Jack La Rue

He moved to Hollywood, where he appeared in numerous films. Sometimes mistaken for Humphrey Bogart, he played mostly thugs and gangsters. For example, in such a role, La Rue tormented the wrongly-accused Richard Cromwell in Universal Pictures's anti-Nazi action drama Enemy Agent (1940), and was savagely beaten with a leather whip by Cary Grant in The Woman Accused (1933). His most noteworthy leading role, however, was as the mobster "Trigger" in the pre-Code film The Story of Temple Drake (1933) opposite Miriam Hopkins.

His son was actor Jack La Rue, Jr.

La Rue died of a heart attack at the age of 81. He was buried in Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California. Read Less