One of six children born to an immigrant Norwegian glassblower, John Lund had a somewhat unsettled childhood, dropping out of school at the age of 14. For a while, he tried his hand at several part-time jobs, but never stayed long. He then devised various entrepreneurial ways to generate an income, including a quit smoking program (a fairly novel ...
I look best from a great distance and in a bad light. I have a peculiar face, an odd walk and about as much sex appeal as a goat. I was the worst peril Betty Hutton encountered as Pauline [in The Perils of Pauline].
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Each picture has given me an inferiority complex. I've become face conscious. Projection rooms are torture chambers to me, at this point. When I saw the first day's rushes on To Each His Own (1946), I went home and started packing. I had thought I was smiling tenderly at Olivia de Havilland, but, on screen, I looked as though I were ready to bite her ear off, and I didn't have any eyes at all. After that, I refused to look at myself, but I began enjoying the work.
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Ideally I'd like to gravitate between the stage and screen, as Freddie March [Fredric March] does. That's because I think I am more of a character actor than the great, big hero type. I feel as though I am sailing under false colors.
Received much acclaim for his performance as Yank in "The Hasty Heart" on Broadway.
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Met his wife on a blind date.
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Handsome blond, blue-eyed actor who started out promisingly in engaging romantic leads in the late 40s, but settled quickly into playing stuffed shirts and the third wheel in love triangles.
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An advertising man in New York City at the time, he was asked by a friend to appear in an industrial show during the 1939 World's Fair. He got hooked and two years later was appearing on Broadway in "As You Like It".
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Vice-president of the Screen Actor's Guild from 1950-1959.
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After Edmond O'Brien left the show, Lund became the new Johnny Dollar on CBS Radio's "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar." He starred in the series from 1952 till 1954.
$1.3 Million
