Alfred Lunt

Alfred Lunt

Known for

Acting

Born

August 12, 1892

Birthplace

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

Died

August 3, 1977 (aged 84)

Biography

From Wikipedia

Alfred Lunt (August 12, 1892 – August 3, 1977) was an American stage director and actor, often identified for a long-time professional partnership with his wife, actress Lynn Fontanne. Broadway's Lunt-Fontanne Theatre was named for them. Along with his wife Lynn Fontanne, whom he married on May 26, 1922, in New York City, he was half of the pre-eminent Broadway acting couple of American history, having the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on Broadway named in their honour. Secure in their public image as a happily married couple, they could play adulterers, as in Robert Sherwood's Reunion in Vienna, or as part of a ménage a trois in Noël Coward's Design for Living. (In fact, Design for...

Best known work

The Ed Sullivan Show
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
The Dick Cavett Show
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
Stage Door Canteen
Stage Door Canteen
1943
The Guardsman
The Guardsman
1931
Sally of the Sawdust
Sally of the Sawdust
1925
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Show-Business at War
Show-Business at War
1943
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1987
Backbone
Backbone
1923
Second Youth
Second Youth
1924

Filmography

  1. 1987

    James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

    as Self (archive footage)

  2. 1968

    The Dick Cavett ShowTV

    as Self - Guest (1 episode)

  3. 1956

    Tony AwardsTV

    as Self - Recipient (1 episode)

  4. 1951

    Hallmark Hall of FameTV

    as Oliver Wendell Holmes (1 episode)

  5. 1948

    The Ed Sullivan ShowTV

    as Self (2 episodes)

  6. 1943

    Stage Door Canteen

    as Alfred Lunt

  7. 1943

  8. 1931

    The Guardsman

    as The Actor

  9. 1925

    Lovers in Quarantine

    as MackIntosh Josephs

  10. 1925

    Sally of the Sawdust

    as Peyton Lennox

  11. 1924

    Second Youth

    as Roland Farwell Francis

  12. 1923

    The Ragged Edge

    as Howard Spurlock

  13. 1923

    Backbone

    as John Thorne / Andre de Mersay

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