John Tyrrell (Actor) Information
John Tyrrell (December 7, 1900 – September 20, 1949) was an American film actor. He appeared in over 250 films between 1935 and 1947.
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Career
Tyrrell is best known for his prolific work with Columbia Pictures in the Three Stooges short subjects.[1] Like many actors in the Stooge comedies, Tyrrell was a salaried contract player. The Columbia stock company was called upon to play incidental roles in practically everything the studio produced: important films, low-budget "B" pictures, short subjects, and serials. (Some of these players graduated to stardom, like Lloyd Bridges, Bruce Bennett, Adele Mara, and Ann Doran.) John Tyrrell worked steadily at Columbia from 1938 to 1945. Occasionally, only Tyrrell's voice would be used, as a radio newsman, public-address announcer, or police-call dispatcher. Tyrrell and fellow stock player Eddie Laughton often appeared together in Columbia movies (frequently as mobsters waiting in a getaway car). Tyrrell's biggest role was probably in the 1939 serial Mandrake the Magician, in which he played a masked crime lord's right-hand man.
Death
After spending several months at Kingsbridge Veteran's Hospital in the Bronx, New York, John Tyrrell died of pneumonia in 1949.[1]
Selected filmography
- Uncivil War Birds (1946)
- Booby Dupes (1945)
- Gents Without Cents (1944)
- A Gem of a Jam (1943)
- Dizzy Detectives (1943)
- Three Smart Saps (1942)
- Loco Boy Makes Good (1942)
- In the Sweet Pie and Pie (1941)
- So Long Mr. Chumps (1941)
- From Nurse to Worse (1940)
- Nutty But Nice (1940)
- A Plumbing We Will Go (1940)
- You Nazty Spy! (1940)
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
- We Want Our Mummy (1939)
- The Man They Could Not Hang (1939)
- Mandrake the Magician (1939)
- It Happened in Hollywood (1937)
- Three Smart Girls (1936)
References
- ^ a b Shifres, Ed (2006). The Three Stooges Journal #119. The Three Stooges Fan Club. pp. 8. ISBN 0971186804.
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| Name | Tyrrell, John |
| Alternative names | Tyrrell, John Edward |
| Short description | Actor |
| Date of birth | 1900-12-7 |
| Place of birth | The Bronx, New York, USA |
| Date of death | 1949-9-20 |
| Place of death | The Bronx, New York, USA |
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