John Gregson

About John Gregson

Who is it?: Actor
Birth Day: March 15, 1919
Birth Place:  Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
Cause of death: heart attack
Occupation: Actor
Years active: 1945–75
Spouse(s): Thea Gregory (m. 1947; d. 1975)
Children: 6 (3 daughters, 3 sons)

John Gregson

John Gregson was born on March 15, 1919 in  Liverpool, England, United Kingdom, is Actor. A former telephone engineer who dabbled in amateur dramatics, John Gregson served aboard a minesweeper with the Royal Navy during World War II. After demobilisation, he joined the Liverpool Old Vic, making his stage debut in 'The Knight of the Burning Pestle'. Freshly married, he moved to London and acted alongside Robert Donat and Margaret Leighton in 'A Sleeping Clergyman' at the West End Criterion Theatre in 1947. During the same period, he was also cast in his first movie, the romantic period melodrama Saraband for Dead Lovers (1948), though his scenes ended up being cut. Undeterred, Gregson established himself as a popular favorite in subsequent Ealing comedies and later as a long term contractee with the Rank Organisation. His screen personae tended to be men of integrity: regular guys who don't necessarily finish on top, introspective, somewhat diffident, and often troubled. His most fondly remembered role was that of vintage car enthusiast Alan McKim, in the idiosyncratic (and typically British) comedy Genevieve (1953). Ironically, while he is featured in almost every scene behind the wheel, Gregson couldn't drive a car when filming began - and proved to be a slow learner.For the remainder of the decade,he became somewhat typecast in traditional 'stiff upper lip' military roles. As film opportunities began to diminish, he turned more and more towards television, enjoying his greatest popularity as titular star of the police drama series Gideon's Way (1964). Until his untimely death at the age of 55, Gregson alternated television work with acting on stage, as well as doing voice-overs and appearing in commercials for Hamlet cigars.
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As per our current Database, John Gregson has been died on 8 January 1975(1975-01-08) (aged 55)\nPorlock Weir, Somerset, England.

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When John Gregson die, John Gregson was 55 years old.

Popular As John Gregson
Occupation Actor
Age 55 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born March 15, 1919 ( Liverpool, England, United Kingdom)
Birthday March 15
Town/City  Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
Nationality United Kingdom

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Biography/Timeline

1945

After being demobilised in 1945, he joined the Playhouse in Liverpool for a year, before going on to Perth Theatre in Perth, Scotland. Here he met his Future wife, Actress Ida Reddish from Nottingham, who at the time was using the stage name Thea Kronberg (later Thea Gregory) and had recently arrived from the Birmingham Repertory Theatre. In 1947 they moved to London and married there. They eventually had three daughters and three sons.

1948

One of his first appearances was in the film Saraband for Dead Lovers, a tearjerking romance starring Joan Greenwood and Stewart Granger. In the popular Scott of the Antarctic (1948) he played Tom Crean.

1949

Gregson could also be seen in Ealing's Whisky Galore! (1949) (the first of the Ealing comedies) and Train of Events (1949), as well as The Hasty Heart (1949), Cairo Road (1950), Treasure Island (1950) and The Lavender Hill Mob (1951). Gregson had a good part in Angels One Five (1951), a popular war film.

1952

After that 'his film career faded after ten good years [1952–1962]'. He was one of many leading men and women of the 1950s (the others including Kenneth More, Richard Todd, Patrick Holt, Michael Craig, Sylvia Syms and Muriel Pavlow) who struggled to maintain their status as leads beyond the early 1960s. From 1963 onwards, Gregson never played another leading film role.

1953

Gregson became a star when cast in the comedy Genevieve (1953), also starring Kenneth More, Dinah Sheridan and Kay Kendall. It was the second most popular film of the year in Britain.

1954

He was second billed to Glynis Johns in a prison drama, The Weak and the Wicked (1954), another hit and played the lead in a light drama, Conflict of Wings (1954). Gregson followed this with The Crowded Day (1954), a comedy; To Dorothy a Son (1954) a comedy co-starring Shelley Winters; and Three Cases of Murder (1955), an omnibus film co-starring Orson Welles.

1956

More successful was another war movie based on a true story, The Battle of the River Plate (1956) where Gregson played F. S. Bell. This film helped British exhibitors vote him the 8th biggest British film star in the country for 1956.

1957

He appeared in It's the Geography That Counts, the last play at the St James's Theatre before its closure in 1957.

1960

He supported in SOS Pacific (1960) and Hand in Hand (1960) but was top billed in Faces in the Dark (1960) and The Frightened City (1961). He has a support role in The Treasure of Monte Cristo (1961) and was one of many names in The Longest Day (1962).

1962

Gregson's final film roles of note were in Live Now, Pay Later (1962) and Tomorrow at Ten (1962).

1965

TV work became increasingly important to him from the mid-60s. He starred as Commander George Gideon in the 26 episodes of the series Gideon's Way (1965–66) (known as Gideon C.I.D. in America).

1976

His final television role was in the Southern Television serial Dangerous Knowledge, which was broadcast posthumously in 1976. His body was interred at Sunbury Cemetery, Sunbury-on-Thames, Surrey near his family home at Creek House, Chertsey Road, Shepperton.

2019

Gregson was born of Irish descent, and grew up in Wavertree, Liverpool, where he was educated at Greenbank Road Primary School and later at St. Francis Xavier's College. He left school at 16, working first for a telephone company, then for Liverpool Corporation, as the city council was then known, before the Second World War. During this time, he became interested in amateur dramatics, joining first his local Catholic church theatre group at St. Anthony’s, Mossley Hill, and later the Liverpool Playgoers' Club.

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