Richard Cromwell (actor)
Year Movie Role Other notes
1930 King of Jazz cowboy ( walk-on ) Cromwell can be seen in the Song of the Dawn number
1930 Tol'able David David Directed by John Blystone , starred opposite Noah Beery Sr. Silent star Richard Barthelmess , who gave his blessing to Cromwell 's portrayal , was the original David in the 1921 classic directed by Henry King . Gary Cooper was also originally offered this role and very interested but Adolph Zukor at Paramount Pictures refused to loan out his top star to Columbia , then perceived as a lower-class studio ( according to Larry Swindell 's bio of Cooper , The Last Hero , Doubleday , 1980 )
1931 Fifty Fathoms Deep Pinky Caldwell First of several pairings with Jack Holt for Columbia
1931 Shanghaied Love The Boy Third feature for Columbia , co-starred Sally Blane and again , Noah Beery Sr
1931 Maker of Men Bob Dudley Jack Holt co-starred and a very young Marion Morrison aka John Wayne appeared with his Trojan Football teammates ; Gridiron scenes filmed at USC
1932 The Age of Consent Mike Cromwell 's first loanout to RKO ; this film was directed by Gregory LaCava and was the screen debut , in an uncredited role , for Mildred Shay
1932 Emma Ronnie Cromwell was on loan out to MGM for director Clarence Brown ; this production 's cast also included Jean Hersholt
1932 Tom Brown of Culver Robert Randolph III Universal 's William Wyler directed Cromwell here along with H.B . Warner , Slim Summerville , Tom Brown , Ben Alexander , and Sidney Toler . Also , Tyrone Power 's first onscreen appearance is as a bit player in a scene opposite Cromwell in this film
1932 The Strange Love of Molly Louvain James Jimmy Cook , the bellhop Director : Michael Curtiz for Warner Bros. , with Ann Dvorak , Lee Tracy , Guy Kibbee , and Charles Middleton
1932 That 's My Boy Tommy Jefferson Scott Another football flick wherein Cromwell plays opposite Mae Marsh , Dorothy Jordan , and Douglass Dumbrille
1933 This Day and Age Steve Smith For DeMille at Paramount Pictures , Cromwell stars with Charles Bickford and Judith Allen
1933 Hoop-La Chris Miller Directed by Frank Lloyd for Fox pictures . Final major starring role for Clara Bow . Cromwell co-starred with Preston Foster and James Gleason
1934 Carolina drugstore clerk Opposite Janet Gaynor , originally entitled : The House of Connelly
1934 Name the Woman Clem Rogers
1935 Life Begins at 40 Lee Austin Opposite Will Rogers and Rochelle Hudson , this was one of Rogers ' last films
1935 Lives of a Bengal Lancer Lt. Stone Cromwell 's favorite role
1935 Star Night at The Cocoanut Grove as himself MGM Technicolor Short showing celebs at play in Hollywood . Cromwell is seated at a table with Gary Cooper
1936 Poppy Billy Farnsworth One of many pairings for Cromwell opposite Rochelle Hudson
1937 The Road Back Ludwig Very large cast including Noah Beery Jr. - Cromwell was one of the few actors to work with both Beery Sr. and Jr. Fine camera work was done here by cinematographer John J. Mescall
1937 The Wrong Road Jimmy Cromwell 's director here was James Cruze . Other members of the cast were Marjorie Main , Joseph Crehan , Arthur Horst , and Rex Evans . Costumes were by Eloise
Selected filmography
Richard Cromwell (born LeRoy Melvin Radabaugh; - ) was an American actor. His career was at its pinnacle with his work in Jezebel (1938) with Bette Davis and Henry Fonda and again with Fonda in John Ford's Young Mr. Lincoln (1939). Cromwell's fame was perhaps first assured in The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935), sharing top billing with Gary Cooper and Franchot Tone. That film was the first major effort directed by Henry Hathaway and it was based upon the popular novel by Francis Yeats-Brown. The Lives of a Bengal Lancer earned Paramount Studios a nomination for Best Picture in 1935, though Mutiny on the Bounty instead took the top award at the Academy Awards that year. Leslie Halliwell in The Filmgoer's Companion, summed up Cromwell's enduring appeal when he described him as a leading man, [the] gentle hero of early sound films.