Douglas Fowley
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)
cinemamovies
- 1933: The Mad Game
- 1933: The Woman Who Dared
- 1934: Secret Agent 13 (Operator 13)
- 1934: Millionaires Preferred (The Girl from Missouri)
- 1936: Big Brown Eyes
- 1936: small town girl (Small Town Girl)
- 1936: Raid on the Süd-Express (36 Hours to Kill)
- 1937: Charlie Chan on Broadway (Charlie Chan on Broadway)
- 1937: This Is My Affair
- 1938: Alexander's Ragtime Band
- 1938: Mr. Moto and the Gamble (Mr. Moto's Gamble)
- 1939: Charlie Chan on Treasure Island (Charlie Chan at Treasure Island)
- 1939: The Arizona Wildcat
- 1939: Lord of the Wild West (Dodge City)
- 1940: Doomed to Evil (East of the River)
- 1942: Stand by for Action
- 1942: The Devil with Hitler
- 1943: The miracle pill (Jitterbugs)
- 1943: The Sheriff of Kansas (The Kansan)
- 1945: Wild West does the math (Don't Fence Me In)
- 1945: What Next, Corporal Hargrove?
- 1946: hands up! (Drifting Along)
- 1947: The Greyhound and the Lady (The Hucksters)
- 1947: Endless is the prairie (The Sea of Grass)
- 1947: In a tight spot (Desperate)
- 1948: Adventures in the Wild West (The Dude Goes West)
- 1948: Settlement in Coroner Creek (Coroner Creek)
- 1948: The Black Mask (Black Bart)
- 1949: Bandits at the Crossroads (The Doolins of Oklahoma)
- 1949: The Los Angeles Arsonist (Arson, Inc.)
- 1949: The Bad Men of Tombstone
- 1949: Kesselschlacht (Battleground)
- 1949: Panic for King Kong ( Mighty Joe Young)
- 1949: Battle on the Red River (Massacre River )
- 1950: So You Think You're Not Guilty
- 1950: Armored Car Robbery
- 1951: Tarzan and the jungle goddess (Tarzan's Peril)
- 1952: You shall be my lucky star (Singin 'in the Rain)
- 1952: A Trap for Playboy (Just This Once)
- 1952: Becoming a father is not difficult (Room for One More)
- 1952: Curse of the Lost (Horizons West)
- 1953: Cat-Women of the Moon
- 1953: curtain up! (The Band Wagon)
- 1954: The skirt-hunter of Venice (Casanova's Big Night)
- 1954: The High and the Mighty (The High and the Mighty)
- 1954: Deep in My Heart
- 1956: Against the Law (The Broken Star)
- 1954: When the marabunta threatens (The Naked Jungle)
- 1960: Desire in the Dust
- 1961: Barabbas
- 1963: Miracle of the White Stallions (Miracle Of The White Stallions)
- 1963: Who slept in my bed? (Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?)
- 1964: The mysterious Dr. Lao (7 Faces of Dr. Lao)
- 1965: ... and slammed him down (Guns of Diablo)
- 1969: The Last of the Red River (The Good Guys and the Bad Guys)
- 1972: The Escape of the Pumas ( Run, Cougar, Run )
- 1973: The Great from the Dark (Walking Tall)
- 1974: The Road of Evil (Homebodies)
- 1976: Between Twelve and Three (From Noon Till Three)
- 1977: The White Buffalo (The White Buffalo)
- 1977: Black Oak Conspiracy
- 1979: The North Avenue Irregulars
series
- 1955–1961: Wyatt Earp intervenes ( The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp , 45 episodes)
- 1960–1968: In the Wild West ( Death Valley Days , two episodes)
- 1964: Bonanza (an episode)
- 1965: The People at Shiloh Ranch ( The Virginian , two episodes)
- 1966–1967: Pistols and Petticoats ( Pistols' n Petticoats , 26 episodes)
- 1973: The Streets of San Francisco ( The Streets of San Francisco , a series)
- 1975: Detective Rockford - Just give us a call ( The Rockford Files , episode)
- 1975: Starsky & Hutch ( Starsky and Hutch , an episode)
- 1976: An American Family ( Family , episode)
- 1979: CHiPs (an episode)
Web links
- Douglas Fowley in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Douglas Fowley , nytimes.com
- ↑ a b Douglas Fowley; Portrayed Doc Holliday on '50s TV Series , latimes.com
- ↑ Steven Jay Rube, Combat Films (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2011), p. 28
- ^ Obituary: Douglas Fowley , independent.co.uk
- ^ Daniel Fowley , findagrave.com
personal data | |
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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 |