John Tyrrell (actor)

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name = John Tyrrell


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location = The Bronx, New York, USA
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deathdate = death date and age|1949|9|20|1900|12|7
deathplace = The Bronx, New York, USA
yearsactive = 1935-1947
spouse = Grette Ardine
birthname = John Edward Tyrrell
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John Tyrrell (December 7, 1900 – September 20, 1949) was an American film actor. He appeared in over 250 films between 1935 and 1947.

Tyrrell is best known for his prolific work with Columbia Pictures in the Three Stooges short subjects. cite book
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title = "The Three Stooges Journal #119"
publisher = The Three Stooges Fan Club
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isbn = 0971186804] Like many actors in the Stooge comedies, Tyrrell was a salaried contract player. The Columbia stock company was called upon to play incidental roles in practically everything the studio produced: important films, low-budget "B" pictures, short subjects, and serials. (Some of these players graduated to stardom, like Lloyd Bridges, Bruce Bennett, Adele Mara, and Ann Doran.) John Tyrrell worked steadily at Columbia from 1938 to 1945. Occasionally, only Tyrrell's voice would be used, as a radio newsman, public-address announcer, or police-call dispatcher. Tyrrell and fellow stock player Eddie Laughton often appeared together in Columbia movies (frequently as mobsters waiting in a getaway car). Tyrrell's biggest role was probably in the 1939 serial "Mandrake the Magician", in which he played a masked crimelord's right-hand man. After spending several months at Kingsbridge Veteran's Hospital in the Bronx, New York, John Tyrrell died of an undisclosed illness in 1949.

elected filmography

* "Uncivil War Birds" (1946)
* "Booby Dupes" (1945)
* "Gents Without Cents" (1944)
* "Dizzy Detectives" (1943)
* "Three Smart Saps" (1942)
* "Loco Boy Makes Good" (1942)
* "In the Sweet Pie and Pie" (1941)
* "So Long Mr. Chumps" (1941)
* "From Nurse to Worse" (1940)
* "A Plumbing We Will Go" (1940)
* "You Nazty Spy!" (1940)
* "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" (1939)
* "The Man They Could Not Hang" (1939)
* "Mandrake the Magician" (1939)
* "It Happened in Hollywood" (1937)
* "Three Smart Girls" (1936)

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NAME= Tyrrell, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES= Tyrrell, John Edward
SHORT DESCRIPTION=Actor
DATE OF BIRTH= 1900-12-7
PLACE OF BIRTH= The Bronx, New York, USA
DATE OF DEATH= 1949-9-20
PLACE OF DEATH= The Bronx, New York, USA