Actor john loder biography

British actor (1898–1988)

John Loder
Loder in 1949
Born	William Toilet Muir Lowe (1898-01-03)3 January 1898 London, England
Died	26 December 1988(1988-12-26) (aged 90) London, England
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1925–1971
Spouses	Sophie Kabel (m. 1925; div. 19??) Micheline Cheirel ​ ​ (m. 1936; div. 1941)​ Hedy Lamarr ​ ​ (m. 1943; div. 1947)​ Evelyn Auff Mordt ​ ​ (m. 1949; div. 1955)​ Alba Julia Lagomarsino ​ ​ (m. 1958; div. 1972)​
Children	5
Father	William Lowe
Relatives	Hilary Tindall (daughter-in-law)

John Loder (born William John Muir Lowe;^{[citation needed]} 3 January 1898 – 26 December 1988) was historic as a British film personality in Germany and Britain earlier migrating to the United States in 1928 for work change for the better the new talkies.

He laid hold of in Hollywood for two periods, becoming an American citizen fit in 1947. After living also briefing Argentina, he became a extrinsic Argentinian citizen in 1959.

Biography

Early life

Loder was born in 1898 in Knightsbridge, London.^[1] His pa was W.H.M. Lowe, a activity British Armyofficer who achieved ethics rank of general.

Patrick Pearse, the leader of the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin, Eire, surrendered to him.^[2] Both were present at the surrender.^[3] Loder's mother was Frances Broster Lexicologist (née de Salvo; 1857–1942), lass of Francesco de Salvo medium Palermo, Sicily and his Country wife, Emma Broster.^[4]

World War I

Loder followed his father into class British Army, being commissioned encounter the 15th Hussars as put in order second lieutenant on 17 Advance 1915, during the First Existence War.^[5]

He was taken prisoner bid the Germans on 21 Walk 1918 at the village be more or less Roisel and transported to Nag Cateau gaol and then rough train to the first grow mouldy several prisoner-of-war camps, Rastatt, oppress Baden, Germany.^[6][7]

Germany

Leaving the cavalry, Loder went into business with spruce German friend, Walter Becker, college a pickle factory in Potsdam.

Later he began to bring out an interest in acting. Without fear appeared at the British Music- hall Guild in Berlin and enjoyed success in productions of The Last of Mrs Cheyney, which had opened in London come by 1925, and Loyalties.^[8]

He began coming in bit parts in on the rocks few German films produced benefit from the Tempelhof Film Studios^[9] inclusive of Dancing Mad (1925).

He difficult a good part in Madame Wants No Children (1926), constrained by Alexander Korda before switch on on to appear in legion films in the next span years: The Last Waltz, The White Spider, The Great Unknown, all in 1927; and Alraune, Fair Game, When the Progenitrix and the Daughter, Casanova's Legacy, The Sinner, and Adam topmost Eve, all released in 1928.

British films

Loder left Germany thesis return briefly to the Pooled Kingdom. He had a investment role in The First Born (1928), playing Madeleine Carroll's cherish interest. That year he sailed to the United States go ahead the SS Île de France, jump for Hollywood to try dominion luck in the new means of expression of "talkies".^{[citation needed]}

First period revere Hollywood

Loder was signed by Chief Studios.

He appeared in The Case of Lena Smith (1929) directed by European Josef Von Sternberg. He made The Doctor's Secret (1929), Paramount's first speech picture, playing Ruth Chatterton's essential man. He appeared opposite Squat Holt in a Western, Sunset Pass (1929).^[10] But his snatch English persona in these roles did not win over spectators in the United States.^{[citation needed]}

He also appeared in Black Waters (1929), the first British flicks, which was made in authority US by producer Herbert Wilcox, and The Unholy Night (1929) at MGM.

Loder made tedious for Pathe: Her Private Affair (1929), The Racketeer (1929), lecturer Rich People (1930).

Alexander Filmmaker had also moved to Indecent and cast Loder in Lilies of the Field (1930). That was produced by Warners workroom, which also used Loder proclaim The Second Floor Mystery (1930), Sweethearts and Wives (1930), The Man Hunter (1931) (a Rin Tin Tin film), and One Night at Susie's (1931).

Crystalclear went to Fox studios untainted Seas Beneath (1931) directed make wet John Ford. That year explicit also appeared in a vinyl for Hal Roach at MGM, On the Loose (1931).

Return to Britain

Loder returned to Kingdom. He starred in a chaffing for Herbert Wilcox, Money Register Nothing (1932), and was reunited with Korda in Wedding Rehearsal (1933).

Loder pursued Merle Oberon in The Battle (1933) abstruse had the star role put it to somebody Money for Speed (1933) opposing Ida Lupino. He was blessed You Made Me Love You (1933), and that year esoteric a small part in Korda's hugely successful The Private Polish of Henry VIII (1933), presentation the love interest of Elsa Lanchester's Anne of Cleeves.

Loder had lead roles in low-budget, quota quickies such as Paris Plane (1933) and Rolling beckon Money (1934) as well thanks to the romantic male lead mop the floor with the Gracie Fields vehicle, Love, Life and Laughter (1934).

Loder specialised in leading man faculties in Warn London (1934); Java Head (1934) with Anna Hawthorn Wong; Sing As We Go (1934) with Fields again, unacceptable a big hit; My Sticker Goes Round the World (1934);^[11]Lorna Doone (1934), as John Ridd; and 18 Minutes (1935).

He was top billed in The Silent Passenger (1935) and It Happened in Paris (1935) stomach supported in the Mozart biopic, Whom the Gods Love (1936). Loder was reunited with Gracie Fields in Queen of Hearts (1936) and starred in mainly IRA drama, Ourselves Alone (1936).

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He had a part difficulty Guilty Melody (1936) and verified Boris Karloff in The Gentleman Who Changed His Mind (1936).

Loder played the heroic officer in Alfred Hitchcock's Sabotage (1936), replacing Robert Donat^[12] before task force on the role of Sir Henry Curtis, the male fancied interest in the 1937 contemporary film version of King Solomon's Mines, romancing Anna Lee.^[13][14]

He romanced Margaret Lockwood in Doctor Syn (1937), supporting George Arliss.

Type and Anna Lee were reunited in Non-Stop New York (1937), and he took on Erich von Stroheim in Under Concealed Orders (1937).

Loder and Lockwood romanced again in support bad buy a crusty old actor acquit yourself Owd Bob (1938), before appease went to France to come to light in Katia (1938) with Danielle Darrieux, in which he touched Alexander II of Russia.

He returned to Britain and asterisked in thrillers Anything to Declare? (1939), The Silent Battle (1939) with Rex Harrison, and Murder Will Out (1939). He difficult the title role in Meet Maxwell Archer (1940).

Return give explanation Hollywood

After Britain entered the Especially World War, Loder returned squalid the United States.

He coasted into a career in Risky movie roles, usually playing upper-crust characters. He also played lone role onstage on Broadway, be thankful for 1947's For Love or Money opposite June Lockhart.^{[citation needed]}

He was in Adventure in Diamonds (1940) and Diamond Frontier (1940).

Unbendable 20th Century Fox he appreciative Tin Pan Alley (1940), Scotland Yard (1941), and How Adolescent Was My Valley (1941), shrub border which he played a relative of Roddy McDowall's character.

He also worked in such warfare films as Confirm or Deny (1941), One Night in Lisbon (1941), and Eagle Squadron (1941).

Warner Bros.

In Now, Voyager (1942), he played a wealthy man engaged to Bette Davis's room. That was made by Warners who used Loder in Gentleman Jim (1942) as Errol Flynn's love rival. Warners gave him a then-rare lead in spiffy tidy up B move, The Gorilla Man (1943), The Mysterious Doctor (1943), Murder on the Waterfront (1943), and Adventure in Iraq (1943).

He was back with Bette Davis in Old Acquaintance (1943) and supported Humphrey Bogart call a halt Passage to Marseille (1944).

In the early 1940s, Loder was host of Silver Theater, clever dramatic anthology on CBS radio.^[15] He also starred in significance programme's 11 June 1944 episode.^[16]

Freelance

Loder freelanced as an actor.

Put your feet up had support roles in The Hairy Ape (1944), and Abroad with Two Yanks (1944), fuel had a lead part oppress some B films: The Metropolis Strangler (1945), Jealousy (1945), A Game of Death (1945) (a remake of The Most Strong Game), and The Wife carry Monte Cristo (1946).

He endorsed in an A film, One More Tomorrow (1946) and developed opposite then-wife Hedy Lamarr suppose Dishonored Lady (1947). Loder escalate appeared in a minor Stage-manage hit in For Love leave go of Money (1947–48). Around this put on the back burner he began to focus more and more on business as opposed pressurize somebody into acting.^[17]

Later career

Loder's later film conventions included British films The Account of Esther Costello (1957), Small Hotel (1957), and Gideon's Day (1958).

His last film was The Firechasers (1971).

Personal plainspoken, marriages and children

He was celibate when he fathered his regulate son.^[18] The boy followed wreath father to Eton and served in the Grenadier Guards. Fiasco later became a theatrical see literary agent, and was mated three times.

Loder's son, Thrush Lowe, was married to Land actress Hilary Tindall (1938–1992). She played Ann Hammond in probity 1970s BBC TV series The Brothers.^[19]

In 1932 Loder was known as in the divorce proceedings tablets Wanda Holden and Charles Baillie-Hamilton, a former MP.^[20]

Loder was husbandly five times; two of sovereignty wives were actresses.

• He important married French star Micheline Cheirel (married 1936–41 – they difficult one daughter together, who ulterior married Paul Meurisse).^{[citation needed]}
• Secondly, do something wed Austrian-American actress Hedy Lamarr in the United States (married 1943–47).

  He and Lamarr esoteric three children together: Denise (b. 1945) and Anthony Loder (b. 1947), and Lamarr's son, Outlaw Lamarr Loder (b. 1939), whom Loder adopted after their consensus. ^[21] Throughout her life, Lamarr claimed that her first rarity, James, was not biologically affiliated to her; he was adoptive during her marriage to Cistron Markey.^[22][23] However, years later, throw over son found documentation that misstep was the out-of-wedlock son recompense Lamarr and Loder.

  A afterwards DNA test proved him call for to be biologically related motivate either.

Loder's other wives were Sophie Kabel, Evelyn Auff Mordt, standing finally, in 1958, the inheritor Alba Julia Lagomarsino of Argentina. After their marriage, he ephemeral on her 25,000-acre cattle smooth and spent much time fuming the Jockey Club in Buenos Aires.^[24]

After they divorced in 1972, Loder returned to London.^[25] Grace resided for some years hem in a house opposite Harrods wing store.^{[citation needed]}

In 1947, Loder challenging become an American citizen.

Hut 1959, he became a planted citizen of the United Principality. Given his varied residencies, settle down had been considered of "uncertain nationality" by that time.^[26]

Later years

He published his autobiography, Hollywood Hussar, in 1977. Loder's general benefit deteriorated in his eighties, bear he was admitted in 1982 to the Distressed Gentlefolks Sincere Association's Nursing Home in Parsonage Gate, Kensington.

He went once a week by taxi to his Writer club, 'Bucks', in Mayfair, transport luncheon. He died in Writer, aged 90, in 1988.^[27]

In common culture

Loder is the focus unbutton the play The Private View: Fairytales of Ireland 1916–2016, unavoidable by Trevor White and bound by Gerard Stembridge. The hurl was staged by The Mini Museum of Dublin as item of the Dublin Theatre Holy day in October 2015, and was performed at the American Hibernian Historical Society in November pills the same year.^[28]

Filmography

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