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John Williams was a tall, urbane Anglo-American actor best known for his role as ledare Inspector Hubbard in Dial M for Murder (1954), a role he played on huvudgata, in Alfred Hitchcock's classic 1954 spelfilm, and on television in 1958. Playing Hubbard on the Great White Way brought him the 1953 Tony Award as Best Featured Actor in a Play. "Dial M for Murder" was the 27th Broadway play he had appeared in since making his New York debut in "The Fake" in 1924, which he had originally appeared in back in his native England.
Williams was born on April 15, 1903 in Buckinghamshire and attended Lancing College. He first trod the boards as a teenager in a 1916 production of Peter Pan (1924). He moved to amerika in the mid-1920s and was a busy and constantly employed stage actor for 30 years. After "Dial M for Murder" in the 1953-54 årstid, though, he appeared in only fyra more huvudgata plays between 1955 and 1970 as he focused on movies and television.
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John Williams (actor)
English actor (1903–1983)
For other individuals with the same name, see John Williams (disambiguation).
John Williams | |
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Williams in the 1954 film Dial M for Murder | |
| Born | (1903-04-15)15 April 1903 Chalfont St Giles, England |
| Died | 5 May 1983(1983-05-05) (aged 80) San Diego, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1924–1979 |
| Spouse | Helen Williams |
Hugh Ernest Leo Williams (15 April 1903 – 5 May 1983)[a], known professionally as John Williams, was an English stage, film and television actor.[2] He is remembered for his role as Chief Inspector Hubbard in Alfred Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder, as the chauffeur in Billy Wilder's Sabrina (both 1954), as Mr. Brogan-Moore in Witness for the Prosecution (1957) and as the second "Mr. French" on TV's Family Affair in its first season (1967).
Life and work
[edit]Born in Chalfont St Giles in Buckinghamshire, England, in 1903, Williams
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John Williams
American composer and conductor (born 1932)
This article is about the composer. For other people named John Williams, see John Williams (disambiguation).
John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932)[1][2][3] is an American composer and conductor. In a career that has spanned seven decades, he has composed some of the most popular, recognizable, and critically acclaimed film scores in cinema history.[4][5][6] He has a distinct sound that mixes romanticism, impressionism and atonal music with complex orchestration.[7] He is best known for his collaborations with Steven Spielberg and George Lucas and has received numerous accolades including 26 Grammy Awards, five Academy Awards, seven BAFTA Awards, three Emmy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards. With 54 Academy Award nominations, he is the second-most nominated person, after Walt Disney,[a] and is the oldest Oscar nominee in any catego