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Badman's Territory

as Captain William 'Bill' Hampton

1946
Dick Tracy vs. Cueball

as Dick Tracy

1946
The Truth About Murder

as Lester Ashton

1946
Dick Tracy

as Dick Tracy

1945
Brother Orchid

as Philadelphia Powell

1940
The Saint Takes Over

as Sam Reese

1940
Millionaires in Prison

as James Brent

1940
A Fugitive from Justice

as 'Julie' Alexander

1940
Blackwell's Island

as Steve Cardigan

1939
Sued for Libel

as Albert Pomeroy

1939
Television Spy

as Carl Venner

1939
The Spellbinder

as Mr. Carrington

1939
North of Shanghai

as Bob Laird

1939
Crime Ring

as Ray Taylor

1938
Sinners in Paradise

as Harrison Brand

1938
The Nurse from Brooklyn

as Inspector Donohue

1938
Looking for Trouble

as Dan Sutter

1934
Morgan Conway Morgan Conway

Birthday

1903-03-16

Place of Birth

Newark, New Jersey, USA

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Morgan Conway (March 16, 1903 in Newark, New Jersey – November 16, 1981 in Livingston, New Jersey) was an American actor, best known for his portrayals of Dick Tracy. Born Sydney Conway, he was educated at Columbia University in New York City. He arrived in Hollywood just in time to get on the ground floor of the industry's burgeoning labor movement. Conway was one of the founding members of the Screen Actors Guild. His first film appearance was in the 1934 film Looking for Trouble. For many years he freelanced, working for various studios in bits or supporting roles. His most familiar appearance from this period is probably in Charlie Chan in Reno (1939). By the mid-1940s he was a contract player for RKO Radio Pictures, and he was chosen to portray Chester Gould's comic-strip detective Dick Tracy in a pair of feature films: Dick Tracy and Dick Tracy vs. Cueball. RKO's earliest publicity photos posed Conway in profile, hoping to emulate Gould's square-jawed caricatures. Although this screen Tracy didn't resemble the print Tracy physically, Conway's dramatic interpretation was faithful; he gave the role an understated, businesslike quality totally in keeping with a police procedural. Morgan Conway is considered by many (including Dick Tracy writer Max Allan Collins) to be the best screen Dick Tracy. Morgan/Sydney Conway left the motion picture industry and returned to New Jersey, where he died of lung cancer at the age of 78.
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