Farley Granger

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Farley Granger (born July 1, 1925 in San Jose , California , † March 27, 2011 in New York City , New York ; actually Farley Earle Granger II ) was an American actor .

biography

Granger was born in California in 1925, the son of a car dealer. In 1929, the big stock market crash forced the family to move from San Jose to Los Angeles . He started acting as a high school student at North Hollywood High School before being discovered for the film by Samuel Goldwyn . This was followed by his screen debut in Lewis Milestone's 1943 war film The North Star , in which Granger slipped into the role of a Russian adolescent alongside Walter Huston and Anne Baxter . A year later, Granger got the role of Sergeant Howard Clinton in The Purple Heart , this time again directed by Milestone. Granger served in the US Army from 1944 to 1946 and was back in front of the camera in the late 1940s.

In 1948, Alfred Hitchcock hired Granger to play the student Phillip Morgan in Cocktail for a Corpse , alongside John Dall and James Stewart . In the same year Granger directed the melodrama Deceived Youth on the side of David Niven and Teresa Wright . Granger's first lead role followed in Nicholas Ray's film noir They Live By Night , in which he starred alongside Cathy O'Donnell . His roles as a sensitive, melancholy young hero were predicted to have a successful Hollywood career. Another collaboration with Hitchcock followed in 1951 with Der Fremde im Zug . Although this was the first major film success for Granger, he only received offers for a few smaller productions and for supporting roles from the mid-1950s.

In 1954 he went to Italy and was directed by Luchino Viscontis in the romantic historical drama Sehnsucht alongside Alida Valli , but returned to the USA. From this time on, Granger focused on his stage career and appeared frequently on television. In 1959, he debuted with the musical First Impressions on Broadway . In the 1960s he was a member of Eva Le Gallienne's National Repertory Company . There he played roles such as Konstantin Treplev in Chekhov's Die Möwe (1964), John Proctor in Arthur Miller's Witch Hunt (1964) and Tom Wingfield in Tennessee Williams ' Die Glasmenagerie (1965). One of his greatest successes was winning the 1986 Off-Broadway Theater Award Obie for the production of Lanford Wilson's Tally & Son .

In recognition of his work on American television, Granger was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame . In 2007 he published his autobiography Include Me Out , in which he came out as bisexual . He also known liaisons with Ava Gardner and Leonard Bernstein, among others, as well as long-term relationships with Shelley Winters and his partner, the producer Robert Calhoun , who died in 2008.

Filmography (selection)

Awards

  • 1977: Nominated for the Daytime Emmy for Best Actor in a daily drama series for love, lies, passion
  • 1986: Obie Award for Best Supporting Actor for Tally & Son

literature

  • Farley Granger: Include me out: my life from Goldwyn to Broadway . St. Martin's Press, New York 2007, ISBN 978-0-312-35773-3 .
  • Karen Burroughs Hannsberry: Bad boys: the actors of film noir . Jefferson, McFarland, NC 2003, ISBN 978-0-312-35773-3 .

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ cf. One-time screen idol Farley Granger tells of bisexual past , The Associated Press, April 12, 2007 4:56 PM GMT (English)
  2. ↑ a b cf. Katz, Ephraim: The Macmillan international film encyclopedia . Macmillan, New York 1994, ISBN 0-333-61601-4 .
  3. ↑ cf. Profile at Hollywood.com (English)
  4. ↑ http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117987559.html?categoryId=25&cs=1/  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Producer Robert Calhoun dies at 77@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.variety.com  
personal data
SURNAME Granger, Farley
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH San Jose , California
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 2011
Place of death New York City , New York