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Jeffrey Lynn

Jeffrey Lynn

Birthday: 1909-02-16 | Place of Birth: Auburn, Massachusetts, USA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jeffrey Lynn (born Ragnar Godfrey Lind; February 16, 1909 – November 24, 1995) was an American stage-screen actor and film producer who worked primarily through the Golden Age of Hollywood establishing himself as one of the premier talents of his time. Throughout his acting career, both on stage and in film, he was typecast as "the attractive, reliable love interest of the heroine," or "the tall, stalwart hero." Born and raised in Massachusetts, he attended Bates College, before working as a teacher. He was tapped to act in his first film in 1938, which convinced him to move to Hollywood, California. His second film–Four Daughters (1938)–propelled him into national fame sparking three sequels: Daughters Courageous (1939), Four Wives (1939) and Four Mothers (1941) with Lynn reprising his role in each of them. He was at the center of the Gone with the Wind (1939) screening controversy; he was noted as the top contender to play Ashley Wilkes, however, the directer eventually chose Leslie Howard instead. Lynn was asked to join James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart in The Roaring Twenties (1939), a gangster noir that garnered him critical praise. His success continued with such films as The Fighting 69th (1940) in which he portrayed poet-soldier Joyce Kilmer opposite Cagney, It All Came True (1940), All This and Heaven Too (1940) and Million Dollar Baby (1941). His movie career was put on hold for World War II draft, where he received a Bronze Star for his service as a in Italy and Austria as a combat intelligence captain. He returned to the screen in 1948 and was in the notably successful, A Letter to Three Wives (1949), which went on to be nominated of best picture in the 1950 prime time Academy Awards. A year later he joined that cast of Home Town Story (1951) billed alongside Marilyn Monroe. His later film career credits include: BUtterfield 8 (1960) along with Elizabeth Taylor and Laurence Harvey, and Tony Rome (1967) with Frank Sinatra. Lynn also began to act on Broadway and was featured in such plays as Any Wednesday (1966) and Dinner at Eight (1967). Later on in his career he found mixed critical success television starring in hit shows such as Robert Montgomery Presents, Your Show of Shows, My Son Jeep (with young Martin Huston), and Lux Video Theatre. He died in November 1995 in Burbank, California from natural causes and was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in the Hollywood Hills. Actor Jeffrey Lynn "Jeff" Goldblum is named in honor of Jeffrey Lynn.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1967
Tony Rome

as    Adam Boyd

1960
BUtterfield 8

as    Bingham Smith

1954
Doorway to Suspicion

as    Paul Stapleton

1951
Home Town Story

as    Blake Washburn

1949
A Letter to Three Wives

as    Bradford 'Brad' Bishop

1949
Strange Bargain

as    Sam Wilson

1948
Black Bart

as    Lance Hardeen

1948
For the Love of Mary

as    Phillip Manning

1941
Four Mothers

as    Felix Deitz

1941
Million Dollar Baby

as    James Amory

1941
Law of the Tropics

as    Jim Conwoy

1941
Underground

as    Kurt Franken

1941
Flight from Destiny

as    Michael Farroway

1940
Money and the Woman

as    Dave Bennett

1940
All This, and Heaven Too

as    Henry Martyn Field

1940
The Fighting 69th

as    Joyce Kilmer

1940
It All Came True

as    Tommy Taylor

1940
My Love Came Back

as    Tony Baldwin

1939
Yes, My Darling Daughter

as    Douglas Hall

1939
Four Wives

as    Felix Dietz

1939
The Roaring Twenties

as    Lloyd Hart

1939
Espionage Agent

as    Lowell Warrington

1938
When Were You Born

as    Davis

1938
Four Daughters

as    Felix Deitz

1938
Out Where the Stars Begin

as    Makeup Artist