Edward Norris

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Septimus Edward Norris (born March 10, 1911 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , † December 18, 2002 in Fort Bragg , California ) was an American film actor .

Life

Edward Norris was born into a distinguished Philadelphia-based family in 1911 and attended the Culver Military Academy in Indiana . After working as a newspaper reporter for a while, he began his film career in the early 1930s. He made his first screen appearance as an extra in Rouben Mamoulian's film drama Queen Christine (1933) with Greta Garbo in the title role. Louis B. Mayer then signed him to MGM to build him up as a romantic hero for his studio. However, when the young Robert Taylor also got a contract with MGM and quickly established himself as an idol, Mayer gave up his plans for Norris and cast him as a crook or gangster in numerous B-films in the following years .

Norris had one of his better-known roles as a petty criminal trying to save his brother from a similar fate in MGM's award-winning 1938 film The Devil, starring alongside Spencer Tracy and Mickey Rooney . In the two westerns The Man from Alamo (1953) with Glenn Ford and The Man from Kentucky (1955) with Burt Lancaster , Norris was seen two last times on the big screen. From 1951 he appeared in a number of American television series before he retired from show business in 1963. Through good investments, he had become a wealthy man over the years, who from then on devoted himself to collecting cars, weapons and horses. He hit the headlines in 1978 when his home in Malibu was destroyed by a forest fire.

Norris has been married five times. From his first marriage (1927-1932) with Virginia Bell Hiller a son was born. His marriage to actress Lona Andre was annulled after just four days in 1935. From 1936 to 1939 Norris was married to the actress Ann Sheridan in third marriage . Norris divorced Mickey June Satterlee in 1943 after less than a year and his last marriage to Sheila Ryan, which was concluded in 1947, also ended in divorce. Edward Norris died in Fort Bragg, California in 2002 at the age of 91.

Filmography (selection)

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Buck Rainey: Serial Film Stars: A Biographical Dictionary, 1912–1956 . McFarland, 2005, ISBN 0-7864-2010-3 , p. 560.
personal data
SURNAME Norris, Edward
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia , Pennsylvania
DATE OF DEATH December 18, 2002
Place of death Fort Bragg , California