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He was heading for an exceptional career in the early 1940s. He had “scored” in several major hit films and was a unique leading man-character actor. But something unexpected happened — he died, at age 31. His film career almost exclusively at Twentieth Century Fox covered 16 titles in over just five years, 1940 to […]
Sydney Greenstreet is perhaps the greatest character actor in Hollywood history and, Frank argues in this blog, one of the Hollywood’s greatest actors, period. (How many of you out there agree?) Greenstreet was born in England (Sandwich, Kent) in 1879, one of eight children of a leather merchant. At 18, he went abroad to Ceylon (now […]