George Dolenz

George Dolenz was born on Jan 05, 1908 in Italy]. George Dolenz's big-screen debut came with Unexpected Uncle directed by Peter Godfrey in 1941, strarring George (uncredited). George Dolenz is known for The Count of Monte Cristo directed by Charles Bennett, George Dolenz stars as Edmond Dantes and Nick Cravat as Jacopo. The upcoming new movie George Dolenz plays is The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse which will be released on Jul 12, 1962.

George Dolenz was born in Italy in 1908 to a large family. He left Italy in the 1920s to start a new life and it seemed that he didn't want to look back on his old one. He arrived in Los Angeles in the 1940s and it was there that he somehow met up with Howard Hughes. Hughes signed him up as a leading man at RKO Pictures--which he owned--but, under Hughes' contract, George only starred in one film, Vendetta (1950), with Faith Domergue. He became a master of several dialects, and could play urbane Continental roles such as "Baron Sergei" in Hommes du monde (1944), with Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, Latin-American types such as the mysterious "Cortega" in Tu trembles carcasse (1953), with Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, and even Roman-era royalty such as "Emperor Theodosius" in Le signe du païen (1954). When his contract with Hughes ran out, George appeared in many films for other studios throughout the 1950s and 1960s, and starred in the TV series The Count of Monte Cristo (1956). George was the father of actor Micky Dolenz of The Monkees (1966), husband of actress Janelle Johnson Dolenz and the grandfather of actress Ami Dolenz.