John Sutton (22 October 1908 – 10 July 1963) was a British actor with a prolific career in Hollywood of more than 30 years.[citation needed]
John Sutton | |
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Born | Eugene Osmond Stephen Congdon[1] 22 October 1908 |
Died | 10 July 1963 Cannes, France | (aged 54)
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1936–1963 |
Spouses | Charlotte Biddle Barrett
(m. 1933; div. 1946)Roberta Fidler
(m. 1946; div. 1955) |
Sutton was born in Rawalpindi, India (now Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan). He was the son of Lt. Colonel Arthur Congdon (1861-1924) of the Royal Munster Fusiliers and his wife Ann Bell Sutton Moxley Congdon. Before moving to Hollywood as an actor, he was a tea planter in Assam, India, and, failing that, he farmed for a while in South Africa.[2] Upon being naturalized as a U.S. citizen while serving in the U.S. Navy in 1943 during the Second World War, he legally changed his name to John Sutton.[3]
Sutton was married at least three times. In 1933, he married wealthy socialite Charlotte Biddle Barrett.[4] In the 1940 federal census, the household included his wife Charlotte and her daughter from a previous marriage. In October 1946, he divorced his high society wife and married Roberta Fidler, former wife of newspaper columnist and radio commentator Jimmie Fidler;[5][6] this rather stormy second marriage ended in divorce in 1955.[7] He married dancer Anita Rodney-Eden in 1957, but he received an annulment in 1960, when it was shown that she was still legally the ninth wife of oft-married (13 marriages to 11 women) Tommy Manville.[8][9] He died suddenly of a heart attack on 10 July 1963.