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Lewis Frederick Ayres III (December 28, 1908 – December 30, 1996) was an American actor whose film and television career spanned 65 years. He is best known for starring as German soldier Paul Bäumer in the film All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) and for playing Dr. Kildare in nine films. [1]
Dr. James Kildare is a fictional American medical doctor, originally created in the 1930s by the author Frederick Schiller Faust under the pen name Max Brand.Shortly after the character's first appearance in a magazine story, Paramount Pictures used the story and character as the basis for the 1937 film Internes Can't Take Money, starring Joel McCrea as Jimmie Kildare.
It is the second of a total of ten films featuring the "Dr. Kildare" character, but the first made by MGM, the first starring Ayres, and the first film appearance of the Dr. Gillespie character. The first Kildare film, Internes Can't Take Money (1937), was made by Paramount , featured Joel McCrea in the title role, and was based on an earlier ...
Dr. Kildare Goes Home (1940) Played by Lew Ayres / Samuel S. Hinds (as Dr. Stephen Kildare) Dr. Kildare's Strange Case (1940) Played by Samuel S. Hinds (as Dr. Stephen Kildare) / Lew Ayres (as Dr. James 'Jimmy' Kildare) The Secret of Dr. Kildare (1939) Played by Samuel S. Hinds (as Dr. Stephen Kildare) / Lew Ayres (as Dr. James 'Jimmy' Kildare ...
Dr. Kildare is a helpless bystander as a brilliant but plain woman (Colleen Dewhurst) is faced with cancer surgery. She's afraid that her worried husband ( Tom Bosley ), whom she married based more on a fear of being alone than for love, will reject her.
Calling Dr. Kildare is a 1939 film in the Dr. Kildare series. Directed by Harold S. Bucquet , it stars Lew Ayres as the young Dr. Kildare and Lionel Barrymore as Dr. Gillespie, his mentor. [ 2 ] The second of MGM 's series of Kildare films, it introduces Laraine Day as nurse Mary Lamont, the love of Kildare's life.
Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day is a 1941 American drama film directed by Harold S. Bucquet and starring Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, and Laraine Day. It is the eighth of a total of nine Dr. Kildare pictures made by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer .
Like the earlier MGM film series (1938–1942), the TV series initially told the story of young intern Dr. James Kildare (Richard Chamberlain) working at the fictional large metropolitan "Blair General Hospital" and trying to learn his profession, deal with patients' problems, and win the respect of the senior Dr. Leonard Gillespie (Raymond Massey).