John Loder (actor)

John Loder
Hedy Lamarr and John Loder in 1946
Born	John Muir Lowe 3 January 1898 London, England, United Kingdom
Died	26 December 1988(1988-12-26) (aged 90) London, England, United Kingdom
Years active	1925–1971
Spouse(s)	Alba Julia Lagomarsino (1958–1988) (divorced) 1 child Evelyn Auff Mordt (1949–1955) (divorced) Hedy Lamarr (1943–1947) (divorced) 2 children Micheline Cheirel (1936–1941) (divorced) 1 child Sophie Kabel (?–?) (divorced) 1 child

John Loder (born William John Muir Lowe; 3 January 1898 – 26 December 1988) was a British actor who later became an American citizen (1947).

He was born at 11 Herbert Crescent, Knightsbridge, London. His father was General W. H. M. Lowe, the British officer to whom Patrick Pearse, the leader of the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin, Ireland, surrendered. Both were present at the surrender.

He was educated at Eton and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Berkshire.

He followed his father into the army, being commissioned into 15th Hussars as a second lieutenant on 17 March 1915, and then served in the Gallipoli Campaign, leaving there on 19 December that year. On 21 April 1916 until early May, he was in Ireland, before proceeding to Rouen, France to rejoin his regiment. He was engaged in the 1916 Battle of the Somme and was taken prisoner by the Germans on 21 March 1918 at the village of Roisel. He was taken to Le Cateau gaol and then by train to the first of several prisoner-of-war camps, at Rastatt, in Baden, Germany. Upon being released, he stayed in Germany, resuming military duties on behalf of the Inter-Allied Commission in Breslau and Upper Silesia.