Condition: Very Fine+, normal surface and edge wear, age Discoloration, Last name was covered by black marker by original owner
Size: 5" x 7"
Circa: 1941

Silver Gelatin Photo is Original Vintage and fragile
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John Qualen was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, the son of immigrants from Norway. His movie career began when he recreated the role in the film version. This was followed by his appearance in John Ford's Arrowsmith (1931) Three of his more memorable roles showcase his versatility. Qualen assumed a Midwestern dialect as Muley, who recounts the destruction of his farm by the bank in Ford's The Grapes of Wrath (1940), and as the confused killer Earl Williams in Howard Hawks' classic comedy His Girl Friday (also 1940). As Berger, the jewelry-selling Norwegian resistance member in Michael Curtiz' Casablanca (1942), he essayed a light Scandinavian accent, but put on a thicker Mediterranean accent as the homeward-bound fisherman Locota in William Wellman's The High and the Mighty (1954)

John Qualen was blind in his later years. He died of heart failure in 1987 in Torrance, California, and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale. He was survived by his three daughters. [courtesy of wikipedia]