Anthony Dawson

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Anthony Dawson, 1967

Anthony Dawson (born October 18, 1916 in Edinburgh , Scotland , † January 8, 1992 in Sussex ) was a British actor . He was best known for his role as the murderer in Alfred Hitchcock's On Call Murder .

Life

Dawson made his film debut in 1943 during World War II in the spy film They Met in the Dark . The films The Way to the Stars (1945), The Queen of Spades (1948) and The Wooden Horse (1950) followed. In the early 1950s he moved to the United States , where Hitchcock gave him the role of murderer in On Call Murder .
Dawson later worked with Terence Young , who hunted down James Bond in the James Bond films , Dr. No , Greetings from Moscow and Fireball directed. The character actor starred in James Bond Chasing Dr. No the henchman Professor Dent. To cast Daniela Bianchi for the film With Love from Moscow , Dawson played James Bond before filming. Here and later in Fireball , Dawson portrayed an opponent of Bond again. Dawson's face was not to be seen, he played Blofeld, who patted his Persian cat , made plans and gave killing orders; the actor's voice could not be heard in either of the films. In From Russia with Love , he was by Eric Pohlman and fireball of Dr. No actor Joseph Wiseman synchronized.
In the film The Long Dark Hall (1952) he appeared together with Rex Harrison . In 1967 he played together with other actors from Bond films in the Italian Bond parody Operation "Little Brother" .
Dawson is not related to the Italian director Antonio Margheriti , who at times used the pseudonym Anthony M. Dawson . The co-authorship of the screenplay for the hammer thriller The Snorkel (1958) was originally wrongly attributed to him, but the story for the thriller actually came not from the Italian director, but from the actor Anthony Dawson. For Hammer , Dawson also stood in front of the camera in 1961 for the werewolf film The Curse of Siniestro .

Anthony Dawson died of cancer in Sussex at the age of 75. Other sources say Dawson died of cirrhosis of the liver .

Filmography (selection)

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Individual evidence

  1. Jump up ↑ Glenn Erickson: Icons of Suspense: Hammer Films. In: DVD Talk. March 19, 2010, accessed on March 5, 2020 (English, see footnote in the review).
personal data
SURNAME Dawson, Anthony
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish actor
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Edinburgh
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 1992
Place of death Sussex