John Carroll
John Carroll was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States on July 17th, 1906 and is the Movie Actor. At the age of 72, John Carroll biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Born Julian Lafaye, July 17, 1906 – April 24, 1979), an American actor and singer.
Personal life
Carroll was married twice: first to Steffi Duna (the couple's daughter, Julianna Benito), and then to Lucille Ryman (until his death).
Carroll died of leukemia at the age of 72 in Hollywood, California. In Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills, California, he was buried.
Career
Carroll was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He appeared in several small films under his birth name until 1935, when he first used the name John Carroll in Hi, Gaucho! In the 1930s, he appeared in many Western films, including the role of Zorro in Zorro Rides Again in 1937. In 1940, he was the male lead in the Marx Brothers' Western comedy Go West. Woody Jason played Woody in the 1942 film Flying Tigers with John Wayne, and perhaps his best known role was as Woody Jason. In the 1945 film A Letter to Evie, he appeared as a Cajun soldier aptly named Wolf.
He halted his film career after World War II and spent as a US Army Air Corps pilot in North Africa. In a car crash, he broke his back. He recovered and revived his acting career.
At Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, John Carroll was a well-known actor and his partner Lucille was a casting director. (MGM). Marilyn Monroe, the fledgling movie actress, moved into their house in 1948. They supported her emotionally and financially during her difficult transition period. In her success as an actress, their help was vital.
Carroll continued to work in the mid-1950s until the late 1980s, but his career started to fade in the second half of the decade. Tate Kimbrough, Randolph Scott's nemesis, made a memorable appearance in the 1957 Budd Boetticher western Decline at Sundown. He appeared in Ride in a Pink Car in 1974 and on Orson Welles' The Other Side of the Wind, a book that was published in 2018, where he appeared in 1975.