Alan Ladd
Gender: Male
Born: 3rd September 1913
Died: 29th January 1964
Nationality: United States of America
Movies: Shane, The Blue Dahlia, This Gun for Hire, And Now Tomorrow, All the Young Men, The Great Gatsby, The Glass Key, The Badlanders, The Black Knight, Boy on a Dolphin, Hitler, Beast of Berlin, Two Years Before the Mast, O.S.S., Whispering Smith, The Glass Key, Appointment with Danger, Branded, The Man in the Net, The Red Beret, Guns of the Timberland, Duel of the Champions, Paper Bullets, The Carpetbaggers, The Black Cat, Saskatchewan, Hell on Frisco Bay, Citizen Kane, Captain Carey, U.S.A., Chicago Deadline, Thunder in the East, Saigon, Drum Beat, The Iron Mistress, My Favorite Blonde, World War II: Homefront: Vol. 1, Great Guns, Hell Below Zero, The Cowboy Creed, Botany Bay, Lucky Jordan, Calcutta, Salty O'Rourke, The Deep Six, Wild Harvest, Classic Ski Films: The Basic Principles of Skiing, The McConnell Story
Alan Walbridge Ladd (September 3, 1913 – January 29, 1964) was an American film actor.
Ladd was born in Hot Springs, Arkansas. He was the only child of Ina Raleigh Ladd and Alan Ladd, Sr. He was of English ancestry. His father died when he was four, and his mother relocated to Oklahoma City where she married Jim Beavers, a housepainter. The family then moved again to North Hollywood, California where Ladd became a high-school swimming and diving champion and participated in high school dramatics at North Hollywood High School, graduating on February 1, 1934. He opened his own hamburger and malt shop, which he called Tiny's Patio. He worked briefly as a studio carpenter (as did his stepfather) and for a short time was part of the Universal Pictures studio school for actors. But Universal decided he was too blond and too short and dropped him. Intent on acting, he found work in radio.
Ladd began by appearing in dozens of films in small roles, including Citizen Kane in which he played one of the "faceless" reporters who are always shown in silhouette. He first gained some recognition with a featured role in the wartime thriller Joan of Paris, 1942. For his next role, his manager, Sue
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