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An American actor, born in Morristown, New Jersey, USA, on October 24, 1900, as Isaac Stanford Jolley. He married Emily Mae Hacker (1921-1978), with whom he had two children, and she remained with him until his death. Among his most important works are The Crimson Ghost (1946), The Rebel Set (1959), and Gunsight Ridge (1957).
Jolley was a prolific film and television actor, who appeared in Hollywood after a great experience in vaudeville and Broadway theaters. He was of English and French origins. His father owned and ran a traveling circus and a carnival before he became a successful restaurant owner and opened an electrical contracting service, in which Stanford worked after high school before turning to acting.
He started his career in vaudeville and performed on stage and in stock shows before working on Broadway in 1926, but his father’s bankruptcy during the Great Depression, and then his death, made Stan quit acting to manage family affairs. In the mid-thirties, he moved to the West to pursue his acting career and found work as an extra in Western films.
Later, he got larger parts, which reached their peak during World War II. In the fifties, his work was limited to the Western genre in cinema and television. Also, his baritone voice was used on the radio. He continued to work past the age of seventy, and his last film was partly directed by his son Stan Jolley. He died at the age of 78 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA, on December 7, 1978, of emphysema and arteriosclerotic heart disease.
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