Jack Buchanan

He suffered from spinal arthritis (though this didn't stop him from performing several dance numbers with Astaire in Band Wagon), and died in London only four years later. He suffered chronic alcoholism and died of tuberculosis in 1937. He made his film debut in the silent cinema, in 1917, but his best-known film is undoubtedly his venture into Hollywood, The Band Wagon (1953), in which he plays camp theatre director, Jeffrey Cordova, opposite Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse. He first worked with Whale on a production about the horrors of trench warfare and subsequently joined the British community in Hollywood in the 1930s. Buchanan made his first appearance on the UK stage in 1912, and on Broadway in 1924. Clive was born in France to a British colonel, and was in the military before he became a stage actor. Buchanan was born in Helensburgh, Scotland. Colin Clive (20 January 1900 - 25 June 1937)British Stage and screen actor most famous for portraying Dr Frankenstein in James Whale's two universal Frankenstein films Frankenstein (1930) and Bride of Frankenstein (1931).

Jack Buchanan (April 2, 1891 - October 20, 1957) was a British actor and singer.