Known for:	The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Robe, The Lost World
Birth name:	Eric Alexander Rennie
Birthday:	25 August 1909, Bradford, Yorkshire, England, UK
Height:	6' 4" (1.93 m)

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Free Image Hosting - Upload your favorite celebrity pictures. Michael Rennie joined the Royal Air Force in 1941, training as a fighter pilot in the United States under the Arnold Plan. While at Napier Field, Dothan, Alabama for his advanced flight training he was asked by fellow trainee, Scotsman Jack Morton, what he did in civilian life. Rennie told Morton and the other pilots gathered around that he was a movie actor. They stared at him in disbelief then broke out in a chorus of laughter. A couple of nights later Rennie and his classmates went into town to watch a movie, "Ships with Wings". Not long into the movie, and much to the surprise of those seated with him, Michael Rennie appeared on the screen as Royal Navy Pilot "Lt. Maxwell" Close friends during his 20th Century-Fox years with Tyrone Power and appeared in a few of his pictures, including The Black Rose and I'll Never Forget You. Graduated from The Leys (a private school in the city of Cambridge). Despite his lean build, he excelled in sports (rowing, fencing, cricket, boxing, wrestling, swimming). Lived his final years in Geneva, Switzerland and died at his mother's home in England while visiting because of his brother's death. In his best known film, the classic sci-fi The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), a scene was cut that showed his even-tempered alien character Klaatu in an emotional state. His early career was interrupted by war service. He was a flight instructor for over two of those years. His son David Rennie, is now a UK High Court judge on the Lewes, Sussex circuit.

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