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Alan Walbridge Ladd (
September 3,
1913 –
January 29,
1964) was an
American film
actor. He was famous for his emotionless demeanor and small stature. Reports of his height vary from 5'4" to 5'6" (1.63 to 1.68 m), with 5'5" (1.65 m) being the most generally accepted today.
Early life
Ladd was born in
Hot Springs, Arkansas to an
American father (Alan Ladd, Sr.) and an
English-American mother (Ina Raleigh Ladd). His father died when the boy was four, and his mother relocated to
Oklahoma City, where she married Jim Beavers, a housepainter. The family moved again, to
North Hollywood,
California. There Ladd became a high school swimming and diving champion. Burdened with a hated nickname ("Tiny"), the then-5'4" student fell under the spell of high school dramatics and set his mind toward becoming an actor. He opened his own hamburger and malt shop, which he called Tiny's Patio in defiance of the nickname's negative aspect. He worked briefly as a studio carpenter (as did his stepfather) and for a short time was part of the
Universal Pictures studio school for actors. But Universal decided he was too blond and too short and dropped him. His handprint appears in the forecourt of
Grauman's Chinese Theater, in Hollywood.
Personal life
Thanks to wise business investments, Ladd became a wealthy man, with properties in Beverly Hills and, in Palm Springs, Alan Ladd Hardware. His son
Alan Ladd, Jr., by his first wife Midge Harrold, is a motion picture executive and producer and founder of
The Ladd Company. His daughter Alana is married to the veteran talk radio broadcaster
Michael Jackson. Another son, actor
David Ladd, who co-starred as a child with his father in
The Proud Rebel, married
Charlie's Angels star
Cheryl Ladd. Actress
Jordan Ladd is his granddaughter.
Filmography
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