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Template:Short description Template:About Template:Use American English Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox person Tom Drake (born Alfred Sinclair Alderdice;<ref name="clac">Template:Cite book</ref> August 5, 1918Template:Spaced ndashAugust 11, 1982) was an American actor. Drake made films starting in 1940 and continuing until the mid-1970s, and also made TV acting appearances.<ref name="Classic Images">Classic Images bio. Template:Webarchive Retrieved 11th December 2008</ref>

Early life and careerEdit

Drake was born in Brooklyn, New York,<ref name="sw">Template:Cite book</ref> and attended Iona Preparatory School and graduated from Mercersburg Academy.<ref name="ct">Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref>

He was excused from serving in World War II due to heart problems.<ref name="Classic Images"/> Despite this limitation, he did act in British training films.

Billed as Alfred Alderdice, Drake appeared on Broadway in Run Sheep Run (1938) and Clean Beds (1939).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

After appearing in the film The Howards of Virginia (billed as Richard Alden),<ref name="sw" /> he got his break after starring in the 1942 Broadway smash Janie,<ref>Replacement Cast information for Janie Template:Webarchive at Internet Broadway Database</ref> after which he was signed to a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

MGMEdit

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Drake in Meet Me in St. Louis

MGM started Drake in a supporting role in Two Girls and a Sailor (1944). He was third billed in a "B", Maisie Goes to Reno (1944) then had small roles in some "A" pictures, Marriage Is a Private Affair (1944) and Mrs. Parkington (1944).

He was more prominently featured in his role as Judy Garland's leading man in 1944's Meet Me in St. Louis.<ref name="sw" /> He played John Truitt, the "boy next door".

MGM promoted him to leading roles with This Man's Navy (1944) co starring Wallace Beery.

MGM gave Drake the star role in The Green Years (1946), which was a huge hit.<ref name="Mannix">Template:Citation.</ref> It was followed by Courage of Lassie (1946), another big hit, and Faithful in My Fashion (1946), which lost money.

Universal borrowed him to play Deanna Durbin's leading man in I'll Be Yours (1947).<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Back at MGM Drake was a support in The Beginning or the End (1947) and Cass Timberlane (1947), and teamed with Beery again in Alias a Gentleman (1948). He did another Lassie film, Hills of Home (1948) and played composer Richard Rodgers in the loosely-based biography Words and Music (1948). Cass Timberlane was popular but the other films all lost money.<ref name="Mannix"/>

Drake was borrowed by Fox to play the romantic lead in Mr. Belvedere Goes to College (1949) then at MGM was in Scene of the Crime (1949) with Van Johnson. He made The Great Rupert (1950) for George Pal.

Later careerEdit

Drake began appearing on episodes of TV shows such as The Ford Theatre Hour, Suspense, Lights Out, Tales of Tomorrow, The Unexpected.

He went to Columbia for Never Trust a Gambler (1951) and to Allied Artists for Disc Jockey (1951). He appeared in F.B.I. Girl (1951), and Sangaree (1953).

After television jobs for actors transitioned from live telecasts from New York to shows that were filmed in California, Drake had roles in the CBS series Lassie, NBC's Cimarron City, ABC's 77 Sunset Strip, ABC's The Rebel, CBS’ Perry Mason, ABC's Combat!, ABC's Land of the Giants, NBC's Adam-12, ABC's The Streets of San Francisco and NBC's Banacek.

He continued to appear in features, starring in The Cyclops (1957), Date with Disaster (1957) (a rare lead), and Raintree County (1957). He played the leader of a gang of criminals in Warlock (1959) and was in Money, Women and Guns (1958). He also had a minor role in the film The Singing Nun (1966), playing Ed Sullivan's producer Mr. Fitzpatrick.

His last acting credit was in 1975.<ref name=ct/>

Personal lifeEdit

Tom Drake was married to Isabelle Dunn during the 1940s.

Drake was a Roman Catholic<ref>Morning News, January 10, 1948, Who Was Who in America (Vol. 2)</ref> and supported Adlai Stevenson during the 1952 presidential election.<ref>Motion Picture and Television Magazine, November 1952, page 33, Ideal Publishers</ref>

DeathEdit

Drake died of lung cancer at age 64 at Torrance Memorial Hospital in Torrance, California on August 11, 1982.<ref name=ct/> His body is interred at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California.<ref name=clac/>

FilmographyEdit

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Selected Television AppearancesEdit

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