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person_profile-John Boles

John Boles Died at age: 73

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

John Boles

Date of Birth:

Oct 28, 1895

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

Feb 27, 1969

Biography of

John Boles

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

    John Boles (October 28, 1895 – February 27, 1969) was an American singer and actor best known for playing Victor Moritz in the 1931 film Frankenstein. He started out in Hollywood in silent movies, but became a huge star with the advent of talkies. After the war, Boles moved to New York to study music. He quickly became well known for his talents and was selected to replace the leading man in the 1923 Broadway musical Little Jesse James. He became an established star on Broadway and attracted the attention of Hollywood producers and actors.

    Boles' Broadway credits include One Touch of Venus (1943), Kitty's Kisses (1925), Mercenary Mary (1924), and Little Jessie James (1923).

    He was hired by MGM to appear in a silent film in 1924. He starred in two more films for that studio before returning to New York and the stage. In 1927, he returned to Hollywood to star in The Love of Sunya (1927) opposite Gloria Swanson, which was a big success for him. Unfortunately, because the movies were still silent he was unable to show off his singing ability until late in the decade. In 1929, Warner Brothers hired him to star in their lavish musical operetta The Desert Song (1929). This film featured sequences in Technicolor and was a box-office success. Soon after, Radio Pictures (later known as RKO) selected him to play the leading man in their extravagant production (the last portion of the film was photographed in Technicolor) of Rio Rita, opposite Bebe Daniels. Audiences were enthralled by his beautiful voice, and John Boles suddenly found himself in huge demand. RCA Victor even hired him to make phonograph records of songs that he had sung in his films.

    As soon as Rio Rita was completed, Boles went back to Warner Brothers as the leading man in an even more extravagant musical entitled Song of the West (1930) that was filmed entirely in Technicolor. Shortly after this film, Universal Pictures offered John Boles a contract, which he accepted. He starred in a number of pictures for them, most notably the all-Technicolor musical revue entitled The King of Jazz (1930) and a historical operetta entitled Captain of the Guard (1930). In 1931, he starred in One Heavenly Night (1931), which would prove to be his last major musical.

    Boles portrayed Victor Moritz in Frankenstein (1931). He starred with Irene Dunne in a 1934 film adaptation of Edith Wharton's 1920 novel The Age of Innocence directed for RKO Radio Pictures by Philip Moeller, and took the role of Edward Morgan in Curly Top (1935), starring Shirley Temple In 1937, Boles starred alongside Barbara Stanwyck in the King Vidor classic Stella Dallas. In 1943, he co-starred with Mary Martin and Kenny Baker in One Touch of Venus. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Boles, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Filmography of

John Boles

Found 55 Movies in total

Hollywood Without Make-Up

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1963

Babes in Bagdad

Hassan ( Actor )

... 1952

Thousands Cheer

Colonel Bill Jones ( Actor )

... 1943

Between Us Girls

Steven J. Forbes ( Actor )

... 1942

Road to Happiness

Jeff Carter ( Actor )

... 1941

Sinners in Paradise

Jim Taylor ( Actor )

... 1938

Romance in the Dark

Antal Kovach ( Actor )

... 1938

She Married an Artist

Lee Thornwood ( Actor )

... 1937

Fight for Your Lady

Robert Densmore ( Actor )

... 1937

Stella Dallas

Stephen Dallas ( Actor )

... 1937

As Good as Married

Alexander Drew ( Actor )

... 1937

Craig's Wife

Walter Craig ( Actor )

... 1936

A Message to Garcia

Lt. Andrew Rowan ( Actor )

... 1936

Rose of the Rancho

Jim Kearney ( Actor )

... 1936

The Littlest Rebel

Capt. Herbert Cary ( Actor )

... 1935

Redheads on Parade

John Bruce ( Actor )

... 1935

Orchids to You

Thomas Bentley ( Actor )

... 1935

Curly Top

Edward Morgan ( Actor )

... 1935

Music in the Air

Bruno Mahler ( Actor )

... 1934

The White Parade

Ronald Hall III ( Actor )

... 1934

The Age of Innocence

Newland Archer ( Actor )

... 1934

The Life of Vergie Winters

John Shadwell ( Actor )

... 1934

Wild Gold

Steve Miller ( Actor )

... 1934

Stand Up and Cheer!

John Boles ( Actor )

... 1934

Bottoms Up

Hal Reed ( Actor )

... 1934

I Believed in You

Michael Harrison ( Actor )

... 1934

Beloved

Carl Hausmann ( Actor )

... 1934

My Lips Betray

King Rupert aka Captain von Linden ( Actor )

... 1933

Only Yesterday

James Stanton "Jim" Emerson ( Actor )

... 1933

Child of Manhattan

Paul Vanderkill ( Actor )

... 1933

6 Hours to Live

Karl Kranz ( Actor )

... 1932

Back Street

Walter D. Saxel ( Actor )

... 1932

Careless Lady

Stephen Illington ( Actor )

... 1932

Good Sport

Boyce Cameron ( Actor )

... 1931

Frankenstein

Victor Moritz ( Actor )

... 1931

Seed

Bart Carter ( Actor )

... 1931

Resurrection

Prince Dmitri Nekhludoff ( Actor )

... 1931

One Heavenly Night

Count Mirko Tibor ( Actor )

... 1930

King of Jazz

Vocalist ('Song of the Dawn' / 'It Happened in Monterey') ( Actor )

... 1930

Captain of the Guard

Rouget de Lisle ( Actor )

... 1930

Song of the West

Captain Stanton ( Actor )

... 1930

Rio Rita

Capt. Jim Stewart ( Actor )

... 1929

The Desert Song

The Red Shadow ( Actor )

... 1929

The Last Warning

Richard Quayle ( Actor )

... 1928

Romance of the Underworld

Stephen Ransome ( Actor )

... 1928

Man-Made Women

John Payson ( Actor )

... 1928

The Water Hole

Bert Durland ( Actor )

... 1928

Virgin Lips

Barry Blake ( Actor )

... 1928

Fazil

John Clavering ( Actor )

... 1928

We Americans

Hugh Bradleigh ( Actor )

... 1928

The Shepherd of the Hills

Young Matt ( Actor )

... 1928

The Love of Sunya

Paul Judson ( Actor )

... 1927

Excuse Me

Lt. Shaw ( Actor )

... 1925

So This Is Marriage?

Uriah ( Actor )

... 1924

The Sixth Commandment

John Brant ( Actor )

... 1924