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Description: TOM CONWAYGEORGE SANDERS TWO SIGNED AUTOGRAPHED PHOTOS TOM CONWAY (born Thomas Charles Sanders; 1904 – 1967) was a British film, television, and radio actor remembered for playing detectives (including The Falcon, Sherlock Holmes, Bulldog Drummond, and The Saint) and psychiatrists, among other roles. Conway played "The Falcon" in 10 episodes of the series, taking over from his brother, George Sanders, in The Falcon's Brother (1942), in which they both starred. He also appeared in several movie thrillers produced by Val Lewton, notably Cat People and I Walked with a Zombie. Early life Conway was born in St. Petersburg, Russia. His younger brother was fellow actor George Sanders. The family moved from Russia to Britain when Tom was thirteen. He was educated at Brighton College then moved to Africa to find work. He returned to England, worked as a glass salesman, then became interested in acting. Career England He started by appearing in amateur theatre, then joined a repertory company for a year and a half. After this he appeared in touring productions of plays like Dangerous Corner, Private Lives and By Candlelight as well as acting on radio. Then Conway's brother George suggested Tom join him in Hollywood. MGM In May 1940 it was announced Tom had signed a contract with MGM. During this time, he changed his last name from Sanders to Conway. He had small roles in Waterloo Bridge (1940), with only his voice heard, Sky Murder (1940) with Walter Pidgeon, and The Wild Man of Borneo (1941). He had a bigger part in The Trial of Mary Dugan (1941) with Robert Young, then was back to small parts in Free and Easy (1941), The Bad Man (1941) with Wallace Beery and Lionel Barrymore, The People vs. Dr. Kildare (1941) with Lew Ayres and Lionel Barrymore, and Lady Be Good (1941) with Eleanor Powell and Red Skelton. Conway was a villain in Tarzan's Secret Treasure (1941) with Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O'Sullivan, Mr. and Mrs. North (1941) with Gracie Allen, and Rio Rita (1942) with Abbott and Costello. He was a murder suspect in Grand Central Murder (1942) with Van Heflin and had an uncredited bit in Mrs. Miniver (1942) with Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon. RKO: The Falcon and Val Lewton At RKO, Conway's brother George Sanders had starred in three popular "B" movies as The Falcon, eligible man-about-town and amateur detective, constantly being accused of crimes and using his wits to trap the guilty parties and clear his name. Sanders had tired of the role, so the pencil-mustached Conway took over as The Falcon's Brother (1942), co-starring with Sanders (Sanders's character was killed off, leaving his brother to assume the mantle of The Falcon). Producer Maurice Geraghty later revealed that RKO executives recruited Conway so they could induce Sanders to make one more Falcon picture, after which the series would end. "So it was astonishing to them when Tom Conway caught on right away and carried the series on -- even outgrossing the pictures George had made." RKO signed Tom Conway to a long-term contract. Conway followed this success with an excellent role in Cat People (1942), the first of producer Val Lewton's legendary horror cycle. He had the male lead in a second film for Lewton, I Walked with a Zombie (1942), now regarded as a horror classic. Conway was top-billed in Lewton's The Seventh Victim (1943) playing the same role he did in The Cat People though his character was apparently killed in that film. In April 1943 he said "what I should really like to play is sophisticated comedy." Between his Falcon and Val Lewton assignments, RKO starred Conway in B mysteries: A Night of Adventure (1944), Two O'Clock Courage (1945), and Criminal Court (1946). Conway was borrowed by United Artists for Whistle Stop (1946), in which he supported George Raft, Ava Gardner, and Victor McLaglen. In June 1946, Conway obtained a release from his RKO contract. His next film was to be Strange Bedfellows at United Artists. Freelance actor On radio, Conway played Sherlock Holmes during the 1946–1947 season of The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, following Basil Rathbone's departure from the series. In spite of a similarly refined England accent, Conway was not as well-received as Rathbone by audiences; he played Holmes for only one season. He was a leading support actor in Lost Honeymoon (1947) and Repeat Performance (1947) for Eagle-Lion, Fun on a Weekend (1947) for United Artists, and One Touch of Venus (1948) for Universal. Bernard Small, the son of independent producer Edward Small, had secured the film rights to the Bulldog Drummond character and made two Drummond mysteries for Columbia Pictures release. In 1948, he moved the franchise to his father's Reliance Pictures, an independent company distributing through Fox, and hired Tom Conway to play Bulldog Drummond in The Challenge (1948) and 13 Lead Soldiers (1948). Independent producer, Sam Baerwitz, cast Conway in low-budget crime stories released by Fox; The Checkered Coat (1948), Bungalow 13 (1948), I Cheated the Law (1949), and The Great Plane Robbery (1950). Into the 1950s and early 1960s When George Sanders married Zsa Zsa Gabor, Tom Conway joined the wedding party on April Fool's Day, 1949. She recalled in her memoir, "With an unexpected generosity, George chartered a plane and flew the wedding party [to Las Vegas. His brother, Tom Conway, as warm and outgoing as George was cool and restrained, was best man, and came on the plane with a shotgun over his shoulder. 'Just in case the old boy gets cold feet,' he said." Conway appeared on the early television panel show Bachelor's Haven (1951), an advice-to-the-lovelorn forum patterned after the successful New York-based series Leave It to the Girls. He recruited his sister-in-law Zsa Zsa to join him on the program. In 1951, he replaced Vincent Price as star of the radio mystery series The Saint, portrayed by Sanders on film a decade earlier. Feature films Back in the movie studios, Conway had supporting parts in Painting the Clouds with Sunshine (1951) and Bride of the Gorilla (1951). Apart from a lead in Confidence Girl (1952), he played supporting roles: Tarzan and the She-Devil (1953), Paris Model (1953), and Prince Valiant (1954). Conway went to England to star as Berkeley Gray's private detective Norman Conquest in Park Plaza 605 (released in America as Norman Conquest, 1953), and (using his own name instead of the Conquest tag) Blood Orange (1953). He also had leads in the British Barbados Quest (1955), Breakaway (1955), and The Last Man to Hang (1956). In 1956, brothers Tom Conway and George Sanders appeared (as brothers) in the film Death of a Scoundrel, with the star Sanders killing supporting player Conway. Conway's last British project was Operation Murder (1957). In America, Conway co-starred in The She-Creature (1956) and Voodoo Woman (1957). He was featured in The Atomic Submarine (1959), and 12 to the Moon (1960). He provided his voice for Disney's 101 Dalmatians (1961) as a quizmaster in What's My Crime?—a parody of the game show What's My Line?—and as a collie that offers the dalmatians shelter in a barn, later guiding them home. His wife at the time, Queenie Leonard, voiced a cow in the barn. His final feature-film assignment was the all-star comedy What a Way to Go! (1964). Television From 1951 to 1954, Conway played debonair British police detective Mark Saber in Inspector Mark Saber – Homicide Detective, produced by Roland D. Reed. In 1957, the series resumed on NBC, now filmed in England and renamed Saber of London, with Donald Gray in the title role. Conway performed in the Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode "The Glass Eye" (1957) as Max Collodi, receiving critical praise. He had a supporting role in The Betty Hutton Show television series (1959–60). In 1964 he appeared on the top-rated Perry Mason series in "The Case of the Simple Simon," playing Guy Penrose, leading actor in a travelling repertory company. Another actor made his network-television debut as "Tom Conway" on The Steve Allen Show in 1961, while the established actor Tom Conway was still working. To avoid confusion, the younger Tom Conway changed his professional name to Tim Conway in June 1962. Final years Conway's health began to fail in the mid-1950s. In 1956, he was briefly hospitalised for an operation. Weakened eyesight and alcoholism took their toll on him in later years. A 1960 drunk-driving arrest was reported in the national press; "I can't take a drunk test -- I'm too drunk", Conway stated after crashing his vehicle into a parked car. His first marriage to New York model Lillian Eggers ended in divorce in 1953. His second wife (Leonard) divorced him in 1963 because of his drinking problem. His alcoholism also cost him his relationship with his brother, George Sanders, who broke off all contact with him. Conway's career was finally stalled by health problems. He underwent cataract surgery in both eyes during the winter of 1964–1965, and his mobility was affected by a swollen left ankle. In September 1965, he briefly returned to the headlines when he was living in a $2-a-day room (monthly $60, equivalent to $580 in 2023) in a small Venice, Los Angeles hotel at 23-1/2 Windward Avenue, operated by former vaudevillian Agnes Lavaty. Conway's friend, Mary Robison of Venice, notified the local newspaper of the actor's troubles, and a reporter visited Conway. "I find myself this way after many years of making considerable amounts of money", he told the reporter, who noted, "Mr. Conway still appears well-groomed, with a mustache and neat appearance. He is 60 years old. He said Mr. Sanders knew little or nothing about his plight because they had not been close in recent years." The immediate aftermath brought phone calls "every five minutes," in Conway's words, but none from showbusiness colleagues with only one exception; "I looked up, and coming through the door was Lew Ayres, whom I hadn't seen in years and years. It was a very nice feeling." Conway commented, "I have a place where I'll be able to live, and it looks as if there may be a job in the offing for me." Gifts, contributions, and offers of aid poured in for a time, but offers only hinted at soon fell through or never came to fruition. He refused to consider living at the Motion Picture Country Home, a haven for retired actors. "There you're retired completely and have to give everything up. You're simply through. It's only a question of time until I'll be well. Then I want to operate a retreat in Baja California. I think I can get backers interested. It'll be like a sleepy Mexican fishing village." Conway estimated he had earned $900,000 in his career -- "Fairly high living. Keeping up a front." -- but was now subsisting on small amounts of federal aid. His Perry Mason appearance proved to be his last; "I don't particularly want to act," he said. He said he lost his last $15,000 to swindlers in a lumber deal. Hospitalized in April 1966 after being diagnosed with a liver ailment, he lapsed into a coma. In July he emerged from his comatose condition, his doctor saying he was "remarkably improved." Former sister-in-law Zsa Zsa Gabor claimed that she visited Conway in the hospital and gave him $200. "Tip the nurses a little bit so they'll be good to you," she told him. According to Gabor, the hospital called her to say that Conway had left with the $200, gone to his girlfriend's house, and become gravely sick in her bed. Gabor's account differs from published reports, which state that Conway was transferred from the hospital to a convalescent sanitarium, where he stayed three months. He emerged in late 1966 with new health and spirit. He had given up drinking "completely. I'm on the wagon and I find the old brain works better... [I want to develop a couple of gimmicks I devised while lying in the hospital. I've got a million things cooking." He even contemplated a return to acting: "It'll be a cold start, but acting-wise I think I'm at my peak." His living conditions, while still modest, had also improved; he was back in Los Angeles, living in a modern, $135-a-month apartment (equivalent to $1,268 in 2023) on Wilshire Boulevard. He decided against installing a telephone, and greeted visitors in person. Conway never could capitalise on his plans. His rally came to a halt three months later, when he died of liver damage at Washington Hospital in Culver City, California on Saturday, 22 April 1967, at the age of 62. His funeral was held in London, and his ashes were inurned inside a private vault at Chapel of the Pines Crematory. Despite his up-and-down professional and personal fortunes, Conway remained optimistic until the end. In his last newspaper interview, he said, "You've got to hang on and wait for the breakthrough." FilmographyWaterloo Bridge (1940) (film debut) (voice)Sky Murder (1940) as Andrew HendonThe Great Meddler (1940) as Henry BerghThe Wild Man of Borneo (1941) as Actor in Film Scene (uncredited)The Trial of Mary Dugan (1941) as Edgar WayneFree and Easy (1941) as Captain FerrisThe Bad Man (1941) as Morgan PellThe People vs. Dr. Kildare (1941) as Mr. ChanningLady Be Good (1941) as Mr. BlantonTarzan's Secret Treasure (1941) as MedfordMr. and Mrs. North (1942) as Louis BerexRio Rita (1942) as Maurice CraindallGrand Central Murder (1942) as Frankie CiroMrs. Miniver (1942) as Man (uncredited)The Falcon's Brother (1942) as Tom LawrenceCat People (1942) as Dr. Louis JuddThe Falcon Strikes Back (1943) as Tom LawrenceI Walked with a Zombie (1943) as Paul HollandThe Falcon in Danger (1943) as Tom LawrenceThe Seventh Victim (1943) as Dr. Louis JuddThe Falcon and the Co-eds (1943) as Tom LawrenceThe Falcon Out West (1944) as Tom LawrenceA Night of Adventure (1944) as Mark LathamThe Falcon in Mexico (1944) as Tom LawrenceThe Falcon in Hollywood (1944) as Tom LawrenceTwo O'Clock Courage (1945) as Ted "Step" AllisonThe Falcon in San Francisco (1945) as Tom LawrenceWhistle Stop (1946) as Lew LentzThe Falcon's Alibi (1946) as Tom LawrenceCriminal Court (1946) as Steve BarnesThe Falcon's Adventure (1946) as Tom LawrenceLost Honeymoon (1947) as Dr. Robert "Bob" DavisFun on a Weekend (1947) as Jefferson Van Orsdale, Jr.Repeat Performance (1947) as John FridayThe Challenge (1948) as Captain Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond13 Lead Soldiers (1948) as Captain Hugh "Bulldog" DrummondThe Checkered Coat (1948) as Dr. Michael MaddenOne Touch of Venus (1948) as Whitfield SavoryBungalow 13 (1948) as Christopher AdamsI Cheated the Law (1949) as John CampbellThe Great Plane Robbery (1950) as Ned JohnsonPainting the Clouds with Sunshine (1951) as Bennington LansingBride of the Gorilla (1951) as Dr. VietConfidence Girl (1952) as Roger KingsleyPeter Pan (1953) as Narrator (voice)Tarzan and the She-Devil (1953) as FidelPark Plaza 605 (1953) as Norman ConquestBlood Orange (1953) as Tom Conway, private investigatorParis Model (1953) as Maharajah of Kim-KeporePrince Valiant (1954) as Sir KayBarbados Quest (1955) as Tom MartinBreakaway (1955) as Tom "Duke" MartinThe She-Creature (1956) as Timothy ChappelThe Last Man to Hang (1956) as Sir Roderick StroodDeath of a Scoundrel (1956) as Gerry MonteAlfred Hitchcock Presents (1957) (Season 3 Episode 1: "The Glass Eye") as Max CollodiOperation Murder (1957) as Dr. WayneVoodoo Woman (1957) as Dr. Roland GerardAlfred Hitchcock Presents (1959) (Season 4 Episode 21: "Relative Value") as InspectorThe Atomic Submarine (1959) as Sir Ian HuntAlfred Hitchcock Presents (1960) (Season 5 Episode 35: "The Schartz-Metterklume Method") as John Wellington 12 to the Moon (1960) as Dr. Feodor OrloffDisney One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961) as Quizmaster / Collie (voice)What a Way to Go! (1964) as Lord Kensington (final film) GEORGE SANDERSFILMSLove, Life and Laughter (1934) as Singer in Public Bar Things to Come (1936) as Pilot Strange Cargo (1936) as Roddy BurchFind the Lady (1936) as Curly RandallThe Man Who Could Work Miracles (1936) as IndifferenceDishonour Bright (1936) as LisleLloyd's of London (1936) as Lord Everett StacyLove Is News (1937) as Count Andre de GuyonSlave Ship (1937) as LeftyThe Lady Escapes (1937) as Rene BlanchardLancer Spy (1937) as Baron Kurt von Rohback / Lt. Michael BruceInternational Settlement (1938) as Del ForbesFour Men and a Prayer (1938) as Wyatt LeighMr. Moto's Last Warning (1939) as Eric NorvelThe Outsider (1939) as Anton RagatzySo This Is London (1939) as Dr. de ResekeThe Saint Strikes Back (1939) as Simon Templar / The SaintConfessions of a Nazi Spy (1939) as SchlagerThe Saint in London (1939) as Simon Templar / The SaintNurse Edith Cavell (1939) as Capt. HeinrichsAllegheny Uprising (1939) as Capt. SwansonThe Saint's Double Trouble (1940) as Simon Templar aka The Saint / 'Boss' Duke BatesGreen Hell (1940) as ForresterThe House of the Seven Gables (1940) as Jaffrey PyncheonRebecca (1940) as Jack FavellThe Saint Takes Over (1940) as Simon Templar / The SaintForeign Correspondent (1940) as Scott ffolliottBitter Sweet (1940) as Baron von TranischThe Son of Monte Cristo (1940) as Gen. Gurko LanenThe Saint in Palm Springs (1941) as Simon Templar / The SaintRage in Heaven (1941) as Ward AndrewsMan Hunt (1941) as Major Quive-SmithSundown (1941) as CoombesThe Gay Falcon (1941) as Gay Laurence / The FalconA Date with the Falcon (1942) as Gay Laurence / The FalconSon of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake (1942) as Sir Arthur BlakeThe Falcon Takes Over (1942) as Gay Lawrence / The FalconHer Cardboard Lover (1942) as Tony BarlingTales of Manhattan (1942) as WilliamsThe Falcon's Brother (1942) as Gay Lawrence / The FalconThe Moon and Sixpence (1942) as Charles StricklandThe Black Swan (1942) as Capt. Billy LeechQuiet Please, Murder (1942) as Jim FlegThis Land Is Mine (1943) as George LambertThey Came to Blow Up America (1943) as Carl Steelman / Ernst ReiterAppointment in Berlin (1943) as Wing Cmdr. Keith WilsonParis After Dark (1943) as Dr. Andre MarbelThe Lodger (1944) as Inspector John WarwickAction in Arabia (1944) as Michael GordonSummer Storm (1944) as Fedor Mikhailovich PetroffHangover Square (1945) as Dr. Allan MiddletonThe Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) as Lord Henry WottonThe Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (1945) as Harry Melville QuinceyA Scandal in Paris (1946) as Eugène François VidocqThe Strange Woman (1946) as John EveredThe Private Affairs of Bel Ami (1947) as Georges DuroyThe Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947) as Miles FairleyLured (1947) as Robert FlemingForever Amber (1947) as King Charles IIThe Fan (1949) as Lord Robert DarlingtonSamson and Delilah (1949) as The Saran of GazaAll About Eve (1950) as Addison DeWittBlack Jack (1950) as Mike AlexanderI Can Get It for You Wholesale (1951) as J.F. NobleThe Light Touch (1951) as Felix GuignolIvanhoe (1952) as De Bois-GuilbertAssignment – Paris! (1952) as Nicholas StrangCall Me Madam (1953) as General Cosmo ConstantineWitness to Murder (1954) as Albert RichterKing Richard and the Crusaders (1954) as King Richard IJourney to Italy (Viaggio in Italia) (1954) as Alexander 'Alex' JoyceJupiter's Darling (1955) as Fabius MaximusMoonfleet (1955) as Lord AshwoodThe Scarlet Coat (1955) as Dr. Jonathan OdellThe King's Thief (1955) as Charles IINever Say Goodbye (1956) as VictorWhile the City Sleeps (1956) as Mark LovingThat Certain Feeling (1956) as Larry LarkinDeath of a Scoundrel (1956) as Clementi SabourinThe Seventh Sin (1957) as Tim WaddingtonRock-A-Bye Baby (1958) as Danny Poole (1959) (scenes cut)The Whole Truth (1958) as CarlissFrom the Earth to the Moon (1958) as Stuyvesant NichollThat Kind of Woman (1959) as A.L.Solomon and Sheba (1959) as AdonijahA Touch of Larceny (1960) as Sir Charles HollandThe Last Voyage (1960) as Captain Robert AdamsBluebeard's Ten Honeymoons (1960) as Henri LandruCone of Silence (1960) as Sir Arnold HobbesVillage of the Damned (1960) as Gordon ZellabyThe Rebel (aka, Call Me Genius, 1961) as Sir Charles BrewerFive Golden Hours (1961) as Mr. BingLe Rendez-vous (1961) as J.K. / KellermannOperation Snatch (1962) as Maj. HobsonIn Search of the Castaways (1962) as Thomas AyertonCairo (1963) as The MajorThe Cracksman (1963) as Guv'norDark Purpose (1964) as Raymond FontaineThe Golden Head (1964) as Basil PalmerA Shot in the Dark (1964) as Benjamin BallonLast Plane to Baalbeck (1965) as Prince MakowskiThe Golden Head (1965) as Basil PalmerThe Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders (1965) as The BankerTrunk to Cairo (1965) as Professor SchliebenThe Quiller Memorandum (1966) as GibbsWitchdoctor in Tails as the narrator (1966)Warning Shot (1967) as Calvin YorkGood Times (1967) as Mordicus / Knife McBlade / White hunter / ZarubianThe Jungle Book (1967) as Shere Khan, the Tiger (voice)Laura (1968 TV movie) as Waldo LydeckerKing of Africa (1968) as Captain Walter PhillipsThe Candy Man (1969) as Sidney CarterThe Girl from Rio (1969) as MasiusThe Body Stealers (1969) as General ArmstrongThe Best House in London (1969) as Sir Francis LeybourneThe Kremlin Letter (1970) as WarlockRendezvous with Dishonour (1970) as General DownesDoomwatch (1972) as The Admiral – Sir GeoffreyEndless Night (1972) as Andrew LippincottPsychomania (1973) as Shadwell (final film role)TelevisionScreen Directors Playhouse (1956) as Charles Ferris / BaronFord Star Jubilee "You're the Top" (1956)The George Sanders Mystery Theater (1957)What's My Line? 15 September 1957 (Episode No. 380) (season 9, episode 3) Mystery GuestThe Rogues (1965) as Leonard CarvelVoyage to the Bottom of the Sea - "The Traitor" (1965) as FentonThe Man From U.N.C.L.E. - "The Gazebo in the Maze Affair" and "The Yukon Affair" (1965) as G. 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