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Morgan Conway (March 16, 1903 in Newark, New Jersey – November 16, 1981 in Livingston, New Jersey) was an American actor, best known for his portrayals of Dick Tracy.
Born Sydney Conway, he was educated at Columbia University in New York City. He arrived in Hollywood just in time to get on the ground floor of the industry’s burgeoning labor movement. Conway was one of the founding members of the Screen Actors Guild. His first film appearance was in the 1934 film Looking for Trouble.
For many years he freelanced, working for various studios in bits or supporting roles. His most familiar appearance from this period is probably in Charlie Chan in Reno (1939).
By the mid-1940s he was a contract player for RKO Radio Pictures, and he was chosen to portray Chester Gould’s comic-strip detective Dick Tracy in a pair of feature films: Dick Tracy and Dick Tracy vs. Cueball. RKO’s earliest publicity photos posed Conway in profile, hoping to emulate Gould’s square-jawed caricatures. Although this screen Tracy didn’t resemble the print Tracy physically, Conway’s dramatic interpretation was faithful; he gave the role an understated, businesslike quality totally in keeping with a police procedural. Morgan Conway is considered by many (including Dick Tracy writer Max Allan Collins) to be the best screen Dick Tracy.
Morgan/Sydney Conway left the motion picture industry and returned to New Jersey, where he died of lung cancer at the age of 78.
Morgan Conway Biography / Wiki
| Name | Morgan Conway |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Newark, New Jersey, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1903-03-16 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 78 |
| Deathday | 1981-11-16 |
Morgan Conway Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Dick Tracy vs. Cueball | Dick Tracy | 1946-11-22 | A police detective uses his girlfriend to track down a homicidal maniac…. |
| Dick Tracy | Dick Tracy | 1945-12-01 | Detective Tracy (Morgan Conway) rescues Tess Trueheart (Anne Jeffreys) and Junior from a killer called Splitface (Mike Mazurki)…. |
| The Truth About Murder | Lester Ashton | 1946-04-01 | A young attorney (Bonita Granville) is convinced a murder suspect is innocent in the killing of his wife…. |
| Sued for Libel | Albert Pomeroy | 1939-10-27 | A New York City newspaper is sued for libel after reporting the wrong verdict in a murder trial…. |
| Millionaires in Prison | James Brent | 1940-07-12 | A crop of millionaire inmates struggle to get accustomed to prison life, while inmate Nick Burton watches out for everyone’s interests on the inside…. |
| North of Shanghai | Bob Laird | 1939-01-24 | In this newspaper drama, a female reporter and a newsreel cameraman are both assigned to cover the Sino-Japanese war. They meet on the boat ride over … |
| The Saint Takes Over | Sam Reese | 1940-06-07 | The Saint Takes Over, released in 1940 by RKO Pictures, was the fifth motion picture featuring the adventures of Simon Templar, a.k.a. “The Saint” the… |
| A Fugitive from Justice | ‘Julie’ Alexander | 1940-06-15 | Leslie is being chased by the gangsters, the police and the insurance investigators. He is on the run. Falsely accused of a murder, he embarks upon a … |
| The Nurse from Brooklyn | Inspector Donohue | 1938-04-29 | A nurse’s younger brother is caught in a shootout between a criminal gang and the police, and he is shot and killed. The officer who is accused of sho… |
| Bells of Capistrano | Stag Johnson | 1942-09-15 | America’s favorite singing cowboy Gene Autry stars in this vintage tale as an up-and-coming rodeo singer caught in the middle of two rival companies, … |
| Canyon City | Craig Morgan | 1943-11-24 | A mystery man, identifying himself as the outlaw Nevada Kid, and his comical sidekick, help the townspeople of Canyon City solve a series of murders, … |
| Vacation in Reno | Joe | 1946-12-10 | A hapless husband searches for buried treasure at a dude ranch; meanwhile, his wife wants a divorce and bank robbers want him dead…. |
| Badman’s Territory | Captain William ‘Bill’ Hampton | 1946-05-04 | After some gun play with a posse, the James Gang head for Quinto in a section of land which is not a part of America. Anyone there is beyond the law s… |
| Blackwell’s Island | Steve Cardigan | 1939-01-24 | A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster…. |
| Private Detective | Nat Flavin | 1939-12-09 | A female private eye joins forces with a police detective to investigate the suspicious murder of a millionaire…. |
| Tornado | Gary Linden | 1943-08-09 | The owner of an Illinois coal mine struggles to keep his business in operation, all the while unaware that among his employees is a saboteur planning … |
| Happy Landing | Frank Harland | 1934-09-01 | An action-filled film with outlaws-of-the-clouds at war with the men of the U. S. Flying Service. A young pilot, Nick Ferris, fights to track down a d… |
| The Spellbinder | Mr. Carrington | 1939-07-28 | Jed Marlowe is a brilliant, scheming, unscrupulous criminal lawyer whose specialty is defending criminal he knows is guilty but gets them off through … |
| Looking for Trouble | Dan Sutter | 1934-03-28 | Joe and Casey trouble-shoot for the phone company. They try to prove that Joes’s girl Ethel’s boss Dan is a crook but are trapped by criminals and lef… |
| Off the Record | Lou Baronette | 1939-01-21 | After a socially conscience reporter adopts a slum orphan after she causes his brother’s gang to go to prison…. |
| A Desperate Chance for Ellery Queen | Ray Stafford | 1942-05-07 | A man is framed for embezzlement and runs off to San Francisco. His wife hires Queen to try and track him down before the police get to him…. |
| Brother Orchid | Philadelphia Powell | 1940-06-07 | When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himsel… |
| Television Spy | Carl Venner | 1939-10-20 | A scientist invents a television device called the Iconoscope. Foreign agents hear about it and try to steal it…. |
| Sinners in Paradise | Harrison Brand | 1938-05-19 | The survivors from a plane crash are washed up on an island where the only inhabitants are Mr. Taylor and his servant, Ping. The mismatched group must… |
| Crime Ring | Ray Taylor | 1938-07-08 | Fake fortunetellers win the confidence of clients and then get them to part with their money by buying mining stocks which are worthless…. |
| Charlie Chan in Reno | George Bentley | 1939-06-16 | Mary Whitman has gone to Reno to obtain a divorce. While there she is arrested on suspicion of murdering a fellow guest at her hotel (which specialize… |
| Illegal Traffic | State’s Attorney Ryan | 1938-11-02 | G-Man Charles Bent Martin is sent out to break up a nationwide racket. A transport company is aiding fugitives making a getaway in exchange for the li… |
| Secret Service of the Air | Henchman Ed Powell | 1939-03-04 | Brass Bancroft and his sidekick Gabby Watters are recruited onto the secret service and go undercover to crack a ruthless gang that smuggles illegal a… |
| Wings of the Navy | Tommy – Duty Officer | 1939-02-11 | Jerry tries to out compete his older brother Cass, a lieutenant Naval aviator. Cass is both tough on and protective of his brother, but Jerry can give… |
| Florian | Kingston | 1940-06-05 | Set against the backdrop of WWI Europe, a man and woman of different classes are brought together by their love of Lippizan horses…. |
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