Actor Louis Hayward/Battle for Tarawa

[UncleEd]

Watched some of And Then There Were None on TMC Saturday morning. And among the stars was.....

.....South African born Louis Hayward, who got his acting start in Britain before coming to the U.S., was the recipient of a Bronze Medal. He was the Marine captain who headed the photographic team that filmed the Battle of Tarawa in 1944.

After the war, people in Hollywood said he was fighting demons as a result of his wartime experiences.

I watched on UTube the 20-minute Tarawa film he did. Quite graphic.

As a kid I always liked him.

Just wondering how many others remember him.

 

[A-37]

Hayward's Movies

I remember Hayward well. I was five years old in 1939 when "The Man in the Iron Mask" hit the silver screen. I still see the mask in my nightmares.

 

[the ringo kid]

Watched some of And Then There Were None on TMC Saturday morning. And among the stars was.....

.....South African born Louis Hayward, who got his acting start in Britain before coming to the U.S., was the recipient of a Bronze Medal. He was the Marine captain who headed the photographic team that filmed the Battle of Tarawa in 1944.

After the war, people in Hollywood said he was fighting demons as a result of his wartime experiences.

I watched on UTube the 20-minute Tarawa film he did. Quite graphic.

As a kid I always liked him.

Just wondering how many others remember him.

I remember him as a Swashbuckler who could have easily rivaled Errol Flynn--had he not been shafted by hollywood for mainly being in "B"movies.

 

[Kernel Crittenden]

... filmed the Battle of Tarawa in 1944.....

The Battle of Tarawa was fought in 1943.

 

[Texas Star]

Wasn't newscaster John Cameron Swayze also originally a South African?

Anyone else here remember him?

 

[OFT II]

Hi T.S.

I remember Swayze. I believe he was from Kansas. He did the news for NBC back in the 1950s and later did some commercials for Timex watches. Man, that was a long time ago.

 

[UncleEd]

If I recall, Huntley and Brinkley replaced Swayze, making a more news men's effort than a reader-of-news show.

 

[Texas Star]

If I recall, Huntley and Brinkley replaced Swayze, making a more news men's effort than a reader-of-news show.

That's also when NBC News took a pronounced slant to the left. I think this bothered Huntley. He seemed to be unhappy at times with what he had to do there.

 

[A-37]

Swayze's Timex Commercial

".......it's waterproof because it says right there...."Waterproof!"

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