John Dall Overview:

Actor, John Dall, was born John Dall Thompson on May 26, 1918 in New York City, NY. Dall died at the age of 52 on Jan 15, 1971 in Hollywood, CA .

HONORS and AWARDS:

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Although Dall was nominated for one Oscar, he never won a competitive Academy Award.

Academy Awards

YearAwardFilm nameRoleResult
1945Best Supporting ActorThe Corn Is Green (1945)Morgan EvansNominated
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John Dall Quotes:

Brandon: Nobody commits a murder just for the experiment of committing it. Nobody except us.


Brandon Shaw: Good and evil, right and wrong were invented for the ordinary average man, the inferior man, because he needs them.


Mrs. Atwater: Do you know when I was a girl I used to read quite a bit.
Brandon: We all do strange things in our childhood.


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John Dall Facts
There are conflicting accounts of his cause of death. Many sources state that the cause of death was heart attack while others, including his nephew, state the cause of death was a punctured lung.

Best remembered as Brandon, the more confident and charismatic of the two prep school killers in Alfred Hitchcock's Rope (1948).

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