Lew Ayres
Acting
- Naissance:
- 1908-12-28
- Décès:
- 1996-12-30
- Lieu de naissance:
- Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Biographie
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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Filmographie
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
Coup de théâtre
MGM: When the Lion Roars
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Cast the First Stone
Outlaws
La Loi de Los Angeles
Under Siege
Lime Street
Finder of Lost Loves
Les Routes du paradis
Don Camillo
Geschundenes Zelluloid - Das Schicksal des Kinoklassikers Im Westen nichts Neues
L'Agence tous risques
Hotel
Cagney et Lacey
Fame
Of Mice and Men
Simon & Simon
Magnum
Reunion
Côte Ouest
Letters from Frank
Les Vampires de Salem
Trapper John, M.D.
Suddenly, Love
The Story of Noah
Galactica, la bataille de l'espace
Embarquement immédiat
Battlestar Galactica
La Malédiction II
La croisière s'amuse
Destruction planète terre
Le Voyage Extraordinaire
Quincy
Francis Gary Powers : The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident
Hollywood, Hollywood
Super Jaimie
Wonder Woman
La Petite Maison dans la prairie
Heatwave!
The Questor Tapes
Le Magicien
La Bataille de la planète des singes
Hawkins
The Stranger
Kung Fu
Les Rues de San-Francisco
The Man
Les Aventures de Pot-au-Feu
She Waits
Earth II
Mcmillan
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
Columbo
San Francisco International Airport
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
The Interns
Hawaï police d'État
Marcus Welby, M.D.: A Matter of Humanities
Here Come the Brides
Cocoon
ABC Stage 67
Sur la piste du crime
La Grande Vallée
Slattery's People
Les Ambitieux
The Upper Chamber
Haute Tension
Le Virginien
Saints and Sinners
Tempête à Washington
Ben Casey
Bus Stop
Route 66
My Three Sons
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
The DuPont Show with 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
Gunsmoke Police Des Plaines
Climax!
Donovan's Brain
No Escape
Omnibus
Cavalcade of America
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
New Mexico
The Capture
The Ken Murray Show
Johnny Belinda
The Unfaithful
The Way of Peace
Blow-Ups of 1946
La Double Énigme
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
On demande le docteur Kildare
Broadway Serenade
La féerie de la glace
Spring Madness
Young Dr. Kildare
Rich Man, Poor Girl
Vacances
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
Entrée de Service
She Learned About Sailors
Let’s Be Ritzy
Cross Country Cruise
My Weakness
Don't Bet on Love
State Fair
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
Au seuil de l’enfer
Common Clay
À l'ouest, rien de nouveau
Le Baiser
Big News
The Sophomore