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Allyn Joslyn
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Allyn Joslyn (July 21, 1901 – January 21, 1981) was an American stage, film and television actor.
Allyn Joslyn was born in Milford, Pennsylvania, the son of a mining engineer. On stage from age 17, Joslyn scored as a leading man in such Broadway productions as Boy Meets Girl (1936) and Arsenic and Old Lace (1941), appearing in the latter as beleaguered theatrical critic Mortimer Brewster. However, Hollywood didn't see Joslyn as a leading type. Thus he spent most of his film career playing obnoxious reporters, weaklings, and formless "other men" who never got the girl, while stars such as James Cagney and Cary Grant took the roles he originated on Broadway.
Among his more notable film appearances were tough flier Les Peters in Only Angels Have Wings (1939); George in The Great McGinty (1940); the caustic director in No Time for Comedy (1940); reporter Chic Clark in My Sister Eileen (1942); Albert Van Cleve, Don Ameche's snobbish rival for the attentions of Gene Tierney in Heaven Can Wait (1943); an eccentric poet in The Shocking Miss Pilgrim (1947); and the cardshark disguised as a woman in Titanic (1953).
Acted in
- The Brothers O'Toole (1973)
- Nightmare in the Sun (1965)
- The Fastest Gun Alive (1956)
- Titanic (1953)
- Island in the Sky (1953)
- As Young as You Feel (1951)
- Harriet Craig (1950)
- The Lady Takes a Sailor (1949)
- Moonrise (1948)
- The Thrill of Brazil (1946)
- Colonel Effingham's Raid (1946)
- The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945)
- Junior Miss (1945)
- Sweet and Low-Down (1944)
- Bride by Mistake (1944)
- Immortal Sergeant (1943)
- Heaven Can Wait (1943)
- The Wife Takes a Flyer (1942)
- My Sister Eileen (1942)
- I Wake Up Screaming (1941)
- The Great McGinty (1940)
- No Time for Comedy (1940)
- Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
- Hollywood Hotel (1937)
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