John Emery (actor)

John Emery (actor)
John Emery (May 20, 1905 – November 16, 1964) was an American actor.
Early years
Born in New York City, Emery was the son of stage actors Edward Emery (c. 1861 – 1938) and Isabel Waldron (1871–1950). He was educated at Long Island's La Salle Military Academy.
Film
Through the late 1930s to the early 1960s Emery appeared in supporting roles in many Hollywood films, beginning with James Whale's The Road Back (1937) and ranging from Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound to Rocketship X-M.
Stage
Emery appeared on Broadway in John Brown (1934), Romeo and Juliet (1934-1935), The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1935), Flowers of the Forest (1935), Parnell (1935-1936), Alice Takat (1936), Sweet Aloes (1936), Hamlet (1936-1937), Antony and Cleopatra (1937), Save Me the Waltz (1938), The Unconquered (1940), Liliom (1940), Retreat to Pleasure (1940-1941), Angel Street (1941-1944), Peepshow (1944), The Relapse (1950), The Royal Family (1951), The Constant Wife (1951-1952), Anastasia (1954-1955), Hotel Paradiso (1957), and Rape of the Belt (1960).
Peepshow was the first production in which Emery and his third wife, Tamara Geva, appeared together.
Television and radio
Emery was also known for his television work, appearing on programs like I Love Lucy and Have Gun Will Travel. In 1946 he starred in a radio program as detective Philo Vance.
Personal life
Emery married Patricia Calvert in 1926, ending in divorce in 1929. He married Tallulah Bankhead on August 31, 1937, in Jasper, Alabama (her only marriage), divorcing on June 13, 1941, in Reno, Nevada. The two remained friendly after their marriage. In 1942, Emery married dancer Tamara Geva, divorcing in 1963. Emery had started a long-term relationship with actress Joan Bennett in 1961, who cared for him through his final illness and death in 1964.
Due to their resemblance, Emery often was rumoured to be the illegitimate child of John Barrymore. As a child, Emery roomed for a while with Barrymore and his first wife, Katherine Corri.
Death
Emery died on November 16, 1964, in New York City, aged 59.
Selected filmography
The Road Back (1937) - Captain Von Hagen
Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941) - Tony Abbott
The Corsican Brothers (1941) - Tomasso
Two Yanks in Trinidad (1942) - Chicago Hagen
Ship Ahoy (1942) - Dr. Farno
Eyes in the Night (1942) - Paul Gerente
George Washington Slept Here (1942) - Clayton Evans
Assignment in Brittany (1943) - Capt. Deichgraber
Mademoiselle Fifi (1944) - Jean Cornudet
Blood on the Sun (1945) - Premier Giichi Tanaka
The Spanish Main (1945) - Capt. Mario Du Billar
Spellbound (1945) - Dr. Fleurot
The Voice of the Turtle (1947) - George Harrington
Let's Live Again (1948) - Larry Blake
The Woman in White (1948) - Sir Percival Glyde
The Gay Intruders (1948) - John Newberry
Joan of Arc (1948) - Jean, Duke d'Alençon, cousin of Charles VII
Dakota Lil (1950) - Vincent
Rocketship X-M (1950) - Dr. Karl Eckstrom
Frenchie (1950) - Clyde Gorman
Double Crossbones (1951) - Gov. Elden
Joe Palooka in Triple Cross (1951) - 'Professor'
The Mad Magician (1954) - The Great Rinaldi
A Lawless Street (1955) - Cody Clark
Forever, Darling (1956) - Dr. Edward R. Winter
The Girl Can't Help It (1956) - Wheeler
Kronos (1957) - Dr. Hubbell Eliot
Ten North Frederick (1958) - Paul Donaldson
Youngblood Hawke (1964) - Georges Peydal (final film role)
Selected television
References
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1905 births
1964 deaths
American male film actors
American male radio actors
American male television actors
Male actors from New York City
American male stage actors
20th-century American male actors