Gerald Mohr mini-bio: Bearing a strong resemblance to Humphrey Bogart certainly helped in typecasting the handsome Gerald Mohr into "B" film noir. Born in New York City in 1914, he was the son of Gerald Mohr Sr. and Henrietta Noustadt, a Viennese singer. His father died when Mohr was three years old, and he was raised primarily by his mother and grandfather, who was a psychologist and associate of Dr. Sigmund Freud, the famed psychoanalyst. Mohr became a fervent student of Freud as a result of this association. He was taught to ride and play piano at an early age and attended the prestigious Dwight Preparatory School in New York.
Even as a teen, Mohr possessed a smooth vocal delivery and landed a job as a staff broadcaster for CBS Radio, which in turn opened the door for him to Orson Welles and his Mercury Theatre. Mohr made his Broadway debut in the minor role of a gangster in "The Petrified Forest," the same play that put Bogart on the map. In 1950, "Radio and Television Life" magazine named Mohr as the Best Male Actor on Radio.
Finding film work scarce in the following decade, he found regular work on TV, guest starring in over 100 dramas, ranging from TV Westerns like Maverick, Bronco, Cheyenne and Bonanza to 77 Sunset Strip, Hawaiian Eye and Perry Mason, amongst many others. His last movie role came with the top-notch musical Funny Girl (1968) starring Barbra Streisand and Omar Sharif.
Mohr was overseas in Stockholm, Sweden, where he had just completed filming the pilot of a new TV series called "Private Entrance" when he suddenly died of a heart attack at the age of 54.
