John Gilbert (actor)

John Gilbert has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and in 1994, he was honored with his image on a United States postage stamp designed by caricaturist Al Hirschfeld. He appeared in many films, among them:. On his passing in 1936, John Gilbert was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. He died of cancer in 1986. However, his alcoholism had already damaged his health, and he died of a heart attack without ever regaining his former reputation. Both books were well received. In 1933, he starred opposite Garbo for the last time, in Queen Christina. He wrote his autobiography Wanderer in 1963 and an adventure novel of the tall ships, Voyage: A Novel of 1896 in 1976.

He had already been married twice, and would soon marry again. He defied a court order once and sailed to Tahiti with his children following a divorce. They soon began a relationship, and Gilbert planned to marry her, but Garbo stood him up. He professed distaste for film acting, claiming that he did it mainly to pay for his sailing vessels. That same year, Gilbert made Flesh and the Devil, his first film with Greta Garbo. Ever after regretted this action, holding himself in enormous contempt for what he considered 'ratting'.". The following year, Vidor brought Gilbert and Adorée together again along with Lillian Gish in the film, La Boheme. According to his IMDB biography (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001330/bio), "As Red Scare deepens in U.S., he cooperated with the House Un-American Activities Committee, confessing his brief Communist ties.

In 1925, Gilbert co-starred with Renée Adorée in The Big Parade directed by King Vidor, which became the second highest grossing silent film in cinema history. His admiration for the Communist partisans led to a brief involvement with the Communist Party. Often cited as one of the high profile examples of an actor who was unsucessful in making the transition to talkies, his decline as a star in fact had more to do with studio politics and money than the sound of his voice on screen. He won the Silver Star and a commendation from Yugoslavia's Marshall Tito. John Gilbert was one of the biggest box office draws of the silent film era, rivalling the great Rudolph Valentino. His World War 2 service included running guns through German lines to the Yugoslav partisans and parachuting into Croatia. Gilbert was born John Cecil Pringle in Logan, Utah, and was a star of silent films while still in his teens. He also joined the Marines under the name John Hamilton.

John Gilbert (July 10, 1899 - January 9, 1936) was was an actor and major star of the silent film era. After only two film roles, however, he left Hollywood to serve as an undercover agent with the with William J. Donovan's COI office and remained after it became the OSS. His first film role starred Madeleine Carroll, with whom he fell in love and married. He became a print model and eventually was signed to a contract with Paramount Studios, who dubbed the 6' 5" (1.96 m) actor The Most Beautiful Man in the Movies and The Beautiful Blond Viking God. After serving as sailor and fireman on larger vessels, he was awarded his first command at 19, and sailed around the world several times.

He ran away to sea at 17, as a ship's boy, then later was a fisherman on the Grand Banks. Hayden was a genuine adventurer and man of action, not dissimilar from many of his movie parts. As a child, he lived in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Washington D.C., and Maine, where he attended Wassookeag School in Dexter, Maine. After his father died, he was adopted at the age of nine by James Hayden and renamed Sterling Walter Hayden.

Hayden's parents were George and Frances Walter, who named him Sterling Relyea Walter. He also played the Irish policeman, Captain McCluskey, who was gunned down by Al Pacino, in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather in 1972. Strangelove (1964). Ripper in Dr.

Zero Hour!(1957). Ten Days to Tulara (1958). Terror in a Texas Town (1958). Strangelove (1964).

Dr. Carol for Another Christmas TV (1964). Hard Contract (1969). Ternos Cacadores (1969).