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Everett Sloane

Everett Sloane (October 1, –August 6, ) was an American

Cinema of the United States

United States cinema has had a profound effect on cinema across the world since the early 20th century. Its history is sometimes separated into four main periods: the silent film era, Classical Hollywood cinema, New Hollywood, and the contemporary period ....
stage, film and television actor, songwriter

Songwriter

File:Beethoven.jpgA songwriter is someone who writes the lyrics, as well the musical composition or melody to songs. One who writes only lyrics is a lyricist, while one who writes only music is a composer....
, and theatre director.
to a Jewish family in Manhattan

Manhattan

Manhattan is one of the five borough of New York City, located primarily on Manhattan Island at the mouth of the Hudson River.With a United States Census of 1,620,867 living in a land area of 22.96 square miles , Manhattan, coextensive with New York County, is the most population density county in the United States, w...
, Sloane attended the University of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania

The University of Pennsylvania is a private research university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is America's first university and is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States....
before dropping out in order to join a theater company, but he stopped acting and became a runner on Wall Street

Wall Street

Wall Street is a street in lower Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States. It runs east from Broadway to South Street on the East River, through the historical center of the Financial District, Manhattan....
after a number of negative stage reviews. After the stock market crash

Black Sunday

Black Sunday is a 1975 novel by Thomas Harris.It was the first novel by Harris, who went on to write the Hannibal Lecter novels. Harris wrote the novel after watching the 1972 Munich Olympics hostage crisis where Palestinian terrorists took Israeli athletes hostage and murdered them....
in 1929, he decided to return to the theater.

ne eventually joined Orson Welles

Orson Welles

George Orson Welles , better known as Orson Welles, was an Academy Award-winning United States actor, director, writer and producer, who worked extensively in film, theatre, television, and radio....
' Mercury Theatre

Mercury Theatre

The Mercury Theatre was a theatre company founded in New York City in 1937 by Orson Welles and John Houseman. After initial success in live theatrical productions, in 1938 the Mercury Theatre progressed into their their best-known period as The Mercury Theatre on the Air, a radio drama series that included one of the most notable an...
, and acted in Welles' films in roles such as Citizen Kane
Citizen Kane

Citizen Kane is a 1941 in film United States dramatic film and the first feature film directed by Orson Welles. It was nominated for an Academy Award in nine categories, but won only for Best Original Screenplay by Herman Mankiewicz and Welles....
's Bernstein in 1941 and The Lady from Shanghai
The Lady from Shanghai

The Lady from Shanghai is a black-and-white film noir directed by Orson Welles and starring Welles, his then-estranged wife Rita Hayworth, and Everett Sloane....
s Arthur Bannister in 1948.

Sloane's Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City....
career began with the comedy Boy Meets Girl in 1945 and ended with From A to Z

From A to Z

From A to Z is a musical theatre revue with a book by Woody Allen, Herbert Farjeon, and Nina Warner Hook and songs by Jerry Herman, Fred Ebb, Mary Rodgers, Everett Sloane, Jay Thompson, Dickson Hughes, Jack Holmes, Paul Klein, Norman Martin, William Dyer, and Charles Zwar....
, a revue
Revue

A revue is a type of multi-act popular theatre entertainment that combines music, dance and sketch comedy. The revue has its roots in nineteenth-century American popular entertainment and melodrama, but grew into a substantial cultural presence of its own during its golden years from ca....
for which he wrote several songs, in 1960.

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Everett Sloane (October 1, –August 6, ) was an American
Cinema of the United States

United States cinema has had a profound effect on cinema across the world since the early 20th century. Its history is sometimes separated into four main periods: the silent film era, Classical Hollywood cinema, New Hollywood, and the contemporary period ....
stage, film and television actor, songwriter
Songwriter

File:Beethoven.jpgA songwriter is someone who writes the lyrics, as well the musical composition or melody to songs. One who writes only lyrics is a lyricist, while one who writes only music is a composer....
, and theatre director.
Early life
Born to a Jewish family in Manhattan
Manhattan

Manhattan is one of the five borough of New York City, located primarily on Manhattan Island at the mouth of the Hudson River.With a United States Census of 1,620,867 living in a land area of 22.96 square miles , Manhattan, coextensive with New York County, is the most population density county in the United States, w...
, Sloane attended the University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania

The University of Pennsylvania is a private research university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is America's first university and is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States....
before dropping out in order to join a theater company, but he stopped acting and became a runner on Wall Street
Wall Street

Wall Street is a street in lower Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States. It runs east from Broadway to South Street on the East River, through the historical center of the Financial District, Manhattan....
after a number of negative stage reviews. After the stock market crash
Black Sunday

Black Sunday is a 1975 novel by Thomas Harris.It was the first novel by Harris, who went on to write the Hannibal Lecter novels. Harris wrote the novel after watching the 1972 Munich Olympics hostage crisis where Palestinian terrorists took Israeli athletes hostage and murdered them....
in 1929, he decided to return to the theater.

Career
Sloane eventually joined Orson Welles
Orson Welles

George Orson Welles , better known as Orson Welles, was an Academy Award-winning United States actor, director, writer and producer, who worked extensively in film, theatre, television, and radio....
' Mercury Theatre
Mercury Theatre

The Mercury Theatre was a theatre company founded in New York City in 1937 by Orson Welles and John Houseman. After initial success in live theatrical productions, in 1938 the Mercury Theatre progressed into their their best-known period as The Mercury Theatre on the Air, a radio drama series that included one of the most notable an...
, and acted in Welles' films in roles such as Citizen Kane
Citizen Kane

Citizen Kane is a 1941 in film United States dramatic film and the first feature film directed by Orson Welles. It was nominated for an Academy Award in nine categories, but won only for Best Original Screenplay by Herman Mankiewicz and Welles....
's Bernstein in 1941 and The Lady from Shanghai
The Lady from Shanghai

The Lady from Shanghai is a black-and-white film noir directed by Orson Welles and starring Welles, his then-estranged wife Rita Hayworth, and Everett Sloane....
s Arthur Bannister in 1948.

Sloane's Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City....
career began with the comedy Boy Meets Girl in 1945 and ended with From A to Z
From A to Z

From A to Z is a musical theatre revue with a book by Woody Allen, Herbert Farjeon, and Nina Warner Hook and songs by Jerry Herman, Fred Ebb, Mary Rodgers, Everett Sloane, Jay Thompson, Dickson Hughes, Jack Holmes, Paul Klein, Norman Martin, William Dyer, and Charles Zwar....
, a revue
Revue

A revue is a type of multi-act popular theatre entertainment that combines music, dance and sketch comedy. The revue has its roots in nineteenth-century American popular entertainment and melodrama, but grew into a substantial cultural presence of its own during its golden years from ca....
for which he wrote several songs, in 1960. In-between he acted in plays such as Native Son
Native Son

Native Son is a novel by United States author Richard Wright . The novel tells the story of 20-year old Bigger Thomas, an African American living in utter poverty....
(1941), A Bell for Adano
A Bell for Adano

A Bell for Adano is a film directed by Henry King starring John Hodiak and Gene Tierney. The film was adapted from the novel A Bell for Adano by John Hersey, which won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1945....
(1944), and Room Service
Room Service

Room service is an accommodation available at many hotels where workers at the hotel bring food and other items to hotel rooms, by request of the guest and usually for extra charge....
(1953) and directed the melodrama
Melodrama

The theatrical genre of Melodrama utilizes theme-music to manipulate the spectator's emotional response and to denote character types. The term combines "melody" and "drama"....
The Dancer (1946).

In the 1940s, Sloane was a frequent guest star on the radio theatre series Inner Sanctum Mysteries
Inner Sanctum Mysteries

Inner Sanctum Mysteries was a popular old-time radio program that aired from January 7, 1941 to October 5, 1952. Created by Himan Brown, the anthology series featured stories of mystery, terror and suspense....
and was in The Mysterious Traveler
The Mysterious Traveler

The Mysterious Traveler was an anthology radio series, a magazine and a comic book. All three featured stories which ran the gamut from fantasy and science fiction to straight crime dramas of Mystery fiction and suspense....
episode "Survival of the Fittest" with Kermit Murdock
Kermit Murdock

Kermit Murdock was a television and radio actor.He was in episodes of X Minus One including "Hostess" by Isaac Asimov.He was in The Mysterious Traveler episode "Survival of the fittest" with Everett Sloane....
. In 1953 he starred as Captain Frank Kennelly in the CBS radio crime drama 21st Precinct
21st Precinct

21st Precinct was a police drama broadcast on CBS radio from July 7, 1953 to July 26, 1956.Stanley Niss was the writer-director. The role of precinct Captain Frank Kennelly was played by Everett Sloane , James Gregory and Les Damon ....
. In 1958 he played Walter Brennan
Walter Brennan

Walter Brennan was a three-time Academy Award winning United States actor. He is remembered as one of the premier character actors in motion picture history....
's role in a remake
Remake

A "remake" is a term used to describe something that has been done again, sometimes with better quality and more features....
of To Have and Have Not
To Have and Have Not (film)

To Have and Have Not is a thriller film romance film war film adventure film directed by Howard Hawks and starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall that is nominally based on the novel To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway....
called The Gun Runners
The Gun Runners

The Gun Runners, a film directed by Don Siegel, is the second remake of To Have and Have Not and stars Audie Murphy in the Humphrey Bogart role and Patricia Owens in the role played by Lauren Bacall....
.

Sloane also worked extensively in television; in November 1955 he starred in the Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an anthology television series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock. The series featured both mystery fiction and melodramas....
episode "Our Cook's Treasure"; he was the voice of Dick Tracy
Dick Tracy

File:Dicktracy10121941.jpgDick Tracy is a long-running comic strip featuring a popular and familiar character in United States pop culture. Dick Tracy is a hard-hitting, fast-shooting, and supremely intelligent police detective who has matched wits with a variety of colorful List of Dick Tracy villain debutss, many based o...
in 130 cartoons produced in 1960 and 1961. Beginning in 1964, he provided character voices for the animated TV series The Adventures of Jonny Quest. He wrote the unused lyrics to "The Fishin' Hole", the theme song for The Andy Griffith Show
The Andy Griffith Show

The Andy Griffith Show is an Television of the United States situation comedy first televised by Columbia Broadcasting System between October 3, 1960 and April 1, 1968....
. He starred as the ruthless businessman in both the film and television versions of Rod Serling
Rod Serling

Rodman Edward "Rod" Serling was an United States screenwriter, best known for his live television dramas of the 1950s and his Science fiction on television Anthology series, The Twilight Zone ....
's Patterns, and later guest starred in the first season of The Twilight Zone
The Twilight Zone

The Twilight Zone is an United States television anthology series created by Rod Serling. Each episode is a mixture of self-contained fantasy, science fiction, suspense, or horror fiction, often concluding with a macabre or Twist ending....
as the victim of a Las Vegas Slot Machine.

Death
Sloane committed suicide
Suicide

Suicide is the intentional taking of one's own life. Many dictionaries also note the metaphorical sense of "willful destruction of one's self-interest"....
at the age of 55, reportedly depressed
Clinical depression

Major depressive disorder is a mental disorder characterized by a pervasive depression , low self-esteem, and anhedonia in normally enjoyable activities....
over oncoming blindness
Blindness

Blindness is the condition of lacking visual perception due to physiological or neurological factors.Various scales have been developed to describe the extent of vision loss and define "blindness." Total blindness is the complete lack of form and visual light perception and is clinically recorded as "NLP," an abbreviation for "no ligh...
by glaucoma
Glaucoma

Glaucoma is a group of diseases of the optic nerve involving loss of ganglion cell in a characteristic pattern of optic atrophy. Raised intraocular pressure is a significant risk factor for developing glaucoma ....
. He is buried at Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery in Los Angeles.

Partial filmography

Citizen Kane
Citizen Kane

Citizen Kane is a 1941 in film United States dramatic film and the first feature film directed by Orson Welles. It was nominated for an Academy Award in nine categories, but won only for Best Original Screenplay by Herman Mankiewicz and Welles....

Journey into Fear
The Lady from Shanghai
The Lady from Shanghai

The Lady from Shanghai is a black-and-white film noir directed by Orson Welles and starring Welles, his then-estranged wife Rita Hayworth, and Everett Sloane....

The Men
The Men

The Men is a 1950 film directed by Fred Zinnemann. It tells the story of a World War II lieutenant, who is seriously injured in combat, and the struggles he faces as he attempts to re-enter society....

The Enforcer
Sirocco
Sirocco (film)

Sirocco is a United States film noir directed by Curtis Bernhardt and written by A.I. Bezzerides and Hans Jacoby, based on the novel Coup de Grace written by Joseph Kessel....
(1951)
The Big Knife
The Big Knife

The Big Knife is a film noir film director and produced by Robert Aldrich from a screenplay by James Poe based on the play by Clifford Odets....

Lust for Life
Patterns (1956)
Somebody Up There Likes Me
Somebody Up There Likes Me

Somebody Up There Likes Me may refer to:*Somebody Up There Likes Me , 1956 film starring Paul Newman and Pier Angeli*Somebody Up There Likes Me , starring Aaron Kwok, Sammo Hung...
(1956)
The Gun Runners
The Gun Runners

The Gun Runners, a film directed by Don Siegel, is the second remake of To Have and Have Not and stars Audie Murphy in the Humphrey Bogart role and Patricia Owens in the role played by Lauren Bacall....

Home from the Hill
Home from the Hill (film)

Home from the Hill is a 1960 in film film directed by Vincente Minnelli and starring Robert Mitchum, Eleanor Parker, George Peppard, George Hamilton , Everett Sloane, and Luana Patten....

The Disorderly Orderly
The Disorderly Orderly

The Disorderly Orderly is a Paramount Pictures feature film starring Jerry Lewis in a story about a clumsy hospital orderly with a psychosomatic problem....

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