William Eythe

Actor

Male

Born Apr 7, 1918

Hometown Mars, Pennsylvania

Died Jan 26, 1957

Death Place Los Angeles

Other Names William Eythe

William Eythe was an American actor of film, radio, television and stage.

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Buff Cobb
Married 1947 - 1949
Lon McCallister
Dated

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Movies This Week
NYTimes - Apr 25, 1999

Adaptations of two best sellers and two melodramas of lawmen at work enliven the lineup of films of television this week. The title of THE OX-BOW INCIDENT (1943), a film adapted from the novel by Walter Van Tilburg Clark, refers to a twisted tree, which becomes the site of a hanging and the grim action of mob rule against suspected cattle thieves
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Movies This Week
NYTimes - Jan 04, 1998

A light-hearted, disarming western, an adroit, ultra romance from Hollywood's golden era, a wartime semi-documentary and a crackling adventure add to the seasonal glow of films on television this week. George Marshall's DESTRY RIDES AGAIN (1939) boosted two careers. James Stewart's role as a naive but sturdy sheriff in a tough frontier town fit him
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Spotlight; Our Town
NYTimes - Oct 26, 1997

Henry Hathaway's HOUSE ON 92ND STREET (1945) is a fact-based semi-documentary that bristles with tension and suspense as a patriotic young American, played by William Eythe (above), infiltrates a nest of Nazi spies prowling Manhattan on the eve of World War II. The look and feel of the city are superbly evoked. There is one great, vicious scene at
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Home Video/New Releases; Rugged Types
NYTimes - Sep 25, 1988

LEAD: THE OX-BOW INCIDENT Starring Henry Fonda (in photo), Dana Andrews, Mary Beth Hughes (in photo), Anthony Quinn, William Eythe, Henry Morgan. Directed by William A. Wellman. 1943. Key Video. 75 minutes. $19.98. Closed Captioned. THE OX-BOW INCIDENT Starring Henry Fonda (in photo), Dana Andrews, Mary Beth Hughes (in photo), Anthony Quinn,
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Timeline

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CHILDHOOD

1918 Birth Born in 1918.

TWENTIES

1942 24 Years Old He appeared in both the 1942 Broadway play and 1944 Fox film version of The Eve of St. Mark.

1943 25 Years Old He was given a screen-test, and landed a role in the film The Ox-Bow Incident, which co-starred Henry Fonda and Dana Andrews. In 1943, he starred opposite Jennifer Jones in the Academy Award-winning film The Song of Bernadette. … Read More

THIRTIES

1948 30 Years Old After being dropped from Fox, Eythe was able to do some work on television, and an occasional B-movie for Paramount or Columbia Pictures, but he primarily focused on theatre work. Eythe was influential in the career of Carol Channing, starring with her in the Broadway revue Lend an Ear in 1948.

1950 32 Years Old He also appeared in a starring (though non-singing) role in the 1950 Cole Porter musical Out of this World, based on the Greek myth of Amphitryon, in which Jupiter (George Gaynes) comes to earth to bed a lovely young lady, taking the shape of her much-loved husband (Eythe). … Read More

1957 39 Years Old Eythe died of hepatitis in Los Angeles in 1957, at the age of 38.

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