John Dall

1918–1971 · actor

John Dall was an American actor. Primarily a stage actor, he is best remembered today for portraying the cool-minded intellectual killer in Alfred Hitchcock's Rope (1948), and the companion of trigger-happy femme fatale Peggy Cummins in the 1950 film noir Gun Crazy. He also had a substantial role in Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus (1960). He first came to fame as the young Welsh mining prodigy who comes alive under the tutelage of Bette Davis in The Corn Is Green (1945), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

John Dall, in order

1. 1945 The Corn Is Green: acted · directed by Irving Rapper
2. 1947 Something in the Wind: acted · directed by Irving Pichel
3. 1948 Another Part of the Forest: acted · directed by Michael Gordon
4. 1948 Rope: acted · directed by Alfred Hitchcock · critics 93%, audiences 90%
5. 1950 Gun Crazy: acted · directed by Joseph H. Lewis
6. 1950 The Man Who Cheated Himself: acted · directed by Felix E. Feist
7. 1957 Perry Mason (TV series): acted
8. 1960 Spartacus: acted · directed by Stanley Kubrick · critics 89%, audiences 87% · streaming on fuboTV, MGM+, Philo
9. 1961 Atlantis, the Lost Continent: acted · directed by George Pal