Nat Carr
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August 12, 1886
Nat Carr | |
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.jpg) Carr in Bank Alarm (1937) | |
| Born | Natan Krechevsky August 12, 1886 |
| Died | July 6, 1944 (aged 57) Hollywood, California, U.S. |
| Resting place | Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1923–1941 |
Nat Carr (August 12, 1886 – July 6, 1944, born Natan Krechevsky[citation needed] ) was an American character actor of the silent and early talking picture eras. During his eighteen-year career, Carr appeared in over 100 films, most of them features.
Carr entered the film industry in the 1925 film, His People, in the featured role of Chaim Barowitz.[1] Although he may have appeared in an earlier film, 1923's Little Johnny Jones.[2] He appeared in the featured role of Levi in The Jazz Singer in 1927.[3] In 1929 Carr co-wrote the story (with Mark Sandrich) for the film, The Talk of Hollywood, in which he also starred.[4] Other notable films in which he appeared include: as a waiter in Raoul Walsh's 1939 crime drama, The Roaring Twenties, starring James Cagney, Priscilla Lane, and Humphrey Bogart;[5] in the role of Crocker in the 1939 Western, Dodge City, starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland;[6] as one of the doctors in the Bette Davis tour de force, Dark Victory, which also starred Bogart and George Brent;[7] and as one of the reporters in the 1941 war classic, Sergeant York, starring Gary Cooper.[8] Carr's final screen performance was as a tourist in the 1941 comedy-mystery, Passage from Hong Kong.[9]
Carr died on July 6, 1944, in Hollywood, California. He was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.[10]
