Background
Strudwick, Shepperd was born on September 22, 1907 in Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States. Son of Shepperd and Susan (Read) Strudwick.
Strudwick, Shepperd was born on September 22, 1907 in Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States. Son of Shepperd and Susan (Read) Strudwick.
1 son by previous marriage, Shepperd. Bachelor of Arts, Univercity North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1928. artist-in-residence U. Detroit., 1971-1972. Appeared in: plays Morming’s at Seven.
Appeared in: plays Both Your Houses, Biography, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, As You Like It, Measure For Measure, Doctors Dilemma, Three Sisters, Ghosts, Galileo, The Price. Appeared in: films Cops and Robbers, The Red Pony, All The King’s Men, A Place in the Sun, Kent State. (Actors Studio award 1980, Tony nomination 1981).
California state chairman American Veterans Committee, 1946.
Born in Hillsborough, North Carolina, he began his film career as the title (eponymous) character in the film Joaquin Murrieta (1938). He was credited as Sheppard Strudwick. He appeared as Yugoslav guerrilla leader Lt.
, an aide to General Draza Mihailovich, in the 20th Century Fox war film The Fighting Guerrillas in 1943. He played Edgar Allan Poe in and also appeared in , Fighter Squadron (1948), , , Under the Gun (1951) and A Place in the Sun (1951), starring Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift, as the Taylor character's father. Perhaps his most famous film role was that of Adam Stanton, the idealistic doctor who finally kills Willie Stark (played by Broderick Crawford) in the classic film All the King's Men (1949).
Another notable role was Father Jean Massieu in Joan of Arc (1948), starring Ingrid Bergman as Joan. Strudwick made many appearances on television, including the role of Dr. Charles Morris in the 1958 Perry Mason episode, "The Case of the Fugitive Nurse." He also appeared on The Twilight Zone, (in the episode "Nightmare as a Child") and several roles on the soap operas As the World Turns (Dr Fields), Another World (Jim Matthews), One Life to Live (Victor Lord) and Love of Life (Timothy McCauley). His last appearance on celluloid was in 1981's Kent State, a TV film.
He had a son by a previous marriage. He died in New York City from cancer on January 15, 1983 at the age of 75.
Served to Lieutenant United States Naval Reserve, World War II, European Theatre of Operations. Member Actors Equity Association, Screen Actors Guild, American Federation television and Radio Artists. Club: Century Association.
Married Mary Loren Jeffrey Shannon, December 23, 1976.