Morton Lowry
Morton Lowry (* 13. February 1914 in Lancashire , England as Edward Morton Lowater ; † 26. November 1987 in San Francisco , California ) was a British actor.
Life
Edward Morton Lowater was born in England to a mechanic. During his childhood the family moved from Lancashire to London , near Russell Square . He began his acting career in the early 1930s, taking the stage name Morton Lowry . At first he played mainly in London revues and plays. In 1937 he emigrated to the United States , where he got a good supporting role in his first Hollywood film The Dawn Patrol (1938) alongside Errol Flynn . His second film role was already one of his best known: In the crime classic The Dog of Baskerville , he played alongside Basil Rathbone the naturalist John Stapleton, who seeks the lord of the castle after his life. From The Hound of the Baskervilles , a fourteen-piece developed Sherlock Holmes film series , with the Lowry 1945 Dangerous Mission once starred. Otherwise, Lowry mostly relied on the embodiment of arrogant and villainous Britons, especially his role of the sadistic teacher Mr. Jonas in John Ford's award-winning drama Schlagende Wetter (1941).
After Lowry's success in Hollywood waned in the mid-1940s, he returned to Great Britain in 1947 and tried his hand at television as a television actor, albeit with only moderate success. He played about alongside Richard Greene in twelve episodes of the series The Adventures of Robin Hood . In 1960 he shot his last film in England and returned to the United States, where he was never to appear again in a film or television. When he died of cardiac arrest in 1987, he was so impoverished that his grave in Sebastopol had to be financed by the state. Lowry was 73 years old. He was married three times, first marriage from 1934 to 1936 Diana Whally (1912-1990), then a short time in 1938 with the daughter of the racing driver Woolf Barnato , who had a child by him. Probably he married a third time. This marriage also ended in divorce.
Filmography (selection)
- 1938: The Dawn Patrol
- 1939: Hound of the Baskervilles (The Hound of the Baskervilles)
- 1939: Tarzan and his son (Tarzan Finds a Son)
- 1941: Hudson's Bay
- 1941: Beatable Weather (How Green Was My Valley)
- 1941: Charley's Aunt
- 1941: A Yank in the RAF
- 1942: The Pied Piper
- 1942: heroes of the air (Captains of the Clouds)
- 1943: Immortal Sergeant
- 1943: No Time for Love (No Time For Love)
- 1944: None But the Lonely Heart
- 1945: The Picture of Dorian Gray (The Picture of Dorian Gray)
- 1945: Dangerous Mission (Pursuit to Algiers)
- 1947: Calcutta (Calcutta)
- 1955-1960: The Adventures of Robin Hood ( The Adventures of Robin Hood , television series, 12 episodes)
- 1960: Too Hot to Handle
Web links
- Morton Lowry in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Middlesex Marriage Records, Jan-Feb-Mar 1934. Volume 1b, pg. 16.
- ^ "The transcript picture page". The Transcript. February 15, 1938.
- ↑ Middlesex Marriage Records, Jan-Feb-Mar 1957. Volume 5c, pg. 2344.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lowry, Morton |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lowater, Edward Morton (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 13, 1914 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lancashire , England |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 26, 1987 |
| Place of death | San Francisco , California , United States |