Personal Info
Lewis Frederick Ayre III
Lew Ayres
Acting
Biography
Lew Ayres was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and raised in San Diego, California. A college dropout, he was found by a talent scout in the Coconut Grove nightclub in Los Angeles and entered Hollywood as a bit player. He was leading man to Greta Garbo in The Kiss (1929), but it was the role of Paul Baumer in All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) that was his big break. He was profoundly affected by the anti-war message of that film, and when, in 1942, the popular star of Young Dr. Kildare (1938) and subsequent Dr. Kildare films was drafted, he was a conscientious objector. America was ou…
Known For
Filmography
Movies
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
as Self (archive footage)
Hart to Hart: Crimes of the Hart
as Professor Cabel
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
as actor 'Advise and 'Consent' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Cast the First Stone
as Martin
Under Siege
as John Pace
Don Camillo
as Doc
Bruised Celluloid
as Himself
Of Mice and Men
as Candy
Reunion
as Bob Hollander
Letters from Frank
as Dan Miller
TV Shows
MGM: When the Lion Roars
3 ep.
L.A. Law
as Lorimar Henderson · 1 ep.
Outlaws
1 ep.
Lime Street
as Henry Wade Culver · 8 ep.
Highway to Heaven
3 ep.
Finder of Lost Loves
as Oliver Hawthorne · 1 ep.
The A-Team
as Bernie Greene · 1 ep.
Hotel
1 ep.
Fame
1 ep.
Cagney & Lacey
1 ep.
