Lew Ayres: Biografía, Filmografía y actores con los que más ha trabajado

Trabajo principal: Interpretación

Edad: 115 años

Lugar de nacimiento: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

Fecha de nacimiento: 28 de diciembre de 1908

Películas destacadas de Lew Ayres

Lew Ayres interpreta a Bill Atherton en La Maldición de Damien — La Maldición de Damien
*Bill Atherton*

Lew Ayres interpreta a Mandemus en La conquista del planeta de los simios — La conquista del planeta de los simios
*Mandemus*

Lew Ayres interpreta a Paul Bäumer en Sin novedad en el frente — Sin novedad en el frente
*Paul Bäumer*

Lew Ayres interpreta a Michael Rand en Night World — Night World
*Michael Rand*

Lew Ayres interpreta a Ned Seton en Vivir para gozar — Vivir para gozar
*Ned Seton*

Lew Ayres interpreta a Com. Joseph Beckerman en Año 1999: El fin del mundo — Año 1999: El fin del mundo
*Com. Joseph Beckerman*

Lew Ayres interpreta a Henry Twinkle en The Golden Fleecing — The Golden Fleecing
*Henry Twinkle*

Lew Ayres interpreta a Woodruff 'Woody' Davis en The Leathernecks Have Landed — The Leathernecks Have Landed
*Woodruff 'Woody' Davis*

Lew Ayres interpreta a Dr. James Kildare en Dr. Kildare's Strange Case — Dr. Kildare's Strange Case
*Dr. James Kildare*

Biografía de Lew Ayres

Lew Ayres was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and raised in San Diego, California. A college dropout, he was found by a talent scout in the Coconut Grove nightclub in Los Angeles and entered Hollywood as a bit player. He was leading man to Greta Garbo in The Kiss (1929), but it was the role of Paul Baumer in All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) that was his big break. He was profoundly affected by the anti-war message of that film, and when, in 1942, the popular star of Young Dr. Kildare (1938) and subsequent Dr. Kildare films was drafted, he was a conscientious objector. America was outraged, and theaters vowed never to show his films again, but quietly he achieved the Medical Corps status he had requested, serving as a medic under fire in the South Pacific and as a chaplain's aid in New Guinea and the Phillipines. His return to film after the war was undistinguished until Johnny Belinda (1948) - his role as the sympathetic physician treating the deaf-mute Jane Wyman won him an Academy Award nomination as Best Actor. Subsequent movie roles were scarce; an opportunity to play Dr. Kildare in television was aborted when the network refused to honor his request for no cigarette sponsorship. He continued to act, but in the 1970s put his long experience into a project to bring to the west the philosophy of the East - the resulting film, Altars of the World (1976), while not a box-office success, won critical acclaim and a Golden Globe Award. Lew Ayres died in Los Angeles, California on December 30, 1996, just two days after his 88th birthday.