John Gallaudet
Biography
John Gallaudet was an American actor who built a long career in film and television after starting out on the Broadway stage in the mid 1920s. Born in Philadelphia, he attended Williams College, then appeared in several New York productions before Columbia Pictures signed him in 1936 as a character player. Over three years at Columbia he made more than 30 features, often as newspapermen, radio broadcasters, or the hero's ally or adversary, and his Columbia work included the Bing Crosby musical Pennies from Heaven (1936). He later worked freelance for the major studios, and as television grew he became a familiar face in programs such as Dragnet and Bat Masterson, playing General William Tecumseh Sherman in one episode. He was a regular judge on Perry Mason, and he kept acting in films and television until 1974, including In Cold Blood (1967).
80years old at death
- Born Philadelphia
- Died Los Angeles
- Star sign: VirgoFirst day of the sign, on the Leo cusp
- Also credited as John Beury Gallaudet
Movie Career
- Films
- 14
- Career span
- 26 years1941 to 1967
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John Gallaudet got the only starring roles of his screen career when Columbia sent him to Canada in the late 1930s, playing crime-busting reporter Jerry Tracey in Manhattan Shakedown and Murder Is News.
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Gallaudet was a resident judge on the Perry Mason series, and he was one of the few jurists there who were identified by name, as Judge Ben Penner.
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Alan Foster2 films together, 1945 to 1946
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