page_title: John Dall
section_title: Death
hierarchical_section_title: John Dall / Death
caption_attribution_description: English: Death certificate of John Dall.
context_page_description: John Dall was an American actor.
  Primarily a stage actor, he is best remembered today for two film roles: the cool-minded intellectual killer in Alfred Hitchcock's Rope, and the trigger-happy lead in the 1950 film noir Gun Crazy. He also had a substantial role in Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus. He first came to fame as the young prodigy who comes alive under the tutelage of Bette Davis in The Corn Is Green, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
context_section_description: Dall sustained a serious fall while visiting London in October 1970 and died of cardiac arrest, a complication of myocarditis, at his home in Beverly Hills, California, on January 15, 1971, aged 50. His body was donated to medical science.
  Dall's papers are held at the Margaret Herrick Library in Beverly Hills, California.
caption: Death certificate of John Dall.
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