John Dall

Infobox actor
name = John Dall

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imagesize = 200px
caption = from the "Rope" film trailer, 1948.
birthdate = birth date|1918|5|26
birthplace = New York, New York, U.S.
deathdate = death date and age|1971|1|15|1918|5|26
deathplace = Hollywood, California, U.S.
birthname = John Dall Thompson

John Dall (May 26 1918 in New York, New York – January 15 1971 in Hollywood, California) was an American actor.

Dall is best remembered today for the parts of the cool-minded intellectual killer in Alfred Hitchcock's "Rope" and the trigger-happy lead in the 1950 film noir "Gun Crazy", but first came to fame as the young prodigy who comes alive under the tutelage of Bette Davis in "The Corn Is Green", for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. However, he worked primarily in the theatre.

Dall died from a heart attack. Other sources report that he died of a punctured lung. Fact|date=December 2007 Death by punctured lung was stated as cause of death by Dall's brother - this information provided by Dall's nephew.

elected filmography

* "The Corn Is Green" (1945)
* "Another Part of the Forest" (1948)
* "Something in the Wind" (1947)
* "Rope" (1948)
* "Gun Crazy" (1949)
* "The Man Who Cheated Himself" (1950)
* "Spartacus" (1960)
* "Atlantis, the Lost Continent" (1961)

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Persondata
NAME= Dall, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES= Thompson, John Dall
SHORT DESCRIPTION= Actor
DATE OF BIRTH= birth date|1918|5|26
PLACE OF BIRTH= New York, New York, U.S.
DATE OF DEATH= 1971-1-15
PLACE OF DEATH= Hollywood, California, U.S.