Shepperd Strudwick
Shepperd Strudwick
American actor Shepperd Strudwick (born and occasionally credited as John Sheppard studied drama at the University of North Carolina, not far from his home town of Hillsboro. Strudwick was a member of the University's Carolina Playmakers, which boasted such alumni as Kay Kyser, Andy Griffith, George Grizzard and Sidney Blackmer. After a few years in outdoor drama productions and regional theatre, Strudwick headed for Broadway in the early '30s; the actor's more celebrated New York stage credits included the 1932 Pulitzer Prize winner Both Your Houses near the beginning of his career and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? near the end. In 1940, Strudwick was signed for films, but the producers of his first picture, Congo Maisie (1940), found the actor's name too stiff and formal for romnatic leading roles; thus, Shepperd Strudwick spent most of the '40s acting under the cognomen John Shepperd. Outside of the lead in 20th Century-Fox's The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe, John Shepperd/Shepperd Strudwick didn't exactly set the world ablaze as a movie star, so he went back to the stage, returning to Hollywood in the late '40s under his real name. Strudwick wasn't leading man material, but he was superb in roles calling for a blend of dignity and intensity. Arguably the best of his many film roles was as the guilt-ridden doctor and erstwhile assassin in the Oscar-winning All the King's Men (1949). In addition, Strudwick was a regular on two popular video soap operas, Love of Life and Another World. Shepperd Strudwick continued contributing first-rate characterizations to TV, movie and stage productions into the '70s; one of his last theatrical roles of note was as the ill-fated Cmdr. Lloyd Bucher in a dramatization of the "Pueblo" incident. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Filmography of Shepperd Strudwick:
- Dr. Kildare's Strange Case with Lew Ayres , Lionel Barrymore , Laraine Day , Samuel S. Hinds , Emma Dunn , Nat Pendleton , Walter Kingsford , Alma Kruger , John Eldredge , Nell Craig , Marie Blake , George H. Reed , Paul Porcasi , Frank Orth , Margaret Seddon , Fay Helm , Marcia Mae Jones , Horace McMahon
- All the King's Men with Broderick Crawford , John Derek , Joanne Dru , John Ireland , Mercedes McCambridge , Anne Seymour , Raymond Greenleaf , Walter Burke , Will Wright , Grandon Rhodes , Richard Hale , Houseley Sr. Stevenson , Paul Ford , Louis Mason , Paul Maxey , John "Skins" Miller , Pat O'Malley , Frank Wilcox , King Donovan
- A Place in the Sun with Montgomery Clift , Elizabeth Taylor , Shelley Winters , Anne Revere , Keefe Brasselle , Fred Clark , Raymond Burr , Herbert Heyes , Frieda Inescort , Walter Sande , Ted DeCorsia , John Ridgely , Douglas Spencer , Paul H. Frees , Gertrude Astor , Ralph Dunn , Al Ferguson , Kathleen Freeman , Sam Harris , Josephine Whittell , Eric Wilton , Ian Wolfe , Frank Yaconelli
- Joan of Arc with Ingrid Bergman , Selena Royle , Jose Ferrer , Robert H. Barrat , Ward Bond , Jimmy Lydon , Francis L. Sullivan , Cecil Kellaway , Rand Brooks , Roman Bohnen , Irene Rich , Nestor Paiva , Ray Teal , George Coulouris , John Emery , Gene Lockhart , Richard Ney , Leif Erickson , John Ireland , Henry Brandon , Ethan Laidlaw , Frederic Worlock , Dennis Hoey , Roy Roberts , J. Carrol Naish , Taylor Holmes , Alan Napier , Aubrey Mather , Herbert Rudley , William Conrad , Houseley Sr. Stevenson , Jeff Corey , Richard Alexander , Morris Ankrum , Wally Cassell , Clancy Cooper , Bob Crosby , Lester Dorr , Herbert Evans , Julia Faye , James Garner , Greta Granstedt , Frank S. Hagney , Chuck Hamilton , Hurd Hatfield , I. Stanford Jolley , James Sr. Kirkwood , George Magrill , Frank Marlowe , Matt Moore , Harry Hays Morgan , Frances Morris , Herbert Rawlinson , Russell Simpson , Arthur Space , Minerva Urecal , Charles Wagenheim , Henry Wills , Margo Woode , George Zucco , Mary Field
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