OTTO KRUGER BIOGRAPHY & FILMOGRAPHY:
Otto Kruger was born on September 6th, 1885 in Toledo, Ohio. As a young boy, he grew up being exposed to the music world and originally planned on pursuing a career as a musician, until he later chose to change direction and switch to acting.
Art the age of fifteen, he first appeared in a musical on Broadway which sparked his intrigue in the acting world. In 1915, he debuted in his first film role, "The Runaway Wife" co-starring Stewart Baird, Justina Wayne and Orlando Daly, which soon followed with roles in, "Around the Clock with the Marines" (1918) and "The Home Girl" (1928) also starring Miriam Hopkins, Margalo Gillmore and Sylvia Field.
He really began to make a name for himself as an actor when he appeared on the film, "Chained" (1934) starring Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Stu Erwin, Una O'Connor, Marjorie Gateson and Akim Tamiroff. Some of his more well known film roles soon followed such as, "Mercy Island" (1941) with with Ray Middleton and Gloria Dickson, "Corregidor" (1943) with Elissa Landi, Donald Woods, Rick Vallin, I. Stanford Jolley and Frank Jenks, "Hitler's Children" (1943) starring Tim Holt, Bonita Granville, Hans Conried, H. B. Warner, Lloyd Corrigan, Nancy Gates, Gavin Muir and Kent Smith, "Power of the Press" (1943) starring Guy Kibbee, Lee Tracy, Gloria Dickson and Victor Jory, "Woman Who Came Back" (1945) co-starring John Loder, Nancy Kelly, Ruth Ford, Harry Tyler, Jeanne Gail and J. Farrell MacDonald and "Duel in the Sun" (1946) starring alongside Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Gregory Peck, Lillian Gish, Walter Huston, Lane Chandler, Sidney Blackmer, Butterfly McQueen, Harry Carey, Herbert Marshall, Charles Bickford, Tilly Losch, Joan Tetzel, Griff Barnett, Scott McKay, Charles Dingle, Dan White and Lionel Barrymore.
Along with his many film roles he was also quite successful on television appearing on such series as, "The Man and the Challenge", "Climax!", "Lux Video Theatre", "Armstrong Circle Theatre", "Bonanza", "Perry Mason", "Studio One in Hollywood", "Dr. Kildare", "Checkmate", "Thriller" and "The Law and Mr. Jones" starring James Whitmore.
Kruger chose to retire from acting in the 1960's after his final appearances on, "High Noon" (1952) starring Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Lloyd Bridges, Sheb Wooley, Robert J. Wilke, Katy Jurado, Harry Morgan, Thomas Mitchell, Ian MacDonald, Eve McVeagh, Morgan Farley, Lon Chaney Jr. and Lee Van Cleef, "Magnificent Obsession" (1954) starring with Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Barbara Rush, Agnes Moorehead, Gregg Palmer and Paul Cavanagh and "Della" (1964) starring Joan Crawford, Paul Burke, Charles Bickford, Richard Carlson, Diane Baker, Robert Sampson and Barney Phillips.
Otto Kruger married only once to Sue MacManamy in 1919 and they had one child together and remained married until he passed away on his eighty ninth birthday on September 6th, 1974 in Woodland Hills, California after suffering from a stroke as well as cerebral vascular complication. His remains are interred at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Hollywood Hills, California.
Filmography
1964 Sex and the Single Girl
1961-1964 Perry Mason
1964 Della
1961-1963 The Dick Powell Theatre
1963 Bonanza
1962 Sam Benedict
1962 Dr. Kildare
1962 The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
1962 Checkmate
1962 Thriller
1961 The Investigators
1961 Frontier Circus
1961 The Law and Mr. Jones
1960 Cash McCall
1959 The Rebel
1959 The Man and the Challenge
1959 The Young Philadelphians
1959 The Grand Jury
1958 The Colossus of New York
1956-1957 Climax!
1957 The Ford Television Theatre
1957 The O. Henry Playhouse
1953-1955 Lux Video Theatre
1955 The Last Command
1955 Science Fiction Theatre
1955 The Desert Song
1953-1954 G.E. True Theater
1954 Black Widow
1954 Studio One in Hollywood
1954 Magnificent Obsession
1954 Center Stage
1950-1954 Armstrong Circle Theatre
1954 Medallion Theatre
1953 Hit Parade
1952 High Noon
1951-1952 Pulitzer Prize Playhouse
1951 Valentino
1951 Somerset Maugham TV Theatre
1951 Lights Out
1951 Payment on Demand
1950 Nash Airflyte Theatre
1950 711 Ocean Drive
1949 Suspense
1948 Lulu Belle
1948 Smart Woman
1947 Love and Learn
1946 Duel in the Sun
1946 The Fabulous Suzanne
1945 Woman Who Came Back
1945 Allotment Wives
1945 On Stage Everybody
1945 The Jungle Captive
1945 The Chicago Kid
1945 Wonder Man
1945 The Great John L.
1945 Escape in the Fog
1945 Earl Carroll Vanities
1944 Murder, My Sweet
1944 Storm Over Lisbon
1944 They Live in Fear
1944 Cover Girl
1944 Knickerbocker Holiday
1943 Tarzan's Desert Mystery
1943 Night Plane from Chungking
1943 Corregidor
1943 Power of the Press
1943 Hitler's Children
1942 Secrets of a Co-Ed
1942 Friendly Enemies
1942 Saboteur
1941 The Men in Her Life
1941 Mercy Island
1941 The Big Boss
1940 A Dispatch from Reuter's
1940 The Man I Married
1940 Seventeen
1940 Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
1939 Another Thin Man
1939 Scandal Sheet
1939 A Woman Is the Judge
1939 The Zero Hour
1939 False Rapture
1939 The Amazing Mr. Forrest
1939 Disbarred
1938 Thanks for the Memory
1938 Exposed
1938 I Am the Law
1938 The Hidden Menace
1938 Housemaster
1937 The Barrier
1937 Counsel for Crime
1937 They Won't Forget
1937 Glamorous Night
1936 Dracula's Daughter
1936 Living Dangerously
1936 Lady of Secrets
1935 Two Sinners
1935 Vanessa: Her Love Story
1934 Chained
1934 Springtime for Henry
1934 Treasure Island
1934 Paris Interlude
1934 Men in White
1934 The Crime Doctor
1933 The Women in His Life
1933 Gallant Lady
1933 The Prizefighter and the Lady
1933 Ever in My Heart
1933 Beauty for Sale
1933 Turn Back the Clock
1932 Ladies Not Allowed
1928 The Home Girl
1923 Under the Red Robe
1918 Around the Clock with the Marines
1918 Around the Clock with a Sailor
1915 When the Call Came
1915 A Mother's Confession
1915 The Runaway Wife
