Can you tell me who this is?

I found this picture that my grandmother had. She told me that she thinks it's a movie star because she used to get pictures from them, and it looks like one of the photos that the studios used to send.

http://broadwayworld.com/viewphoto.cfm?id=26693

Updated On: 5/10/11 at 02:43 PM

That looks like a WWII era shot to me, making Ken too young. Do you know when the photo is from?

I don't know who that is .... but it's def NOT Gary Cooper.

He looks about 46 to 54, if that helps.

I do not recognize him. Gary Cooper was leaner and more elegant looking. I think this man was 5-10 years older than Cooper if the photo is from WWII.

That's sort of the way I'm leaning too, Besty!

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Ran it through the myheritage website, and the closest thing it came up with was Henry Fonda.

He does look familiar to me but I can't quite place it. I keep thinking Randolph Scott but I'm not 100% sure

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It does look like Randolph Scott and he's the right age.

Updated On: 5/11/11 at 01:33 AM

I, too, thought the nose was bulbous at first, but on closer study of the photo I realized it is not. It is the curved shadow from the hat which crosses the nose that makes it appear so.

Look at the slant of the eyes which go downward toward the outside of the face, the smallish mouth and the shapes of the ears and chin in different photos. The deep vertical side lines in the left cheek. The under-hang of the chin. Weight may go up or down 15-20 pounds, for anyone, but particularly for an actor in different roles.

And notice that MTVMANN's photo was taken looking down on the face, while the cowboy shot was taken from below the level of the face, looking up at it, so the angles are different. Same face.

I think Eris0303 has found your man, MTVMANN. Thank her.

Well done, Eris!

Updated On: 5/11/11 at 12:37 PM

Haha!

I just realized that I didn't know and was checking your profile to make sure! Sorry about that and I shall correct it!

How do you know so much about this era of movie stars to have recognized the man, Eris?

Randolph wears his hat rather jauntily in the Navy shot, don't you think?

Updated On: 5/11/11 at 12:55 PM

I had this encyclopedic large paperback book of all Hollywood and other films in pictures since film began to 1970's or 80s. I hadn't used it in so long I gave it to one of my libraries. When this thread came up I went to consult it for the war years and it was gone! One I shouldn't have given away perhaps, but oh, well.

He was in To the Shores of Tripoli, 1942 and that was about Navy Marines.