Lew Ayres
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- 28 de diciembre de 1908 · Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
- 30 de diciembre de 1996
Biografía
Lew Ayres was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and raised in San Diego, California. A college dropout, he was found by a talent scout in the Coconut Grove nightclub in Los Angeles and entered Hollywood as a bit player. He was leading man to Greta Garbo in The Kiss (1929), but it was the role of Paul Baumer in All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) that was his big break. He was profoundly affected by the anti-war message of that film, and when, in 1942, the popular star of Young Dr. Kildare (1938) and subsequent Dr. Kildare films was drafted, he was a conscientious objector. America was outraged, and theaters vowed never to show his films again, but quietly he achieved the Medical Corps status he had requested, serving as a medic under fire in the South Pacific and as a chaplain's aid in New Guinea and the Phillipines. His return to film after the war was undistinguished until Johnny Belinda (1948) - his role as the sympathetic physician treating the deaf-mute Jane Wyman won him an Academy Award nomination as Best Actor. Subsequent movie roles were scarce; an opportunity to play Dr. Kildare in television was aborted when the network refused to honor his request for no cigarette sponsorship. He continued to act, but in the 1970s put his long experience into a project to bring to the west the philosophy of the East - the resulting film, Altars of the World (1976), while not a box-office success, won critical acclaim and a Golden Globe Award. Lew Ayres died in Los Angeles, California on December 30, 1996, just two days after his 88th birthday.
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Filmografía
- Checking Out: Grand Hotel · En persona
- Hart to Hart: Crimes of the Hart · Professor Cabel
- MGM: When the Lion Roars
- Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker · actor 'Advise and 'Consent' (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Cast the First Stone · Martin
- Outlaws
- La ley de Los Ángeles · Lorimar Henderson
- Under Siege · John Pace
- Lime Street · Henry Wade Culver
- En busca de amores perdidos · Oliver Hawthorne
- Autopista hacia el cielo
- Don Camilo · Doc
- Geschundenes Zelluloid - Das Schicksal des Kinoklassikers Im Westen nichts Neues · En persona
- El Equipo A · Bernie Greene
- Hotel · Nelson O'Neil
- Cagney & Lacey
- Fama
- Of Mice and Men · Candy
- Simon & Simon
- Magnum · Sidney Dollinger
- Reunion · Bob Hollander
- Knots Landing · Andrew Douglas
- Letters from Frank · Dan Miller
- El misterio de Salem's Lot · Jason Burke
- Trapper John, M.D.
- Suddenly, Love · Mr. Graham
- The Story of Noah · Noah
- Galáctica, el universo en guerra · President Adar
- Flying High · Wilbur Dodson
- Galáctica: Estrella de combate · President Adar
- La Maldición de Damien · Bill Atherton
- Vacaciones en el mar · Carl Hooper
- Año 1999: El fin del mundo · Com. Joseph Beckerman
- Viaje fantástico · Rayat
- Quincy, M.E.
- Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident · Allen Dulles
- Hollywood, Hollywood · (archive footage)
- Altars of the World · Dirección
- La mujer biónica
- La mujer maravilla · Dr. Kenneth Wilson
- La casa de la pradera
- Heatwave! · Dr. Grayson
- Proyecto Androide · Vaslovik
- El Mago · Max Braden
- La conquista del planeta de los simios · Mandemus
- Hawkins · Gus Bitterman
- The Stranger · Prof. Dylan MacAuley
- Kung Fu · Beaumont
- Las calles de San Francisco
- The Man · Noah Calvin
- El comebollos · Mr. Ames
- Yo te maldigo · Dr. Sam Carpenter
- Earth II · President Charles Carter Durant
- McMillan y esposa
- Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
- Colombo · Howard Nicholson
- San Francisco International Airport
- The Mary Tyler Moore Show
- The Interns
- Hawaii 5-0 · The Governor, Dr. Elias Haig
- Marcus Welby, M.D.: A Matter of Humanities · Dr. Andrew Swanson
- Here Come the Brides
- Cocoon · The Governor
- ABC Stage 67 · Arthur
- The F.B.I. · Marshall Winslow
- The Big Valley · Sheriff Roy Kingston, Jason Fleet
- Slattery's People
- Los insaciables · Mac McAllister
- The Upper Chamber
- Kraft Suspense Theatre · Dr. Thomas Clay
- El Virginiano · Judge John Markham
- Saints and Sinners
- Tempestad sobre Washington · The Vice President
- Ben Casey
- Bus Stop
- Route 66
- My Three Sons
- The Barbara Stanwyck Show · Dr. Paul Harris
- El Show de June Allyson · Howard Moon
- Laramie