John Dall
actor (1920-1971) (1918–1971)
John Dall was an American actor. Primarily a stage actor, he is best remembered today for portraying the cool-minded intellectual killer in Alfred Hitchcock's Rope (1948), and the companion of trigger-happy femme fatale Peggy Cummins in the 1950 film noir Gun Crazy. He also had a substantial role in Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus (1960). He first came to fame as the young Welsh mining prodigy who comes alive under the tutelage of Bette Davis in The Corn Is Green (1945), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Filmography in the catalog
Credited on 6 films (1945–1960) — matched by name in the Creator or Credits field. Also mentioned in 1 other record (descriptions, transcriptions, copyright notes).
| Year ▼ | Title | Creator | Length | Format | Color | Sound |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | Atlantis, The Lost Continent. | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. & Galaxy Productions Inc. | 90 min | 35mm | Color | sound |
| 1950 | Gun Crazy | Cine World | 87 min | 16mm | B&W | sound |
| 1950 | The Man Who Cheated Himself. | Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp | 81 min. | 35mm | B&W | sound |
| 1948 | The Rope. | Alfred Hitchcock | 80 min. | 35mm | Color | sound |
| 1947 | Something In The Wind. | Universal-International | 89 min. | 35mm | B&W | sound |
| 1945 | The Corn Is Green. | Irving Rapper | 114 min | B&W |