
Lew Ayres was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and raised in San Diego, California. A college dropout, he was found by a talent scout in the Coconut Grove nightclub in Los Angeles and entered Hollywood as a bit player. He was leading man to Greta Garbo in The Kiss (1929), but it was the role of Paul Baumer in All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) that was his big break. He was profoundly affected by the anti-war message of that film, and when, in 1942, the popular star of Young Dr. Kildare (1938) and subsequent Dr. Kildare films was drafted, he was a conscientious objector. America was outraged, and theaters vowed never to show his films again, but quietly he achieved the Medical Corps status he had requested, serving as a medic under fire in the South Pacific and as a chaplain's aid in New Guinea and the Phillipines. His return to film after the war was undistinguished until Johnny Belinda (1948) - his role as the sympathetic physician treating the deaf-mute Jane Wyman won him an Academy Award nomination as Best Actor. Subsequent movie roles were scarce; an opportunity to play Dr. Kildare in television was aborted when the network refused to honor his request for no cigarette sponsorship. He continued to act, but in the 1970s put his long experience into a project to bring to the west the philosophy of the East - the resulting film, Altars of the World (1976), while not a box-office success, won critical acclaim and a Golden Globe Award. Lew Ayres died in Los Angeles, California on December 30, 1996, just two days after his 88th birthday.

The Impatient Maiden

Suddenly, Love

刑事コロンボ

Cocoon

MGM: When the Lion Roars

大草原の小さな家

西部戦線異状なし

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

燃えよ!カンフー

The Mary Tyler Moore Show

Under Siege

Quincy, M.E.

特攻野郎Aチーム

Highway to Heaven

私立探偵マグナム

素晴らしき休日

Hawkins

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Advise & Consent

Hawaii Five-O

Of Mice and Men

L.A. Law

宇宙空母ギャラクティカ

The Streets of San Francisco

ワンダーウーマン

The Dark Mirror

Cagney & Lacey

地上最強の美女バイオニック・ジェミー

That's Entertainment, Part II

McMillan & Wife

宇宙空母ギャラクティカ

Hart to Hart: Crimes of the Hart

Johnny Belinda

Dr. Kildare Goes Home

The People Vs. Dr. Kildare

Maisie Was a Lady

フェーム/青春の旅立ち

Hotel

Knots Landing

Outlaws

死霊伝説

Simon & Simon

A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound

The Magician

Night World

Gunsmoke

Laramie

Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day

Here Come the Brides

Young Dr. Kildare

Trapper John, M.D.

My Three Sons

Screen Director's Playhouse

オーメン2/ダミアン

バージニアン

接吻

The Doorway to Hell

The Man

The Spirit of Notre Dame

Route 66

Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law

The DuPont Show with June Allyson

The Love Boat

State Fair

Broadway Serenade

The Biscuit Eater

ABC Stage 67

The Barbara Stanwyck Show

The Big Valley

Donovan's Brain

Calling Dr. Kildare

The Capture

Dr. Kildare's Crisis

Cross Country Cruise

Silk Hat Kid

Blow-Ups of 1946

Omnibus

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

Saints and Sinners

Rich Man, Poor Girl

Heatwave!

The Fantastic Journey

The Unfaithful

Dr. Kildare's Victory

Remember?

The Carpetbaggers

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

The Questor Tapes

She Waits

Finder of Lost Loves

最後の猿の惑星

The Secret of Dr. Kildare

The Ice Follies of 1939

Don Camillo

The Way of Peace

Ben Casey

Fingers at the Window

These Glamour Girls

Hollywood: Style Center of the World

Lime Street

Iron Man

FBIアメリカ連邦警察

Earth II

Okay, America!

The Golden Fleecing

Panic on the Air

Spring Tonic

Kraft Suspense Theatre

Murder with Pictures

The Leathernecks Have Landed

The Interns

Slattery's People

Dr. Kildare's Strange Case

No Escape

The Sophomore

Flying High

The Crime Nobody Saw

The Last Train from Madrid

Big News

East Is West

King of the Newsboys

Lady Be Careful

Spring Madness

End of the World

The Stranger

Up for Murder

Cavalcade of America

Climax!

New Mexico

Heaven on Earth

Hold 'Em Navy

The Lottery Lover

She Learned About Sailors

The Story of Noah

Shakedown

Don't Bet on Love

Common Clay

My Weakness

Marcus Welby, M.D.: A Matter of Humanities

Reunion

Geschundenes Zelluloid - Das Schicksal des Kinoklassikers "Im Westen nichts Neues"

Servants' Entrance

Cast the First Stone

Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident

Let’s Be Ritzy

The Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood

From the Ends of the Earth

Scandal Street

Letters from Frank

Many a Slip

The Family Nobody Wanted

Bus Stop

San Francisco International Airport

MGM Parade