Many of these actors achieved stardom because of their start in film noir; others, despite it. In any case, at one time or another, sometimes many times, they played cops and robbers, hoodlums and toadies, doomed anti-heroes and femme fatales in one of filmdom’s richest genres. And all of us fans of film noir are richer for that. A tip of the fedora to them all.
EDMOND O'BRIEN
Edmond O'Brien (1915-85) made his film debut in 1938, and gradually built a career as a highly regarded (if scene-chewing) supporting actor. He won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in THE BAREFOOT CONTESSA (1954), and was nominated for his role in SEVEN DAYS IN MAY (1964), but perhaps his best remembered performances are in noirs, including A DOUBLE LIFE (1947), WHITE HEAT (1949), D.O.A.(1950), BACKFIRE (1950), THE TURNING POINT (1952), and THE HITCH-HIKER (1953). He was married and divorced from actresses Nancy Kelly and Olga San Juan.
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