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Irlanda (1904 - 1979). Actor irlandés cuyo verdadero nombre es George Brendan, nacido el 15 de Marzo de 1904 en Shannonsbridge y fallecido en 1979 At age 11 he came to America to stay with relatives after the death of his parents, later returning to Ireland, where he started his acting career playing bit parts and walk-ons in Abbey Theatre productions. Because of his subversive activities during the Irish Rebellion he was forced, however, to flee the country and he was smuggled aboard a freighter bound for Canada. After working at various odd jobs, he joined a stock company, with which he toured Canada for two years, then came to New York, where he began his American career with a stage company in the Bronx. He later appeared with several stock companies, forming three of his own. After appearing in a number of Broadway productions in the late 20s, he went to Hollywood to begin a 20-year-long film career as a gallant, romantic leading man. Gentlemanly and sauve, and sporting a familiar pencil-thin mustache, he soon became established as one of Hollywood's most dependable, if least animated, leading men. He projected restrained virility opposite such screen idols as Greta Garbo, Ginger Rogers, Barbara Stanwyck, Myrna Loy, Olivia De Havilland, and especially Bette Davis, with whom he appeared in a succession of 11 Warner Bros. dramas of the late 30s and early 40s. He retired from the screen in the early 50s to run a horse-breeding ranch but returned for an isolated appearance in 1978. Among his six wives were actresses Ruth Chatterton (1932-34), Constance Worth (briefly in 1937), and Ann Sheridan (1942-43).
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