好莱坞早期男影星,曾因在《壮志千秋》中的精彩演出,提名第4届奥斯卡金像奖最佳男主角奖。
美国电影演员。当过记者和漫画家,后在杂耍剧中扮演方言喜剧角色,并参加剧团演出。二十年代末进入影坛,成为好莱坞三四十年代最忙碌的性格演员之一。曾在著名歌后格蕾丝·摩亚主演的影片《金缕曲》(1935)中扮演男主角,但后来主演扮演以提供笑料为主而仪态和蔼的拉丁人。五十年代后期退出影坛。后一度在电视连续剧《游侠希思科》中扮演邓坎的伙伴潘乔。
Discovered on Broadway by director Howard Hawks, La Rue was originally brought to Hollywood to play a gangster in Scarface (1932). He lost that role to George Raft, and similarly was replaced by Humphrey Bogart in the film version of The Petrified Forest (1936). Eventually, he became well-known to movie-goers as a mean, sexy gangster type in sadistic roles like Miriam Hopkins' abductor in The Story of Temple Drake (1933). Film audiences, who loved to loathe him on-screen, were occasionally surprised by his being cast against type in such movies as A Farewell to Arms (1932). His final film was in the low-budget film Paesano: A Voice in the Night (1977).
美国早期男演员,出演过《乱世佳人》等多部电影,为动画片《木偶奇遇记》配过音。