Alex D'Arcy

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Alexander D'Arcy (* 10. August 1908 in Cairo as Alexander Sarruf ; † 20th April 1996 in Los Angeles , California , USA) was an Egyptian actor .

Life

Alexander D'Arcy's father was a landlord in one of Cairo's inner city bars, but he wanted to become a film maker from an early age. He started acting in theaters in Cairo and later in Alexandria . From the late 1920s he worked as an actor in the United States, Great Britain and France. With French films, the "tall, dark-haired and good-looking" D'Arcy achieved first popularity in the early 1930s. In Hollywood cinema he often played oily guys as a supporting actor, for example as the singing teacher of Irene Dunne in the classic screwball comedy The Terrible Truth (1937) and as an admiral in Russ Meyer's erotic literary film adaptation Fanny Hill (1964). He had one of his most famous roles in How Do You Get A Millionaire? in 1953, courting Marilyn Monroe as a fake millionaire.

He had his last role at the age of 65 in the Tatort episode Dead Taube in Beethovenstrasse, directed by Samuel Fuller . He was married to his fellow actress Arleen Whelan from 1940 to 1943 , the marriage ended in divorce. The actor died in West Hollywood in April 1996 at the age of 87 .

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary in the Los Angeles Times
  2. ↑ Alexander d'Arcy at Allmovie
personal data
SURNAME D'Arcy, Alex
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sarruf, Alexander (maiden name); D'Arcy, Alexander; D'Arcy, Alexandre; Darcy, Alexandre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Egyptian actor
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Cairo
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 1996
Place of death Los Angeles , California , USA