There are many reasons why I want to arrive. What might have led to a strong resurgence, however, was sadly cut short. So too did the thriller The Arnelo Affair (1947). Publicity Listings I don't know whether I'm an actor or not because I've never been sure what acting is. He was acting in On the Threshold of Space; it was later decided that his performance was far enough along to release the movie. His father, Walter, was born in the Ukraine and his mother, Anna, was Polish. Battle Zone (1952) had John and Stephen McNally as two Korean war photographers distracted by the lovely Linda Christian, and Conquest of Cochise (1953) featured a miscast John as the famed Indian warrior.John reaped better rewards on the stage during this time. Celebrities and Notable People Who Have Had Coronavirus. Also popular was Malaya (1949) where Hodiak supported James Stewart and Spencer Tracy. Western Australia. Advertisement In 1960, she left Hollywood to settle on a cattle station in Australia with her second husband, Randolph Galt. Otherwise, I'd be far happier right where I was. AKAJohn Hodaik. They divorced on January 27, 1953. He was Ann Sothern's love interest in Maisie Goes to Reno (1944) and competed with James Craig for Lana Turner in Marriage Is a Private Affair (1944). Celebrities and Famous People Who Passed Away Today in History. A few of Hodiak's many radio appearances: Learn how and when to remove this template message, "Actor John Hodiak Dies Of Heart Attack at 41", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Hodiak&oldid=969781590, Burials at Calvary Cemetery (Los Angeles), Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles needing additional references from December 2010, All articles needing additional references, Articles with unsourced statements from January 2018, Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 27 July 2020, at 11:37. He was of Ukrainian and Polish descent. | He and others were guests of Zachary Scott, whose sister had married into the ranch owner's family. Fox kept him on to play Maj. Joppolo in A Bell for Adano (1945) opposite Gene Tierney. There Hodiak created the role of the comic strip character Li'l Abner on radio. Hodiak was a frequent visitor to the King Ranch in Kingsville, Texas. Baxter’s marriage in 1946 to actor John Hodiak ended in divorce. [2] Hodiak was a frequent visitor to the King Ranch in Kingsville, Texas. When Hodiak first tried out for a radio acting job, he was turned down because of his accent. He was on his way to the 20th Century-Fox lot to complete final work on his last film, On the Threshold of Space (1956), when he was stricken.The movie was released posthumously with John's role left intact. ^ "Actor John Hodiak Dies Of Heart Attack at 41" Schenectady Gazette, October 20, 1955, p. 29. MGM gave him another lead role, co-starring with Hedy Lamarr in A Lady Without Passport (1950), but it lost money. Birthday: April 16, 1914Date of Death: October 19, 1955Age at Death: 41. At one point, he was considered by the St. Louis Cardinals for their farm league but he declined the offer in favor of pursuing an acting career.Following high school, John found work as a golf caddy and stockroom clerk (at a Chevrolet company) before breaking into radio (WXYZ) in Detroit and (later) Chicago. Frankly every one of them is right, and I'm one actor who is plenty grateful. Recently Passed Away Celebrities and Famous People. I've worked as hard as I could on them all. Back at MGM, Hodiak was in The Harvey Girls (1946), second billed as Judy Garland's love interest. So too did the thriller The Arnelo Affair (1947). Born:14-Apr-1914. He did another Korean War film for Allied Artists, Dragonfly Squadron (1954). Maybe not in this field, but in any other. He is interred in Block 303, Crypt D-1, of the main mausoleum at Calvary Cemetery, East Los Angeles. John Hodiak, Actor: Lifeboat. Pittsburgh-born John Hodiak was one of several up-and-coming male talents who managed to take advantage of the dearth of WWII-era superstars (MGM's Clark Gable, Van Johnson, Robert Taylor and James Stewart, among others) who were off serving their country. The movie was released posthumously with John's role left intact. He was overlooked in the rousing Judy Garland vehicle The Harvey Girls (1946), but seemed much more at home in the film noir Somewhere in the Night (1946) and in the WWII drama Homecoming (1948) that starred Clark Gable and Lana Turner, with John and wife Anne Baxter serving as second leads.With MGM's male roster of talent back home now from the war, John was unceremoniously relegated to second leads that supported the top-tier actors, including Gable, Spencer Tracy, Robert Walker, James Stewart and Robert Taylor. Anna Pogorzelec's information is not available now. Back at MGM, Hodiak was in The Harvey Girls (1946), second billed as Judy Garland's love interest. Block 303 Crypt D-1. On the morning of October 19, 1955, 41-year-old John suffered a coronary thrombosis and died instantly while shaving in the bathroom of his home. While several of his subsequent post-war films drew desultory reviews, notably the Greer Garson "Miniver" sequel The Miniver Story (1950), Hedy Lamarr's so-called tale of intrigue A Lady Without Passport (1950), and the Clark Gable western Across the Wide Missouri (1951), John did manage to co-star in two of MGM's more stirring war pictures -- Command Decision (1948) and Battleground (1949).