Lew Ayres

個人簡介

Lew Ayres was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and raised in San Diego, California. A college dropout, he was found by a talent scout in the Coconut Grove nightclub in Los Angeles and entered Hollywood as a bit player. He was leading man to Greta Garbo in The Kiss (1929), but it was the role of Paul Baumer in All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) that was his big break. He was profoundly affected by the anti-war message of that film, and when, in 1942, the popular star of Young Dr. Kildare (1938) and subsequent Dr. Kildare films was drafted, he was a conscientious objector. America was outraged, and theaters vowed never to show his films again, but quietly he achieved the Medical Corps status he had requested, serving as a medic under fire in the South Pacific and as a chaplain's aid in New Guinea and the Phillipines. His return to film after the war was undistinguished until Johnny Belinda (1948) - his role as the sympathetic physician treating the deaf-mute Jane Wyman won him an Academy Award nomination as Best Actor. Subsequent movie roles were scarce; an opportunity to play Dr. Kildare in television was aborted when the network refused to honor his request for no cigarette sponsorship. He continued to act, but in the 1970s put his long experience into a project to bring to the west the philosophy of the East - the resulting film, Altars of the World (1976), while not a box-office success, won critical acclaim and a Golden Globe Award. Lew Ayres died in Los Angeles, California on December 30, 1996, just two days after his 88th birthday.

生日

1908年12月28日

其他稱謂

Lewis Frederick Ayre III

Lew Ayres的電影作品

年份	電影	職務
1991	Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker 飾演 actor 'Advise and 'Consent' (archive footage) (uncredited)	飾演 actor 'Advise and 'Consent' (archive footage) (uncredited)
1989	Cast the First Stone 飾演 Martin	飾演 Martin
1978	星際大爭霸飾演 President Adar	飾演 President Adar
1978	天魔第二集：天劫飾演 Bill Atherton	飾演 Bill Atherton
1974	Heatwave! 飾演 Dr. Grayson	飾演 Dr. Grayson
1973	決戰猩球飾演 Mandemus	飾演 Mandemus
1971	地球 2 號飾演 President Charles Carter Durant	飾演 President Charles Carter Durant
1969	Marcus Welby, M.D.: A Matter of Humanities 飾演 Dr. Andrew Swanson	飾演 Dr. Andrew Swanson
1962	華府千秋飾演 The Vice President	飾演 The Vice President
1930	西線無戰事飾演 Paul Bäumer	飾演 Paul Bäumer