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Shepperd Strudwick is a Actor American born on 22 september 1907 at North Carolina (USA)
Shepperd Strudwick (September 22, 1907 – January 15, 1983) was an American actor of film, television and stage.
Born in Hillsborough, North Carolina, he began his film career as the title (eponymous) character in the film Joaquin Murrieta (1938); he was credited as Sheppard Strudwick. He appeared as Yugoslav guerrilla leader Lt. Aleksa Petrovic, an aide to General Draza Mihailovich, in the 20th Century Fox war film Chetniks! The Fighting Guerrillas in 1943. He played Edgar Allan Poe in The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe (1942) and also appeared in Strange Triangle (1946), Fighter Squadron (1948), The Reckless Moment (1949), The Red Pony (1949), Under the Gun (1951) and A Place in the Sun (1951), starring Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift, as the Taylor character's father.
Perhaps his most famous film role was that of Adam Stanton, the idealistic doctor who finally kills Willie Stark (played by Broderick Crawford) in the classic film All the King's Men (1949). Another notable role was Father Jean Massieu in Joan of Arc (1948), starring Ingrid Bergman as Joan.
Strudwick made many appearances on television, including the role of Dr. Charles Morris in the 1958 Perry Mason episode, "The Case of the Fugitive Nurse." He also appeared on The Twilight Zone, (in the episode "Nightmare as a Child") and several roles on the soap operas As the World Turns (Dr. Fields), Another World (Jim Matthews), One Life to Live (Victor Lord) and Love of Life (Timothy McCauley). In 1981, he starred as the voice of Homer in the National Radio Theater's Peabody Award-winning radio dramatization of the Odyssey.
His last appearance on celluloid was in 1981's Kent State, a TV film. That same year, he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actor (Featured Role – Play) for the unsuccessful Broadway play To Grandmother's House We Go.
He was married to Mary Jeffrey from 1977 until his death. He had a son by a previous marriage. He died in New York City from cancer on January 15, 1983 at the age of 75.
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Birth name John Shepperd
Nationality USA
Birth 22 september 1907 at North Carolina (USA)
Death 15 january 1983 (at 75 years) at New York City (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 22 september 1907 at North Carolina (USA)
Death 15 january 1983 (at 75 years) at New York City (USA)
Born in Hillsborough, North Carolina, he began his film career as the title (eponymous) character in the film Joaquin Murrieta (1938); he was credited as Sheppard Strudwick. He appeared as Yugoslav guerrilla leader Lt. Aleksa Petrovic, an aide to General Draza Mihailovich, in the 20th Century Fox war film Chetniks! The Fighting Guerrillas in 1943. He played Edgar Allan Poe in The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe (1942) and also appeared in Strange Triangle (1946), Fighter Squadron (1948), The Reckless Moment (1949), The Red Pony (1949), Under the Gun (1951) and A Place in the Sun (1951), starring Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift, as the Taylor character's father.
Perhaps his most famous film role was that of Adam Stanton, the idealistic doctor who finally kills Willie Stark (played by Broderick Crawford) in the classic film All the King's Men (1949). Another notable role was Father Jean Massieu in Joan of Arc (1948), starring Ingrid Bergman as Joan.
Strudwick made many appearances on television, including the role of Dr. Charles Morris in the 1958 Perry Mason episode, "The Case of the Fugitive Nurse." He also appeared on The Twilight Zone, (in the episode "Nightmare as a Child") and several roles on the soap operas As the World Turns (Dr. Fields), Another World (Jim Matthews), One Life to Live (Victor Lord) and Love of Life (Timothy McCauley). In 1981, he starred as the voice of Homer in the National Radio Theater's Peabody Award-winning radio dramatization of the Odyssey.
His last appearance on celluloid was in 1981's Kent State, a TV film. That same year, he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actor (Featured Role – Play) for the unsuccessful Broadway play To Grandmother's House We Go.
He was married to Mary Jeffrey from 1977 until his death. He had a son by a previous marriage. He died in New York City from cancer on January 15, 1983 at the age of 75.
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Cops and Robbers (1973)
, 1h29Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Crime
Themes Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Cliff Gorman, Joseph Bologna, Shepperd Strudwick, Martin Kove, John P. Ryan, Frances Foster
Rating63%
Tom and Joe are disillusioned New York City cops who decide to pull off one big robbery in their uniforms and retire on the proceeds. Bearer bonds are what the local Mafia boss will buy, so that's what they go for. Central Park is the location for the switch. Can they come out of it with their lives and the money?
Slaves (1969)
, 1h50Directed by Herbert J. Biberman
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about slavery, Films about racism
Actors Dionne Warwick, Ossie Davis, Stephen Boyd, Nancy Coleman, Julius Harris, David Huddleston
Roles Mr. Stillwell
Rating48%
Set in the 1850s South, the film follows Cassy and Luke, two black slaves who are sold to the sadistic plantation owner MacKay. He wants labor from the men and sex from the women. On this, he is determined to exploit both Cassy and Luke.
The Monitors (1969)
, 1h32Directed by Jack Shea
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy
Actors Guy Stockwell, Susan Oliver, Avery Schreiber, Sherry Jackson, Shepperd Strudwick, Peter Boyle
Roles Tersh Jeterax
Rating46%
Earth has been taken over by a benign group of aliens known as the Monitors, gentlemanly figures clad in black overcoats and bowler hats. They are dedicated to suppressing humanity's propensities for violence, sex, war, and trouble, enforcing their ethos with spray cans of a pacifying gas and with television ads praising the Monitors' rule—the latter featuring cameos by a variety of comedic actors, as well as bandleader Xavier Cugat and Illinois senator Everett Dirksen (who died before the film's release).
Daring Game (1968)
, 1h40Directed by László Benedek
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Underwater action films
Actors Lloyd Bridges, Michael Ansara, Joan Blackman, Shepperd Strudwick, Irene Dailey, Brock Peters
Roles Dr. Henry L. Carlyle
Rating60%
Survival Devices, Inc are an organisation that employ a team of adventurers known as "the Flying Fish" who are adept in sky diving, scuba diving and martial arts. They are engaged to rescue a captured scientist imprisoned on a Caribbean island by a dictator.
Barefoot in Athens (1966)
, 1h16Directed by George Schaefer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical
Actors Peter Ustinov, Geraldine Page, Anthony Quayle, Lloyd Bochner, Christopher Walken, Salome Jens
Roles Lycon
Rating71%
Le procès et les derniers jours de Socrate.
Girl on the Run (1958)
Directed by Richard L. Bare
Actors Efrem Zimbalist II, Erin O'Brien, Shepperd Strudwick, Edd Byrnes, Barton MacLane, Vince Barnett
Roles James McCullough / Ralph Graham
Rating76%
The Sad Sack (1957)
, 1h35Directed by George Marshall
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Military humor in film
Actors Jerry Lewis, David Wayne, Phyllis Kirk, Peter Lorre, George Dolenz, Gene Evans
Roles Major General Vanderlip
Rating58%
Private Meredith Bixby (Lewis) simply cannot fall in line with army procedure, even though he has had 17 months of training. A psychologist (Phyllis Kirk), is assigned to turn him into a good soldier, so she enlists two fellow servicemen to help Bixby with his training. About the only thing that he can do right is remember things with his photographic memory.
That Night! (1957)
, 1h28Directed by John Newland
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors John Beal, Augusta Dabney, Shepperd Strudwick, Rosemary Murphy, Beverly Lunsford, Fran Bennett
Roles Dr. Bernard Fischer
Rating78%
This script must be run from the command line
Autumn Leaves (1956)
, 1h47Directed by Robert Aldrich
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about disabilities
Actors Joan Crawford, Cliff Robertson, Vera Miles, Lorne Greene, Shepperd Strudwick, Ruth Donnelly
Roles Dr. Malcolm Couzzens
Rating67%
Spinsterish Millicent "Millie" Wetherby (Joan Crawford) works at home as a self-employed typist. One evening in a diner, she meets a lonely Army veteran named Burt Hanson (Cliff Robertson). They share a romantic date at the beach, kissing amidst the crashing waves, but Millie tells Burt to date someone his own age. A month later, Burt is waiting for the still-lonely Millie at her home and the two celebrate his new job at a department store. He proposes to her in a movie theater, and while she initially rejects the proposal, she reconsiders when she sees him walking away.
The Eddy Duchin Story (1956)
, 2h3Directed by George Sidney
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Piano
Actors Kim Novak, Tyrone Power, Victoria Shaw, James Whitmore, Shepperd Strudwick, Jack Albertson
Roles Sherman Wadsworth
Rating67%
Fresh out of pharmacy school, young Eddy Duchin travels to New York in the 1920s to take a job playing piano for bandleader Leo Reisman's orchestra. But upon arrival, Eddy learns there is no such job.
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956)
, 1h20Directed by Fritz Lang
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists, Prison films, Films about capital punishment
Actors Dana Andrews, Joan Fontaine, Barbara Nichols, Sidney Blackmer, Philip Bourneuf, Arthur Franz
Roles Jonathan Wilson
Rating68%
Austin Spencer (Sidney Blackmer), a newspaper publisher, wants to prove a point about the inadequacy of circumstantial evidence. He talks his son-in-law, Tom Garrett (Dana Andrews), into participating in a hoax, in an attempt to expose the ineptitude of the city's hard-line district attorney. The plan is for Tom to plant clues which will lead to his arrest for the murder of a female nightclub dancer, Patty Gray. Once Tom is found guilty, Spencer is to reveal the setup and humiliate the District Attorney.
A Place in the Sun (1951)
, 2h2Directed by George Stevens, Charles C. Coleman, Gerd Oswald
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters, Anne Revere, Keefe Brasselle, Fred Clark
Roles Anthony Vickers
Rating76%
George Eastman (Montgomery Clift), the poor nephew of rich industrialist Charles Eastman (Herbert Heyes), arrives in town following a chance encounter with his uncle while working as a bellhop in a Chicago hotel. The elder Eastman invites George to visit him if and when he ever comes to town, and the ambitious young man takes advantage of the offer. Despite George's family relationship to the Eastmans, they regard him as something of an outsider, but his uncle nevertheless offers him an entry-level job at his factory. George, uncomplaining, hopes to impress his uncle (whom he addresses as "Mr. Eastman") with his hard work and earn his way up. While working in the factory, George starts dating fellow factory worker Alice Tripp (Shelley Winters), in defiance of the workplace rules. Alice is a poor and inexperienced girl who is dazzled by George and slow to believe that his Eastman name brings him no advantages.
Three Husbands (1951)
, 1h18Directed by Irving Reis
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Eve Arden, Ruth Warrick, Vanessa Brown, Howard Da Silva, Shepperd Strudwick, Robert Karnes
Roles Arthur Evans
Rating55%
When a recently deceased playboy, Max, gets to heaven, he is granted a wish. His request: to watch his three best friends, with whom he regularly played poker, for the next 24 hours. That day, each man would receive a letter; tomorrow, Max's will is to be read. Each letter states that he had an affair with that man's wife, all of with whom he was close. With one, Max attended Friday symphony matinees and had tea afterwards; with another, he went to night clubs and taught French; the last, he repeatedly hired as his nurse through his long battle with heart disease.
Under the Gun (1951)
, 1h23Origin USA
Genres Crime
Actors Richard Conte, Audrey Totter, Sam Jaffe, John McIntire, Shepperd Strudwick, Philip Pine
Roles Milo Bragg
Rating65%
At a Miami nightclub, gangster Bert Galvin offers to take singer Ruth Williams under his wing and to New York, helping her career. She agrees once it is made clear that their relationship will be strictly business.
Let's Dance (1950)
, 1h47Directed by Norman Z. McLeod
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Betty Hutton, Fred Astaire, Roland Young, Ruth Warrick, Shepperd Strudwick, Lucile Watson
Roles Timothy Bryant
Rating60%
A war widow returns to work with her former dancing partner, but her upper class mother-in-law is aghast that her grandson is being exposed to show business and takes legal steps to gain custody.