Lawrence Tierney

Early in his career, Tierney appeared in supporting roles in B movies, including The Ghost Ship (1943), The Falcon Out West (1944), Youth Runs Wild (1944), and Back to Bataan (1945). His breakthrough was starring as famous 1930s bank robber John Dillinger in 1945’s Dillinger.

RKO assigned him other tough-guy roles, including Jesse James in Badman's Territory (1946), a reformed prison inmate in San Quentin (1946), and an ex-Marine falsely accused of murder in Step by Step (1946). In 1947 he played the lead in two films that have since gained cult followings, a suave but murderous conman in Robert Wise’s Born to Kill and a homicidal hitch-hiker in Felix E. Feist’s The Devil Thumbs a Ride.

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American Actor known for playing mobsters and tough guys.