du parlant, il revient au cinéma en 1933 et collabore alors à cinquante-huit films jusqu'en 1948, dont Les Aventures de Marco Polo (en 1938, avec Gary Cooper et Sigrid Gurie), et la 'screwball comedy' La Dame du vendredi (en 1940, avec Cary Grant et Rosalind Russell), deux de ses films les plus connus. Il réapparaît ultérieurement au cinéma dans seulement quatre films, sortis en 1956, 1957, 1958 et 1965.

Au total, entre 1913 et 1965, Ernest Truex contribue à soixante-dix-huit films, majoritairement américains (exception faite d'un film britannique en 1936), notamment plusieurs films musicaux, sans compter un caméo (comme lui-même) dans le film musical Au pays du rythme (1942).

À la télévision, de 1948 à 1966, il joue dans quarante-trois séries, dont deux épisodes de La Quatrième Dimension, en 1959 (aux côtés de Steve Cochran) puis en 1962 (rôle principal) — voir la filmographie sélective ci-après —.

Pour sa contribution au petit écran, une étoile lui est dédiée sur le Walk of Fame d'Hollywood Boulevard.

De 1941 jusqu'à sa mort en 1973, il est marié à l'actrice Sylvia Field (1901-1998).

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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Ernest Truex (57 films)

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Actor

Fluffy
Fluffy (1965)
, 1h32
Directed by Earl Bellamy
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Tony Randall, Shirley Jones, Howard Morris, Edward Andrews, Ernest Truex, Jim Backus
Roles Claridge
Rating59% 2.953182.953182.953182.953182.95318
Twilight for the Gods, 2h
Directed by Joseph Pevney
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Rock Hudson, Cyd Charisse, John Arthur Kennedy, Leif Erickson, Charles McGraw, Ernest Truex
Roles Rev. Butterfield
Rating58% 2.90262.90262.90262.90262.9026
After being court-martialed and discharged from the Navy, Captain Bell (Rock Hudson) turns to drink. Reduced to skippering a rundown schooner in the South Seas he takes on board a disparate group of passengers and crew; including a prostitute, a show-biz entrepreneur, a missionary, a washed up opera singer, and a couple of refugees. During a storm at sea, the true characters of all on board are revealed.
All Mine to Give
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Christmas films, Films based on plays
Actors Glynis Johns, Cameron Mitchell, Patty McCormack, Ernest Truex, Hope Emerson, Alan Hale Jr.
Roles Doctor Delbert
Rating71% 3.5892053.5892053.5892053.5892053.589205
Robert and Mamie Eunson (Cameron Mitchell and Glynis Johns) are Scots who have just landed in America (the year is 1856), having been invited there by Mamie's uncle. They arrive in the tiny logging village of Eureka, only to be informed that both uncle and his cabin have been incinerated in a house fire. The Eunsons are assisted by the friendly locals in reconstructing the house and Robert takes to tipping timber.
The Leather Saint
Directed by Alvin Ganzer
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Boxing films
Actors John Derek, Paul Douglas, Cesar Romero, Jody Lawrance, Ernest Truex, Robert O. Cornthwaite
Roles Father Ritchie
Rating58% 2.9151252.9151252.9151252.9151252.915125
Although he is a minister, young Gil Allen likes to work out in Tom Kelly's boxing gym. Gus MacAuliffe, a manager of fighters who doesn't know the young man's true vocation, offers to find him a fight in the ring, but Gil declines.
Always Together, 1h18
Directed by Frederick de Cordova
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Robert Hutton, Joyce Reynolds, Cecil Kellaway, Ernest Truex, Don McGuire, Douglas Kennedy
Roles Timothy J. Bull
Rating57% 2.8568552.8568552.8568552.8568552.856855
A millionaire on his deathbed leaves a million dollars to Jane Barker, a film addict who believes life is like the movies. Jane gets married without telling her new husband about the inheritance. The millionaire gets better and wants his million dollars back. Throughout the film Jane dreams her experiences are taking place in movies with real movie stars.
Night in Paradise, 1h24
Directed by Arthur Lubin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Fantasy
Actors Merle Oberon, Turhan Bey, Thomas Gomez, Gale Sondergaard, Ray Collins, Ernest Truex
Roles Scribe
Rating53% 2.6724052.6724052.6724052.6724052.672405
In 560 BC King Croesus of Lydia incurs the wrath of the sorceress Queen Attossa he had promised to marry, when he chooses the beautiful Delarai of Persia instead. Attossa, in disembodied form, mocks Croesus nearly to the point of madness, so he seeks a solution from the fortune-teller Aesop, who is very young and handsome, but believes that people only receive wisdom with age, arrived from the Isle of Samos in disguise of an old man with a hunch, a limp, and a cane. But Aesop also has eyes for Delarai. One day, Delarai invites Aesop to interpret a charm. As he does, he goes as his young self but with a different name, Jason. Delarai doesn't know at first, but as she sees the same scar on Jason's hand as Aesop's hand, she knows, and reveals that a hunch and a limp may be faked, but a scar remains a scar, and they fall in love with each other, but Atossa and the people in the palace suspect something is going on with Aesop and Delarai. Croesus wanted the Oracle to tell him the truth and sends Aesop to retrieve it. As Aesop is packing, Delarai talks him out of it but fails. Aesop goes anyway, and Delarai cries herself to sleep. Aesop does go fetch it from a priest, but the priest refuses, saying his life is valuable. Aesop claims that if a priest's words do not mean anything, then his life means less and strangles him. He takes the priest's clothes and hides his face in the hood. Delarai comes to the temple, wanting to seek for Aesop, but before she could say anything, Aesop reveals his young face slightly, and Delarai breaks out a smile. As the security guards see her smile, they unmask Aesop, and Aesop and Delarai run hand in hand. They are forced to jump off a cliff. They jump in each other arms, and Attosa reveals her image at sea, saying that Aesop and Delarai actually survived because of their faith, their love, and a little help from Attosa. They live in a small cottage with a lake and a garden. Delarai is mending and Aesop's hand around on her shoulder, 12 boys come out saying "daddy!" which reveals that they got married and have children.
Club Havana, 1h2
Directed by Edgar George Ulmer
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Margaret Lindsay, Donald Douglas, Tom Neal, Marc Lawrence, Renie Riano, Pedro de Cordoba
Roles Willy Kingston
Rating61% 3.0925753.0925753.0925753.0925753.092575
Rosalind (Margaret Lindsay) returns to her Miami home following a divorce to see her boyfriend Johnny Norton (Don Douglas). They visit nightclub Club Havana, where Johnny tells Rosalind that he has fallen in love with another woman. Saddened, Rosalind tries to kill herself, but Bill Porter (Tom Neal) prevents her from doing so. Meanwhile, Jimmy (Eric Sinclair) has discovered that Joe Reed (Marc Lawrence), who murdered club performer Julia Dumont, has been released as the police believe there is not enough evidence that Joe killed her. Although Jimmy witnessed the killing, he is afraid to see police, fearing that Joe will go after his girlfriend Isabelita (Lita Baron). Jimmy instead decides to phone the police, but Myrtle (Sonia Sorel) listens in on the phone call and informs Joe of Jimmy's actions. Joe gets a hired killer to murder Jimmy, but the killer accidentally shoots Myrtle while Jimmy ends up hitting the gunman in his car. As Jimmy goes to the police station to testify, Johnny and Rosalind decide to get back together and go home.
The Crystal Ball, 1h21
Directed by Elliott Nugent
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Ray Milland, Paulette Goddard, Gladys George, Cecil Kellaway, Virginia Field, William Bendix
Rating64% 3.2424953.2424953.2424953.2424953.242495
A maid, in cahoots with Madame Zenobia (Gladys George), a fake psychic, fools Jo Ainsly (Virginia Field) into believing Zenobia to be a gifted fortune teller.
Rhythm of the Islands
Directed by Roy William Neill
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Jane Frazee, Allan Jones, Andy Devine, Ernest Truex, Marjorie Gateson, Mary Wickes
Roles Mr. Holton
Rating51% 2.5784852.5784852.5784852.5784852.578485
Two ambitious guys from Brooklyn, Tommy Jones and Eddie Dolan, get the idea of buying a tropical island in the South Pacific to exploit as a tourist paradise. They go there and start rounding up customers on the beach, to bring to native shows they set up with the help of the locals.
This Is the Army, 2h1
Directed by Michael Curtiz
Origin USA
Genres War, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Musical films, Political films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors George Murphy, Joan Leslie, George Tobias, Charles Butterworth, Alan Hale, Dolores Costello
Roles Soldier's Father (uncredited)
Rating58% 2.901232.901232.901232.901232.90123
In World War I song-and-dance man Jerry Jones (George Murphy) is drafted into the US Army, where he stages a revue called Yip Yip Yaphank. It is a rousing success, but one night during the show orders are received to leave immediately for France: instead of the finale, the troops march up the aisles through the audience, out the theater's main entrance and into a convoy of waiting trucks. Among the teary, last minute goodbyes Jones kisses his newlywed bride Ethel (Rosemary DeCamp) farewell.
True to Life, 1h34
Directed by George Marshall
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Mary Martin, Franchot Tone, Dick Powell, Victor Moore, William Demarest, Mabel Paige
Roles Oscar Elkins
Rating65% 3.2818153.2818153.2818153.2818153.281815