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William Eythe

William Eythe
Born William Eythe
April 7, 1918
Mars, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died January 26, 1957(1957-01-26) (aged 38)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Other names Will Eythe
Occupation Actor
Years active 1943-57
Spouse(s) Buff Cobb (1947-49) (divorced)
Partner(s) Lon McCallister

William Eythe (April 7, 1918 – January 26, 1957) was an American actor of film, radio, television and stage.

Born in Mars, Pennsylvania, a small town located about 25 miles from Pittsburgh, he was interested in acting from a young age. He attended Carnegie Tech University and studied acting and he began writing his own plays. Lend An Ear, was one of his early plays and proved to be a theatrical success, later going on to have a Broadway run.

Eythe eventually moved to New York City, where he got various jobs performing in radio dramas and as an announcer for a local television station. During the Second World War, many of Hollywood's young male stars were away at war, and the film studios were forced to locate newer, younger actors who were below the age of military service, or those actors who were considered unfit for service due to medical conditions. Eythe, who had poor hearing, was one such actor, and he was spotted by a talent scout for 20th Century Fox films. He appeared in both the 1942 Broadway play and 1944 Fox film version of The Eve of St. Mark.

He was given a screen-test, and landed a role in the film The Ox-Bow Incident, which co-starred Henry Fonda and Dana Andrews. In 1943, he starred opposite Jennifer Jones in the Academy Award-winning film The Song of Bernadette. Among his films are two directed by Otto Preminger, Centennial Summer and A Royal Scandal, in which he co-stars with Tallulah Bankhead, Anne Baxter and Charles Coburn.


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