John dierkes cause of death

American actor (1905–1975)

John Dierkes (February 10, 1905 – January 8, 1975) was an American actor who appeared in a number of classic Hollywood films.

Pulmonary emphysema.

Pulmonary emphysema.

Cincinnati, Ohio, USA · Died.

Death death.

John Dierkes ( - ) The Red Badge of Courage () [The Tall Soldier]: Shot in combat, then dies of his wound later on while talking to Audie Murphy.

John Dierkes Biography.

Before becoming an actor, he had been an economist.^[1]

Life and career

Dierkes was born on February 10, 1905, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He attended Brown University and subsequently went to work as an economist for the United States Department of State.

In 1941 he joined the Red Cross and served in Britain during World War II. There he met director John Huston who recommended that he try Hollywood after the war. Instead, Dierkes went to work for the U.S. Treasury Department which coincidentally sent him to Hollywood to function as technical advisor for the film To the Ends of the Earth (1948) and Orson Welles cast him as Ross in his version of Macbeth in the same year.

Dierkes passed away from emphysema on Jan. 8th, He was Dierkes came to acting in his mid's after first working as an economist for.

Welles used Dierkes again in his Touch of Evil (1958). He married Cynthia Dierkes and they had two daughters and two sons.

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