Jean Hersholt

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Jean Pierre Carl Buron (12 July 1886 – June 1956), also known as Jean Hersholt, was a Danish-American actor.

He is best known for his role on Dr.'s radio show Dr.

Christian (1937-1954) and Heidi (1937) are married; in Danish, hairs'hult). Of his total credits, 75 were silent films and 65 were sound films (140 percent); he directed four.

Early life

In Copenhagen, Denmark, Hersholt was born Jean Pierre Carl Buron. Hersholt appeared to be born into a family of actors, but Henri Pierre Buron, the son of a French Catholic father and a Danish Protestant mother, and Clara (née Petersen), the daughter of a Danish Protestant father and a Danish Jewish mother, were hairdressers until he died as a cigar and wine store/vendor. Hersholt appeared in two of Denmark's first short films in 1906, but he had no success in his early years in Denmark. He was embroiled in a controversy surrounding the so-called "big sexual assault trial" in Copenhagen 1906/07 as an informant for the tabloid newspaper Middagsposten. Hersholt (then Buron), who had been alerted to the police, was involved in the ensuing moral panic and outing of several influential men as homosexuals. He admitted to prostitution and was sentenced to 8 months in jail. He immigrated to the United States in 1913 and spent the remainder of his career in America.

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Career

Marcus Schouler in Erich von Stroheim's 1924 Greed and Shirley Temple's beloved grandfather in the 1937 film version of the 1880 children's book Heidi, written by Swiss author Johanna Spyri. His appearances spanned decades in film, from early silent villains to secondary roles in which his mild Danish accent and a vivacious voice suited him to portray a succession of benevolent fathers, researchers, professors, and European noblemen. Hersholt's last role was in the 1955 film Run for Cover.

Hersholt portrayed Dr. John Luke, the Canadian obstetrician who delivered and cared for the Dionne quintuplets, in his film The Country Doctor (1936). Two sequels were released. Hersholt wanted to do the job on radio but couldn't get the privileges. He wanted to create his own doctor character for radio, and since he was a Hans Christian Andersen fan, he used that name for his character of Dr. Paul Christian, who lived in River's End with the help of Nurse Judy Price. Dr. Christian, Dr. Christian's Office, and later Dr. Christian, were among the opening theme songs on "Rainbow on the River," according to CBS.

The small-town physician's good humor, innate common sense, and scientific education all helped to prevent a string of villainous characters from interfering with River's End's peaceful lifestyle. Dorothy McCann's radio show became a hit on CBS until January 6, 1954, with Hersholt so strongly identified with the role that he got mail asking for medical assistance that he was never to return to the hospital. Various spin-offs were produced as Hersholt co-wrote a Dr. Christian book and produced a series of six family films as Christian from 1939 to 1941, including Dr. Christian Meets the Women in 1940. Dr. Mark Christian's grandfather, who was scripted by Gene Roddenberry in 1956, made the switch to television, with Macdonald Carey as his nephew Dr. Mark Christian. Neil Reagan, Ronald Reagan's brother, produced Dr. Christian, starring Jean Hersholt from the 1930s to the 1950s.

Hersholt contributed to the establishment of the Motion Picture Relief Fund in 1939 to benefit factory workers with medical care when they were down on their luck. The fund was used to create the Motion Picture Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California, and it culminated in the establishment of the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 1956, an honorary Academy Award given to a "individual in the motion picture industry whose charitable efforts have credited to the company."

Hersholt, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, presented American film industry founders Colonel William N. Selig, Albert E. Smith, George K. Spoor, and Thomas Armat with special awards on the twentieth anniversary of the academy's establishment on March 20, 1948.

The Library of Congress has Hersholt's vast collection of Hans Christian Andersen books. He converted over 160 of Andersen's fairy tales into the English language. These were released in six volumes in 1949 as The Complete Andersen; this work is "... rated as the highest translation in English" in English, and is listed as the "official translation." In 1948, Hersholt was appointed a knight of the Order of the Dannebrog, partly due to this activity.

Hersholt appeared on the CBS panel/quiz show What's My Line? On August 31, 1952, the United States opened in 1952.

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