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Tom Drake

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Actor

The Resume

    (August 8, 1918-August 11, 1982)
    Birth Name is Alfred Sinclair Alderdice
    Starred in movies 'Two Girls and A Sailor (1944),' 'Mansie Goes to Reno (1944),' 'Marriage is a Private Affair (1944),' 'Mrs. Parkington (1944),' 'Meet Me in St. Louis (1944),' 'This Man's Navy (1944),' 'The Green Years (1946),' 'Faithful In my Fashion (1946),' 'Courage of Lassie,' 'I'll be yours (1947),' 'Beginning or the End (1947),' 'Cass Timberlane (1947),' 'Alias A Gentleman (1948),' 'Words and Music (1948),' 'Hills of Home (1948),' 'Mr. Belvedere Goes to College (1949),' 'Scene of the Crime (1949),' 'The Great Rupert (1950),' 'Never Trust A Gambler (1951),' 'Disc Jockey (1951),' 'FBI Girl (1951),' 'Sangaree (1953),' 'Betrayed Women (1955),' ' Sudden Danger (1955),' 'The Cyclops (1957),' 'Raintree Country (1957),' 'Date With Disaster (1957),' 'Money, Women, and Guns (1959),' 'Warlock (1959),' 'The Bramble Bush (1960),' 'The Sandpiper (1965),' 'House of the Black Death (1965),' 'Johnny Reno (1966),' 'The Singing Nun (1966),' 'Red Tomahawk (1967)' and 'Warkill (1967)'
    Best Known for his role in 'Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)'

Why he might be annoying:

    He was typecast as a soldier.
    He smoked.
    He had a serious drinking as he got older.
    He eloped to Las Vegas with Elizabeth Dunn.
    He divorced her after only a year of marriage.
    Shortly after the divorce he said, 'If I wake up depressed, I remain that way all day.'
    Although he portrayed a war hero in 'This Man's Navy (1944),' he was rejected for military service.
    He loved to eat garlic.
    As his career ended, he was forced to move in with his sister, and take a job as a used car salesman.

Why he might not be annoying:

    He had a deep, sultry, sexy voice.
    He kicked his drinking and smoking habits.
    He was an excellent piano player and even wrote his own songs.
    His father was an immigrant from Scotland and his mother was from Norway.
    He was a good student.
    He died of lung cancer.

Credit: Buddy


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 5 Votes: 80.0% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 4 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 2 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 2 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 3 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 10 Votes: 30.0% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 5 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 7 Votes: 28.57% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 13 Votes: 53.85% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 11 Votes: 36.36% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 17 Votes: 52.94% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 21 Votes: 52.38% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 33 Votes: 42.42% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 87 Votes: 45.98% Annoying
    In 2006, Out of 96 Votes: 52.08% Annoying
    In 2005, Out of 183 Votes: 48.63% Annoying
    In 2004, Out of 89 Votes: 51.69% Annoying