Occupation Stage, film actor Parents Gertrude Owsley Role Film actor | Name Monroe Owsley Years active 1928-1937 | |
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Born August 11, 1900 ( 1900-08-11 ) Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Movies Ten Cents a Dance, Call Her Savage, Ex‑Lady, Indiscreet, Honor Among Lovers Similar People John Francis Dillon, Robert Florey, Dorothy Arzner, Edward Sedgwick, Roy Del Ruth | ||
Monroe Owsley (August 11, 1900 – June 7, 1937) was an American stage and film actor.
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Biography
Born in Atlanta, Georgia to an aspiring actress, Gertrude Owsley, Monroe Owsley started taking acting classes when he was a teenager and made his Broadway debut in the 1920s. His film debut was 1928's The First Kiss, starring Fay Wray. This was followed by the Philip Barry film Holiday in 1930, in the role played by Lew Ayres in the 1938 version. Soon after, he was cast opposite actresses such as Clara Bow, Bette Davis, Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Crawford, Gloria Swanson, Mae West, and Kay Francis.
Death
Owsley died in 1937 from a heart attack following a car accident in Belmont, California. He was 36 years old.
Filmography
Actor
1937
The Hit Parade as
Teddy Leeds
1936
Hideaway Girl as
Count de Montaigne
1936
Mister Cinderella as
Aloysius P. Merriweather
1936
Yellowstone as
Marty Ryan / Jenkins
1936
Private Number as
Coakley
1935
Remember Last Night? as
Billy Arliss
1935
Goin' to Town as
Fletcher Colton
1935
Rumba as
Hobart Fletcher
1934
Behold My Wife! as
Bob Prentice
1934
She Was a Lady as
Jerry Couzins
1934
Shock as
Bob Hayworth
1934
Wild Gold as
Walter Jordan
1934
Little Man, What Now? as
Kessler
1933
Twin Husbands as
Colton Drain
1933
Brief Moment as
Harold Sigrift
1933
Ex-Lady as
Nick Malvyn
1933
The Woman Who Dared as
Jack Goodwin - Newspaper Reporter
1933
The Keyhole as
Maurice Le Brun
1932
Call Her Savage as
Lawrence Crosby
1932
Hat Check Girl as
Tod Reese
1932
Unashamed as
Harry Swift
1931
This Modern Age as
Tony Gerard
1931
Indiscreet as
Jim Woodward
1931
Honor Among Lovers as
Philip Craig
1931
Ten Cents a Dance as
Eddie Miller
1930
Free Love as
Rush Begelow
1930
Kid the Kidder (Short)
1930
Holiday as
Ned Seton
1928
Carry on, Sergeant! as
Leonard Sinclair
1928
The First Kiss as
The Suitor
Archive Footage
1942
Screen Snapshots Series 22, No 10 (Short) as
Self
1941
Screen Snapshots Series 21, No. 2 (Short)
References
Monroe Owsley Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA