Jack Luden
- Birthday
- Feb 8, 1902
Bio: American leading man Jack Luden, a member of the Pennsylvania cough-drop dynasty, graduated from Paramount's talent school in 1927 along with Thelma Todd and Charles "Buddy" Rogers, among others. The studio saw in him the same appeal that was making Gary Cooper a star, but Luden's initial starring western, Shootin' Irons (1927), proved a failure. The handsome actor… More Bio: American leading man Jack Luden, a member of the Pennsylvania cough-drop dynasty, graduated from Paramount's talent school in 1927 along with Thelma Todd and Charles "Buddy" Rogers, among others. The studio saw in him the same appeal that was making Gary Cooper a star, but Luden's initial starring western, Shootin' Irons (1927), proved a failure. The handsome actor did rather better in Paramount's popular "flapper" melodramas -- Two Flaming Youths (1927), Clara Bow's The Wild Party (1929]), etc. -- but a pronounced stammer did not bode well for a future in talkies. Luden's career declined rather drastically during the '30s, but independent producers such as Larry Darmour occasionally cashed in on his still-recognizable name. Darmour's westerns were on the cheap side -- to be generous -- and Luden's four starring vehicles in 1938 did not exactly set the range ablaze. The former leading man was all but forgotten by the 1950s, and his death at 49, while incarcerated at San Quentin on a drug conviction, came as a shock to former colleagues. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, Rovi
Filmography
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They Were Expendable (1945)
- Naval Air Captain
- 88%
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Week-End at the Waldorf (Weekend at the Waldorf) (1945)
- Clerk
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Lady In the Dark (1944)
- Man
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Story of Dr. Wassell (1944)
- Capt. Carruther's Driver
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Guadalcanal Diary (1943)
- Major
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Jack Luden Videos
They Were Expendable
2 minutes 36 seconds
I Married A Witch
2 minutes 32 seconds
Reap The Wild Wind
1 minutes 41 seconds
Weekend At The Waldorf
30 seconds
The Glass Key
1 minutes 39 seconds
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