John Sutton (actor)

John Sutton (born Eugene Osmond Stephen Congdon; 22 October 1908 – 10 July 1963) was a British actor with a prolific career in Hollywood of more than 30 years.^{[citation needed]}

John Sutton
Sutton in Captain from Castile (1947)
Born	Eugene Osmond Stephen Congdon[1] (1908-10-22)22 October 1908 Rawalpindi, Punjab, British India
Died	10 July 1963(1963-07-10) (aged 54) Cannes, France
Nationality	British
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1936–1963
Spouses	Charlotte Biddle Barrett ​ ​ (m. 1933; div. 1946)​ Roberta Fidler ​ ​ (m. 1946; div. 1955)​ Anita Rodney-Eden ​ ​ (m. 1957; annul. 1960)​

Personal life

Sutton was born on 22 October 1908 in Rawalpindi, India (now Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan). He was the son of Lt. Colonel Arthur Congdon (1861-1924) of the Royal Munster Fusiliers and his wife Ann Bell Sutton Moxley Congdon. Before moving to Hollywood as an actor, he was a tea planter in Assam, India, and, failing that, he farmed for a while in South Africa.^[2] Upon being naturalized as a U.S. citizen while serving in the U.S. Navy in 1943 during the Second World War, he legally changed his name to John Sutton.^[3]

Sutton was married at least three times. In 1933, he married wealthy socialite Charlotte Biddle Barrett.^[4] In the 1940 federal census, the household included his wife Charlotte and her daughter from a previous marriage. In October 1946, he divorced his high society wife and married Roberta Fidler, former wife of newspaper columnist and radio commentator Jimmie Fidler;^[5][6] this rather stormy second marriage ended in divorce in 1955.^[7] He married dancer Anita Rodney-Eden in 1957, but he received an annulment in 1960, when it was shown that she was still legally the ninth wife of oft-married (13 marriages to 11 women) Tommy Manville.^[8][9] He died suddenly of a heart attack on 10 July 1963.

Filmography

Sutton (with knife) and Arturo de Córdova in Adventures of Casanova (1948)

• The House of a Thousand Candles (1936) as Young Man (uncredited)
• Federal Agent (1936) as Elevator Operator (uncredited)
• The Princess Comes Across (1936) as Ship's Passenger at Baggage Check / At Concert (uncredited)
• The Last of the Mohicans (1936) as British officer, Fort Henry (uncredited)
• Bulldog Drummond Comes Back (1937) as Sanger
• Bulldog Drummond's Revenge (1937) as Jennings, Nielson's Secretary
• The Buccaneer (1938) as British Officer Before Battle (uncredited)
• Mad About Music (1938) as Photographer (uncredited)
• Bulldog Drummond's Peril (1938) as Doctor (uncredited)
• Fools for Scandal (1938) as Bruce Devon (uncredited)
• Four Men and a Prayer (1938) as Capt. Drake
• The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) as Richard's Knight (uncredited)
• Kidnapped (1938) as English Officer (uncredited)
• Blond Cheat (1938) as Fred Percy
• Booloo (1938) as Ferguson
• The Affairs of Annabel (1938) as Man at Newsstand (uncredited)
• Arrest Bulldog Drummond (1939) as Inspector Tredennis (uncredited)
• The Dawn Patrol (1938) as Adjutant (uncredited)
• Zaza (1939) as Dandy (uncredited)
• I'm from Missouri (1939) as Subaltern (uncredited)
• Sons of Liberty (1939, Short) as Hessian Courier (uncredited)
• Susannah of the Mounties (1939) as Corporal Piggott
• Bulldog Drummond's Bride (1939) as Inspector Tredennis
• The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939) as Capt. Armand of the Queen's Guard (uncredited)
• Tower of London (1939) as John Wyatt
• Charlie McCarthy, Detective (1939) as Bill Banning
• The Invisible Man Returns (1940) as Doctor Frank Griffin
• Sandy Is a Lady (1940) (uncredited)
• I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby (1940) as Boston
• South to Karanga (1940) as David Wallace
• The Sea Hawk (1940) as Captain of the Guard (uncredited)
• Murder Over New York (1940) as Richard Jeffery
• Hudson's Bay (1941) as Lord Edward Crewe
• A Very Young Lady (1941) as Dr. Franklin Meredith
• A Yank in the R.A.F. (1941) as Wing Commander Morley
• Moon Over Her Shoulder (1941) as Dr. Phillip Rossiter
• My Gal Sal (1942) as Fred Haviland
• Ten Gentlemen from West Point (1942) as Howard Shelton
• Thunder Birds (1942) as Peter Stackhouse
• Tonight We Raid Calais (1943) as Geoffrey Carter
• Jane Eyre (1943) as Dr. Rivers
• The Hour Before the Dawn (1944) as Roger Hetherton
• Claudia and David (1946) as Phil Dexter
• Captain from Castile (1947) as Diego De Silva
• Adventures of Casanova (1948) as Count de Brissac
• The Counterfeiters (1948) as Jeff MacAllister
• Mickey (1948) as Ted Whitney
• The Three Musketeers (1948) as The Duke of Buckingham
• The Fan (1949) as Cecil Graham
• Bride of Vengeance (1949) as Prince Bisceglie
• Bagdad (1949) as Raizul
• The Second Woman (1950) as Keith Ferris
• The Second Face (1950) as Jerry Allison
• Payment on Demand (1951) as Anthony Tunliffe
• David and Bathsheba (1951) as Ira
• Fireside Theatre (1951, TV Series)
• 5 Fingers (1952) as Narrator (voice, uncredited)
• Thief of Damascus (1952) as Khalid
• Lady in the Iron Mask (1952) as Duke de Valdac
• The Schaefer Century Theatre (1952, TV Series)
• Captain Pirate (1952) as Capt. Hilary Evans
• The Golden Hawk (1952) as Captain Luis del Toro
• My Cousin Rachel (1952) as Ambrose Ashley
• Sangaree (1953) as Harvey Bristol
• East of Sumatra (1953) as Daniel Catlin
• Lux Video Theatre (1954, TV Series) as Evan
• Private Secretary (1954, TV Series) as King Price
• General Electric Theater (1954–1955, TV Series) as Ted Preston / Tom Wickers
• Four Star Playhouse (1956, TV Series) as Rene Champion
• Playwrights '56 (1956, TV Series) as Mr. Black
• Studio 57 (1956, TV Series) as Mark Brinker
• The Count of Monte Cristo (1956, TV Series) as De Villefort
• Death of a Scoundrel (1956) as The Actor as 'Tom' in Stage Play
• The Amazon Trader (1956) as The Amazon Trader^{[citation needed]}
• Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers (1956, TV Series)
• Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (1958, TV Series)
• The United States Steel Hour (1958, TV Series) as Colonel Resnor
• Tumulto de Paixões (1958) as John Morgan
• The Californians (1958, TV Series) as Sam Crawford
• Behind Closed Doors (1958–1959, TV Series) as Harry Shaw
• Tombstone Territory (1959, TV Series) as David Armbruster
• Return of the Fly (1959) as Insp. Beecham
• The Bat (1959) as Warner, the chauffeur
• Beloved Infidel (1959) as Lord Donegall
• The Man From Blackhawk (1959, TV Series) as Bart Mason
• Bat Masterson (1959, TV Series) as Orrin Thackeray / Andrew Stafford
• 77 Sunset Strip (1959, TV Series) as Ralph Anderson
• Disneyland (1959–1960, The Swamp Fox TV Series) as Colonel Banastre Tarleton
• The Rebel (1960, TV Series) as C. Spencer Scott—The Earl of Durango / Gold Seeker
• Men into Space (1959–1960, TV Series) as Air Vice Marshal Malcolm Terry
• The Aquanauts (1960, TV Series) as Tony Randolph
• The Case of the Dangerous Robin (1960, TV Series)
• Stagecoach West (1961, TV Series) as Robert Allison / Rexford Jasper
• The Canadians (1961) as Superintendent Walker
• Checkmate (1961, TV Series) as George Parker
• The Brothers Brannagan (1961, TV Series) as John Elliot
• Perry Mason (1961, TV Series) as Clifton Barlow
• Rawhide (1961, TV Series) as Lord Ashton
• Shadow of Fear (1964) as Peter Halliday
• Of Human Bondage (1964) as Kingsford (uncredited)^{[citation needed]} (final film role)