* John Jenner Thompson

* 1918, New York, NY - † 1971

Education:     Columbia

After preparing for the stage at the Theodore Irvine School of the Theater and the Pasadena Playhouse, he made his Broadway debut in walk-on parts in 1941. He played his first lead in the 1944 production of Dear Ruth. In 1946 he played his first and best screen role, opposite Bette Davis in THE CORN IS GREEN (1945), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award. His sporadic screen career included a memorable lead in Hitchcock's ROPE 

Filmografie

1945   THE CORN IS GREEN 

1947   SOMETHING IN THE WIND   

1948   ANOTHER PART OF THE FOREST    

1948   ROPE  

1949   GUN CRAZY/DEADLY IS THE FEMALE        

1950   THE MAN WHO CHEATED HIMSELF 

1960   SPARTACUS  

1961   ATLANTIS, THE LOST CONTINENT