Gerald Mohr

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Gerald Mohr

Gerald Mohr (born June 11, 1914 in New York City , † November 9, 1968 in Södermalm , Stockholm ) was an American radio announcer and film actor .

Life

Gerald Mohr was born in New York City in 1914 to Sigmond Mohr and Henrietta Neustadt, a Viennese singer. After visiting the Dwight Preparatory School, where he fluent French and German learned he enrolled at Columbia University in order Medicine study. When he contracted appendicitis and was recovering from the operation in a hospital, another patient who was a radio announcer noticed him and his pleasant baritone voice and suggested that he work on the radio. Mohr then gave up his studies and became the youngest reporter at CBS Radio at the time .

In the 1930s he became a member of Orson Welles ' renowned Mercury Theater , with which he gained his first stage experience. Over the years he has appeared on more than 500 radio broadcasts, including 119 times as Raymond Chandler's famous crime hero Philip Marlowe (1948–1951).

In 1939 he began his career as a film actor in Hollywood , where he was mostly cast in small supporting roles. From 1942 to 1945 he served in the United States Army Air Forces . After World War II , he slipped into the role of former jewel thief Michael Lanyard three times in Columbia Pictures ' popular The Lone Wolf series.

From the 1950s he appeared as a guest star on numerous television shows, such as B. in I Love Lucy (1953) with Lucille Ball , as Doc Holliday in Maverick (1957–1961) next to James Garner , in Perry Mason (1961–1965), crooks against crooks ( The Rogus , 1965), pistols and petticoats ( 1966) or in Bonanza (1960–1968). In the late 1960s, he lent his charismatic voice to the cartoon hero Mr. Fantastic in 18 episodes of the animated film adaptation of the Marvel Comics The Fantastic Four . In William Wyler's musical Funny Girl (1968) with Barbra Streisand and Omar Sharif , he was seen for the last time on the big screen.

From 1939 to 1957 he was married to Rita Deneau. This connection resulted in his son Anthony (* 1947). In 1958 he married Mai Dietrich, with whom he was together until his death. Mohr died of a heart attack in 1968 at the age of 54 in Södermalm, Stockholm, where he was to direct a new television series called Private Entrance . His grave is in the cemetery in Lidingö .

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SURNAME Mohr, Gerald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American radio announcer and film actor
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 1968
Place of death Södermalm , Stockholm