41 Facts About Tom Conway

Tom Conway is remembered for playing suave adventurer The Falcon in a series of 1940s films; and his appearances in three horror films produced by Val Lewton, Cat People, I Walked with a Zombie, and The Seventh Victim.

Tom Conway was educated at Brighton College then moved to Africa to find work.

Tom Conway returned to England, worked as a glass salesman, then became interested in acting.

Tom Conway started by appearing in amateur theater, then joined a repertory company for a year and a half.

In May 1940 it was announced Tom Conway had signed a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Tom Conway had small roles in Waterloo Bridge, with only his voice heard, Sky Murder with Walter Pidgeon, and The Wild Man of Borneo.

Tom Conway had a bigger part in The Trial of Mary Dugan with Robert Young, then was back to small parts in Free and Easy, The Bad Man with Wallace Beery and Lionel Barrymore, The People vs Dr Kildare with Lew Ayres and Lionel Barrymore, and Lady Be Good with Eleanor Powell and Red Skelton.

Tom Conway was a villain in Tarzan's Secret Treasure with Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O'Sullivan, Mr and Mrs North with Gracie Allen, and Rio Rita with Abbott and Costello.

Tom Conway was a murder suspect in Grand Central Murder with Van Heflin and had an uncredited bit in Mrs Miniver with Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon.

Sanders had tired of the role, so the pencil-mustached Tom Conway took over as The Falcon's Brother, co-starring with Sanders.

Tom Conway followed this success with an excellent role in Cat People, the first of producer Val Lewton's well remembered horror cycle.

Tom Conway had the male lead in a second film for Lewton, I Walked with a Zombie, now regarded as a horror classic.

Tom Conway was top-billed in Lewton's The Seventh Victim playing the same role, psychiatrist Dr Louis Judd, from Cat People.

Tom Conway was borrowed by United Artists for Whistle Stop, in which he supported George Raft, Ava Gardner, and Victor McLaglen.

In June 1946, Tom Conway obtained a release from his RKO contract.

Tom Conway had already left the studio when his last RKO films were released: The Falcon's Alibi, Criminal Court, and The Falcon's Adventure.

In September 1946 Eagle-Lion announced that former RKO producer Lee Marcus was preparing a new comedy, His Wedding Night, with Tom Conway joining Dennis O'Keefe and Ann Richards as the leading players.

Tom Conway stayed with Eagle-Lion and was featured in Repeat Performance.

In spite of a similarly refined English accent, Tom Conway was not as well received as Rathbone by audiences; he played Holmes for only one season.

Meanwhile Tom Conway couldn't find a berth at a major studio, but he wasn't alone; dozens of actors were underemployed when the majors committed to make fewer but more expensive pictures, with lower-budget productions sharply curtailed.

Tom Conway signed with Artists Alliance Productions, an ambitious but short-lived independent, to appear in One Touch of Venus, released in 1948 by Universal.

When George Sanders married Zsa Zsa Gabor, Tom Conway joined the wedding party on April Fool's Day, 1949.

Tom Conway recruited his sister-in-law Zsa Zsa to join him on the program.

Tom Conway succeeded Edgar Barrier, Brian Aherne, and Vincent Price in the leading role, and was the last of the radio Saints, performing in 22 weekly episodes.

Back in the movie studios, Tom Conway had supporting parts in Painting the Clouds with Sunshine and Bride of the Gorilla.

Tom Conway lent his smooth speaking voice to Walt Disney's Peter Pan, as the film's narrator.

Tom Conway went to England to star as Berkeley Gray's private detective Norman Conquest in Park Plaza 605, and Blood Orange.

Tom Conway had leads in the British Barbados Quest, Breakaway, and The Last Man to Hang.

Tom Conway was featured in The Atomic Submarine, and 12 to the Moon.

Tom Conway performed in the Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode "The Glass Eye" as Max Collodi, receiving critical praise.

Tom Conway had a supporting role in The Betty Hutton Show television series.

Tom Conway said Mr Sanders knew little or nothing about his plight because they had not been close in recent years.

George's brother, Tom Conway, too, remained a part of my life.

George contacted us to give us the tragic news that Tom Conway had cirrhosis of the liver and that he was dying.

On Capri, Tom Conway met a German scientist who had discovered a new serum that he wanted to test.

One day, his ex-wife called and said that this time Tom Conway was, in earnest, on his deathbed.

Gabor's account has Tom Conway dying within two days after leaving the Los Angeles hospital, which wasn't true.

Tom Conway emerged in late 1966 with new health and spirit.

Tom Conway decided against installing a telephone, and greeted visitors in person.

Tom Conway's rally came to a halt three months later, when he died of liver damage at Washington Hospital in Culver City, California on Saturday, 22 April 1967, at the age of 62.

Tom Conway's funeral was held in London, and his ashes were inurned inside a private vault at Chapel of the Pines Crematory.