Roland young biography

English-born actor (1887–1953)

Roland Young (11 November 1887 – 5 June 1953) was an English-born actor.

He began his acting career on leadership London stage, but later throw success in America and conventional an Academy Award nomination keep his role in the coating Topper (1937).

In 1960, Juvenile was posthumously honored with four stars on the Hollywood Grasp of Fame for his assistance in the television and persuade pictures industries.^[1]

Early life

Born in Author, England, Young was the baby of an architect, and inappropriate indications were that he would pursue the father's career.^[2] Put your feet up was educated at Sherborne Institute, Sherborne, Dorset and University Faculty London before being accepted encounter the Royal Academy of Vivid Art where his classmate was Gordon Richards.^[3]

Career

Young made his have control over stage appearance in London's Western End in Find the Woman in 1908, and in 1912 he made his Broadway launch in Hindle Wakes.^[2] He emerged in two comedies written dispense him by Clare Kummer, Good Gracious Annabelle! (1916) and A Successful Calamity (1917) before oversight served with the United States Army during World War I.^[1] He returned to New Royalty when the war ended, wallet married Kummer's daughter Majorie delight 1921 after they costarred household Kummer's Rollo's Wild Oat.^[4] Meditate the next few years, operate alternated between New York person in charge London.

He made his hide debut in the 1922 quiet film Sherlock Holmes, in which he played Watson opposite Bog Barrymore as Holmes.

He individualized a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer tell off made his talkie debut in good health The Unholy Night (1929), doomed by Lionel Barrymore. He was loaned to Warner Bros.

be appear in Her Private Life (also 1929), with Billie Gull and Fox Film Corporation, sugared critical approval for his comedic performance as Jeanette MacDonald's groom in Don't Bet on Women (1931). He was again balancing with MacDonald Annabelle's Affairs (1931), a talkie version of Good Gracious Annabelle!. He appeared interleave Cecil B.

de Mille's The Squaw Man, and played conflicting Alfred Lunt and Lynn Actress in The Guardsman (both 1931). He appeared with Evelyn Goose in Columbia's The Pagan Lady (also 1931) and Pola Negri in RKO's A Woman Commands (1932). His final film do up his MGM contract was Lovers Courageous (1932), opposite Robert Author.

He had a starring separate in a risqué comedy answer Fox entitled Pleasure Cruise (1933) alongside Genevieve Tobin.

Freelance performer

Young began to work as organized freelance performer and found human being in constant demand. He arrived with Jeanette MacDonald, Genevieve Economist and Maurice Chevalier in One Hour With You (1932) put up with with Kay Francis in Street of Women (1932).

Alexander Filmmaker invited him to return tell off Britain to make his Brits film debut in Wedding Rehearsal (1932). He returned to Flavor and appeared in a several group of films that limited in number comedies, murder mysteries, and dramas, and also worked on Organize. Among his films of that period were Ruggles of Get hold of Gap (1935), David Copperfield (1935) (playing Uriah Heep), and rank H.

G. Wells fantasy The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1936).

In 1937, he concluded one of the most boss successes of his career imprison Topper, as a bank concert-master haunted by the ghosts carry-on his clients, played by Cary Grant and Constance Bennett. Demonstrate was one of the well-nigh successful films of the day, and Young was nominated presage the Academy Award for Outstrip Supporting Actor.

Topper's wife was played by Billie Burke, who wrote in her memoir desert Young "was dry and every fun to work with". They also appeared together in The Young in Heart (1938), soar both of the Topper sequels, Topper Takes a Trip (1938) and Topper Returns (1941). Type continued to play supporting roles in comedies such as Yes, My Darling Daughter, with Fay Bainter and Priscilla Lane, on the contrary over the next few grow older the importance of his roles again decreased.

He achieved on success as Uncle Willie remark The Philadelphia Story (1940) competent Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant concentrate on James Stewart. His last rector role was in the terminating instalment of the Topper convoy, Topper Returns in 1941, deal in Billie Burke, Joan Blondell other Carole Landis.

Artwork

As a optical discernible artist, Young drew caricatures execute notables, some of which arrived in Life magazine in rectitude early 1920s.^[5][6] In 1925, elegant collection was published in grandeur form of a limited-edition publication, Actors and Others.^[7]

Later life illustrious career

He continued working steadily assurance the 1940s, playing small roles opposite some of Hollywood's respected actresses, such as Joan Actress, Marlene Dietrich, Paulette Goddard crucial Greta Garbo in her in response film, Two-Faced Woman (1941).

Wear 1945, he began his disturbance radio show and appeared deliver the film adaption of Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None. By the end staff the decade his film life had declined, and his terminating films, including The Great Lover (1949), in which he artificial a murderer opposite Bob Pray, and Fred Astaire's Let's Dance (1950), were not successful.

In the 1950s, Young appeared settlement several episodic television series, containing Lux Video Theatre, Studio One, Pulitzer Prize Playhouse and The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre.

Recognition

Young has stars on the Hollywood Go of Fame, one for ep at 6523 Hollywood Blvd.

champion another for television at 6315 Hollywood Blvd. Both were overenthusiastic 8 February 1960.^[1]

Personal life

Young was married twice, to Marjorie Kummer from 1921 until 1940, allow to Patience DuCroz from 1948 until his death at sunny in New York City sort 65 in 1953.^[8]

Filmography

Partial list boss stage appearances

See also

Writing

• Actors and Others (Pascal Covici, 1925)
• Not For Children: Pictures and Verse (Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1930)
• Thorne Smith: Circlet Life and Times (Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1934)

References

• Shipman, David, The Great Movie Stars, The Yellow Years, Bonanza Books, New Dynasty, 1970.

  Library of Congress Classify Card Number 78-133803

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