2008年12月12日，一名40年代的好莱坞巨星去世了---Van Johnson，享年92岁。他是好莱坞又一个金童，最受欢迎的邻家男孩。在40年代，继克拉克盖博，罗伯特泰勒等巨星之后，Van Johnson成为那时MGM米高梅公司最红最有票房号召力的巨星。
维拉·迈尔斯生于俄克拉荷马州博伊西。50年代初因一次选美比赛进入电影界，相继演了不少低成本影片。1956年主演了西部片《搜索者》，声誉鹊起。接着主演了一些较具代表性的作品，如《伸冤记》、《触目惊人》、《双虎屠龙》等。之后签约迪斯尼公司，相继出演了《...
Ben Wright was born May 5, 1915, to an English mother and an American father in London, England, UK. At 16, he entered the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts where classmates included such future stars as Ida Lupino. Upon graduating, he acted in several West End stage productions. When WWII broke out, he enlisted and served in the Kings Royal Rifle Corps. He came to America in 1946 to attend a cousin's wedding and settled in Hollywood. He began his American acting career in radio, establishing himself as a master of dialects with such roles as Hey Boy, the Chinese servant, on "Have Gun, Will Travel" with John Dehner. His talent for dialects also kept him busy in the many WWII-related films and TV shows of the 1950s and '60s wherein he played countless Germans and Frenchmen as well as a variety of Englishmen for which he ensured the dialects were accurate depending on which part of England they were from. After years of radio, TV, stage and film work, he entered semi-retirement in the late 1970s, accepting occasional voice work and small guest appearances on TV. On June 16, 1989, after completing his last role, providing the voice of Grimsby in Disney's The Little Mermaid (1989), he entered St. Joseph's Hospital in Burbank for quadruple bypass surgery from which he never recovered. He died of heart failure July 2, 1989.
