Gary Merrill
Gary Merrill was born in Hartford, Connecticut, United States on August 2nd, 1915 and is the Movie Actor. At the age of 74, Gary Merrill biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, and networth are available.
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Gary Fred Merrill (August 2, 1915 – March 5, 1990) was an American film and television actor whose credits included more than 50 feature films, a half-lived TV series, and scores of television guest appearances.
Merrill appeared in All About Eve and married Bette Davis, his co-star.
Early life
Merrill was born in Hartford, Connecticut, and attended Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, and Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. In the play Winged Victory, he began acting in 1944 while still serving in the United States Army Air Forces.
Personal life
Merrill's first marriage, to Barbara Leeds in 1941, resulted in divorce in Mexico on July 28, 1950. Bette Davis, his costar from All About Eve, married her daughter Barbara from a previous marriage on the same day. They had two more children, Margot and Michael, but they had a bitter divorce in 1960.
He ran in 1958 to elect Democrat Edmund Muskie as Maine governor, and he was often political. In 1965, he was also involved in the Selma to Montgomery marches to encourage Black voter registration. He unsuccessfully sought nomination to the Maine legislature as an anti-war, pro-environmentalist primary candidate in reaction to US President Lyndon B. Johnson's Vietnam War policy.
Merrill lived in Falmouth, Maine, for his second ex-wife, Bette Davis, after only five months of lung cancer. He is buried in the Pine Grove Cemetery. Michael was raised by his son, Michael; a daughter, Margot; a brother, Jerry; and two grandchildren.
Career
Merrill's deep cultured voice earned him a regular role as Batman in the Superman radio series before entering films. His film career began promisingly, with roles in films including Twelve O'Clock High (1949) and All About Eve (1950), but he never advanced beyond supporting roles in his numerous Westerns, war films, and medical dramas. His television career was long. Jason Tyler appeared on the crime drama Justice from 1954 to 1956.
In the episode "Medicine Man" of the series Cimarron City, Merrill guest appeared alongside June Lockhart in the roles of Joshua and Emily Newton.
Merrill appeared in Then Came Bronson with Michael Parks and Young Doctor Kildare, both of whom lasted less than a year.
In addition to Merrill's appearances in many episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, he appeared alongside Phyllis Thaxter and Fess Parker (Daniel Boone) in a November 1963 episode of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour ("Nothing Ever Happens in Linvale").
He appeared in The Reporter, a short-lived drama in 1964.
He appeared in the Elvis Presley film Clambake in 1967, as costar James Gregory.
Merrill actually retired from the entertainment industry after 1980, outside of a few appearances as narrator. Bette, Rita, and the Rest of My Life (1989), a short autobiography published just shy of his death.