Lew Ayres
Acting
- Nacimiento:
- 1908-12-28
- Fallecimiento:
- 1996-12-30
- Lugar de nacimiento:
- Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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
Hart to Hart: Crimes of the Hart
MGM: When the Lion Roars
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Cast the First Stone
Outlaws
La ley de Los Ángeles
Under Siege
Lime Street
En busca de amores perdidos
Autopista hacia el cielo
Don Camilo
Geschundenes Zelluloid - Das Schicksal des Kinoklassikers Im Westen nichts Neues
El Equipo A
Hotel
Cagney & Lacey
Fama
Of Mice and Men
Simon & Simon
Magnum
Reunion
Knots Landing
Letters from Frank
El misterio de Salem's Lot
Trapper John, M.D.
Suddenly, Love
The Story of Noah
Galáctica, el universo en guerra
Flying High
Galáctica: Estrella de combate
La Maldición de Damien
Vacaciones en el mar
Año 1999: El fin del mundo
Viaje fantástico
Quincy, M.E.
Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident
Hollywood, Hollywood
La mujer biónica
La mujer maravilla
La casa de la pradera
Heatwave!
Proyecto Androide
El Mago
La conquista del planeta de los simios
Hawkins
The Stranger
Kung Fu
Las calles de San Francisco
The Man
El comebollos
Yo te maldigo
Earth II
McMillan y esposa
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
Colombo
San Francisco International Airport
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
The Interns
Hawaii 5-0
Marcus Welby, M.D.: A Matter of Humanities
Here Come the Brides
Cocoon
ABC Stage 67
The F.B.I.
The Big Valley
Slattery's People
Los insaciables
The Upper Chamber
Kraft Suspense Theatre
El Virginiano
Saints and Sinners
Tempestad sobre Washington
Ben Casey
Bus Stop
Route 66
My Three Sons
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
El Show de June Allyson
Laramie
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
The Family Nobody Wanted
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
One Against Many
Screen Director's Playhouse
MGM Parade
La ley del revólver
Climax!
El cerebro de Donovan
No Escape
Omnibus
Cavalcade of America
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
New Mexico
La captura
The Ken Murray Show
Belinda
La infiel
The Way of Peace
Blow-Ups of 1946
A través del espejo
Fingers at the Window
Dr. Kildare's Victory
Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day
The People Vs. Dr. Kildare
Maisie Was a Lady
Dr. Kildare's Crisis
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
Dr. Kildare Goes Home
The Golden Fleecing
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
Dr. Kildare's Strange Case
Remember?
The Secret of Dr. Kildare
These Glamour Girls
From the Ends of the Earth
Calling Dr. Kildare
Se llevó mi corazón
The Ice Follies of 1939
Spring Madness
Young Dr. Kildare
Rich Man, Poor Girl
Vivir para gozar
King of the Newsboys
Scandal Street
Hold 'Em Navy
The Last Train from Madrid
The Crime Nobody Saw
Murder with Pictures
Lady Be Careful
Shakedown
Panic on the Air
The Leathernecks Have Landed
Silk Hat Kid
Spring Tonic
The Lottery Lover
Servants' Entrance
Aprendió de los marinos
Let’s Be Ritzy
Cross Country Cruise
My Weakness
Don't Bet on Love
La feria de la vida
Okay, America!
Night World
The Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood
The Impatient Maiden
Heaven on Earth
The Spirit of Notre Dame
Up for Murder
Iron Man
Many a Slip
East Is West
La senda del crimen
Common Clay
Sin novedad en el frente
El beso (The kiss)
Big News
The Sophomore