John Sutton (actor)

John Sutton
Sutton in Captain from Castile (1947)
Born
Eugene Osmond Stephen Congdon[1]

(1908-10-22)22 October 1908
Rawalpindi, Punjab, British India
Died10 July 1963(1963-07-10) (aged 54)
Cannes, France
OccupationActor
Years active1936–1963
Spouses
Charlotte Biddle Barrett
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(m. 1933; div. 1946)​
Roberta Fidler
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(m. 1946; div. 1955)​
Anita Rodney-Eden
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(m. 1957; annul. 1960)​

John Sutton (22 October 1908 – 10 July 1963) was a British actor with a prolific career in Hollywood of more than 30 years.[citation needed]

Personal life

Sutton was born in Rawalpindi, India (now Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan). He was the son of Lt. Colonel Arthur Congdon (1861-1924) of the Royal Munster Fusiliers and his wife Ann Bell Sutton Moxley Congdon. Before moving to Hollywood as an actor, he was a tea planter in Assam, India, and, failing that, he farmed for a while in South Africa.[2] Upon being naturalized as a U.S. citizen while serving in the U.S. Navy in 1943 during the Second World War, he legally changed his name to John Sutton.[3]

Sutton was married at least three times. In 1933, he married wealthy socialite Charlotte Biddle Barrett.[4] In the 1940 federal census, the household included his wife Charlotte and her daughter from a previous marriage. In October 1946, he divorced his high society wife and married Roberta Fidler, former wife of newspaper columnist and radio commentator Jimmie Fidler;[5][6] this rather stormy second marriage ended in divorce in 1955.[7] He married dancer Anita Rodney-Eden in 1957, but he received an annulment in 1960, when it was shown that she was still legally the ninth wife of oft-married (13 marriages to 11 women) Tommy Manville.[8][9] He died suddenly of a heart attack on 10 July 1963.

Filmography

Sutton (with knife) and Arturo de Córdova in Adventures of Casanova (1948)

References

  1. ^ World War II Draft Registration Card:https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=2238&h=17859642&tid=&pid=&queryId=28dcb313e0d64795db3e90d31e5f8266&usePUB=true&_phsrc=hYI2192&_phstart=successSource
  2. ^ "Louella Parsons on Hollywood: John Sutton Is Latest To Win Film Recognition", The San Francisco Examiner, p. 26, Oct. 5, 1941.
  3. ^ Petition for Naturalization: https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/3998/images/43867_3421606203_0610-00784?treeid=&personid=&hintid=&queryId=28dcb313e0d64795db3e90d31e5f8266&usePUB=true&_phsrc=hYI2193&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&_ga=2.198473903.1498679909.1612451459-1093218731.1597084329&pId=2312311
  4. ^ "Actor Says Socialite Wife Watched Him Via Spyglass", Daily News, Los Angeles, Calif., p. 3, Oct. 14, 1946.
  5. ^ "First Husband Helps Actor Win Annulment", The Los Angeles Times, p. 2, October 16, 1946.
  6. ^ "Ex-Mrs. Fidler wed to Actor", p. 2, The Los Angeles Times, Oct. 23, 1946.
  7. ^ "Actor John Sutton Divorced For Cruelty". The Blade. United Press International. 16 June 1955. Retrieved 24 November 2019.
  8. ^ "Actor John Sutton Seeking Annulment". Southeast Missourian. Associated Press. 18 May 1960. Retrieved 24 November 2019.
  9. ^ "John Sutton (actor obtains default annulment from former wife of Tommy Manville), 1960". Los Angeles Examiner Photographs Collection, 1920-1961. University of Southern California Libraries. 2 June 1960. Retrieved 24 November 2019.

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