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Birth name Grady Harwell Sutton
Nationality USA
Birth 5 april 1906 at Chattanooga (USA)
Death 17 september 1995 (at 89 years) at Woodland Hills (USA)

Grady Harwell Sutton (April 5, 1906 – September 17, 1995) was an American film and television actor from the 1920s to the 1970s.

Born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Sutton was raised in Florida where he attended St. Petersburg High School. He began his career during the silent film era and made the transition to sound films with the college themed shorts The Boy Friends. He moved on to countless character roles, where he frequently played dimwitted country boys. His most well-known roles were as Frank Dowling, Katharine Hepburn's dancing partner, in Alice Adams (1935) and as a foil to W.C. Fields in three films, Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935), You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939), and The Bank Dick (1940).

Film historian William J. Mann characterizes Sutton as a typical "Hollywood Sissy," that is as a gay actor who ordinarily portrayed an effeminate character for comedic effect.

He continued to work throughout the 1950s and 1960s, finally retiring from acting in 1979. The strength of his association with Fields was such that it was mentioned in the commentary for My Fair Lady. Sutton has a non-speaking role in some of the formal-dress scenes, and subtly performs some comic shtick. The commentator refers to him as "an old W. C. Fields actor".

Sutton died at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California at the age of 89.

Biography

Grady Sutton débute au cinéma dans six films muets (des petits rôles non crédités) sortis en 1925 et 1926, dont Vive le sport de Fred C. Newmeyer et Sam Taylor (1925, avec Harold Lloyd). Puis il contribue à deux-cent-un autres films américains entre 1929 et 1979, comme second rôle de caractère (parfois non crédité).

Mentionnons Désirs secrets de George Stevens (1935, avec Katharine Hepburn et Fred MacMurray), Mines de rien d'Edward F. Cline (1940, avec W. C. Fields et Cora Witherspoon), Escale à Hollywood de George Sidney (1945, avec Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson et Gene Kelly), ainsi que les westerns Quatre du Texas de Robert Aldrich (1963, avec Frank Sinatra et Dean Martin) et Tueur malgré lui de Burt Kennedy (son avant-dernier film, 1971, avec James Garner et Suzanne Pleshette).

Pour la télévision, Grady Sutton collabore à un téléfilm (un western diffusé en 1968) et à vingt-cinq séries de 1951 à 1974, dont Rawhide (un épisode, 1961), Batman (un épisode, 1967) et Hawaï police d'État (un épisode, 1972).

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Filmography of Grady Sutton (130 films)

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Rock 'n' Roll High School, 1h33
Directed by Joe Dante, Allan Arkush
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Films about education, Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors P. J. Soles, Dey Young, Paul Bartel, Vincent Van Patten, Clint Howard, Mary Woronov
Roles School Board President
Rating65% 3.297783.297783.297783.297783.29778
Set in 1980, Vince Lombardi High School keeps losing principals to nervous breakdowns because of the students' love of rock 'n' roll and their disregard for education. Their leader, Riff Randell (P. J. Soles), is the biggest Ramones fan at Vince Lombardi High School. She waits in line for three days to get tickets to see the band, hoping to meet Joey Ramone so she can give him a song she wrote for the band, "Rock 'n' Roll High School".
Support Your Local Gunfighter, 1h33
Directed by Burt Kennedy
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Western
Actors James Garner, Suzanne Pleshette, Harry Morgan, Jack Elam, John Dehner, Marie Windsor
Roles Elmer / Storekeeper
Rating67% 3.3973253.3973253.3973253.3973253.397325
Latigo Smith (Garner), a gambler and confidence man, is traveling by train in frontier-era Colorado with the rich and powerful Goldie (Marie Windsor). Goldie is besotted with Latigo and wants desperately to marry him, a fate that he wants no part of. He manages to slip off the train at Purgatory, a jerkwater mining town. Assessing the situation, he discovers that two rival companies of miners, led by Taylor Barton (Harry Morgan) and Colonel Ames (John Dehner), are racing each other to find a "mother lode" of gold buried somewhere nearby. Massive dynamite blasts periodically rock the town to its foundations, creating or embellishing various moments of comic relief throughout the film.
Myra Breckinridge, 1h34
Directed by Mike Sarne
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, Films about television, Erotic films, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Raquel Welch, Mae West, John Huston, Farrah Fawcett, Rex Reed, Roger C. Carmel
Roles Kid Barlow
Rating45% 2.253862.253862.253862.253862.25386
Myron Breckinridge, étudiant en cinématographie, va en Europe pour y subir une opération de changement de sexe ; revenu en Amérique il se fait appeler Myra et part pour Hollywood. Une fois là-bas il cherche à prendre sa revanche des torts qu'on lui a faits et dont il se souvient, et il le fait avec une astuce toute féminine.
The Great Bank Robbery, 1h38
Directed by Hy Averback
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Western
Actors Zero Mostel, Kim Novak, Clint Walker, Claude Akins, Akim Tamiroff, Larry Storch
Roles Rev. Simms
Rating56% 2.807552.807552.807552.807552.80755
Un faux prêtre et une fausse bonne sœur qui, accompagnés de faux moines, se retrouve confrontée à d'autres malfaiteurs lorsqu'ils tentent de braquer une banque.
The Great Bank Robbery, 1h38
Directed by Hy Averback
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Western
Themes Heist films
Actors Zero Mostel, Kim Novak, Clint Walker, Claude Akins, Akim Tamiroff, Larry Storch
Roles Rev. Simms
Rating56% 2.807552.807552.807552.807552.80755
Gold stolen by outlaws is stashed in the impenetrable bank of Friendly, a small town in Texas. A preacher, Rev. Pious Blue, is actually a thief. He and his associates, including partner Lyda Kebanov, plan to tunnel into the vault and blow it up with TNT, just as a Fourth of July celebration drowns out the noise.
I Love You, Alice B. Toklas!, 1h32
Directed by Hy Averback
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs
Actors Peter Sellers, Jo Van Fleet, Leigh Taylor-Young, Joyce Van Patten, David Arkin, Herb Edelman
Roles Funeral Director
Rating61% 3.095563.095563.095563.095563.09556
Attorney Harold Fine (Sellers) is having second thoughts about marrying his longtime girlfriend Joyce. He encounters his brother, a hippie living in Venice Beach. He falls for an attractive flower power hippie girl (played by Leigh Taylor-Young) who has a knack for making pot brownies. Harold runs out of his wedding to live with the hippie girl, and tries to find himself with the aid of a guru. Ultimately he finds the hippie lifestyle as unfulfilling and unsatisfying as the "straight" lifestyle and once more decides to marry Joyce. At the last minute, he again leaves her at the altar and runs out of the wedding onto a city street saying he doesn't know for sure what he is looking for but, "there's got to be something beautiful out there.
Something for a Lonely Man, 2h
Directed by Don Taylor
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Dan Blocker, Susan Clark, John Dehner, Warren Oates, Don Stroud, Paul Petersen
Roles Male Secretary
Rating69% 3.475253.475253.475253.475253.47525
John Killibrew, a blacksmith, had convinced a number of settlers to follow him to California and found the town of Arkana. When the railroad comes through the area in 1870 but bypasses the settlement, the townspeople blame him. Ten years later, when a steam engine falls off of a train into a pond, Killibrew gets an idea. He goes to San Francisco and buys the steam engine from the insurance company that had paid off on the claim. Meanwhile, Mary Duren had been teaching Killibrew how to read and developed an attraction for him, to which Killibrew is at least initially oblivious. When he returns to the town, no one will help him recover the engine, in part because the site is in the middle of hostile Indian country. Then Mary buys the mules he needs and travels with Killibrew to the site. John and Mary dig a trench to drain the pond in which the steam engine is sunk. During this time John proposes to Mary and they become engaged. However, her three brothers, who had been using Mary as their housekeeper and cook, track down John and Mary and force them into a shotgun wedding. When they return, the engine is not in the drained pond. The pair track it down and discover it was taken by the Indians. Since Killibrew used to live with the Indians many years ago, earning the sobriquet "Big Beaver", he persuades them to give the engine back to him. John and Mary haul the engine back towards the town through rain, facing a bear and temporarily losing it in a cave-in. The wagon with the engine gets stuck in a hole. The townspeople ride out and offer to help, but Killibrew, remembering their earlier refusal turns them down. When he says he doesn't need anybody to help, even Mary leaves him, as a torrential rain pours down. The banker in town plots to take the steam engine in lieu of $316.82 Killibrew owes to the bank. When Killibrew refuses to sell to the bank, the banker serves a writ on Killibrew. After Killibrew beats up the posse, Killibrew submits to arrest. Mary talks the women of the town into trying to lynch the sheriff. Mary sells enough shares in the steam engine to pay John's debt and the sheriff prudently decides to drop the other charges against Killibrew. The steam engine is hauled into town. John and Mary sneak off for their honeymoon.
The Chase
The Chase (1966)
, 2h13
Directed by Arthur Penn
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda, Robert Redford, E. G. Marshall, Angie Dickinson, Janice Rule
Roles Mr. Siftifieus (uncredited)
Rating70% 3.5490353.5490353.5490353.5490353.549035
In a small Texas town where banker Val Rogers (E.G. Marshall) wields a great deal of influence, word comes that native son Bubber Reeves (Robert Redford) and another man have escaped from prison.
Paradise, Hawaiian Style, 1h31
Directed by Michael D. Moore
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Musical films
Actors Elvis Presley, Suzanna Leigh, James Shigeta, Philip Ahn, Donna Butterworth, Marianna Hill
Roles Mr. Cubberson
Rating54% 2.7002952.7002952.7002952.7002952.700295
Rick Richards (Presley) returns to his home in Hawaii after being fired from his job as an airline pilot. He and his buddy Danny Kohana (James Shigeta) go into the helicopter charter business together. But Rick's reckless flying and his careless negotiations with local women may cost Rick the business and Danny his home.
Paradise, Hawaiian Style, 1h31
Directed by Michael D. Moore
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Elvis Presley, Suzanna Leigh, James Shigeta, Marianna Hill, Donna Butterworth, Irene Tsu
Roles Mr. Cubberson
Rating54% 2.7002952.7002952.7002952.7002952.700295
Rick Richards (Elvis Presley) est pilote pour une compagnie d'aviation. Il est licencié pour son comportement jugé trop entreprenant et léger avec le personnel féminin. A Hawaï, il retrouve son ami
Tickle Me
Tickle Me (1965)
, 1h31
Directed by Norman Taurog
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical, Romance, Western
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Elvis Presley, Julie Adams, Jocelyn Lane, Jack Mullaney, Bill Williams, Merry Anders
Roles Mr. Dabney
Rating58% 2.901162.901162.901162.901162.90116
Lonnie Beale (Elvis), an out-of-work rodeo star, is trying to make ends meet until the season starts up again. He comes to the town of Zuni Wells (a fictional town somewhere in the American West) because a friend says Lonnie can get a job on a ranch, but his friend is nowhere to be found.
My Fair Lady, 2h46
Directed by George Cukor, David S. Hall
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films based on mythology, Théâtre, Musical films, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals, Children's films, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology
Actors Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway, Marni Nixon, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Gladys Cooper
Roles Ascot Extra / Guest at Ball (uncredited)
Rating76% 3.8487753.8487753.8487753.8487753.848775
In Edwardian London, Professor Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison), a scholar of phonetics, believes that the accent and tone of one's voice determines a person's prospects in society. In Covent Garden one evening he boasts to a new acquaintance, Colonel Hugh Pickering (Wilfrid Hyde-White), himself an expert in phonetics, that he could teach any person to speak in a way that he could pass them off as a duke or duchess at an embassy ball. Higgins selects as an example a young flower seller, Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn), who has a strong Cockney accent. Eliza's ambition is to work in a flower shop, but her thick accent makes her unsuitable. Having come from India to meet Higgins, Pickering is invited to stay with the professor. The following morning, Eliza shows up at Higgins' home, seeking lessons. Pickering is intrigued and offers to cover all expenses if the experiment should be successful.
4 for Texas, 1h50
Directed by Robert Aldrich, Oscar Rudolph
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Western
Actors Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Anita Ekberg, Ursula Andress, Charles Bronson, Victor Buono
Roles Bank Clerk
Rating54% 2.748912.748912.748912.748912.74891
In 1870, a shipment of $100,000 being transported by stagecoach to Galveston, Texas, is the object of a tug-of-war in the desert between Zack Thomas (Frank Sinatra) and Joe Jarrett (Dean Martin), who first must stave off an outlaw band led by Matson (Charles Bronson).
Come Blow Your Horn, 1h52
Directed by Bud Yorkin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Frank Sinatra, Lee J. Cobb, Molly Picon, Barbara Rush, Tony Bill, Jill St John
Roles Clothing Store Manager (uncredited)
Rating59% 2.9952252.9952252.9952252.9952252.995225
Buddy Baker is bored living with his parents. He goes to the big-city apartment of older brother Alan, who works for their father's artificial-fruit company but never lets business interfere with a good time.
Billy Rose's Jumbo, 2h3
Directed by Charles Walters
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about animals, Circus films, Films about music and musicians, Mise en scène d'un éléphant, Musical films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Doris Day, Stephen Boyd, Jimmy Durante, Martha Raye, Dean Jagger, Lynn Wood
Roles Driver
Rating60% 3.048213.048213.048213.048213.04821
The Wonder Circus comes to a town in the Midwest with its featured attraction, Jumbo the elephant. Pop Wonder owns the circus, but his continued gambling losses in crap games leaves him (and the circus) with an ever-growing number of IOUs.