Charles Felix Locher Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Handsome, athletic leading man Jon Hall was the son of actor Felix Locher and a Tahitian princess. Hall was married three times, two of which were to entertainers: singer Frances Langford and actress Raquel Torres. His third wife was a psychiatrist. They married in 1969 and lived in Los Angeles with her two sons and a daughter.
Pepperdine University, University of Southern California
Nationality
American
Spouse
Susanna Hall
Awards
Nobel Prize in Physics, Frederic Ives Medal, Max Born Award
Music Groups
Orleans
Movies
Arabian Nights, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, The Hurricane, Cobra Woman, White Savage, Gypsy Wildcat, Invisible Agent, The Invisible Man's Revenge, The Beach Girls and the Monster, Charlie Chan in Shanghai, Kit Carson, Aloma of the South Seas, Brave Warrior, Lady in the Dark, Sudan, The Prince of...
Star Sign
Pisces
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Quote
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I never liked acting. I don't like to be told what to do and what to say and how to say it. I'm grateful to it as it provided me with the money to do other things such as I'm into now, but as a profession, it's a bore.
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Fact
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Screen-tested by Universal for the role of Flash Gordon; the part eventually went to Buster Crabbe.
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His last public appearance was just a few months before his death, at the premiere of Hurricane (1979), the remake of The Hurricane (1937) in which Hall starred.
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Of Swiss & Tahitian ancestry, his father, Felix Locher, was a former world skating champion turned actor and his mother was a Tahitian princess. Nephew of author James Norman Hall who wrote the book on which his star-making role in The Hurricane (1937) was based. Cousin of cinematographer Conrad L. Hall and Ben Chapman who played the creature (when out of the water) in the cult classic, Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954).
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To end the weakness and suffering due to cancer of the bladder, he shot himself in the head at the age of 64.
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Interred at Forest Lawn (Hollywood Hills), Los Angeles, California, USA, in the Court of Liberty, same row as Buster Keaton.
$200,000
