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Birth name Grady Harwell SuttonNationality USABirth 5 april 1906 at Chattanooga (
USA)
Death 17 september 1995 (at 89 years) at Woodland Hills (
USA)
Grady Harwell Sutton (April 5, 1906 – September 17, 1995) was an American film and television actor from the 1920s to the 1970s.
Born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Sutton was raised in Florida where he attended St. Petersburg High School. He began his career during the silent film era and made the transition to sound films with the college themed shorts The Boy Friends. He moved on to countless character roles, where he frequently played dimwitted country boys. His most well-known roles were as Frank Dowling, Katharine Hepburn's dancing partner, in Alice Adams (1935) and as a foil to W.C. Fields in three films, Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935), You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939), and The Bank Dick (1940).
Film historian William J. Mann characterizes Sutton as a typical "Hollywood Sissy," that is as a gay actor who ordinarily portrayed an effeminate character for comedic effect.
He continued to work throughout the 1950s and 1960s, finally retiring from acting in 1979. The strength of his association with Fields was such that it was mentioned in the commentary for My Fair Lady. Sutton has a non-speaking role in some of the formal-dress scenes, and subtly performs some comic shtick. The commentator refers to him as "an old W. C. Fields actor".
Sutton died at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California at the age of 89. Biography
Grady Sutton débute au cinéma dans six films muets (des petits rôles non crédités) sortis en 1925 et 1926, dont Vive le sport de Fred C. Newmeyer et Sam Taylor (1925, avec Harold Lloyd). Puis il contribue à deux-cent-un autres films américains entre 1929 et 1979, comme second rôle de caractère (parfois non crédité).
Mentionnons Désirs secrets de George Stevens (1935, avec Katharine Hepburn et Fred MacMurray), Mines de rien d'Edward F. Cline (1940, avec W. C. Fields et Cora Witherspoon), Escale à Hollywood de George Sidney (1945, avec Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson et Gene Kelly), ainsi que les westerns Quatre du Texas de Robert Aldrich (1963, avec Frank Sinatra et Dean Martin) et Tueur malgré lui de Burt Kennedy (son avant-dernier film, 1971, avec James Garner et Suzanne Pleshette).
Pour la télévision, Grady Sutton collabore à un téléfilm (un western diffusé en 1968) et à vingt-cinq séries de 1951 à 1974, dont Rawhide (un épisode, 1961), Batman (un épisode, 1967) et Hawaï police d'État (un épisode, 1972).
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