Cast
Lew Ayres
Acting
Cast
Lew Ayres
Known for
Acting
Born
1908-12-28
From
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Died
1996-12-30
Also known as Lewis Frederick Ayre III
Biography
Lew Ayres was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and raised in San Diego, California. A college dropout, he was found by a talent scout in the Coconut Grove nightclub in Los Angeles and entered Hollywood as a bit player. He was leading man to Greta Garbo in The Kiss (1929), but it was the role of Paul Baumer in All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) that was his big break. He was profoundly affected by the anti-war message of that film, and when, in 1942, the popular star of Young Dr. Kildare (1938) and subsequent Dr. Kildare films was drafted, he was a conscientious objector. America was outraged, and theaters vowed never to show his films again, but quietly he achieved the Medical Corps status he had requested, serving as a medic under fire in the South Pacific and as a chaplain's aid in New Guinea and the Phillipines. His return to film after the war was undistinguished until Johnny Belinda (1948) - his role as the sympathetic physician treating the deaf-mute Jane Wyman won him an Academy Award nomination as Best Actor. Subsequent movie roles were scarce; an opportunity to play Dr. Kildare in television was aborted when the network refused to honor his request for no cigarette sponsorship. He continued to act, but in the 1970s put his long experience into a project to bring to the west the philosophy of the East - the resulting film, Altars of the World (1976), while not a box-office success, won critical acclaim and a Golden Globe Award. Lew Ayres died in Los Angeles, California on December 30, 1996, just two days after his 88th birthday.
★7.8
MOVIE1930
All Quiet on the Western Front
as Paul Bäumer
★6.4
MOVIE1978
Damien - Omen II
as Bill Atherton
★5.7
MOVIE1973
Battle for the Planet of the Apes
as Mandemus
★6.9
MOVIE1978
Battlestar Galactica
as President Adar
★4.3
MOVIE1935
The Lottery Lover
as Cadet Frank Harrington
★7.3
MOVIE1938
Holiday
as Ned Seton
★7.0
MOVIE1976
That's Entertainment, Part II
as (archive footage)
★6.8
MOVIE1948
Johnny Belinda
as Robert Richardson
★7.2
MOVIE1962
Advise & Consent
as The Vice President
★6.3
MOVIE1972
The Biscuit Eater
as Mr. Ames
★5.9
MOVIE1964
The Carpetbaggers
as Mac McAllister
★5.9
MOVIE1947
The Unfaithful
as Larry Hannaford
★3.6
MOVIE1951
New Mexico
as Captain Hunt
★5.7
MOVIE1942
Fingers at the Window
as Oliver Duffy
★3.8
MOVIE1977
End of the World
as Com. Joseph Beckerman
★9.0
MOVIE1932
The Impatient Maiden
as Dr. Myron Brown
★8.0
MOVIE1979
Letters from Frank
as Dan Miller
★5.8
MOVIE1932
Okay, America!
as Larry Wayne
★6.1
MOVIE1939
The Secret of Dr. Kildare
as James Kildare
★6.4
MOVIE1929
The Kiss
as Pierre
★6.2
MOVIE1953
Donovan's Brain
as Dr. Patrick J. Cory
★8.0
MOVIE1991
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
as actor 'Advise and 'Consent' (archive footage) (uncredited)
★6.6
MOVIE1939
Broadway Serenade
as James Geoffrey 'Jimmy' Seymour
★7.0
MOVIE1989
Cast the First Stone
as Martin
★4.8
MOVIE1937
The Last Train from Madrid
as Bill Dexter
★6.5
MOVIE1972
The Man
as Noah Calvin
★6.7
MOVIE1940
Dr. Kildare's Crisis
as Dr. James Kildare
MOVIE1963
The Upper Chamber
★6.3
MOVIE1933
State Fair
as Pat Gilbert
★4.8
MOVIE1938
King of the Newsboys
as Jerry Flynn
★6.8
MOVIE1941
Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day
as Dr. James Kildare
★4.8
MOVIE1940
Dr. Kildare's Strange Case
as James Kildare
★6.2
MOVIE1950
The Capture
as Lin Vanner / Lindley Brown
★10.0
MOVIE1969
Marcus Welby, M.D.: A Matter of Humanities
as Dr. Andrew Swanson
★5.6
MOVIE1971
Earth II
as President Charles Carter Durant
★5.9
MOVIE1939
These Glamour Girls
as Philip S. Griswold III
★3.9
MOVIE1973
The Stranger
as Prof. Dylan MacAuley
★7.3
MOVIE1931
The Spirit of Notre Dame
as Edward Aloysius "Bucky" O'Brian
★5.9
MOVIE1972
She Waits
as Dr. Sam Carpenter
★6.8
MOVIE1940
Dr. Kildare Goes Home
as Dr. James Kildare
★8.3
MOVIE1978
Suddenly, Love
as Mr. Graham
★5.5
MOVIE1937
The Crime Nobody Saw
as Nick Milburn
★5.8
MOVIE1940
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
as Self
★5.9
MOVIE1940
The Golden Fleecing
as Henry Twinkle
★7.5
MOVIE1986
Under Siege
as John Pace
★7.5
MOVIE1981
Of Mice and Men
as Candy
★5.4
MOVIE1936
Murder with Pictures
as Kent Murdock
★6.5
MOVIE1930
The Doorway to Hell
as Louie Ricarno
★6.6
MOVIE1939
Calling Dr. Kildare
as Dr. James Kildare
★6.5
MOVIE1935
Silk Hat Kid
as Eddie Howard
★7.0
MOVIE1941
The People Vs. Dr. Kildare
as Dr. James Kildare
★7.0
MOVIE2004
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
as Self (archive footage)
★5.0
MOVIE1939
From the Ends of the Earth
as Self
★7.0
MOVIE1946
The Dark Mirror
as Scott Elliott
★5.3
MOVIE1931
Heaven on Earth
as States
★6.7
MOVIE1938
Young Dr. Kildare
as Dr. James Kildare
★2.0
MOVIE1978
The Story of Noah
as Noah
MOVIE1956
The Family Nobody Wanted
as Carl Doss
★5.7
MOVIE1939
The Ice Follies of 1939
as Eddie Burgess
★5.3
MOVIE1930
East Is West
as Billy Benson
★4.7
MOVIE1953
No Escape
as John Howard Tracy
★6.9
MOVIE1994
Hart to Hart: Crimes of the Hart
as Professor Cabel
★5.9
MOVIE1974
The Questor Tapes
as Vaslovik
★7.0
MOVIE1932
The Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood
as Lew Ayres
★6.0
MOVIE1946
Blow-Ups of 1946
as Self
★6.2
MOVIE1942
Dr. Kildare's Victory
as Dr. James Kildare
★7.0
MOVIE1941
Maisie Was a Lady
as Bob Rawlston
★7.0
MOVIE1976
Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident
as Allen Dulles
★10.0
MOVIE1934
Let’s Be Ritzy
as Jimmy Sterling
★6.8
MOVIE1940
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
as Self
★6.7
MOVIE1934
Cross Country Cruise
as Norman Winthrop
★4.8
MOVIE1931
Up for Murder
as Robert Marshall
★6.1
MOVIE1938
Rich Man, Poor Girl
as Henry Thayer
★4.9
MOVIE1938
Spring Madness
as Sam Thatcher
★6.8
MOVIE1932
Night World
as Michael Rand
★6.5
MOVIE1935
Spring Tonic
as Caleb Enix
★6.0
MOVIE1939
Remember?
as Sky Ames
★5.7
MOVIE1984
Don Camillo
as Doc
★5.8
MOVIE1936
Panic on the Air
as Jerry
★7.0
MOVIE1936
The Leathernecks Have Landed
as Woodruff 'Woody' Davis
★5.7
MOVIE1931
Iron Man
as Kid Mason
★8.0
MOVIE1938
Scandal Street
as Joe McKnight
★8.5
MOVIE1968
Cocoon
as The Governor
★10.0
MOVIE1930
Common Clay
as Hugh Fullerton
★4.5
MOVIE1929
Big News
as Copyboy (uncredited)
★5.3
MOVIE1929
The Sophomore
as Sophomore Fraternity Brother (uncredited)
★4.7
MOVIE1937
Hold 'Em Navy
as Tommy Graham
MOVIE1984
Bruised Celluloid
as Himself
★8.0
MOVIE1934
Servants' Entrance
as Erik Landstrom
★8.0
MOVIE1933
Don't Bet on Love
as Bill McCaffrey
★6.1
MOVIE1974
Heatwave!
as Dr. Grayson
★10.0
MOVIE1931
Many a Slip
as Jerry Brooks
★8.0
MOVIE1980
Reunion
as Bob Hollander
★6.0
MOVIE1947
The Way of Peace
as Narrator (voice)
★9.0
MOVIE1936
Shakedown
as Bob Sanderson
★4.0
MOVIE1934
She Learned About Sailors
as Larry Wilson
MOVIE1956
One Against Many
as Dr. John Mohler
★5.5
MOVIE1936
Lady Be Careful
as Chester aka Dynamite
★7.0
MOVIE1933
My Weakness
as Ronnie Gregory