Ben Lyon
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From Wikipedia Ben Lyon (February 6, 1901 – March 22, 1979) was an American actor and a studio executive at 20th Century Fox. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Lyon entered films in 1918 after a successful appearance on Broadway opposite Jeanne Eagels. He attracted attention in the highly successful film Flaming Youth (1923), and steadily developed into a leading man. He was most successfully paired with some of the leading actresses of the silent era including Pola Negri, Gloria Swanson, Colleen Moore, Barbara La Marr, Viola Dana, Anna Q. Nilsson, Mary Astor and Blanche Sweet. He had success as an actor in the 1930 film Hell's Angels. The film was a major success and brought Jean Harlow to prominence, but Lyon's performance as an heroic World War I aviator was also highly regarded. For the next decade he was constantly in demand, but his popularity began to wane by the early 1940s. By the mid-1940s he was working for 20th Century Fox. On July 17, 1946 he met a young aspiring actress named Norma Jeane Dougherty.[2] After his first meeting with her he stated that she was "Jean Harlow all over again!". He organized a color screen test for the actress, renamed her, and finally signed her as Marilyn Monroe to her first studio contract. During World War II, Lyons and his wife, actress Bebe Daniels, settled in London. The couple, along with the comedian Vic Oliver, starred in the radio series Hi, Gang!, which ran from 1940 to 1949. Hi Gang was succeeded in 1950 by Life with the Lyons, which also featured their real life son Richard and daughter Barbara, and had a run on BBC and independent television from 1954 until 1960. Lyon married actress Bebe Daniels in June 1930. They had two children: daughter Barbara in 1932 and a son Richard whom they adopted. Daniels suffered a severe stroke in 1963 and withdrew from public life. She suffered a second stroke in late 1970. She died at the couple's London home in March 1971. In 1974, Lyon married the actress Marian Nixon whom he had known since the 1920s. On March 22, 1979, Lyon and his second wife Marian Nixon were vacationing together on the Queen Elizabeth 2 cruise ship near Honolulu, Hawaii, when Lyon suffered a fatal heart attack. He is interred in the Chapel Columbarium at Hollywood Forever Cemetery next to his first wife, Bebe. For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Ben Lyon has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1724 Vine Street.
Known for
Credits
Hell's Angels (1930)
as Monte Rutledge
Night Nurse (1931)
as Mortie
Crimson Romance (1934)
as Bob Wilson
Bluebeard's Seven Wives (1926)
as John Hart / Don Juan Hartez
Lady with a Past (1932)
as Guy Bryson
By Whose Hand? (1932)
as Jimmy Hawley
The Stolen Jools (1931)
as Ben Lyon
So Big (1924)
as Dirk DeJong
The Great Deception (1926)
as Cyril Mansfield
Painted People (1924)
as Don Lane
Aloha (1931)
as Jimmy Bradford
The Custard Cup (1923)
as Dick Chase
The Women in His Life (1933)
as Roger McKane
Down to the Sea (1936)
as Steve Londos
I Spy (1934)
as Wally Sawyer
Her Majesty, Love (1931)
as Fred von Wellingen
What Men Want (1930)
as Kendall James
Misbehaving Ladies (1931)
as Phil Hunter
Navy Wife (1935)
as Dr. Peter Milford
I Cover the Waterfront (1933)
as H. Joseph 'Joe' Miller
Hollywood on Parade No. A-3 (1932)
as Self
Together We Live (1935)
as Max
The Flying Marine (1929)
as Steve Moran
Open Your Eyes (1919)
as Harold Connors
The Dark Tower (1943)
as Phil Danton
Dancing Feet (1936)
as Peyton Wells
Girl Missing (1933)
as Henry Gibson
One Way Street (1925)
as Bobby Austin
The Prince of Tempters (1926)
as Francis
My Past (1931)
as Robert 'Bob' Byrne
Winds of Chance (1925)
as Pierce Phillips
Indiscreet (1931)
as Tony Blake
Lightning Strikes Twice (1934)
as Steve Brewster
Lily of the Dust (1924)
as Lt. Prell
The White Moth (1924)
as Douglas Vantine
The Crooked Circle (1932)
as Brand Osborne
Lummox (1930)
as Rollo Farley
The New Commandment (1925)
as Billy Morrow
Hat Check Girl (1932)
as Buster Collins
The Big Timer (1932)
as Cooky Bradford
Week Ends Only (1932)
as Jack Williams
Hollywood on Parade No. A-1 (1932)
as Self
Hi Gang! (1941)
as Her Other Half
Potash and Perlmutter (1923)
as Boris Andrieff
The Lyons in Paris (1955)
as Ben
The Pace That Thrills (1925)
as Danny Wade
The Heart of Maryland (1921)
as Bob Telfair
Alias French Gertie (1930)
as Jimmy Hartigan
Wine of Youth (1924)
as Lynn Talbot
Stardust (1938)
as Roy Harley
Confidential Lady (1939)
as Jim Brent
The Quitter (1929)
as Neal Abbott
The Hot Heiress (1931)
as Hap Harrigan
A Soldier's Plaything (1930)
as Georgie
Life with the Lyons (1954)
as Ben Lyon
The Savage (1926)
as Danny Terry
Flaming Youth (1923)
as Monty Standish
Wages of Virtue (1924)
as Marvin
This Was Paris (1942)
as Butch, Sydney Chronicle Reporter
All Faces West (1929)
as Matthew
I Killed the Count (1939)
as Bernard Froy
For the Love of Mike (1927)
as Mike
The Perfect Sap (1927)
as Herbert Alden
Das tanzende Wien (1927)
as Jonny Conzaga
The Reckless Lady (1926)
as Ralph Hilliwe
Life in Hollywood No. 2 (1927)
as Himself
Frisco Waterfront (1935)
as Glenn Burton
The Air Legion (1929)
as Dave Grayson
Compromised (1931)
as Sidney Brock
The Tender Hour (1927)
as Wally McKenzie
Bought! (1931)
as Nick Amory
The Necessary Evil (1925)
as Frank Jerome
Screen Snapshots Series 14, No. 8 (1935)
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