John Sutton (actor)

John Sutton (22 October 1908 – 10 July 1963) was a British actor with a prolific career in Hollywood of more than 30 years.

Personal life

Sutton was born in Rawalpindi, India (now Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan). He was the son of Lt. Colonel Arthur Congdon (1861-1924) of the Royal Munster Fusiliers and his wife Ann Bell Sutton Moxley Congdon. Before moving to Hollywood as an actor, he was a tea planter in Assam, India, and, failing that, he farmed for a while in South Africa. Upon being naturalized as a U.S. citizen while serving in the U.S. Navy in 1943, he legally changed his name to John Sutton.

Sutton was married at least three times. In 1933, he married wealthy socialite Charlotte Biddle Barrett. In the 1940 federal census, the household included his wife Charlotte and her daughter from a previous marriage. In October 1946, he divorced his high society wife and married Roberta Fidler, former wife of newspaper columnist and radio commentator Jimmie Fidler; this rather stormy second marriage ended in divorce in 1955. He married dancer Anita Rodney-Eden in 1957, but he received an annulment in 1960, when it was shown that she was still legally the ninth wife of oft-married (13 marriages to 11 women) Tommy Manville.
He died suddenly of a heart attack on 10 July 1963.

Filmography

*'' The House of a Thousand Candles'' (1936) as Young Man (uncredited)
*''Federal Agent'' (1936) as Elevator Operator (uncredited)
*''The Princess Comes Across'' (1936) as Ship's Passenger at Baggage Check / At Concert (uncredited)
*''The Last of the Mohicans'' (1936) as British officer, Fort Henry (uncredited)
*''Bulldog Drummond Comes Back'' (1937) as Sanger
*''Bulldog Drummond's Revenge'' (1937) as Jennings, Nielson's Secretary
*'' The Buccaneer'' (1938) as British Officer Before Battle (uncredited)
*'' Mad About Music'' (1938) as Photographer (uncredited)
*''Bulldog Drummond's Peril'' (1938) as Doctor (uncredited)
*''Fools for Scandal'' (1938) as Bruce Devon (uncredited)
*'' Four Men and a Prayer'' (1938) as Capt. Drake
*''The Adventures of Robin Hood'' (1938) as Richard's Knight (uncredited)
*''Kidnapped'' (1938) as English Officer (uncredited)
*'' Blond Cheat'' (1938) as Fred Percy
*'' Booloo'' (1938) as Ferguson
*''The Affairs of Annabel'' (1938) as Man at Newsstand (uncredited)
*'' Arrest Bulldog Drummond'' (1939) as Inspector Tredennis (uncredited)
*'' The Dawn Patrol'' (1938) as Adjutant (uncredited)
*''Zaza'' (1939) as Dandy (uncredited)
*'' I'm from Missouri'' (1939) as Subaltern (uncredited)
*''Sons of Liberty'' (1939, Short) as Hessian Courier (uncredited)
*'' Susannah of the Mounties'' (1939) as Corporal Piggott
*''Bulldog Drummond's Bride'' (1939) as Inspector Tredennis
*'' The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex'' (1939) as Capt. Armand of the Queen's Guard (uncredited)
*''Tower of London'' (1939) as John Wyatt
*''Charlie McCarthy, Detective'' (1939) as Bill Banning
*'' The Invisible Man Returns'' (1940) as Doctor Frank Griffin
*''Sandy Is a Lady'' (1940) (uncredited)
*''I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby'' (1940) as Boston
*'' South to Karanga'' (1940) as David Wallace
*''The Sea Hawk'' (1940) as Captain of the Guard (uncredited)
*''Murder Over New York'' (1940) as Richard Jeffery
*'' Hudson's Bay'' (1941) as Lord Edward Crewe
*''A Very Young Lady'' (1941) as Dr. Franklin Meredith
*'' A Yank in the R.A.F.'' (1941) as Wing Commander Morley
*'' Moon Over Her Shoulder'' (1941) as Dr. Phillip Rossiter
*'' My Gal Sal'' (1942) as Fred Haviland
*''Ten Gentlemen from West Point'' (1942) as Howard Shelton
*'' Thunder Birds'' (1942) as Peter Stackhouse
*'' Tonight We Raid Calais'' (1943) as Geoffrey Carter
*''Jane Eyre'' (1943) as Dr. Rivers
*''The Hour Before the Dawn'' (1944) as Roger Hetherton
*'' Claudia and David'' (1946) as Phil Dexter
*'' Captain from Castile'' (1947) as Diego De Silva
*''Adventures of Casanova'' (1948) as Count de Brissac
*'' The Counterfeiters'' (1948) as Jeff MacAllister
*'' Mickey'' (1948) as Ted Whitney
*''The Three Musketeers'' (1948) as The Duke of Buckingham
*'' The Fan'' (1949) as Cecil Graham
*''Bride of Vengeance'' (1949) as Prince Bisceglie
*'' Bagdad'' (1949) as Raizul
*'' The Second Woman'' (1950) as Keith Ferris
*''The Second Face'' (1950) as Jerry Allison
*'' Payment on Demand'' (1951) as Anthony Tunliffe
*'' David and Bathsheba'' (1951) as Ira
*''Fireside Theatre'' (1951, TV Series)
*'' 5 Fingers'' (1952) as Narrator (voice, uncredited)
*'' Thief of Damascus'' (1952) as Khalid
*''Lady in the Iron Mask

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