Allyn Joslyn
Allyn Morgan Joslyn (born July 21, 1901 in Milford , Pennsylvania , † January 21, 1981 in Woodland Hills , Los Angeles , California ) was an American theater and film actor .
Life
Allyn Joslyn was born in Pennsylvania to a mining engineer and nurse. He grew up in New York City and then attended a military school, Philadelphia's Chestnut Hill Academy, from which he dropped out at the age of 16. He then worked as a clerk for six months, but was drawn to the theater, partly because of his mother's encouragement. From 1918 he appeared regularly as an actor on Broadway . In the wake of the global economic crisis , he earned a little extra as an assistant stage manager from the end of the 1920s , and from then on he was also extremely active with more than 3,500 radio appearances. After appearances in several theatrical flops, it was finally his leading role in George Abbott's successful Broadway play Boy Meets Girl , in which he slipped 669 times in the mid-1930s, that made Hollywood notice him. Director Mervyn LeRoy saw him on stage and signed him for two films. So Joslyn got his first screen appearance in the role of an unscrupulous newspaper reporter in LeRoy's court drama They Won't Forget , in which the young Lana Turner also made her film debut. Supporting roles followed in films such as Frank Borzage's drama Burning Fire of Passion (1938) and Howard Hawks ' aviator film SOS Fire on Board (1939). In the 1940s Joslyn was mainly used in comedies such as Ernst Lubitsch's Ein himmlischer Sünder (1943) and often embodied reporters or the main actor's rivals for the favor of a woman. He also continued to work as an actor in the theater. From 1941 to 1944 he played Mortimer Brewster in 1444 Broadway performances of Joseph Kesselring's black comedy Arsenic and Old Lace , which Frank Capra filmed in 1944 under the same title with Cary Grant in the lead role. From 1953 Joslyn appeared in numerous television plays and television series, including the sitcoms Where’s Raymond? , The Eve Arden Show and McKeever and the Colonel , in which his talent for slapstick interludes came into play.
Joslyn had a daughter, the psychologist Linda May Joslyn, with the stage actress Dorothy Yockel, with whom he was married from 1935 until her death in 1978. After a failed operation, Allyn Joslyn spent the last five years of his life as an invalid. He died of heart failure in 1981 at the Motion Picture and Television Country Home and Hospital in Woodland Hills, aged 79. His grave is in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Los Angeles.
Filmography (selection)
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literature
- Allyn Joslyn . In: Richard Lamparski: Whatever Became of…? . Crown Publishers, 1982, ISBN 0-517-54346-X , pp. 148-149.
Web links
- Allyn Joslyn in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Allyn Joslyn in the Internet Broadway Database (English)
- Allyn Joslyn in the All Movie Guide (English)
- Allyn Joslyn in the database of Find a Grave (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b David C. Tucker: Lost Laughs of '50S and' 60S Television: Thirty Sitcoms That Faded Off Screen . McFarland & Company, 2010, ISBN 978-0-7864-4466-3 , p. 115.
- ↑ a b Allyn Joslyn, 79, Actor In Movies and on Radio . In: The New York Times , January 23, 1981.
- ↑ cf. Online Archive of California
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Joslyn, Allyn |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Joslyn, Allyn Morgan (full name); Joslyn, Allen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | US-American actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 21, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Milford , Pennsylvania |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 21, 1981 |
| Place of death | Woodland Hills , Los Angeles , California |