Jonathan Hole
| Jonathan Hole | |
|---|---|
| Born |
August 13, 1904 Eldora, Hardin County Iowa, U.S. |
| Died | February 11, 1998 (aged 93) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Resting place |
Westwood Village Memorial Park in Los Angeles 34°03′30″N 118°26′26″W / 34.0583427°N 118.4406350°W |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1951-1990 |
| Spouse(s) | Betty Hanna (?-1976) (her death) (1 child) |
Jonathan Hole (August 13, 1904 – February 11, 1998) was an American actor whose entertainment career covered five different genres. From his early days on the vaudeville stage and in legitimate theater, through the mediums of radio, television and feature-length films that took his career up to the 1990s, Hole created a variety of characters in hundreds of roles.
His career began in vaudeville in the 1920s. Hole was also a radio performer active in his native Iowa as well as New York City, Detroit, Chicago, and Los Angeles, California. While working as an announcer on WBBN in Chicago, his last name was temporarily changed to Cole by the station. In 1942 in Chicago, Hole was a co-chair of the Red Cross entertainment committee on war relief.
Hole further honed his acting skills during the years 1924–1934 in stage productions in New York. In 1930, one of the productions he appeared in was the comedy Cinderelative that had been written by Dorothy Heyward. She also wrote the 1927 Porgy, adapted as the musical Porgy and Bess and was a co-writer of South Pacific.
In 1951, he began acting in movies with a part in the Marie Windsor, Steve Brodie vehicle Two-Dollar Bettor. Although his appearances were usually uncredited, he appeared in thirty-six feature-length films. Among those were A Man Called Peter in 1955, Beloved Infidel in 1959, 4 for Texas in 1963 and The Graduate in 1967.
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