John Dall

John Dall
from the Rope film trailer, 1948.
Born	John Jenner Thompson May 26, 1918(1918-05-26) New York City, New York, U.S.
Died	January 15, 1971 (aged 52) Hollywood, California, U.S.

John Dall (May 26, 1918 – January 15, 1971) was an American actor.

Primarily a stage actor, he is best remembered today for two film roles; the cool-minded intellectual killer in Alfred Hitchcock's film Rope, and the trigger-happy lead in the 1950 noir Gun Crazy.

He first came to fame as the young prodigy who comes alive under the tutelage of Bette Davis in The Corn Is Green, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Dall was born John Jenner Thompson in New York City, New York, the second son of Charles Jenner Thompson, a civil engineer, and his wife Henry (née Worthington).^[1] Dall died in Hollywood, California. There appears to be some uncertainty surrounding Dall's cause of death. Some sources indicate he died of a heart attack.^{[citation needed]} Others, including his nephew, report that he died of a punctured lung.^{[citation needed]}

Filmography

• The Corn Is Green (1945)
• Something in the Wind (1947)
• Another Part of the Forest (1948)
• Rope (1948)
• Gun Crazy (1949)
• The Man Who Cheated Himself (1950)
• Spartacus (1960)
• Atlantis, the Lost Continent (1961)

References

External links

• John Dall at the Internet Movie Database
• John Dall at the Internet Broadway Database
• John Dall at Find a Grave

Persondata
NAME	Dall, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Thompson, John Dall
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Actor
DATE OF BIRTH	May 26, 1918(1918-05-26)
PLACE OF BIRTH	New York, New York, U.S.
DATE OF DEATH	1971-1-15
PLACE OF DEATH	Hollywood, California, U.S.

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