Known for:	Miracle on 34th Street, Kansas City Confidential, The Razor's Edge
Birthday:	23 May 1912, Roanoke, Virginia, USA
Height:	6' (1.83 m)

Singer, mostly in 20th Century-Fox musicals Father of actress Julie Payne. Was the first person in Hollywood interested in making the James Bond novels into a film series. In 1955 paid a $1,000 a month option for 9 months on the Bond novel Moonraker (he eventually gave up the option when he learned he couldn't retain the rights for the entire 007 series). Direct descendent of John Howard Payne (1791 - 1852), composer of the classic song "Home, Sweet Home" ("Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home."). The gap in his career from 1962 to 1968 was the result of a terrible automobile wreck, in which he suffered extensive, life-threatening injuries. In his later roles, facial scars can be detected in close-ups. Grandfather of actress Katharine Towne Ex-father-in-law of writer-director Robert Towne.

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