![]() Divorced from actress Patricia Knight, Wilde married his frequent costar, actress Jean Wallace. In 1955 he formed his own company, Theodora Productions, to produce, direct, and star in his own films he ultimately made 11 films in that capacity, but earned little critical respect for his work. For several years he starred in major productions, such as the 1952 Best Picture winner The Greatest Show on Earth, then in the mid-late '50s he was back in B movies, often playing swashbucklers. His career took off after he played Chopin in A Song to Remember (1945), for which he received a Best Actor Oscar nomination. In 1936 he began making small, uncredited appearances in films. Wilde’s acting career began in 1935, when he made his debut on Broadway. On-screen from 1940, Wilde played small roles as heavies in several films, then switched studios and began getting leads in B movies. Marriage: 2 actresses Politics: Democrat Death: 77 Cornel Wilde (born Kornél Lajos Weisz Octo October 16, 1989) was Hungarian-American actor and director. In 1940 he was hired as a fencing instructor and a featured player for the Broadway production of Hamlet with Laurence Olivier some of the rehearsals were in Hollywood, where he landed a film contract. He appeared in a number of plays in New York and on the road, playing everything from bit parts to leads. For several years he studied medicine in college, but he gave it up to pursue acting he also gave up a spot on the 1936 U.S. His later films were of varying quality, and he ended hisĬareer in near-cameos in minor adventure films.His father was a traveling salesman who did a lot of business in Europe, and Wilde spent much of his youth traveling in Europe with him, where he became fluent in several languages. Wilde, who had been undergoing treatment at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center since Sept. ![]() Tour-de-force adventure drama that brought him real acclaim as aĭirector. LOS ANGELES (AP) Cornel Wilde, whose fabled career on the big screen spanned nearly 50 years and included an Academy Award nomination for A Song To Remember, died of leukemia Monday, just three days after he turned 74. Several of his ventures into film noir in this period,īoth his own and other directors', are quite interesting Led him to form his own production company with the goal of directing In the 1950s his star dimmed a little, and aside from an Spent the balance of the 1940s in romantic, and often swashbuckling, He playedĪ few minor roles before leaping to fame and an Oscar nomination as Production of "Romeo and Juliet" that Hollywood spotted him. It was not until he was hired in the dual capacities of fencing Stage, he appeared in the Broadway hit "Having a Wonderful Time", but ![]() Shortening his name to Cornel Wilde for the Though he continued to list his correct Hungarian birth in 1912 on Thereafter claiming publicly that he was born in New York in 1915, Shaved a few years off their ages in order to get work, Wilde Olympic fencing team, he quit the team just prior to theġ936 Berlin Olympics in order to take a role in a play. Received a scholarship for medical school, but turned it down in favor He spent much of his youth traveling in Europe,ĭeveloping a continental flair as well as an affinity for languages. His family Americanized their names and Kornel took the nameĬornelius Louis Wilde. In 1920, he immigrated to New York City with his parents, Rayna (Vid) and Vojtech Béla Weisz, and elder sister, Edith. Dashing actor Cornel Wilde was born Kornel Lajos Weisz on October 13, 1912, in Prievidza, Hungary (now part of Slovakia), to a Jewish family. ![]()
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