Tom Tryon

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Tom Tryon (born January 14, 1926 in Hartford as Thomas Tryon , † September 4, 1991 in Los Angeles ) was an American actor and writer . He is often referred to as the son of actor Glenn Tryon, but his father was actually the gentlemen's outfitter Arthur Lane Tryon (descendant of General William Tryon ). He grew up in Wethersfield and enlisted in the military when he was seventeen. From 1943 to 1946 Tryon served in the US Navy in the South Pacific as a radio operator and then worked as a stage builder and actor with a theater company in Dennis . In 1953 he made his Broadway debut in the musical Wish You Were Here . Before moving to California in 1955, where he began his acting career, he worked as a production assistant at CBS .

actor

After two small appearances (in the short-lived series The Way of the World and the Western series Frontier ) he made his debut in the 1956 feature film All Tracks Blurred and gave the aliens in I Married a Monster from Outer Space in 1958 . From 1958 to 1961 he played the title role in the Disney series Texas John Slaughter . In 1962, Tom Tryon appeared in Marilyn Monroe's last and unfinished film Something's Got to Give . In the same year he was seen in a small supporting role in The Longest Day . His breakthrough came in 1963 with Otto Preminger's Der Kardinal . In 1964, Tryon received a Golden Globe nomination for the film for Best Actor - Drama . Two years later he again shot the war film First Victory under Preminger . After that, Tom Tryon played in a few films and series until 1971, when he quit acting.

Filmography (selection)

as an actor

movie theater

  • 1956: The Screaming Eagles
  • 1956: All tracks obliterated (The Scarlet Hour)
  • 1956: Three Violent People
  • 1957: The Unholy Wife
  • 1958: I Married a Monster from Outer Space
  • 1960: The Book of Ruth (The Story of Ruth)
  • 1961: Devils in the Far East (Marines, Let's Go)
  • 1962: Mondgeflüster (Moon Pilot)
  • 1962: The Longest Day (The Longest Day)
  • 1963: The Cardinal (The Cardinal)
  • 1965: The Glory Guys (The Glory Guys)
  • 1965: First Victory (In Harm's Way)
  • 1968: Blood trail (Persecución hasta Valencia)
  • 1969: Color Me Dead
  • 1971: Johnny goes to war (Johnny Got His Gun)
  • 1971: The Steppenreiter (The Horsemen)

watch TV

  • 1955: The Way of the World (TV series, one episode)
  • 1955: Frontier (TV series, two episodes)
  • 1955–1957: Matinee Theater (TV series, six episodes)
  • 1956–1957: Jane Wyman Presents The Fireside Theater (TV series, three episodes)
  • 1957: The 20th Century-Fox Hour (TV series, one episode)
  • 1957: Playhouse 90 (TV series, one episode)
  • 1957: Adventures in the Wild West ( Zane Gray Theater , TV series, an episode)
  • 1957: Lux Video Theater (TV series, one episode)
  • 1958: Wagon Train (TV series, one episode)
  • 1958: The Restless Gun (TV series, one episode)
  • 1958: General Electric Theater (TV series, one episode)
  • 1958: The Millionaire (TV series, one episode)
  • 1958–1961: Disneyland (TV series, seventeen episodes)
  • 1962–1970: The People of Shiloh Ranch ( The Virginian , TV series, four episodes)
  • 1965–1967: Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theater (TV series, two episodes)
  • 1963: Dr. Kildare (TV series, one episode)
  • 1965: Decision Hour ( Kraft Suspense Theater , TV series, one episode)
  • 1966: Big Valley (TV series, one episode)
  • 1967: The Road West (TV series, one episode)
  • 1967: Winchester 73
as a film producer
as a screenwriter
  • 1972: The Other
  • 1978: Fedora
  • 1978: The Dark Secret of Harvest Home (TV miniseries)

author

In 1971 Tryon wrote the horror novel The Other , inspired by Rosemary's Baby . The book is about nine-year-old twins on a small farm who play pranks on the people around them until the "game" becomes more vicious and one twin suspects the other of even being responsible for deaths. The book became a bestseller and Tryon decided to devote himself only to writing. In 1972 he produced the film adaptation of The Other with Diana Muldaur , Uta Hagen and John Ritter (directed by Robert Mulligan ). In 1973 the novel Harvest Home was published , which provided the templates for the mini-series The Dark Secret of Harvest Home with Bette Davis . In 1978 Tom Tryon processed his short story Crowned Heads into the script for Billy Wilder's film Fedora .

  • 1974: Lady
  • 1976: Crowned Heads (short story collection)
  • 1986: All That Glitters (short story collection)
  • 1989: The Night of the Moonbow
  • 1990: The Wings of the Morning
  • 1991: In the Fire of Spring
  • 1992: The Adventures of Opal and Cupid
  • 1995: Night Magic

literature

  • Ute Thiemann: Thomas Tryon. In: Bibliographisches Lexikon der Utopisch-Fantastischen Literatur (loose-leaf collection), Corian Verlag Meitingen (29th delivery, 1992).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biographical data by Tom Tryon in: Images of the Child , by Harry Edwin Eiss, Popular Press, 1994, p. 43