1. William John Eythe was an American actor of film, radio, television and stage.
33 Facts About William Eythe
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William Eythe converted an old barn into a theatre and started performing plays he had written.
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William Eythe managed a dairy store in his home town for a year and began taking night courses at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh.
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William Eythe went to see Burgess Meredith on stage in Winterset and Meredith advised him to study at Carnegie Tech University.
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William Eythe acted in that play in Cohassett, Massachusetts with Sheila Barrett.
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William Eythe formed the Fox Chapel Players in Pittsburgh, a stock company composed mostly of former Carnegie students; it lasted one production of Lilliom.
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In June 1941 William Eythe joined his first professional stock company, in Cohassett, appearing alongside such names as Ruth Chatterton, Nancy Carroll and George Nagel.
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William Eythe was seen in a production of Ladies in Retirement by a talent scout from 20th Century Fox who offered a screen test.
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In New York, William Eythe got various jobs performing in radio dramas and as an announcer for a local television station, WBNT.
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William Eythe had a role on Broadway in The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck.
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The test was successful and William Eythe signed a long-term contract with the studio on 20 June 1942.
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William Eythe was given a screen-test, and landed a role in the film The Ox-Bow Incident, which co-starred Henry Fonda and Dana Andrews.
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William Eythe was promoted to leading roles with The Eve of St Mark, opposite Anne Baxter, from a play by Maxwell Anderson.
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William Eythe played the juvenile lead in Wilson, Fox's prestige picture of the year; it was a box office disappointment but Eythe's casting in the movie indicated the regard with which he was held at the studio.
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William Eythe was one of the three leads in a war film, Wing and a Prayer, directed by Henry Hathaway, alongside Don Ameche and Dana Andrews.
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William Eythe was to have appeared in Sunday Dinner for a Soldier but ended up being replaced by John Hodiak.
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William Eythe was reunited with Baxter on A Royal Scandal, directed by Otto Preminger and starring Tallulah Bankhead and Charles Coburn.
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William Eythe was announced for Doll Face with Vivian Blaine and a musical remake of The Bowery but neither were made.
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William Eythe was the romantic male lead in Colonel Effingham's Raid, starring Coburn.
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William Eythe was billed fourth in Centennial Summer, a musical directed by Preminger featuring Jeanne Crain, Cornel Wilde and Linda Darnell.
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William Eythe went to England where he starred in Meet Me at Dawn, a swashbuckler produced by Marcel Hellman and released through Fox.
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William Eythe returned to Hollywood where he starred in Mr Reckless, a drama for Pine-Thomas, a low budget unit associated with Paramount.
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William Eythe directed and appeared in a stage production of The Glass Menagerie.
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William Eythe turned producer, buying the rights to the revue Lend an Ear and much revising it.
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William Eythe announced he had bought the rights to the novel The Perfect Round by Henry Morton Robinson and wanted to turn it into a play.
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In November 1949 William Eythe left the cast of Lend an Ear, replaced by John Beal.
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William Eythe returned to films with the lead role in a B film at Columbia, Customs Agent.
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William Eythe appeared in a starring role in the 1950 Cole Porter musical Out of this World, based on the Greek myth of Amphitryon, in which Jupiter comes to earth to bed a lovely young lady, taking the shape of her much-loved husband.
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William Eythe was in episodes of Faith Baldwin Romance Theatre, Studio One in Hollywood, Armstrong Circle Theatre, Lux Video Theatre, Tales of Tomorrow, Lights Out, Schlitz Playhouse, and Hollywood Opening Night.
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William Eythe married a young 20th Century Fox contract actress, Buff Cobb, in June 1947.
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William Eythe lived with Lon McCallister from the early 1950s until his death.
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William Eythe was admitted to Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles in January 1957 suffering from hepatitis.
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William Eythe died several weeks later at the age of 38.