John Halliday | |
Job | Actor |
Years active | 1912-1941 |
Top Roles | The Duke of Towers, Stephen Bessemer, Sir George Barton, James 'Jimmy' Damier, Seth Lord |
Top Genres | Drama, Romance, Comedy, Musical, Mystery, Adventure |
Top Topics | Romance (Drama), Pre-Code Cinema, Romance (Comic) |
Top Collaborators | Russell Hicks, Olaf Hytten, Frank McHugh, Gregory La Cava (Director) |
Shares birthday with | Hal B. Wallis, Clayton Moore, Jack Hawkins see more.. |
John Halliday Overview:
Character actor, John Halliday, was born on Sep 14, 1880 in Brooklyn, NY. Halliday died at the age of 67 on Oct 17, 1947 in Honolulu, Hawaii .
MINI BIO:
Native New Yorker, John Halliday, must have played more cuckolded husbands than most. He trained as a mining engineer in Scotland, served with the British army in the Boer War, and went to Cambridge, before taking up an engineering career in the Nevada mining territory. Amateur performances in Gilbert and Sullivan led him to switch careers to acting, and he became a respected Broadway figure before trying Hollywood at the beginning of the sound era. Now he is best remembered as Katharine Hepburn's wayward dad in "The Philadelphia Story". He retired to Honolulu, where he died from a heart ailment.
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John Halliday Quotes:
Macaulay Connor: Don't DO that!
Elizabeth (Liz) Imbrie: I... I feel exactly as though I'd been pinched.
Seth Lord: Don't you think you weren't.
Thomas Stenborg: I wonder if anyone has built happiness on the unhappiness of others.
Joan Bradford: Mother's run my life long enough! I'm 21, I'm white, and I've a right to be free!
Henry Bradford: What are you going to do about it... sit here and mope?
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