Jack La Rue

Jack La Rue (May 3, 1902, New York City, New York – January 11, 1984, Santa Monica, California) was an American film and stage actor.

Born as Gaspere Biondolillo, he worked on the New York stage from 1923 to 1931. He moved to Hollywood, where he appeared in numerous films. Sometimes mistaken for Humphrey Bogart, he played mostly thugs and gangsters. For example, in such a role, La Rue tormented the wrongly-accused Richard Cromwell in Universal Pictures's anti-Nazi action drama Enemy Agent (1940), and was savagely beaten with a leather whip by Cary Grant in The Woman Accused (1933). His most noteworthy leading role, however, was as the mobster "Trigger" in the pre-Code film The Story of Temple Drake (1933) opposite Miriam Hopkins.

Family

His son was actor Jack La Rue, Jr.

Death

La Rue died of a heart attack at the age of 81. He was buried in Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California.

Partial filmography

• Night World (1932) (uncredited) with Mae Clarke and Boris Karloff
• Virtue (1932) with Carole Lombard and Pat O'Brien
• A Farewell to Arms (1932) with Gary Cooper and Helen Hayes
• Christopher Strong (1933) with Katharine Hepburn and Colin Clive
• Gambling Ship (1933) with Cary Grant and Glenda Farrell
• The Woman Accused (1933) with Nancy Carroll and Cary Grant (whipping sequence)
• The Story of Temple Drake (1933) with Miriam Hopkins
• To the Last Man (1933) with Randolph Scott and Noah Beery, Sr.
• Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen (1934) with William Frawley and Alan Hale, Sr.
• Special Agent (1935) with Bette Davis and George Brent
• Remember Last Night? (1935) with Edward Arnold and Robert Young
• The Headline Woman (1935)
• Little Big Shot (1935) with Glenda Farrell and Robert Armstrong
• Strike Me Pink (1936) with Eddie Cantor and Ethel Merman
• Yellow Cargo (1936) with Conrad Nagel and Eleanor Hunt
• Captains Courageous (1937) with Spencer Tracy
• The Gang's All Here (1939) with Jack Buchanan
• Murder in Soho (1939)
• Charlie Chan in Panama (1940) with Sidney Toler
• Enemy Agent (1940)
• The Sea Hawk (1940) with Errol Flynn and Claude Raines
• Footsteps in the Dark (1941) with Errol Flynn and Alan Hale, Sr.
• The Desert Song (1943)
• The Law Rides Again (1943) with Ken Maynard and Hoot Gibson
• Dangerous Passage (1944)
• The Spanish Main (1945) with Maureen O'Hara and Paul Henreid
• Dakota (1945) with John Wayne and Walter Brennan
• Cornered (1945) with Dick Powell
• Road to Utopia (1946) with Bing Crosby and Bob Hope
• Murder in the Music Hall (1946) with Nancy Kelly
• Bush Pilot (film) (1947) as Paul Girard, with Rochelle Hudson and Austin Willis
• My Favorite Brunette (1947) with Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour
• No Orchids for Miss Blandish (1948)
• For Heaven's Sake (1950) with Clifton Webb and Joan Bennett
• Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964) with Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., and Bing Crosby

External links

• Jack La Rue at the Internet Movie Database
• Jack La Rue at the Internet Broadway Database
• Jack La Rue at Find a Grave