John Boles

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John Boles (1930)

John Boles (born October 27, 1895 in Greenville , Texas , † February 27, 1969 in San Angelo , Texas) was an American stage and film actor .

Career

John Boles was the son of a wealthy banker and began a career in the military. During the First World War he worked as a secret agent for the Entente in Europe and Turkey. After the war he gave up his activity and became an actor. He first played on various stages and made his screen debut in 1925 in the silent film So This is Marriage? . However, Bole's breakthrough as an actor did not come about until the beginning of the sound film . The musical adaptation Rio Rita from 1929 brought him several other roles as a romantic hero in operettas and musicals.

Tall, dark-haired and with a deep, sonorous voice, Boles was initially under contract with Universal and had one of his greatest successes in 1931 as Victor Moritz in the horror classic Frankenstein . He was also convincing in the film adaptation of the Fannie Hurst bestseller Back Street , which portrays the sad story of a young woman, played by Irene Dunne , who for decades has been a successful, selfish politician's lover full of renunciation. In 1933, in Only Yesterday , Margaret Sullavan's screen debut , Boles appeared again as a selfish man who abandons Sullavan with an illegitimate child. In the 1934 film adaptation of Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence , he starred again alongside Irene Dunne. Also in 1934 he was at Ann Harding's side in The Life of Vergie Winters .

After the end of his studio contract with Fox , he worked for various film studios, but could not maintain his popularity for long. The most important role in his late career was arguably the serious husband of Barbara Stanwyck in King Vidor's 1937 melodrama Stella Dallas. In 1943, John Boles left the film and went on to work as a stage actor. He played his last of over 50 film roles in Babes in Baghdad , a low-budget production from 1952 alongside Paulette Goddard and Gypsy Rose Lee , two also aging icons of bygone film times. Unlike many of his colleagues, he was never seen on television. John Boles died of a heart attack on February 27, 1969 at the age of 73. He left behind his wife and two daughters.

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SURNAME Boles, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Greenville
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 1969
Place of death San Angelo