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
Painted People (1924)
as Don Lane
Lady with a Past (1932)
as Guy Bryson
Hi Gang! (1941)
as Her Other Half
Her Majesty, Love (1931)
as Fred von Wellingen
The Stolen Jools (1931)
as Ben Lyon
Night Nurse (1931)
as Mortie
By Whose Hand? (1932)
as Jimmy Hawley
The Crooked Circle (1932)
as Brand Osborne
The Air Legion (1929)
as Dave Grayson
The Women in His Life (1933)
as Roger McKane
One Way Street (1925)
as Bobby Austin
The Perfect Sap (1927)
as Herbert Alden
Misbehaving Ladies (1931)
as Phil Hunter
Down to the Sea (1936)
as Steve Londos
Wages of Virtue (1924)
as Marvin
The Reckless Lady (1926)
as Ralph Hilliwe
Indiscreet (1931)
as Tony Blake
This Was Paris (1942)
as Butch, Sydney Chronicle Reporter
I Cover the Waterfront (1933)
as H. Joseph 'Joe' Miller
The Big Timer (1932)
as Cooky Bradford
The Lyons in Paris (1955)
as Ben
Week Ends Only (1932)
as Jack Williams
Hat Check Girl (1932)
as Buster Collins
Lightning Strikes Twice (1934)
as Steve Brewster
Girl Missing (1933)
as Henry Gibson
The Dark Tower (1943)
as Phil Danton
Hollywood on Parade No. A-1 (1932)
as Self
Confidential Lady (1939)
as Jim Brent
Life with the Lyons (1954)
as Ben Lyon
Bluebeard's Seven Wives (1926)
as John Hart / Don Juan Hartez
Alias French Gertie (1930)
as Jimmy Hartigan
For the Love of Mike (1927)
as Mike
Screen Snapshots Series 14, No. 8 (1935)
Actor
Open Your Eyes (1919)
as Harold Connors
The Heart of Maryland (1921)
as Bob Telfair
Hollywood on Parade No. A-3 (1932)
as Self
The Great Deception (1926)
as Cyril Mansfield
What Men Want (1930)
as Kendall James
Life in Hollywood No. 2 (1927)
as Himself
Navy Wife (1935)
as Dr. Peter Milford
Wine of Youth (1924)
as Lynn Talbot
The Savage (1926)
as Danny Terry
My Past (1931)
as Robert 'Bob' Byrne
The Prince of Tempters (1926)
as Francis
Crimson Romance (1934)
as Bob Wilson
Dancing Feet (1936)
as Peyton Wells
Das tanzende Wien (1927)
as Jonny Conzaga
Bought! (1931)
as Nick Amory
The Hot Heiress (1931)
as Hap Harrigan
Compromised (1931)
as Sidney Brock
Aloha (1931)
as Jimmy Bradford
The New Commandment (1925)
as Billy Morrow
The Necessary Evil (1925)
as Frank Jerome
I Spy (1934)
as Wally Sawyer
The White Moth (1924)
as Douglas Vantine
Together We Live (1935)
as Max
I Killed the Count (1939)
as Bernard Froy
Lily of the Dust (1924)
as Lt. Prell
The Custard Cup (1923)
as Dick Chase
The Pace That Thrills (1925)
as Danny Wade
Frisco Waterfront (1935)
as Glenn Burton
So Big (1924)
as Dirk DeJong
Potash and Perlmutter (1923)
as Boris Andrieff
Flaming Youth (1923)
as Monty Standish
A Soldier's Plaything (1930)
as Georgie
The Quitter (1929)
as Neal Abbott
Winds of Chance (1925)
as Pierce Phillips
The Tender Hour (1927)
as Wally McKenzie
Lummox (1930)
as Rollo Farley
The Flying Marine (1929)
as Steve Moran
Stardust (1938)
as Roy Harley
All Faces West (1929)
as Matthew