John Sutton (actor)

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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 .

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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