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John Dall

1920 - 1971

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John Dall (born John Dall Thompson; May 26, 1920 – January 15, 1971) was an American actor. Primarily a stage actor, he is best remembered today for portraying the cool-minded intellectual killer in Alfred Hitchcock's Rope (1948), and the companion of trigger-happy femme fatale Peggy Cummins in the 1950 film noir Gun Crazy. He also had a substantial role in Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus (1960). He first came to fame as the young Welsh mining prodigy who comes alive under the tutelage of Bette Davis in The Corn Is Green (1945), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Dall is the 3,191st most popular actor (up from 3,739th in 2019), the 5,365th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,593rd in 2019) and the 1,517th most popular American Actor.

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Among actors, John Dall ranks 3,191 out of 13,578. Before him are Tim Blake Nelson, Ninón Sevilla, Michael Brandon, Sayuri Yoshinaga, Russ Tamblyn, and Robert Prosky. After him are Dorothy Dandridge, Zeppo Marx, Sandahl Bergman, Victoria Ruffo, Thomas Gibson, and Gaspard Ulliel.

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Among people born in 1920, John Dall ranks 235. Before him are Tony Randall, Olga Orozco, Roberto M. Levingston, Hilda Bernard, Franjo Mihalić, and Antonina Makarova. After him are Reginald Rose, Georges Marchal, Fons Rademakers, Hilmar Baunsgaard, Nikolai Grinko, and Virginia Mayo. Among people deceased in 1971, John Dall ranks 130. Before him are Earl Thomson, Princess Adelaide of Schaumburg-Lippe, Josef Košťálek, Étienne Gailly, Chester Conklin, and Gaito Gazdanov. After him are Anthony Berkeley Cox, Kathleen Lonsdale, David Sarnoff, Heinz Hopf, Andrey Andreyevich Andreyev, and Erich Abraham.

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Among people born in United States, John Dall ranks 5,365 out of 20,380. Before him are Michael Curry (1953), Michael Brandon (1945), Russ Tamblyn (1934), Kim Stanley Robinson (1952), Robert Prosky (1930), and Matt Sorum (1960). After him are Dorothy Dandridge (1922), Sonia Sotomayor (1954), Zeppo Marx (1901), Constance Titus (1873), Robert Parish (1953), and Sandahl Bergman (1951).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, John Dall ranks 1,517. Before him are Art Carney (1918), Adrienne Barbeau (1945), Tim Blake Nelson (1964), Michael Brandon (1945), Russ Tamblyn (1934), and Robert Prosky (1930). After him are Dorothy Dandridge (1922), Zeppo Marx (1901), Sandahl Bergman (1951), Thomas Gibson (1962), Olivia Wilde (1984), and Wendi McLendon-Covey (1969).

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