John Sutton (actor)
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John Sutton | |
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![]() Sutton in Captain from Castile (1947) | |
Born | Eugene Osmond Stephen Congdon[1] 22 October 1908 |
Died | 10 July 1963 Cannes, France | (aged 54)
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1936–1963 |
Spouses | Charlotte Biddle Barrett
(m. 1933; div. 1946)Roberta Fidler
(m. 1946; div. 1955) |
John Sutton (born Eugene Osmond Stephen Congdon; 22 October 1908 – 10 July 1963) was a British actor with a prolific career in Hollywood of more than 30 years.[citation needed]
Personal life
[edit]Sutton was born in Rawalpindi, India (now Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan). He was the son of Lt. Colonel Arthur Congdon (1861-1924) of the Royal Munster Fusiliers and his wife Ann Bell Sutton Moxley Congdon. Before moving to Hollywood as an actor, he was a tea planter in Assam, India, and, failing that, he farmed for a while in South Africa.[2] Upon being naturalized as a U.S. citizen while serving in the U.S. Navy in 1943 during the Second World War, he legally changed his name to John Sutton.[3]
Sutton was married at least three times. In 1933, he married wealthy socialite Charlotte Biddle Barrett.[4] In the 1940 federal census, the household included his wife Charlotte and her daughter from a previous marriage. In October 1946, he divorced his high society wife and married Roberta Fidler, former wife of newspaper columnist and radio commentator Jimmie Fidler;[5][6] this rather stormy second marriage ended in divorce in 1955.[7] He married dancer Anita Rodney-Eden in 1957, but he received an annulment in 1960, when it was shown that she was still legally the ninth wife of oft-married (13 marriages to 11 women) Tommy Manville.[8][9] He died suddenly of a heart attack on 10 July 1963.
Filmography
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- The House of a Thousand Candles (1936) as Young Man (uncredited)
- Federal Agent (1936) as Elevator Operator (uncredited)
- The Princess Comes Across (1936) as Ship's Passenger at Baggage Check / At Concert (uncredited)
- The Last of the Mohicans (1936) as British officer, Fort Henry (uncredited)
- Bulldog Drummond Comes Back (1937) as Sanger
- Bulldog Drummond's Revenge (1937) as Jennings, Nielson's Secretary
- The Buccaneer (1938) as British Officer Before Battle (uncredited)
- Mad About Music (1938) as Photographer (uncredited)
- Bulldog Drummond's Peril (1938) as Doctor (uncredited)
- Fools for Scandal (1938) as Bruce Devon (uncredited)
- Four Men and a Prayer (1938) as Capt. Drake
- The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) as Richard's Knight (uncredited)
- Kidnapped (1938) as English Officer (uncredited)
- Blond Cheat (1938) as Fred Percy
- Booloo (1938) as Ferguson
- The Affairs of Annabel (1938) as Man at Newsstand (uncredited)
- Arrest Bulldog Drummond (1939) as Inspector Tredennis (uncredited)
- The Dawn Patrol (1938) as Adjutant (uncredited)
- Zaza (1939) as Dandy (uncredited)
- I'm from Missouri (1939) as Subaltern (uncredited)
- Sons of Liberty (1939, Short) as Hessian Courier (uncredited)
- Susannah of the Mounties (1939) as Corporal Piggott
- Bulldog Drummond's Bride (1939) as Inspector Tredennis
- The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939) as Capt. Armand of the Queen's Guard (uncredited)
- Tower of London (1939) as John Wyatt
- Charlie McCarthy, Detective (1939) as Bill Banning
- The Invisible Man Returns (1940) as Doctor Frank Griffin
- Sandy Is a Lady (1940) (uncredited)
- I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby (1940) as Boston
- South to Karanga (1940) as David Wallace
- The Sea Hawk (1940) as Captain of the Guard (uncredited)
- Murder Over New York (1940) as Richard Jeffery
- Hudson's Bay (1941) as Lord Edward Crewe
- A Very Young Lady (1941) as Dr. Franklin Meredith
- A Yank in the R.A.F. (1941) as Wing Commander Morley
- Moon Over Her Shoulder (1941) as Dr. Phillip Rossiter
- My Gal Sal (1942) as Fred Haviland
- Ten Gentlemen from West Point (1942) as Howard Shelton
- Thunder Birds (1942) as Peter Stackhouse
- Tonight We Raid Calais (1943) as Geoffrey Carter
- Jane Eyre (1943) as Dr. Rivers
- The Hour Before the Dawn (1944) as Roger Hetherton
- Claudia and David (1946) as Phil Dexter
- Captain from Castile (1947) as Diego De Silva
- Adventures of Casanova (1948) as Count de Brissac
- The Counterfeiters (1948) as Jeff MacAllister
- Mickey (1948) as Ted Whitney
- The Three Musketeers (1948) as The Duke of Buckingham
- The Fan (1949) as Cecil Graham
- Bride of Vengeance (1949) as Prince Bisceglie
- Bagdad (1949) as Raizul
- The Second Woman (1950) as Keith Ferris
- The Second Face (1950) as Jerry Allison
- Payment on Demand (1951) as Anthony Tunliffe
- David and Bathsheba (1951) as Ira
- Fireside Theatre (1951, TV Series)
- 5 Fingers (1952) as Narrator (voice, uncredited)
- Thief of Damascus (1952) as Khalid
- Lady in the Iron Mask (1952) as Duke de Valdac
- The Schaefer Century Theatre (1952, TV Series)
- Captain Pirate (1952) as Capt. Hilary Evans
- The Golden Hawk (1952) as Captain Luis del Toro
- My Cousin Rachel (1952) as Ambrose Ashley
- Sangaree (1953) as Harvey Bristol
- East of Sumatra (1953) as Daniel Catlin
- Lux Video Theatre (1954, TV Series) as Evan
- Private Secretary (1954, TV Series) as King Price
- General Electric Theater (1954–1955, TV Series) as Ted Preston / Tom Wickers
- Four Star Playhouse (1956, TV Series) as Rene Champion
- Playwrights '56 (1956, TV Series) as Mr. Black
- Studio 57 (1956, TV Series) as Mark Brinker
- The Count of Monte Cristo (1956, TV Series) as De Villefort
- Death of a Scoundrel (1956) as The Actor as 'Tom' in Stage Play
- The Amazon Trader (1956) as The Amazon Trader[citation needed]
- Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers (1956, TV Series)
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (1958, TV Series)
- The United States Steel Hour (1958, TV Series) as Colonel Resnor
- Tumulto de Paixões (1958) as John Morgan
- The Californians (1958, TV Series) as Sam Crawford
- Behind Closed Doors (1958–1959, TV Series) as Harry Shaw
- Tombstone Territory (1959, TV Series) as David Armbruster
- Return of the Fly (1959) as Insp. Beecham
- The Bat (1959) as Warner, the chauffeur
- Beloved Infidel (1959) as Lord Donegall
- The Man From Blackhawk (1959, TV Series) as Bart Mason
- Bat Masterson (1959, TV Series) as Orrin Thackeray / Andrew Stafford
- 77 Sunset Strip (1959, TV Series) as Ralph Anderson
- Disneyland (1959–1960, The Swamp Fox TV Series) as Colonel Banastre Tarleton
- The Rebel (1960, TV Series) as C. Spencer Scott—The Earl of Durango / Gold Seeker
- Men into Space (1959–1960, TV Series) as Air Vice Marshal Malcolm Terry
- The Aquanauts (1960, TV Series) as Tony Randolph
- The Case of the Dangerous Robin (1960, TV Series)
- Stagecoach West (1961, TV Series) as Robert Allison / Rexford Jasper
- The Canadians (1961) as Superintendent Walker
- Checkmate (1961, TV Series) as George Parker
- The Brothers Brannagan (1961, TV Series) as John Elliot
- Perry Mason (1961, TV Series) as Clifton Barlow
- Rawhide (1961, TV Series) as Lord Ashton
- Shadow of Fear (1963) as Peter Halliday
- Of Human Bondage (1964) as Kingsford (uncredited)[citation needed] (final film role)
References
[edit]- ^ World War II Draft Registration Card:https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=2238&h=17859642&tid=&pid=&queryId=28dcb313e0d64795db3e90d31e5f8266&usePUB=true&_phsrc=hYI2192&_phstart=successSource
- ^ "Louella Parsons on Hollywood: John Sutton Is Latest To Win Film Recognition", The San Francisco Examiner, p. 26, Oct. 5, 1941.
- ^ Petition for Naturalization: https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/3998/images/43867_3421606203_0610-00784?treeid=&personid=&hintid=&queryId=28dcb313e0d64795db3e90d31e5f8266&usePUB=true&_phsrc=hYI2193&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&_ga=2.198473903.1498679909.1612451459-1093218731.1597084329&pId=2312311
- ^ "Actor Says Socialite Wife Watched Him Via Spyglass", Daily News, Los Angeles, Calif., p. 3, Oct. 14, 1946.
- ^ "First Husband Helps Actor Win Annulment", The Los Angeles Times, p. 2, October 16, 1946.
- ^ "Ex-Mrs. Fidler wed to Actor", p. 2, The Los Angeles Times, Oct. 23, 1946.
- ^ "Actor John Sutton Divorced For Cruelty". The Blade. United Press International. 16 June 1955. Retrieved 24 November 2019.
- ^ "Actor John Sutton Seeking Annulment". Southeast Missourian. Associated Press. 18 May 1960. Retrieved 24 November 2019.
- ^ "John Sutton (actor obtains default annulment from former wife of Tommy Manville), 1960". Los Angeles Examiner Photographs Collection, 1920-1961. University of Southern California Libraries. 2 June 1960. Retrieved 24 November 2019.
External links
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- John Sutton at IMDb
- John Sutton at AllMovie
- John Sutton at the TCM Movie Database