Murvyn Vye

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Murvyn Vye (born July 15, 1913 in Quincy , Massachusetts , † August 17, 1976 in Pompano Beach , Florida ; actually Marvin Wesley Vye Jr. ) was an American theater and film actor .

Life

The Yale - graduate Murvyn Vye played Theater on Broadway , among others in the musical Carousel of the role of Jigger Craigin before he played in 1947, his first role in a movie. In the drama Golden Earrings , he played the gypsy Zoltan alongside Ray Milland and Marlene Dietrich . Vye had a minor role in the 1948 western Whispering Smith , alongside Alan Ladd in the title role. In the film adaptation of Mark Twain's A Yankee at King Arthur's Court , Knight Hank, the Terror of the Round Table , 1949, Vye played the role of Merlin , while Bing Crosby played the eponymous Yankee Hank Miller . Vye, who continued on stage, also starred in several episodes in television series such as Perry Mason , Hiram Holliday and Die Unbrechlichen from 1950 onwards .

In 1953, Vye played the Mongol leader Kengtu in the war film Through the Yellow Hell, directed by Robert Wise . This first collaboration with Richard Widmark was followed by another in the same year. In Samuel Fuller's crime film Police Intervene , Vye took on the role of the cynical cop Dan Tiger .

In 1954 Murvyn Vye starred in front of the camera with Robert Mitchum and Marilyn Monroe for Otto Preminger's River of No Return . In the same year, Vye starred in the gangster film Al Capone with Martin Balsam and Rod Steiger . In Bert I. Gordon's children 's film Jimmy and the Pirates , he played the role of Blackbeard . In his last film Andy , 1965, a drama directed by Richard Sarafian , Vye played the supporting role of a bartender .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1947: Golden Earrings (Golden Earrings)
  • 1948: Whispering Smith
  • 1949: Knight Hank, the Terror of the Round Table (A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court)
  • 1952: The Road to Bali (Road to Bali)
  • 1953: Through the yellow hell (Destination Gobi)
  • 1953: Police intervene (Pickup on South Street)
  • 1954: The Blue Mustang (Black Horse Canyon)
  • 1954: Green Fire (Green Fire)
  • 1954: River of No Return (River of No Return)
  • 1955: Escape to Burma
  • 1955: Pirate's Blood (Pearl of the South Pacific)
  • 1956: Fanfares of Joy (The Best Things in Life Are Free)
  • 1957: With Satan on You (Short Cut to Hell)
  • 1957: No place for fine women (This Could Be the Night)
  • 1957: Voodoo Island
  • 1958: Girl in the Woods
  • 1958: Hell, where's your horror (In Love and War)
  • 1958: Don't be afraid of hot things (Rally 'round the flag, boys!)
  • 1959: Al Capone
  • 1960: Jimmy and the Pirates (The Boy and the Pirates)
  • 1961: King of the Roaring '20s: The Story of Arnold Rothstein
  • 1961: The George Raft Story
  • 1965: Andy

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Murvyn Vye in the Internet Broadway Database (English)
personal data
SURNAME Vye, Murvyn
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vye, Marvin Wesley junior (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American theater and film actor
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Quincy , Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH 17th August 1976
Place of death Pompano Beach , Florida