John Derek
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John Derek (born Derek Delevan Harris, 1926 - May 22, 1998), an American actor, director, and photographer.
He appeared in films including Knock on Any Door, All the King's Boys (1949), and Rogues of Sherwood Forest (1950).
Bo Derek, his fourth wife, was also known for launching the career of his fourth wife, Bo Derek.
Early life
Derek Delevan Harris was born in Hollywood, California, on August 12, 1926, the son of actor/director Lawson Harris and actress Dolores Johnson.
Personal life
In 1948, Derek married Turkish-born prima ballerina Pati Behrs Eristoff. Russell Andre (1950–1999), who was paralyzed from the chest down in a 1969 motorcycle crash, and Sean Catherine (born 1953), who later wrote a memoir titled Cast of Characters (1982) about her parents' dysfunctional marriage (1982). After meeting Ursula Andress, a 19-year-old aspiring Swiss actress who spoke almost no English when they met, Derek dropped his wife and family in late summer 1955. In 1956, Behrs and his wife were divorced.
Derek married Andress in a short Las Vegas wedding in 1957. She began her career in the James Bond film Dr. No. 5. In 1964, Derek ejected Andress from his California home due to rumors that she had been seeing actor Ron Ely. Andress returned to Europe, playing in public affairs with costars John Richardson and Marcello Mastroianni before leaving Derek for Jean-Paul Belmondo in 1965. In 1966, the two were divorced.
Derek met American actress Linda Evans in September 1965, while the latter was on television's The Big Valley. Evans stopped appearing on the show to spend more time with Derek and decided on Behrs to finance his alimony and child care expenses as he moved from acting to photography and directing. In 1968, the two families eloped in Mexico with his daughter Sean as a witness.
Derek, Evans, and Mary Cathleen Collins (who would later be known as Bo Derek) travelled to Mykonos, Greece, to film And Once Upon a Time (unveiled until 1981, under the name Fantasies). Derek and Collins began an affair while filming. Evans returned to the United States and filed for divorce in 1974, but Derek and Collins stayed in Europe until November, so that Derek could avoid mandatory rape charges.
Following their marriage on June 10, 1976, Collins became known as Bo Derek and rose to international prominence in 1979 with her appearance in the Blake Edwards film 10. They remained together until John died in 1998.
Derek suffered a heart attack in 1986 but has since recovered.
Alyce Derek (born 1969), Russell's granddaughter, was born in Russell's household to Lynette Berry. In 1996, he became a great-grandfather.
Film career
His good looks were soon apparent, and he was groomed for a film career by both his handler Henry Willson (who gave him the temporary stage name of Dare Harris) and David O. Selznick with small roles in the Selznick films Since You Went Away (1944) and I'll Be Seeing You (1944).
He was drafted in 1944 into the United States Army and served in the Philippines during World War II's last days.
Derek was only in A Double Life (1947) when Humphrey Bogart renamed him John Derek and cast him as a "good boy" Romano, an unrepentant killer, in Knock on Any Door (1949), a socially conscious melodrama directed by Nicholas Ray. In a review for The New York Times, Derek was named as a talented newcomer, "clearly an idol for the girls." The Los Angeles Times dubbed him "a handsome hot-eyed newcomer who makes the case for this product of the city's slums,'live fast, die young, and have a good looking corpse," a phrase that is too fascinating for anyone's comfort.
The film was produced for Bogart's Santana company and was released by Columbia Pictures, who then agreed to a seven-year deal for Derek. In All the King's Men (1949), the Best Picture Oscar winner for the year, Derek continued to support it as the son of Broderick Crawford. He was officially changed to John Derek in September 1950, according to him.
Columbia promoted him to lead roles in Rogues of Sherwood Forest (1950) with Alan Hale; the Los Angeles Times called him a "slim and beautiful youth." He had intended to do it with The Gainesville Circus, but it was not made.
Rather, Columbia cast him in another swashbuckler, Mask of the Avenger (1951), then gave him a prominent role in a prestige film, Saturday's Hero (1951), as a college football player. Derek's first book was bought specifically as a vehicle. He was in a crime noir (1951), then reunited with Crawford in Scandal Sheet (1952).
Thunderbirds (1952), a republic pictures film, was borrowed by Republic Pictures for a war film. Prince of Pirates (1953), a swashbuckler for Sam Katzman; two Westerns, Ambush at Tomahawk Gap (1953), with John Hodiak and Crawford, 1954). He was back with Hodiak for Mission Over Korea (1953), a Korean War film, then was borrowed by the Republic for Sea of Lost Ships (1953). In July 1953, he left Columbia.
The Outcast (1954), a Western, was Derek's second film for the Republic. Walter Wanger's book The Adventures of Hajji Baba (1954), a surprise hit on 20th Century Fox, a surprise.
At Fox, he appeared in Prince of Players (1955) and then appeared in a drama An Annapolis Story (1955) at Allied Artists.
Derek signed a long-term deal with Paraphrasedoutput in March 1954. Run for Cover (1955), a Western starring James Cagney and Nicholas Ray, and The Leather Saint (1956), a boxing film, were two of his first films for the studio. In The Ten Commandments (1956), he appeared as Joshua. He wanted to make a film about Joaquin Murrieta but it wasn't successful.
In 1957, Derek went to Italy to appear in Pirate of the Half Moon (1957). At Showdown (1957) and a film in the United Kingdom The Flesh Is Weak (1957) are two fictional characters. Cornel Wilde appeared in Omar Khayam (1957), and he appeared in High Hell (1958). He was in Prisoner of the Volga (1959), and he played an Arab in Exodus (1960). Frontier Circus, a TV show, was his favorite character.
Derek was dissatisfied with acting. Later, he said he "was never into it." It wouldn't have helped if they'd given me the greatest part of the world. I used to go to the directors of my films and say, 'I'm not an actor, but I'll turn up on time and know my words.' I believe I did one take per scene in the 13 films I made. Directors decided against a second because it would not be any different from the first. I never liked acting. My films. One of the Outcasts, perhaps a cheap little Western. I loved it because horses are my favorite thing. When I first started to act, one of the difficulties was that I had a monotone voice that went even flatter. "I only liked it after an Italian actor who had a lot of fire in his voice" when I first saw Knock On Any Door in Italy.
In Nightmare in the Sun (1965), which he co-produced, Derek appeared with his second wife, Ursula Andress. He went back to directing with a war film called Once Before I Die (1966), also with Andress.
He eventually stopped acting. "You must be nuts to do something like that in this neighborhood." They can't believe you didn't like it."
He starred in A Boy... a Girl (1969) with Dean Paul Martin and Childish Things (1969) with Linda Evans, his third wife.
Bo Derek was directed by him in 1973, but it wasn't announced until 1981. Love You (1979), a hardcore pornographic film made by Bo Bo, was made. When Bo was made a film 10 (1979) made him a star, Derek was able to find support for Tarzan, the Ape Man (1981), which received mostly critical reviews; Roger Ebert called it "completely ridiculous," but added that it had a "certain disarming charm."
The Dereks had intended to follow Eve and That Damned Apple, but instead of Universal delayed financing, they decided to make Bolero (1984) for Cannon, which was an unpleasant surprise for the Dereks. Ghosts Can't Do It (1990), John's last film as director.
In Playboy magazine, Derek, a talented photographer, photographed the last three of his four wives (at different times) for nude spreads.
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