Tom Tryon
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Thomas "Tom" Tryon, 1926-1926 – September 4, 1991) was an American film and television actor as well as a novelist.
He is best known for his appearance in The Cardinal (1963) and In Harm's Way (1965), as well as Walt Disney's television character Texas John Slaughter (1958–1961).
He later moved to prose fiction and screenplays, and he wrote several science fiction, horror, and mystery books.
Early life and education
Thomas Tryon was born in Hartford, Connecticut, on January 14, 1926, the son of Arthur Lane Tryon, a clothier and owner of Stackpole, Moore & Tryon (who has often been identified as the son of silent screen actor Glenn Tryon). He served in the United States Navy in the Pacific from 1943 to 1946, before and after World War II.
Personal life
Tryon married Ann L. Noyes, the daughter of stockbroker Joseph Leo Lilienthal and his wife, former Edna Arnstein, in 1955. She was Thomas Ewing Noyes' former wife, with whom she had worked as a stage actress. In 1958, the Tryons divorced, and Ann Tryon's name was revived. She died in 1966. Tryon said she committed suicide and that he kept a snapshot of her in his apartment.
He was in a romantic relationship with Clive Clerk, one of the original cast members of A Chorus Line and an interior designer who decorated Tryon's apartment on Central Park West in New York City, which was included in Architectural Digest. Tryon was in a porn actor Casey Donovan from 1973 to 1977.
Acting career
In Wish You Were Here (1952), Cyrano de Bergerac (1953), and Richard III (1953).
Tryon appeared in The Way of the World (1955). In 1955, Antoine De More appeared in the two-part episode "King of the Dakotas" of NBC's western anthology series Frontier.
Tryon has been committed to He was given a long-term deal. Michael Curtiz directed The Scarlet Hour (1956) at Paramount, his film debut. It was a crime drama involving a man whose married lover begged him to commit a robbery; Tryon was second billed. He was top billed in a low-budget war film at Allied Artists, Screaming Eagles (1956), then he assisted Charlton Heston and Anne Baxter in Three Violent People (1956) at He was supposed to be in, but he didn't turn up in, Short Cut to Hell.
Tryon's career was mostly in television, appearing in Jane Wyman Presents The Fireside Theatre, The Twenty-Fox Hour, Playhouse 90 (an adaptation of Charley's Aunt), Zane Grey Theatre, Studio 57, Matinee Theatre, and Lux Video Theatre. After Rod Steiger and Diana Dors' billing, he had a support role in RKO's The Unholy Wife (1957) billed. At He was the lead in a low-budget science fiction film called "Outer Space (1958). Tryon appeared in "The Mark Hanford Story" (February 26, 1958) on NBC's Wagon Train with Onslow Stevens and Kathleen Crowley. The Restless Gun, General Electric Theatre, The Millionaire, The Big Valley, and The Joseph Cotten Show were among his television appearances.
In a series of TV movies for Disney that spanned 1958 to 1961, Tryon played Texas John Slaughter. The role was based on true historical figure John Slaughter. He was considered but then dropped out of the role of Janet Leigh's lover, Sam Loomis, in the classic thriller Psycho (1960); the role went to John Gavin.
Tryon appeared in The Story of Ruth (1960) at 20th Century Fox. Let's Go (1961), a film in which he appeared in Marines. Pluto Pilot (1962) - Disney borrowed him to star in a space age parody, Moon Pilot (1962). He was one of many characters in Fox's The Longest Day (1962). Tryon was supposed to appear in the unfinished Marilyn Monroe-Dean Martin comedy film Something's Got to Give, directed by George Cukor in 1962, but he was forced to act in the role after Monroe was barred from the film. Dr. Kildare and The Virginian were two of his guest stars.
In The Cardinal (1963), Tryon's greatest role was as an ardent Catholic priest. Tryon was nominated for the Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama Award at the Golden Globe Theatre, and the film was a box office hit. However, the honor was barely compensated for the pain and abuse he suffered at the hands of director Otto Preminger. Preminger fired Tryon in front of his parents when they visited the theater and rehired him after being satisfied that Tryon had been sufficiently humiliated.
"I was in a position of being able to choose my roles," Tryon said in 1986. "I didn't like the movie but I didn't like it." I didn't like me in the movie. I can't recall seeing that film on this day. It's because of Preminger that it's so popular. He was a tyrant who ruled by terror. He tied me up in knots. He screamed at me. He called names. I was lazy, according to him. I was a fool, my uncle said. I never cursed me. His insults were much more personal."
Tryon appeared on Kraft Suspense Theatre and then appeared in In Harm's Way (1965).
In The Glory Guys (1965), he was the first to lead the group.
He appeared on TV as part of The Fall of the House of Usher's Fall of Usher. He co-wrote "I Wish I Was" a song written by Dick Kallman, the actor of the short-lived 1965 television sitcom Hank. Other television appearances include episodes of The Big Valley, Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre, and Winchester'73, 1967 television movie remake. Tryon took to Australia to make Colour Me Dead (1969).
Writing career
Tryon resigned from acting in 1969 and began writing horror and mystery books, disillusioned with acting. He was successful in overcoming skepticism about a classically gorgeous movie star who is now turning novelist. He also ventured into film production, appearing as executive producer on Johnny Got His Gun (1971).
His best-known work, The Other (1971), about a boy whose nefarious twin brother who may or not not be responsible for a string of deaths in a small rural community in the 1930s, is The Other (1971). He turned his book into a film that starred Diana Muldaur, Uta Hagen, and John Ritter the following year. The Harvest Home (1973), a television miniseries starring Bette Davis, was adapted as The Dark Secret of Harvest Home (1978), about the dark pagan rituals being performed in a small New England town.
In S. T. Joshi's book The Modern Weird Tale (2001), there is a lengthy critical review of Tryon's horror novels. Crowned Heads, a series of novellas influenced by Hollywood's legends, is one of his other books. Tryon sold the film rights to Universal to produce four films based on the novellas. Billy Wilder's first novella, Fedora, about a reclusive former film actress whose friendship with her plastic surgeon is similar to that of a heroin user and her pusher.
Other novellas in the series were based on the assassination of former silent screen star Ramón Novarro and the quasi-Oedipal friendship between actor Clifton Webb and his mother. Lady (1974) is concerned about the relationship between an eight-year-old boy and a charming widow in 1930s New England, as well as the mystery that she uncovers about her. The Night of the Moonbow (1989) tells the tale of a boy who is pushed to dangerous ends as a result of continual bullying at a boys summer camp. Night Magic, a 1991 novel that was published in 1995, was posthumously published in 1995.