John Qualen
Acting
- Nacimiento:
- 1899-12-06
- Fallecimiento:
- 1987-09-12
- Lugar de nacimiento:
- Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Biografía
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John Qualen (born Johan Mandt Kvalen, December 8, 1899 – September 12, 1987) was a Canadian-American character actor of Norwegian heritage who specialized in Scandinavian roles. Qualen was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, the son of immigrants from Norway; his father was a Lutheran minister and changed the family's original surname, "Kvalen", to "Qualen" – though some sources give Oleson, later Oleson Kvalen as Qualen's earlier surnames. His father's ministering meant many moves and John was 20 when he graduated from Elgin High School in 1920. Though he was awarded a scholarship to Northwestern University after he won an oratory contest he never attended college. In a Milwaukee Journal interview he said he needed to start working and did so with the Chattaqua Circuit. Eventually reaching Broadway, he gained his big break as the Swedish janitor in Elmer Rice's Street Scene. His movie career began when he recreated the role in the film version. This was followed by his appearance in John Ford's Arrowsmith (1931) which began a more than thirty year membership in the director's "stock company", with important supporting roles in The Searchers (1956), Two Rode Together (1961), The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) and Cheyenne Autumn (1964). Appearing in well over one hundred films, and acting extensively on television into the 1970s, Qualen performed many of his roles with various accents, usually Scandinavian, often intended for comic effect. Three of his more memorable roles showcase his versatility. Qualen assumed a Midwestern dialect as Muley, who recounts the destruction of his farm by the bank in Ford's The Grapes of Wrath (1940), and as the confused killer Earl Williams in Howard Hawks' classic comedy His Girl Friday (also 1940). As Berger, the jewelry-selling Norwegian resistance member in Michael Curtiz' Casablanca (1942), he essayed a light Scandinavian accent, but put on a thicker Mediterranean accent as the homeward-bound fisherman Locota in William Wellman's The High and the Mighty (1954) Qualen was treasurer of The Authors Club and historian of The Masquers, Hollywood's social group for actors. John Qualen was blind in his later years. He died of heart failure in 1987 in Torrance, California, and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale. He was survived by his three daughters.
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La Classe américaine
Frasier, the Sensuous Lion
Las calles de San Francisco
Getting Away from It All
The Partridge Family
The Odd Couple
Hail, Hero!
Doc
P.J.
Los malvados de Firecreek
Jericho
La chica de CIPOL
Shane
El destino también juega
Un retazo de azul
Green Acres
Los cuatro hijos de Katie Elder
Lecciones de amor en Suecia
La familia Calloway
El gran combate
No Time for Sergeants
Las Siete Caras del Dr. Lao
El premio
Mi marciano favorito
El agente Burke
La taberna del irlandés
El Virginiano
El hombre que mató a Liberty Valance
Ben Casey
Hazel
Dr. Kildare
Dos cabalgan juntos
Mister Ed
Alaska, tierra de oro
The Andy Griffith Show
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
Thriller
El fuego y la palabra
Tate
La ley de la inocencia
The Alaskans
The Third Man
Bonanza
Tightrope
Anatomía de un asesinato
Revolt in the Big House
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
Lawman
Yancy Derringer
The Donna Reed Show
Bronco
My World Dies Screaming
Balas de contrabando
Sea Hunt
The Real McCoys
Maverick
Sugarfoot
Grandes horizontes
Johnny Concho
Centauros del desierto
Así mueren los valientes
Alfred Hitchcock presenta
Cheyenne
Unchained
El zorro de los océanos
Man on a Bus
The Millionaire
The Other Woman
Climax!
Pasión
December Bride
Father Knows Best
Escrito en el cielo
Public Defender
I, the Jury
Emboscada en Tomahawk Gap
General Electric Theater
El fabuloso Andersen
Dragnet
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Racket Squad
Adiós, mi amor
Belle Le Grand
Peligro en las nubes
La fugitiva
Cuidado con los inspectores
Lux Video Theatre
El capitán pirata
Captain China
El gran robo
The Philco Television Playhouse
La cicatriz
16 Fathoms Deep
My Girl Tisa
Alias a Gentleman
Reaching from Heaven
El fugitivo
High Conquest
Scheherezade
Aventura
El capitán Kidd
River Gang
Roughly Speaking
Aguas turbias
Un sueño americano
The Impostor
Swing Shift Maisie
Casablanca
Breakdowns of 1942
Las mil y una noches
La vida es así
Larceny, Inc.
El libro de la selva
El hombre que vendió su alma
New Wine
El pastor de las colinas
Lejos de la niebla
Million Dollar Baby
Model Wife
Youth Will Be Served
Hombres intrépidos
Knute Rockne All American
Ángeles sobre Broadway
Babies for Sale
On Their Own
Ski Patrol
Saturday's Children
Las uvas de la ira
Blondie on a Budget
Luna nueva
Four Wives
Honeymoon in Bali
Thunder Afloat
Mickey the Kid
Let Us Live
Stand Up and Fight
The Strange Case of Dr. Meade
Ocho mujeres y un crimen
Five of a Kind
The Chaser
Joy of Living
The Bad Man of Brimstone
La reina de Nueva York
Fit for a King
She Had to Eat
Angel's Holiday
Fifty Roads to Town
El Septimo Cielo
Reunion
Camino a la gloria
Aula de señoritas
Meet Nero Wolfe
The Country Doctor
Entre esposa y secretaria
Ring Around the Moon
Man of Iron
Jaque al rey
Por la dama y el honor
Thunder in the Night
La florista del Palace
Silk Hat Kid
Doubting Thomas
Contrastes
Infierno negro
Chasing Yesterday
The Great Hotel Murder
One More Spring
Charlie Chan in Paris
Trescientas sesenta y cinco noches en Hollywood
El pan nuestro de cada día
Servants' Entrance
Straight Is the Way
He Was Her Man
Upperworld (1934)
Sing and Like it
¿Qué hay, Nellie?
Let's Fall in Love
El abogado
El doctor Arrowsmith
La calle