Oakie, Jack, 1903-1978
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Oakie, Jack, 1903-1978
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Oakie, Jack, 1903-1978
Oakie, Jack
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Oakie, Jack
Offield, Lewis D., 1903-1978
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Offield, Lewis D., 1903-1978
Oakie, Jackie, 1903-1978
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Oakie, Jackie, 1903-1978
Delaney Offield, Lewis 1903-1978
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Delaney Offield, Lewis 1903-1978
Offield Lewis Delaney 1903-1978
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Offield Lewis Delaney 1903-1978
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Jack Oakie was born Lewis Delaney Offield on November 12, 1903, in Sedalia, Missouri. He grew up in Oklahoma and Kansas before his family relocated to New York City. It was here where he was able to launch his acting career. He took his first acting job in a 1922 George Cohan production. When Oakie arrived in Hollywood in 1927, silent films were still quite common, and five of his first six films were silent pictures. In 1928, Oakie signed with Paramount Pictures and performed in Paramount's first sound picture, The Dummy. Oakie appeared in a number of college-themed pictures in the 1920s and 1930s, often playing a college jock. Perhaps Oakie is most well known for the role he played in the Great Dictator, the 1939 political satire starring Oakie as the Italian leader Benito Mussolini and Charlie Chaplin as Adolf Hitler. For his performance, Oakie was nominated for an academy award for supporting actor. The last major film Oakie appeared in was Lover Come Back in 1961, starring Doris Day and Rock Hudson. In Oakie's fifty-year career as an actor, he appeared in more than one hundred productions. In 1950, Oakie married Victoria Horne. They lived on a ranch in the hills of Northridge outside of Los Angeles. He died from an aneurysm on January 23, 1978.
Jack Oakie was born Lewis Delaney Offield on November 12, 1903, in Sedalia, Missouri. He grew up in Oklahoma and Kansas before his family relocated to New York City. It was here where he was able to launch his acting career. He took his first acting job in a 1922 George Cohan production. When Oakie arrived in Hollywood in 1927, silent films were still quite common, and five of his first six films were silent pictures. In 1928, Oakie signed with Paramount Pictures and performed in Paramount's first sound picture, "The Dummy." Oakie appeared in a number of college-themed pictures in the 1920s and 1930s, often playing a college jock. Perhaps Oakie is most well known for the role he played in "The Great Dictator," the 1939 political satire starring Oakie as the Italian leader Benito Mussolini and Charlie Chaplin as Adolf Hitler. For his performance, Oakie was nominated for an academy award for supporting actor. The last major film Oakie appeared in was "Lover Come Back" in 1961, starring Doris Day and Rock Hudson. In Oakie's fifty-year career as an actor, he appeared in more than one hundred productions. In 1950, Oakie married Victoria Horne. They lived on a ranch in the hills of Northridge outside of Los Angeles. He died from an aneurysm on January 23, 1978.
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