Robert Morse

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See also: Other Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood. He has been married three times and has five children. During his career, Jack Pickford appeared in more than 70 films. The PBS television version in 1992 earned him an Emmy Award. Pickford has a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1523 Vine Street. In 1990 he played Truman Capote in the one-man stage play, Tru, for which he received a second Tony Award (and his fifth nomination), this time for dramatic performance. His sister Mary arranged for his body to be brought back to Los Angeles, California, where he was interred in the private Pickford plot in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.

His most recent credit was the 2000 City of Angels, a minor medical drama in which he had a regular part. Pickford died in the American Hospital in Paris, at age 36. He had a featured role in the 1993 miniseries, Wild Palms. Married two more times unsuccessfully, including a 1922-1927 marriage to celebrated tap dancer Marilyn Miller, by 1932 Jack Pickford was alone again, his health deteriorating from the ravages of syphilis and the toll that years of alcohol and drug abuse had taken. Morse has appeared in numerous TV shows, beginning in 1955 with the soap opera The Secret Storm and including mysteries, comedies, and variety shows. On the return trip home to America, film director Allan Dwan had to talk the distraught Pickford out of committing suicide. Morse was in the original Broadway cast of Sugar, a 1972 stage version of Some Like It Hot, for which he was nominated for another Tony. The police investigation into her death centered on Pickford but no charges were ever laid.

In 1965 he appeared in the black comedy The Loved One, a movie based on the novel by Evelyn Waugh that satirized the funeral business in Los Angeles, in particular the Forest Lawn Cemetery. Returning to their room in the Hotel Ritz at around 3:00 in the morning, his wife died after ingesting a large dose of the mercury biochloride which had been prescribed for her husband's ongoing venereal disease; infected in 1917, he had passed the disease onto Thomas, as well as the medicine used to treat it. He also starred in the 1968 movie version. However, while filming in Paris, France, they went out for a night of entertainment at the famous bistros in Montparnasse. Pierpont Finch in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, for which he received a Tony Award in 1961. Bernhard Krugh Thomas, 1894-1920), a beautiful Pennsylvania-born model turned showgirl turned film actress and reputed heroin addict, was stormy from the start but she was the love of his life. His most famous role was that of J. His first marriage, in 1916, to Olive Thomas (né Duffy, ex-Mrs.

Morse created the role of Barnaby in The Matchmaker on Broadway in 1955 opposite Ruth Gordon, and reprised the role in 1958 in the filmed version, this time opposite Shirley Booth. For his involvement, Jack Pickford came close to being dishonorably discharged but speculation has it that his sister stepped in and arranged for him to give evidence to the authorities in exchange for a medical discharge. He served in the US Navy in the Korean War. Using the famous Pickford name, he soon became involved in a scheme that allowed rich young men to pay bribes to avoid military service, as well as reportedly procuring young women for officers. Morse was born in Newton, Massachusetts. In early 1918, after the United States joined World War I, Jack Pickford joined the United States Navy. Morse is best known for his appearances in musicals and plays on Broadway, and has also acted in movies and TV shows. As his reckless lifestyle worsened, the number of movies he made declined and therefore his income.

Robert Morse, (born May 18, 1931) is an American actor. He spent money like water and frequently had to suffer the humiliation of asking his mother or sister for help. In those days, the movie studios were able to cover up almost all of their stars misbehavior but within the Hollywood crowd, Jack Pickford's behind-the scenes antics made him a legend in his own time. Despite his on-screen image as the winsome boy-next-door, Jack Pickford's private life was one of alcohol, drugs and womanizing. Jack got a lucrative contract with First National as part of the deal but that year, he gained respect for his acting abilities after starring as Pip in the adaptation of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations and in the same year for playing the title role in Mark Twain' s Tom Sawyer.

Jack, a small, fragile boy, grew up in an adult world, one that suddenly became full of money far beyond anything imaginable for the time when Mary Pickford signed a contract in 1917 for $1 million with First National Pictures. After Biograph opened its studios in Hollywood, California, the Pickford clan moved west. In 1910, he was only 14 years old when, with the help of his sister, he was signed to perform in motion pictures with Biograph Studios. Like her, Jack Pickford's mother had him acting on stage as a very young boy.

Born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, he was the brother of Mary Pickford. John Charles Smith (August 18, 1896 - January 3, 1933) was a Canadian actor.