Author Michael Ferguson
FUTURE PROJECT RESEARCH
Research is underway on several new projects, but I have particular interest in the lives and careers of the three actors listed below. I would be most grateful to hear from fans, friends, co-workers, and family of these men. Please contact me by e-mail at webmaster@joedallesandro.com and reference the actor(s) in the subject line. Thanks!
(James Allen Rideout, Jr.)
Working as Kurt Marshall, Mr. Rideout appeared in four adult films in the mid-1980s: Splash Shots: Memories of Summer (Falcon), The Other Side of Aspen II: The Legend Continues (Falcon), Night Flight (Falcon), and Sizing Up (HUGE Video).
Richard Cromwell (1910 - 1960)
(LeRoy Melvin Radabaugh)
At IMDB
Handsome ceramics artist turned actor, Mr. Cromwell played the lead in the 1930 film version of Tol'able David. Profoundly good-looking, he struggled for critical appreciation throughout his career and deserves a re-assessment, though several of his films are now considered lost. Briefly married to Angela Lansbury.
(LeRoy Melvin Radabaugh)
At IMDB
Handsome ceramics artist turned actor, Mr. Cromwell played the lead in the 1930 film version of Tol'able David. Profoundly good-looking, he struggled for critical appreciation throughout his career and deserves a re-assessment, though several of his films are now considered lost. Briefly married to Angela Lansbury.
(Samuel Laird Cregar)
At IMDB
One of the all-time great character actors, Mr. Cregar appeared in just 16 films before his untimely death. Oversized and slightly fey, he was a natural and charismatic supporting player, fawning over Tyrone Power in Blood and Sand, infatuated with Betty Grable in I Wake Up Screaming, and then coming into his own as an effeminate heavy with a sweet tooth in the noir classic This Gun for Hire. He was a suave Mephistopheles hearing Don Ameche’s life story in Heaven Can Wait, but his quietly menacing, actress-despising Jack the Ripper in The Lodger brought him widespread recognition.
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