Add/Update Information: Samuel S. Hinds - Actor

An American actor, born in Brooklyn, on April 4, 1875. He was married to Dorothy Vandevort Cruickshank in 1914 and had a child before their divorce. His father, Joseph Hinds, was president of the American Playing Card Company, and his grandfather was a British poet Robert Southey. He graduated from Phillips Academy Andover, Harvard Law School and New York University School of Law. He worked as a lawyer for 32 years in Hollywood, until the stock market crash of the 1929 Depression. He was interested in theatrical acting, he decided to enter the world of acting at the age of 54, and joined the Pasadena Community Theater on Broadway. He made his first films in role of a lawyer, If I Had a Million in 1932. His most important works: Calling Dr. Kildare (1939), You Can't Take It with you (1938) and It's a Wonderful Life (1946). He worked until his death of pneumonia in 1948 at the age of 73 years old.