John Boles
57 movies
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Oct 27, 1895
- Died
- Feb 27, 1969 (age 73)
- Place of birth
- Greenville, Texas, USA
- Also known as
- Джон Боулс
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
John Boles (October 28, 1895 – February 27, 1969) was an American singer and actor best known for playing Victor Moritz in the 1931 film Frankenstein. He started out in Hollywood in silent movies, but became a huge star with the advent of talkies. After the war, Boles moved to New York to study music. He quickly became well known for his talents and was selected to replace the leading man in the 1923 Broadway musical Little Jesse James. He became an established star on Broadway and attracted the attention of Hollywood producers and actors.
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Boles' Broadway credits include One Touch of Venus (1943), Kitty's Kisses (1925), Mercenary Mary (1924), and Little Jessie James (1923).
He was hired by MGM to appear in a silent film in 1924. He starred in two more films for that studio before returning to New York and the stage. In 1927, he returned to Hollywood to star in The Love of Sunya (1927) opposite Gloria Swanson, which was a big success for him. Unfortunately, because the movies were still silent he was unable to show off his singing ability until late in the decade. In 1929, Warner Brothers hired him to star in their lavish musical operetta The Desert Song (1929). This film featured sequences in Technicolor and was a box-office success. Soon after, Radio Pictures (later known as RKO) selected him to play the leading man in their extravagant production (the last portion of the film was photographed in Technicolor) of Rio Rita, opposite Bebe Daniels. Audiences were enthralled by his beautiful voice, and John Boles suddenly found himself in huge demand. RCA Victor even hired him to make phonograph records of songs that he had sung in his films.
As soon as Rio Rita was completed, Boles went back to Warner Brothers as the leading man in an even more extravagant musical entitled Song of the West (1930) that was filmed entirely in Technicolor. Shortly after this film, Universal Pictures offered John Boles a contract, which he accepted. He starred in a number of pictures for them, most notably the all-Technicolor musical revue entitled The King of Jazz (1930) and a historical operetta entitled Captain of the Guard (1930). In 1931, he starred in One Heavenly Night (1931), which would prove to be his last major musical.
Boles portrayed Victor Moritz in Frankenstein (1931). He starred with Irene Dunne in a 1934 film adaptation of Edith Wharton's 1920 novel The Age of Innocence directed for RKO Radio Pictures by Philip Moeller, and took the role of Edward Morgan in Curly Top (1935), starring Shirley Temple In 1937, Boles starred alongside Barbara Stanwyck in the King Vidor classic Stella Dallas. In 1943, he co-starred with Mary Martin and Kenny Baker in One Touch of Venus. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Boles, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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John Boles: movies and TV shows
Acting (57)
- 1952 Babes in Bagdad
as Hassan
- 1943 Thousands Cheer
as Bill Jones
- 1942 Between Us Girls
as Steven J. Forbes
- 1941 Road to Happiness
as Jeff Carter
- 1938 Sinners in Paradise
as Jim Taylor
- 1938 Romance in the Dark
as Antal Kovach
- 1937 She Married an Artist
as Lee Thornwood
- 1937 Fight for Your Lady
as Robert Densmore
- 1937 Stella Dallas
as Stephen Dallas
- 1937 As Good as Married
as Alexander Drew
- 1936 Craig's Wife
as Walter Craig
- 1936 A Message to Garcia
as Lt. Andrew Rowan
- 1936 Rose of the Rancho
as Jim Kearney
- 1935 The Littlest Rebel
as Captain Cary
- 1935 Redheads on Parade
as John Bruce
- 1935 Orchids to You
as Thomas Bentley
- 1935 Curly Top
as Edward Morgan
- 1935
- 1934 Music in the Air
as Bruno Mahler
- 1934 The White Parade
as Ronald Hall III
- 1934 The Age of Innocence
as Newland Archer
- 1934 The Life of Vergie Winters
as John Shadwell
- 1934 Wild Gold
as Steve Miller
- 1934 Stand Up and Cheer!
as John Boles
- 1934 Bottoms Up
as Hal Reed
- 1934 I Believed in You
as Michael Harrison
- 1934 Beloved
as Carl Hausmann
- 1933 My Lips Betray
as King Rupert aka Captain von Linden
- 1933 Only Yesterday
as James Stanton "Jim" Emerson
- 1933 Child of Manhattan
as Paul Vanderkill
- 1932 6 Hours to Live
as Karl Kranz
- 1932 Back Street
as Walter D. Saxel
- 1932 Careless Lady
as Stephen Illington
- 1931 Good Sport
as Boyce Cameron
- 1931 Frankenstein
as Victor Moritz
- 1931 Seed
as Bart Carter
- 1931 Resurrection
as Prince Dmitri Nekhludoff
- 1930 One Heavenly Night
as Count Mirko Tibor
- 1930 King of Jazz
as Vocalist ('Song of the Dawn' / 'It Happened in Monterey')
- 1930 Captain of the Guard
as Rouget de L'isle
- 1930 Song of the West
as Captain Stanton
- 1929 Rio Rita
as Capt. Jim Stewart
- 1929 Scandal
as Maurice
- 1929 The Desert Song
as The Red Shadow
- 1928 The Last Warning
as Richard Quayle
- 1928 Romance of the Underworld
as Stephen Ransome
- 1928 Man-Made Women
as John Payson
- 1928 The Water Hole
as Bert Durland
- 1928 Virgin Lips
as Barry Blake
- 1928 Fazil
as John Clavering
- 1928 We Americans
as Hugh Bradleigh
- 1928 The Shepherd of the Hills
as Young Matt
- 1928 The Bride of the Colorado
as John Barrows
- 1927 The Love of Sunya
as Paul Judson
- 1925 Excuse Me
as Lt. Shaw
- 1924 So This Is Marriage?
as Uriah
- 1924 The Sixth Commandment
as John Brant
Talk shows and appearances (3)
- 1936
- 1935
- 1934