John Sutton (actor)
John Sutton (born October 22, 1908 in Rawalpindi , Punjab , Pakistan , † July 10, 1963 in Cannes , France ) was a British actor.
Life
Sutton was born in what was then the British Crown Colony, British India . After graduating from school, he traveled to the British colonies as well as China and the Philippines . In the mid-1930s he was initially hired as a consultant for colonial films in Hollywood . From 1936 he first played extras , his first role in The Last of the Mohicans , a black and white film adaptation of the leather stocking novel by James Fenimore Cooper . His roles got bigger and bigger, during the Second World War he even had a few leading film roles. After supporting roles in The Three Musketeers alongside Gene Kelly and Vincent Price and in the monumental film David and Bathsheba alongside Gregory Peck and Susan Hayward , he increasingly appeared in television productions in the 1950s. He had one of his last film appearances in 1961 in Burt Kennedy's western The Red Squadron .
In July 1963, at the age of 54, he died of a heart attack in Cannes .
Filmography (selection)
- 1936: The Last of the Mohicans ( The Last of the Mohicans )
- 1936: A Princess for America ( The Princess Comes Across )
- 1938: Robin Hood, King of the Vagabonds ( The Adventures of Robin Hood )
- 1938: Mad About Music
- 1939: Favorite of a Queen ( The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex )
- 1940: Charlie Chan: Murder Over New York ( Murder Over New York )
- 1940: The Lord of the Seven Seas ( The Sea Hawk )
- 1940: The Invisible Man Returns ( The Invisible Man Returns )
- 1941: A Yank in the RAF
- 1942: 10 lieutenants from West Point ( Ten Gentlemen from West Point )
- 1942: The Queen of Broadway ( My Gal Sal )
- 1943: The Orphan of Lowood ( Jane Eyre )
- 1947: Captain from Castile ( Captain from Castile )
- 1948: The Three Musketeers ( The Three Musketeers )
- 1951: The Ambitious ( Payment on Demand )
- 1951: David and Bathsheba ( David and Bathsheba )
- 1952: My Cousin Rachel (My Cousin Rachel)
- 1959: The Beast (The Bat)
- 1959: 77 Sunset Strip (TV series, 1 episode)
- 1961: A Thousand Miles of Dust ( Rawhide ; TV series, 1 episode)
- 1961: Perry Mason (TV series, 1 episode)
- 1961: The Red Squadron ( The Canadians )
- 1963: Shadow of Fear
Web links
- John Sutton in the Internet Movie Database (English)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Sutton, John |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British actor |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 22, 1908 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Rawalpindi , Punjab , Pakistan |
DATE OF DEATH | July 10, 1963 |
Place of death | Cannes , France |