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Alexander D'Arcy

Alexander D'Arcy

Birthday: 1908-08-10 | Place of Birth: Cairo, Egypt

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Alexander D'Arcy, ( 10 August 1908 – 20 April 1996) was an Egyptian actor with an international film repertoire. Born Alexander Sarruf in Cairo, Egypt, D'Arcy, variously credited as Alexandre D'Arcy, Alex D'Arcy, Alexandre Darcy and Alex d'Arcy appeared in some 45 films, mostly as a suave gentleman or smooth rogue. His first film appearance was in 1927 in The Garden of Allah, before appearing in Alfred Hitchcock's Champagne (1928). He then went to Hollywood where he started by playing supporting roles in several films in the late 1930s including The Prisoner of Zenda (1937) Stolen Holiday (1937), The Awful Truth (1937). In 1953, he was one of Marilyn Monroe's suitors in How to Marry a Millionaire and featured in Abdulla the Great and Soldier of Fortune in 1955. His roles diminished in importance and by the 1960s he was acting mostly on television before resurfacing in horror films, notably It's Hot in Paradise (1962) and as Dracula in Blood of Dracula's Castle (1969). Evidently a favorite of such cult directors as Roger Corman, Russ Meyer and Sam Fuller, D'Arcy was seen in Corman's St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967), Meyer's The Seven Minutes (1971) and Fuller's Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street (1972). His last appearance was in a German television detective series in 1973. He died in West Hollywood, California. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alexander D'Arcy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1969
Blood of Dracula's Castle

as    Count Charles Townsend (Dracula)

1964
Fanny Hill

as    Admiral

1960
Horrors of Spider Island

as    Gary Webster

1955
Abdullah's Harem

as    Marco

1955
Soldier of Fortune

as    Rene Dupont Chevalier

1953
How to Marry a Millionaire

as    J. Stewart Merrill

1953
Vicki

as    Robin Ray

1953
Man on a Tightrope

as    Rudolph (as Alex D'Arcy)

1940
City of Chance

as    Baron Joseph

1938
Topper Takes a Trip

as    Baron de Rossi

1937
Stolen Holiday

as    Anatole

1937
The Awful Truth

as    Armand Duvalle

1937
She Married an Artist

as    Phillip Corval

1929
A Romance of Seville

as    Ramon