Add/Update Information: William Eythe - Actor

An American actor who was born in Mars, Pennsylvania. He became interested in acting at a young age. He turned an old barn into a theater and began performing in the plays he had written. He studied at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh. He went to see Burgess Meredith on stage in Winterset, and the latter advised him to study at Carnegie Institute of Technology. He began his career in 1943 and got a role in the 1943 movie The Ox-Bow Incident. He is known for the Oscar-winning movie The Song of Bernadette, starring Jennifer Jones, and The House on 92nd Street (1945). He died on January 26, 1957, in Los Angeles, California, USA, of acute hepatitis.