Felix Locher
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Hall in 1956
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| Born |
Charles Felix Locher February 23, 1915 Fresno, California |
| Died | December 13, 1979 (aged 64) North Hollywood, California |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1935–1965 |
| Spouse(s) |
Frances Langford (1934–1955) (divorced) Raquel Torres (1959–?) (divorced) Raquel Torres (?-?) (remarried/divorced) |
Jon Hall (February 23, 1915 – December 13, 1979) was an American film actor known for playing a variety of adventurous roles, as in 1937's The Hurricane, and later when contracted to Universal Pictures, including Invisible Agent and The Invisible Man's Revenge. He was also known to 1950s fans as the creator and star of the Ramar of the Jungle television series which ran from 1952 to 1954. Hall directed and starred in two 1960's sci-fi films in his later years, The Beach Girls and the Monster (1965) and The Navy vs. the Night Monsters (1966).
Born Charles Felix Locher in Fresno, California, and raised in Tahiti by his father, the Swiss-born actor Felix Locher, he was a nephew of writer James Norman Hall, the author, along with Charles Nordhoff, of the novel Mutiny on the Bounty. Hall began acting in films in 1935 in minor roles, one of which was Charlie Chan in Shanghai.
Though rejected for the lead of the Flash Gordon serial he achieved notable success in 1937, when cast opposite another relative newcomer, Dorothy Lamour, in The Hurricane, based on a novel by Nordhoff and Hall. His double in The Hurricane was the stuntman and actor Paul Stader. After two and a half years inactive, he made three films in quick succession.
Hall was under contract to Sam Goldwyn and earning a good salary, although it took him a while to find his next project. Goldwyn refused to lend him out for Thief of Bagdad.
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