Alan Dinehart
Alan Dinehart (* 3. October 1889 in Saint Paul , Minnesota as Harold Alan Dinehart , † 18 July 1944 in Hollywood , California ) was an American actor and author .
life and career
Alan Dinehart dropped out of school to join a US drama group. He was already a seasoned stage actor when he made his Broadway debut in 1918 in the play A Very Good Young Man . There he appeared in over a dozen productions throughout the 1920s and was also active as a director of several productions. Like so many spoke experienced theater actor from Broadway was the dawn of the Dinehart sound film piloted by the film studios in Hollywood.
From 1931 until the year he died, Dinehart took part in a total of 89 films. The tall, corpulent and round-faced actor was repeatedly leading men in his first films, but then appeared mainly in supporting roles, especially in the crime films of 20th Century Fox he was seen several times. Not infrequently he was cast as a villain or unsympathetic personality, for example several times as a windy businessman. In films like Supernatural (1933) with Carole Lombard and Jimmy the Gent (1934) with James Cagney , he was seen as a shrewd and dishonest cheater. In addition to acting, Dinehart also worked as a playwright, for example he co-wrote the comedy Separate Rooms , which was one of the most successful plays on Broadway in the early 1940s and ran for a year and a half.
Alan Dinehart died of a heart attack in 1944 at the age of 54 and was buried in the mausoleum of the Forest Lawn Memorial Park celebrity cemetery in Glendale . From his divorced marriage to Louise Dyer Dinehart between 1912 and 1932, he had a son, the future actor and film producer Alan Dinehart Jr. (1918-1992), who was one of the producers of the Feuerstein family in the 1960s . He had two children with his second wife, the actress Mozelle Britton (1912–1953), with whom he was married from 1933 until his death. His son Mason Alan Dinehart (* 1936) was also an actor in the 1950s.
Filmography (selection)
- 1931: The Brat
- 1931: Girls About Town
- 1932: Lawyer Man
- 1932: Street of Women
- 1933: Lost in New York (Bureau of Missing Persons)
- 1933: Supernatural
- 1933: The World Changes
- 1933: A Study in Scarlet
- 1934: Harold Lloyd, the straw man (The Cat's Paw)
- 1934: Shirley's Big Game (Baby, Take a Bow)
- 1934: A fine gentleman (Jimmy the Gent)
- 1935: The Ship of Satan (Dante's Inferno)
- 1935: Music at midnight (Thanks a Million)
- 1936: Dangerous cargo (human cargo)
- : 1936 Born to Dance (Born to Dance)
- 1936: Charlie Chan at the Race Track
- 1937: Ali Baba Goes to Town
- 1937: This Is My Affair
- 1938: Shirley on Wave 303 (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm)
- 1939: Second Fiddle
- 1943: What a Woman!
- 1944: The Whistler (The Whistler)
- 1944: Minstrel Man
- 1944: A Wave, a WAC and a Marine
Web links
- Alan Dinehart in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Single receipts
- ^ Alan Dinehart - Broadway Cast & Staff | IBDB. Retrieved November 29, 2019 .
- ^ Alan Dinehart Biography, Hollywood Talkies Claim Another from Broadway. October 3, 2012, Retrieved November 29, 2019 (American English).
- ^ Alan Dinehart | Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos. Retrieved November 29, 2019 (American English).
- ^ Alan Dinehart Biography, Hollywood Talkies Claim Another from Broadway. October 3, 2012, Retrieved November 28, 2019 (American English).
- ↑ Separate Rooms | Samuel French. Retrieved November 29, 2019 .
- ↑ Alan Dinehart at Find A Grave
- ^ Alan Dinehart Jr. (IMDb). Retrieved November 29, 2019 .
- ↑ Mozelle Britton (IMDb). Retrieved November 29, 2019 .
- ^ Mason Alan Dinehart (IMDb). Retrieved November 29, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dinehart, Alan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dinehart, Harold Alan (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American actor and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 3, 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saint Paul , Minnesota , United States |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 18, 1944 |
| Place of death | Hollywood , California , United States |