Salma El-Sharkawy |
He was an American actor, born on March 16, 1897, in Keokuk, Iowa, USA, as John Conrad Nagel. He has been working as an actor since the silent era. He appeared on Broadway. He was one of the founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and was its president for a year. He advised MGM and Warner Bros. on choosing suitable voices for the movie microphone. He is known for The Ship from Shanghai (1930), Quality Street (1927), and Kongo (1932). He received Stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Motion Pictures and an Honorary Acamdey Award in 1947 for his work on the Motion Picture Relief Fund. He married three times and had two children. He died at the age of 72 on February 24, 1970 in New York, USA.
|
|
|