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Bad boys : the actors of film noir

"The film noir male is an infinitely watchable being. Sometimes he is extremely violent, like Neville Brand's Chester in D.O.A. (1950). Sometimes he is a rigid but flawed authority figure, like Kirk Douglas's Jim McLeod in Detective Story (1951)
Print Book, English, ©2003
McFarland, Jefferson, N.C., ©2003
Dictionary
x, 780 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
9780786414840, 9780786437399, 0786414847, 0786437391
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Luther Aadler
Leon Ames
Dana Andrews
Ed Begley
William Bendix
Bruce Bennett
Humphrey Bogart
Neville Brand
Steve Brodie
Raymond Burr
James Cagney
Morris Carnovsky
Fred Clark
Lee J. Cobb
Steve Cochran
William Conrad
Richard Conte
Elisha Cook, Jr
Jeff Corey
Wendell Corey
Joseph Cotten
James Craig
Broderick Crawford
John Dall
Howard Da Silva
Ted De Corsia
Albert Dekker
Brad Dexter
Brian Donlevy
Kirk Douglas
Howard Duff
Dan Duryea
Jay C. Flippen
Glenn Ford
Wallace Ford
Douglas Fowley
John Garfeld
Thomas Gomez
Farley Granger
Sydney Greenstreet
Sterling Hayden
Van Heflin
John Hodiak
William Holden
John Hoyt
John Ireland
Paul Kelly
Arthur Kennedy
Berry Kroeger
Alan Ladd
Jack Lambert
Burt Lancaster
Sheldon Leonard
Sam Levene
Gene Lockhart
Peter Lorre
Frank Lovejoy
Barton MacLane
Fred MacMurray
George Macready
Herbert Marshall
Victor Mature
Mike Mazurki
Charles McGraw
Ralph Meeker
Robert Mitchum
Harry Morgan
Tom Neal
Lloyd Nolan
Edmond O'Brien
Moroni Olsen
Jack Palance
John Payne
Dick Powell
Vincent Price
George Raft
Edward G. Robinson
Mickey Rooney
Robert Ryan
Zachary Scott
Everett Sloane
Mark Stevens
Paul Stewart
Barry Sullivan
William Talman
Robert Taylor
Lawrence Tierney
George Tobias
Regis Toomey
Harold Vermilyea
Clifton Webb
Jack Webb
Orson Welles
Richard Widmark
Cornel Wilde