Richard Cromwell (actor)
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Dick Cromwell, aka Roy Radabaugh, circa 1933
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LeRoy Melvin Radabaugh January 8, 1910 Long Beach, California, U.S. |
| Died | October 11, 1960 (aged 50) Hollywood, California, U.S. |
| Cause of death | liver cancer |
| Years active | 1930–1948 |
| Spouse(s) | Angela Lansbury (1945–1946; divorced) |
Richard Cromwell, born LeRoy Melvin Radabaugh (January 8, 1910 – October 11, 1960), was an American actor. His career was at its pinnacle with his work in Jezebel (1938) with Bette Davis and Henry Fonda and again with Fonda in John Ford's Young Mr. Lincoln (1939). Cromwell's fame was perhaps first assured in The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935), where he shared top billing with Gary Cooper and Franchot Tone. That film was the first major effort directed by Henry Hathaway and it was based upon the popular novel by Francis Yeats-Brown. The Lives of a Bengal Lancer earned Paramount Studios a nomination for Best Picture in 1935, though Mutiny on the Bounty instead took the top award at the Oscars that year.
Leslie Halliwell in The Filmgoer's Companion, summed up Cromwell's enduring appeal when he described him as "a leading man, [the] gentle hero of early sound films."
Cromwell was born in Long Beach, California, on January 8, 1910, the second-born in a family of five children. His father, Ralph R. Radabaugh, was an inventor, whose claim to fame was his patented invention of the "amusement park swing" ride, called the "Monoflyer", of which a variation can still be seen in use at most carnivals today. Ralph died suddenly from influenza during the Spanish flu pandemic in 1918, when Cromwell was still in grade school.
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