Samuel S. Hinds

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Samuel Southey Hinds (born April 4, 1875 in Brooklyn , New York , † October 13, 1948 in Pasadena , California ) was an American actor .

life and career

Samuel Southey Hinds was born into a wealthy Brooklyn family. His great-grandfather was the poet Robert Southey , his father Joseph Edwin Hinds President of the United States Playing Card Company. Hinds graduated from Harvard University and practiced law for 32 years prior to his acting career. He moved to California to practice law in the 1920s, where his interest in acting came to life. He was a co-founder of the Pasadena Playhouse . Several directors were so impressed by Hind's acting performances that they gave the actor roles in their films. But Hinds gave his work as a lawyer until the early 1930s finally on after its assets in a large part of the world economic crisis had lost.

The Amateur Gentleman made his film debut in 1926 alongside Richard Barthelmess , but it wasn't until 1932 that he made his second film. After a few smaller roles, he made his breakthrough and made up to 20 films a year over the next few years. Mostly he embodied good-natured and fatherly authority figures. He played people from his old field of activity in several films, for example lawyers or judges. Doctors, mayors, generals and police officers have also been played by Hinds in several films. He had his best-known appearances at the side of James Stewart : He played the eccentric father of Jean Arthur in the two Academy Award-winning comedy Lebenskünstler (1938), the corrupt mayor in the western parody The Great Bluff (1939) and George Bailey's socially hired father in the Christmas classic Isn't life beautiful? (1946). In the early 1940s, Hinds appeared regularly as Lew Ayres ' father in the Dr. See Kildare .

Samuel Hinds worked as a theater and film actor until his death. He took part in supporting roles in around 220 films, the vast majority of his appearances were mentioned in the credits . Samuel S. Hinds died of pneumonia in 1948 at the age of 73 and was buried in Inglewood Park Cemetery . He was married to Dorothy Cruickshank, with whom he had two daughters.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Commons : Samuel S. Hinds  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Samuel S. Hinds at Allmovie
  2. ^ ´ Samuel S. Hinds in the database of Find a Grave . Retrieved January 7, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Hinds, Samuel S.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hinds, Samuel Southey (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 1948
Place of death Pasadena , California