Tom Drake

Actor

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Also Known As

Alfred Sinclair Alderdice, Richard Alden

Birth Place

Brooklyn, New York, USA

Born

August 05, 1918

Died

August 11, 1982

Cause of Death

Pneumonia

Biography

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Tom Drake received his first taste of the acting world when--under his real name, Alfred Alderdice--he starred in the hit Broadway production of "Janie" in 1942. After taking the stage name Tom Drake, the newly christened actor gathered the success from the musical and went on to star in his most famous role, next to Judy Garland in the 1944 musical "Meet Me in St. Louis." There, Drake p...

Filmography

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The Keeper (1976)

A Matter of Wife... and Death (1976)

Mayday At 40,000 Feet! (1976)

The Return of Joe Forrester (1975)

Savage Abduction (1975)

The Spectre of Edgar Allan Poe (1974)

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Scene Of The Crime (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Only Fools Bet Horses

Scene Of The Crime (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Never Pick Up A Pigeon Alone

Biography

Tom Drake received his first taste of the acting world when--under his real name, Alfred Alderdice--he starred in the hit Broadway production of "Janie" in 1942. After taking the stage name Tom Drake, the newly christened actor gathered the success from the musical and went on to star in his most famous role, next to Judy Garland in the 1944 musical "Meet Me in St. Louis." There, Drake played John Truett, the love interest of a girl whose family lived in St. Louis during the Louisiana Purchase Convention. The picture gained an array of Academy Award nominations, including Best Music. The next film in which Drake appeared was "The Green Years," in which he starred as Robert Shannon, an orphan who overcomes boundaries on his path to become a doctor. Drake starred in the 1950 holiday feature "The Great Rupert," playing a young man striking up a little romance--with some assistance from a helpful little squirrel. A supporting role in the Civil War-themed "Raintree County" in 1957 helped Drake's film career stay afloat before television appearances overwhelmed his filmography from the '50s to the '70s.

Filmography

Director (Feature Film)

The Keeper (1976)

Cast (Feature Film)

A Matter of Wife... and Death (1976)

Mayday At 40,000 Feet! (1976)

The Return of Joe Forrester (1975)

Savage Abduction (1975)

The Spectre of Edgar Allan Poe (1974)

She Cried Murder (1973)

City Beneath The Sea (1971)

The McMasters (1970)

Red Tomahawk (1967)

Johnny Reno (1966)

The Singing Nun (1965)

The Sandpiper (1965)

Walter Robinson

The Sadist (1963)

The Canadians (1961)

The Two Little Bears (1961)

The Bramble Bush (1960)

Money, Women and Guns (1959)

Raintree County (1957)

The Cyclops (1957)

Betrayed Women (1955)

Sudden Danger (1955)

Sangaree (1953)

Disc Jockey (1951)

F.B.I. Girl (1951)

Never Trust a Gambler (1951)

Sgt. Editor Donovan

The Great Rupert (1950)

Mr. Belvedere Goes to College (1949)

Scene of the Crime (1949)

Alias a Gentleman (1948)

Hills of Home (1948)

Words and Music (1948)

Richard "Dick" Rodgers

Cass Timberlane (1948)

I'll Be Yours (1947)

George Prescott

The Beginning or the End (1947)

The Green Years (1946)

Robert Shannon, as a young man

Faithful in My Fashion (1946)

Courage of Lassie (1946)

Sergeant Smitty

This Man's Navy (1945)

Marriage Is a Private Affair (1944)

Mrs. Parkington (1944)

Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)

Maisie Goes to Reno (1944)

[Sgt.] Bill Fullerton

Two Girls and a Sailor (1944)

[Sgt.] Frank Miller

The White Cliffs of Dover (1944)

American soldier

Northern Pursuit (1943)

Writer (Feature Film)

The Keeper (1976)

Cast (TV Mini-Series)

Glory! Glory! (1989)

Life Events

1938

First role on Broadway

1940

Film acting debut in "The Howards of Virginia"

1976

First film as producer and director "The Keeper"

Videos

Scene Of The Crime (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Only Fools Bet Horses Three L-A cops (Van Johnson as Mike Conovan, with John McIntire and Tom Drake) investigating a colleague’s murder have followed the car that just picked up a suspect they were watching, to learn that he’s been grabbed by syndicate crook “Umpire” (Tom Powers), looking to set up a larger operation, in Scene Of The Crime, 1949.

Scene Of The Crime (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Never Pick Up A Pigeon Alone Driving around L-A beginning their investigation of a the murder of a fellow plainclothes cop, Van Johnson as Conovan, John McIntire as his mentor-partner Piper, and Tom Drake as young “C.C.,” talk shop and notice lurking “Sleeper” (Norman Lloyd), early in Scene Of The Crime, 1949, from MGM and director Roy Rowland.

Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) -- (Movie Clip) The Trolley Song Esther (Judy Garland) waits until John (Tom Drake) hops on board before she sings "The Trolley Song" by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane in Vincente Minnelli's Meet Me in St. Louis, 1944.

Beginning Or The End, The (1947) -- (Movie Clip) We Can Change The World Joining narration by Hume Cronyn in the voice of J. Robert Oppenheimer, introducing Tom Drake as fictional student Matt, with Joseph Calleia and Victor Francen as scientists Fermi and Marre, for a big moment at Columbia’s Pupin Hall, in the A-Bomb docudrama The Beginning Or The End, 1947.

Beginning Or The End, The (1947) -- (Movie Clip) Flash Gordon's Latest We’ve just met Robert Walker as U.S. Army liaison Col. Nixon, arrived at Stagg Field where the real “Chicago Pile-1” reactor was developed, getting a detailed briefing from Tom Drake as scientist Cochran, in the dramatization of the Manhattan Project, The Beginning Or The End, 1947.

Two Girls And A Sailor (1944) -- (Movie Clip) Save Your Dough, Sailor Not knowing sailor Johnny (Van Johnson) is a zillionaire or that he's the secret admirer of her singing-partner sister Jean (Gloria DeHaven), Patsy (June Allyson) explains things, during an apparently routine party for servicemen at their apartment, in MGM's Two Girls And A Sailor, 1944.

Meet Me in St. Louis - (Re-issue Trailer) Young love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family in Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) starring Judy Garland and Margaret O'Brien.

Family

Claire Alderdice

Sister

Bibliography

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