Douglas Fowley

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Daniel Vincent Fowley (born May 30, 1911 in Bronx , New York City , † May 21, 1998 in Woodland Hills , Los Angeles , California ) was an American actor .

Life

Daniel Vincent Fowley has worked as a waiter, unskilled laborer for the New York Times , Wall Street , the Post Office, crier, salesman, professional football player, and finally a professional actor. He had previous acting experience while at the St. Francis Xavier Military Academy . Fowley played off-Broadway before moving to Los Angeles to study at Los Angeles City College and the University of California, Los Angeles . He served in the United States Navy during World War II and lost his teeth in an accident while serving in the Pacific on an aircraft carrier .

After Fowley made his debut in front of the camera in the two feature films The Mad Game and The Woman Who Dared in 1933 , he played villains or belligerent troublemakers primarily in B-movies and westerns. However, the busy supporting actor also took on notable roles outside of the western genre, for example as an annoyed Hollywood director Roscoe Dexter in Singin 'In The Rain alongside Gene Kelly . His most famous role was that of Doc Holliday , which he played from 1955 to 1961 for 45 episodes in the western series Wyatt Earp Intervenes . In the course of his almost 50-year career, he appeared in around 330 film and television productions.

Daniel Fowley has been married seven times, including actresses Shelby Payne and Judy Walsh . He is the father of the musician Kim Fowley . Fowley died on May 21, 1998, nine days before his 87th birthday at the Motion Picture and Television Country House and Hospital . He left behind his wife Jean Louise, five children, three grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Fowley is buried in Laurel Cemetery in Murrieta , California.

Filmography (selection)

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Douglas Fowley , nytimes.com
  2. ↑ a b Douglas Fowley; Portrayed Doc Holliday on '50s TV Series , latimes.com
  3. ↑ Steven Jay Rube, Combat Films (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2011), p. 28
  4. ^ Obituary: Douglas Fowley , independent.co.uk
  5. ^ Daniel Fowley , findagrave.com
personal data
SURNAME Fowley, Douglas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fowley, Daniel Vincent
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Bronx , New York City
DATE OF DEATH May 21, 1998
Place of death Woodland Hills , Los Angeles , California