John Qualen
Acting1899-12-06Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John Qualen (born Johan Mandt Kvalen, December 8, 1899 – September 12, 1987) was a Canadian-American character actor of Norwegian heritage who specialized in Scandinavian roles. Qualen was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, the son of immigrants from Norway; his father was a Lutheran minister and changed the family's original surname, "Kvalen", to "Qualen" – though some sources give Oleson, later Oleson Kvalen as Qualen's earlier surnames. His father's ministering meant many moves and John was 20 when he graduated from Elgin High School in 1920. Though he was awarded a scholarship to Northwestern University after he won an oratory contest he never attended college. In a Milwaukee Journal interview he said he needed to start working and did so with the Chattaqua Circuit. Eventually reaching Broadway, he gained his big break as the Swedish janitor in Elmer Rice's Street Scene. His movie career began when he recreated the role in the film version. This was followed by his appearance in John Ford's Arrowsmith (1931) which began a more than thirty year membership in the director's "stock company", with important supporting roles in The Searchers (1956), Two Rode Together (1961), The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) and Cheyenne Autumn (1964). Appearing in well over one hundred films, and acting extensively on television into the 1970s, Qualen performed many of his roles with various accents, usually Scandinavian, often intended for comic effect. Three of his more memorable roles showcase his versatility. Qualen assumed a Midwestern dialect as Muley, who recounts the destruction of his farm by the bank in Ford's The Grapes of Wrath (1940), and as the confused killer Earl Williams in Howard Hawks' classic comedy His Girl Friday (also 1940). As Berger, the jewelry-selling Norwegian resistance member in Michael Curtiz' Casablanca (1942), he essayed a light Scandinavian accent, but put on a thicker Mediterranean accent as the homeward-bound fisherman Locota in William Wellman's The High and the Mighty (1954) Qualen was treasurer of The Authors Club and historian of The Masquers, Hollywood's social group for actors. John Qualen was blind in his later years. He died of heart failure in 1987 in Torrance, California, and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale. He was survived by his three daughters.
出演作品（177）
カサブランカ
或る殺人
リバティ・バランスを射った男
怒りの葡萄
The Odd Couple
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
捜索者
メイベリー110番
La Classe américaine
いつか見た青い空
Let's Fall in Love
ヒズ・ガール・フライデー
Green Acres
Elmer Gantry
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
テキサスの五人の仲間
エルダー兄弟
The Streets of San Francisco
All That Money Can Buy
Larceny, Inc.
The Jackpot
Doubting Thomas
The Third Man
7 Faces of Dr. Lao
Maverick
The Partridge Family
Woman on the Run
Roughly Speaking
Let Us Live
Mister Ed
Street Scene
Cheyenne Autumn
Our Daily Bread
逆転
Father Knows Best
Hollow Triumph
The Long Voyage Home
Arrowsmith
Wife vs. Secretary
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
Sea Hunt
Thriller
The Big Steal
The Shepherd of the Hills
At Gunpoint
Saturday's Children
アラスカ魂
Charlie Chan in Paris
Swing Shift Maisie
Alias a Gentleman
Hi, Nellie!
Ambush at Tomahawk Gap
The Three Musketeers
Jericho
The Big Land
The Donna Reed Show
Counsellor at Law
Two Rode Together
ドラグネット
General Electric Theater
バージニアン
The Mad Miss Manton
Firecreek
Jungle Book
われらキャロウェイ
Seventh Heaven
Upperworld
The Road to Glory
The Philco Television Playhouse
Nothing Sacred
Out of the Fog
Adventure
Hans Christian Andersen
Revolt in the Big House
Black Fury
Honeymoon in Bali
Goodbye, My Fancy
He Was Her Man
Captain Kidd
ドノバン珊瑚礁
Hell Bent for Leather
Whipsaw
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
The Impostor
Meet Nero Wolfe
The Farmer Takes a Wife
The Sea Chase
Cheyenne
Knute Rockne All American
Blondie on a Budget
Arabian Nights
The Gun Runners
Million Dollar Baby
Hail, Hero!
The Country Doctor
The Bad Man of Brimstone
Man of Iron
The Chaser
Silk Hat Kid
Breakdowns of 1942
Burke's Law
December Bride
Yancy Derringer
Racket Squad
Shane
My Favorite Martian
The Fugitive
The High and the Mighty
Thunder Afloat
An American Romance
Girls' Dormitory
Bronco
Dark Waters
Angels Over Broadway
My World Dies Screaming
One More Spring
Stand Up and Fight
Song of Scheherazade
The Great Hotel Murder
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
Joy of Living
I, the Jury
Tortilla Flat
Frasier, the Sensuous Lion
Thunder in the Night
Public Defender
Buccaneer's Girl
Ben Casey
The Real McCoys
Lawman
Angel's Holiday
Orchids to You
Babies for Sale
Straight Is the Way
The Alaskans
Tightrope
Dr. Kildare
Four Wives
Passion
P.J.
The Other Woman
The Strange Case of Dr. Meade
Fit for a King
Model Wife
She Had to Eat
The Millionaire
The Flying Missile
I'll Take Sweden
Sugarfoot
Chasing Yesterday
Captain China
16 Fathoms Deep
Tate
Five of a Kind
Sing and Like It
Man on a Bus
Ski Patrol
Johnny Concho
Climax!
Ring Around the Moon
Belle Le Grand
Youth Will Be Served
No Time for Sergeants
My Girl Tisa
365 Nights in Hollywood
Reunion
On Their Own
Reaching from Heaven
Unchained
New Wine
Fifty Roads to Town
River Gang
High Conquest
Mickey the Kid
Servants' Entrance
Doc
Getting Away from It All