Lew Ayres
Birthday: 1908-12-28
Place of Birth: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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.
Movies
All Quiet on the Western Front
When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to...
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End of the World
After witnessing a man's death in a bizarre accident, Father Pergado goes on a spiritual retreat, wh...
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Battle for the Planet of the Apes
The fifth and final episode in the Planet of the Apes series. After the collapse of human civilizati...
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Of Mice and Men
George and Lenny travel through the Depression-era west working at odd jobs, hoping to make enough m...
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Damien - Omen II
Since the sudden and suspicious deaths of his parents, young Damien has been in the charge of his we...
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Suddenly, Love
Young lovers — she's a child of the ghetto, determined to escape her alcoholic, bickering parents; h...
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The Kiss
An unhappily married woman is caught up in scandal and murder when her affection toward a young man ...
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Shakedown
A struggling young engineer, Bob Sanderson, refuses to marry the very-rich Edith Stuart until he can...
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The Doorway to Hell
A vicious crime lord decides that he has had enough and much to the shock of his colleagues decides ...
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Donovan's Brain
A scientist takes the brain of dead man and revives it via electrodes as it lays suspended in a tank...
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The Capture
A badly injured fugitive explains to a priest how he came to be in his present predicament....
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The Dark Mirror
A sister and her disturbed twin are implicated in a murder and a police detective must figure out wh...
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The Questor Tapes
Project Questor is brainchild of the genius Dr. Vaslovik: he developed plans to build an android sup...
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Holiday
Johnny Case, a freethinking financier, has finally found the girl of his dreams — Julia Seton, the s...
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Fingers at the Window
In Chicago, an unemployed actor aims to solve the mystery concerning a string of ax murders, apparen...
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Advise & Consent
Proposed by the President of the United States to fill the post of Secretary of State, Robert Leffin...
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No Escape
When the available evidence in a murder case points to a young woman as the main suspect, her boyfri...
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Okay, America!
A gossip columnist's rise to fame. Based closely on the real life of Walter Winchell....
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State Fair
The children of Iowa farmers find love, with mixed results, at the state fair....
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Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day
A variety of predicaments arise to distract Dr. Kildare from his wedding to Nurse Mary Lamont....
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The Unfaithful
Christine Hunter kills an intruder and tells her husband and lawyer that it was an act of self-defen...
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Dr. Kildare Goes Home
A young doctor gives up big-city success to help his father set up a small-town clinic....
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Dr. Kildare's Crisis
Jimmy Kildare's impending nuptials are jeopardized by a diagnosis of possible epilepsy in his fiance...
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Earth II
In the near future, a space station dubbed Earth II is built for the purpose of scientific research ...
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Young Dr. Kildare
A medical school graduate takes an internship at a big city hospital, only to be subjected to a rigo...
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The People Vs. Dr. Kildare
An ice skater sues Kildare (Lew Ayres) for malpractice after his roadside first aid leaves her paral...
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The Secret of Dr. Kildare
Intern Kildare heals a millionaire's daughter and tricks Dr. Gillespie into taking a vacation....
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Dr. Kildare's Strange Case
Kildare tries brain surgery, advised by Dr. Gillespie, and faces a rival for nurse Lamont....
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Calling Dr. Kildare
Following an argument with his young protege, the curmudgeonly Dr. Gillespie dumps Jimmy Kildare in ...
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Dr. Kildare's Victory
Dr. Gillespie supports Kildare's crusade against their hospital's deal with a rival hospital....
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Maisie Was a Lady
Showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself once again out of work. She meets a wealthy playboy who hires h...
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Broadway Serenade
A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audi...
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New Mexico
Captain Hunt of the cavalry is trying to promote good relations with the Indian chief Acoma. But Hun...
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East Is West
Ming Toy is on the auction block in China. She is saved by Billy and taken to San Francisco by Lo Sa...
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King of the Newsboys
A poor young man's girlfriend leaves him for a gangster, who has the money and power she wants and t...
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The Crime Nobody Saw
Three playwrights develop a plot around a drunk who gets killed in their apartment....
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Don't Bet on Love
A plumber wins big at the racetrack but then his luck runs out and almost ruins his business. His ma...
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Iron Man
Prizefighter Mason loses his opening fight so wife Rose leaves him for Hollywood. Without her around...
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Murder with Pictures
Suspected crime boss Nate Girard beats a murder rap, and newspaper photog Kent Murdock is on the sto...
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Panic on the Air
A sports announcer and a friend investigate after a pitcher misses a series. When they discover that...
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The Ice Follies of 1939
Mary and Larry are are a modestly successful skating team. Shortly after their marriage, Mary gets a...
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These Glamour Girls
A drunken college student invites a dance hostess to the big college dance and then forgets he asked...
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Spring Tonic
Betty Ingals walks out on her fiancé in search of adventure. She gets more than she bargained for wh...
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The Man
When the President and Speaker of the House are killed in a building collapse, and the Vice-Presiden...
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Remember?
Sky and Linda meet on vacation and become engaged. When Sky introduces Linda to his best friend, Jef...
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The Last Train from Madrid
The story of seven people: their lives and love affairs in Madrid during the Civil War....
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Spring Madness
Harvard senior Sam Thatcher and his best friend and roommate, known as "The Lippencott", plan to go ...
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Common Clay
Young Ellen Neal gets work as a servant with the wealthy Fullerton family. She falls in love with th...
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Don Camillo
A priest helps the small town he's stationed in to resolve conflicts by working together....
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Checking Out: Grand Hotel
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My Weakness
A wealthy young man bets his uncle that he can transform a clumsy cleaning lady into a glamorous fas...
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Up for Murder
Young reporter accidentially kills his newspaper's editor in a fight over the publisher's mistress, ...
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Night World
"Happy" MacDonald and his unfaithful wife own a Prohibition era night club. On this eventful night, ...
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Battlestar Galactica
A compilation of Battlestar Galactica episodes 1 and 5, with alternate footage. After the destructio...
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Heatwave!
A devastating heatwave hits the Los Angeles area and a young expecting couple try to evade it by esc...
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Cross Country Cruise
A young woman is involved with a married man, although she does not know that he is married. He kill...
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Marcus Welby, M.D.: A Matter of Humanities
The pilot film for the long-run series introduced the kindly small-town general practitioner who, fo...
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Big News
A reporter's marriage is jeopardized by his drinking and he finds himself accused of a murder he did...
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Reunion
A married man, returning to his small town for a high school reunion, finds himself torn between his...
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The Sophomore
Joe Collins arrives at Hanford College to begin his second year with $200 to pay his tuition, is ent...
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The Stranger
An astronaut enters a vortex and crash-lands on a parallel planet where he's not welcome....
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She Learned About Sailors
Shanghai nightclub singer Jean falls in love to a sailor, but after his ship left Shanghai, he is of...
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The Carpetbaggers
Jonas Cord is a disagreeable young tycoon who's building planes, directing films, and catting around...
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Heaven on Earth
A young boy finds out that the man he thought was his father actually killed his real father, then a...
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Bruised Celluloid
The 1930 Hollywood-produced anti-war film "Nothing New in the West" is one of the great works in fil...
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She Waits
When a newlywed woman is taken to her husband's hometown to meet his mother, she is possessed by the...
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Servants' Entrance
Heiress Hedda Nillson certain that her family is about to lose all its money, takes a job as a maid....
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Under Siege
Terrorists launch an attack against the USA. Their first strike is by a suicide squad that detonates...
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Hart to Hart: Crimes of the Hart
In their very last adventure, Jonathan and Jennifer Hart travel to The Big Apple, where a play she w...
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Cast the First Stone
After Diane Martin is raped by a hitchhiker and becomes pregnant, she must face the pious faculty at...
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The Leathernecks Have Landed
Dishonorably discharged from the U.S. Marines after starting a barroom brawl that gets his leatherne...
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The Way of Peace
Punctuated with stories from the Bible, the film’s purpose was to reinforce Christian values in the ...
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Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident
The story of Francis Gary Powers, a U-2 pilot for the CIA who was shot down in his spy plane over Ru...
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A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
This short documentary, presented and directed by MGM sound engineer Douglas Shearer, goes behind th...
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The Spirit of Notre Dame
Story of two friends who play football, one of whom is a self-centered quarterback who thinks he's t...
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The Lottery Lover
A crew of young military-school cadets are enjoying their first weekend in Paris. Frank Harrington, ...
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Let’s Be Ritzy
Complications ensue when a young married couple pretend to be something they're not....
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Silk Hat Kid
Eddie Howard, a fast-thinking, two-fisted bodyguard, is hired by nightclub-owner Tim Martin to prote...
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The Biscuit Eater
Nothing warms the heart like the story of a boy and his dog. Lonnie (Johnny Whitaker) and Text (Geor...
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The Story of Noah
A man of God follows his faith to populate a new world in 'The Story of Noah', a powerful story of d...
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Lady Be Careful
Previously filmed in 1930 as True to the Navy, Kenyon Nicholson's old stage farce Sailor Beware retu...
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Blow-Ups of 1946
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1946....
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The Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood
The Cohens and the Kellys invade a Hollywood studio after Kitty becomes the darling of the studio....
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Hollywood: Style Center of the World
This short promotes the premise that movies often create a demand for the fashions seen in them. It ...
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That's Entertainment, Part II
Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time includi...
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From the Ends of the Earth
An MGM short showing how materials are shipped by boat 'From the Ends of the Earth' to Hollywood. Fe...
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Scandal Street
Joe McKnight temporarily leaves his fiancée, Nora Langdon, for an expedition in a South American jun...
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Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director O...
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Letters from Frank
When aging newspaper Editor Frank Miller is fired after decades of service and replaced by a compute...
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Cocoon
In this pilot film to the "Hawaii Five-0" television series, special law officer Steve McGarrett tra...
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Many a Slip
Comedy centering on the question of whether a man's wife is or isn't pregnant....
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One Against Many
A scientist is faced with a difficult decision. A man devoted to saving lives, he may be forced to k...
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The Family Nobody Wanted
A true story, it follows a pastor and his wife through forties beginning with one biological child, ...
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