Lew Ayres

Lew Ayres

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Birthday: 
28 December 1908, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Birth Name: 
Lewis Frederick Ayer III
Height: 
177 cm
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) tha... Show more »
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. Show less «

Lew Ayres's FILMOGRAPHY

These Amazing Shadows

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Columbo - Season 11

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The Big Valley - Season 4

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The Big Valley - Season 3

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The Big Valley - Season 2

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The Big Valley - Season 1

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Hart to Hart: Crimes of the Hart

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L.A. Law - Season 8

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L.A. Law - Season 7

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Knots Landing - Season 14

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L.A. Law - Season 6

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Knots Landing - Season 13

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Columbo - Season 10

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L.A. Law - Season 5

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Knots Landing - Season 12

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Columbo - Season 8

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Columbo - Season 9

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L.A. Law - Season 4

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Knots Landing - Season 11

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L.A. Law - Season 3

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Simon and Simon - Season 8

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Knots Landing - Season 10

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Highway to Heaven - Season 5

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Lew Ayres'S roles

Jason Burke
Jason Burke
Mandemus
Mandemus
President Adar
President Adar
Ned Seton
Ned Seton
Paul
Paul
Sheriff Roy Kingston
Sheriff Roy Kingston
President Adar
President Adar
Carl Hooper
Carl Hooper