Ron Randell

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Ron Randell (born October 8, 1918 in Sydney , † June 11, 2005 in Mar Vista , Los Angeles , California ) was an Australian actor .

Life

Randell was born in Sydney , Australia . At the age of 17 he started out as an actor for radio shows, which eventually brought him to the stage. In 1942 he made his film debut with 100,000 Cobbers and then played small roles, including in 1944 alongside Humphrey Bogart in haben und nichthaben . The first major film role followed four years later: In 1946, he played the Australian aviation pioneer Charles Kingsford Smith in the Australian production Smithy . The success of this film paved the way for him to Hollywood, where he first slipped into the role of the wealthy private detective Bulldog Drummond , who he played in the films Bulldog Drummond at Bay and Bulldog Drummond strikes in 1947, succeeding Ralph Richardson and Ray Milland back embodied.

This was followed by numerous large and small roles in B-movies of all genres, including a. in westerns like Desert Sands , in adventure films like Jenseits Mombasa , in the comedy It had to be you alongside Ginger Rogers , in science fiction films like Captive Women and in horror films like The She-Creature . But he also appeared in large-scale productions, for example in the musical Kiss me Kate! as Cole Porter and in the war film The Longest Day . In the 1960s Randell made several films in Europe, such as the Italian period film Das Gold der Caesaren and the German comedy Toller Hecht on a crooked tour with Christine Kaufmann . In 1971 he played the role of landowner Benjamin Nicholson in Fassbinder's southern melodrama Whity .

He was also a busy performer in numerous guest roles in television series. From 1954 to 1955 he also presented the series The Vise , and in 1957 he starred in the short-lived television series OSS. He also wrote plays such as Hypocrisis .

Randell was married to the German dancer and actress Laya Raki since 1958 . He died of a stroke on June 11, 2005 at Mar Vista Medical Center in Los Angeles.

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SURNAME Randell, Ron
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Randell, Ronald Egan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian actor
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Sydney , Australia
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 2005
Place of death Mar Vista , Los Angeles, California