Russell Gleason

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Russell Gleason (1931)

Russell Gleason (born February 6, 1907 in Portland , Oregon , † December 26, 1945 in New York City ) was an American actor .

life and career

Russell Gleason was born in Portland in 1907 to the actors and actresses Lucile and James Gleason . His acting training was encouraged by his parents even as a child. He made his first film appearance in 1928 in The Shady Lady . In the Oscar - winning anti - war film Nothing New in the West , he took on the supporting role of the soldier Müller . In the 1930s, Gleason played the recurring role of Herbert Thompson in ten films about the Jones family . Together with his parents, he also starred in a seven-part film series about the Higgins family - his real parents also played his film parents. Gleason's big breakthrough as an actor was denied, he appeared almost exclusively in B-movies . By 1944, he starred in nearly 60 films before joining the army to fight in World War II .

At the age of thirty he married Cynthia Lindsay, with whom he stayed together until his death. Cynthia later wrote a biography about Boris Karloff , with whom the Gleasons were good friends. The couple had a son, Michael Lindsay (1939-2006), who was to work as a television producer in the 1970s. Russell Gleason died on Christmas 1945 when he fell out of the window of the Sutton Hotel in Manhattan , which was then used as a barracks. It is still unclear whether it was an accident or a suicide .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1928: The Shady Lady
  • 1929: Seven Faces
  • 1930: on the Western Front (All Quiet on the Western Front)
  • 1931: Beyond Victory
  • 1935: Condemned to Live
  • 1936: Bank robbery in Claytonville (A Tenderfoot Goes West)
  • 1937–1940: Family Jones series (10 episodes)
  • 1938–1940: Family Higgins series (7 episodes)
  • 1942: Fingers at the Window
  • 1943: Seeing Hands
  • 1943: Salute to the Marines
  • 1943: The Little Angel (Lost Angel)
  • 1944: The Adventures of Mark Twain (The Adventures of Mark Twain)

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personal data
SURNAME Gleason, Russell
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Portland , Oregon
DATE OF DEATH December 26, 1945
Place of death New York City