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Michael Whalen
30 June 1902
Michael Whalen played in 5 movies in the Adventure, Family, Musical, Romance, Music, Crime, Film-Noir, Drama, Sci-Fi genres.
Michael Whalen got succeed with average imdb rating 5.1.
A dark, debonair, mustachioed, inventive-looking paramount control who lop a acute person in 1930s Fox movies, his good looks were interestingly counterpoise by a slightly prominent Romanesque nose. Born Joseph Shovlin on June 30, 1902, in Wilkes-Barre, Penssylvania, he took piano lessons as a youth but the predisposition never went anywhere. He eventually was hired by the Woolworths department store chain and worked his begun up to proprietor alongside the lifetime he resigned at the stage of 2... 3. During an extensive period of voyage, he stopped in New York City and became hooked on acting after catching a Broadway stage. He apprenticed and made his juncture debut with 'Eva Le Gallienne' (qv)'s repertory body. To make do, the handsome hopeful worked as an artist's model, including the prominent James Montgomery Flagg. Whalen came to Hollywood in 1933 and started out on the L.A. concoct with roles in "When Knighthood Was in Flower" (as the Dauphin) and "Banal Bodily." Noticed next to Twentieth Century Fox talent agents, he made his debut with a approve of captain place in _Professional Soldier (1935)_ (qv) starring 'Conqueror McLaglen' (qv). On colander he appeared opposite a bevy of Hollywood lovelies, clearly 'Alice Faye (I)' (qv), 'Gloria Stuart' (qv), 'Claire Trevor' (qv) and 'June Lang (I)' (qv), in criterion "B" filmmaking, playing a series of virile, skin-deep roles including Hollywood producers and sports editor types. He also had the adult male leads in two of little 'Shirley Holy place' (qv)'s commonplace vehicles -- _Poor Little Savoury Girl (1936)_ (qv) and _Wee Willie Winkie (1937)_ (qv). In 1938 he starred as newsman Barney Callahan in a string of murder ambiguousness tales (_Time Out representing Murder (1938)_ (qv), _While Callow York Sleeps (1938)_ (qv) and _ Story (1939)_ (qv)) alongside love investment 'Jean Rogers (I)' (qv). By the untimely 1940s, his leading man hurtle started to falter. He went to Broadway in the direction of two years in "Ten Ungenerous Indians" (1944), then toured with the manifest on the road. By the 1950s he was appearing less many a time on film and more and more into nature roles. TV became a informant of proceeds for him. His model movie was an unbilled suggestion in _Elmer Gantry (1960)_ (qv), and in 1964 he made his incontrovertible bearing on an adventure of "My Three Sons." In the good old days betrothed to sultry actress 'Ilona Massey' (qv), the four never made it to the altar. Whalen remained a bachelor and lived with his mother until her eradication in the 1960s. He unperturbed antiques and enjoyed gardening until his termination of bronchial pneumonia in 1974 at age 71.Read more Less
