Background
Hepburn was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Hepburn was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
He was spotted as a stage actor in Los Angeles by the screen director Cecil B. DeMille. He starred in a 1929 production, Painted Faces, an early film with sound. This was not a stageboard for huge success for Hepburn and he returned to theatre, with a number of appearances at Broadway, until the 1940s when he appeared in a number of films, such as Hi Diddle Diddle (1943), The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1944), and A Song for Mission Julie (1945).
He died in Los Angeles on October 9, 1955.