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John Howard Payne (1791-1852) was an American actor, poet, playwright, and author who wrote "Home! Sweet Home!" and served as American Consul to Tunis. Learn about his life, career, and legacy on Wikipedia.
John Howard Payne [1] (May 23, 1912 – December 6, 1989) [2] [3] was an American film actor who is mainly remembered from film noir crime stories and 20th Century Fox musical films, and for his leading roles in Miracle on 34th Street and the NBC Western television series The Restless Gun.
John Howard Payne (born June 9, 1791, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died April 9, 1852, Tunis, Tunisia) was an American-born playwright and actor, who followed the techniques and themes of the European Romantic blank-verse dramatists.
John Howard Payne (May 23, 1912 – December 6, 1989) was an American film actor who is mainly remembered from film noir crime stories and 20th Century Fox musical films, and for his leading roles in Miracle on 34th Street and the NBC Western television series The Restless Gun.
John Howard Payne was born in 1791 and spent his early life in lower New York State, where his father taught elocution at the Clinton Academy in East Hampton. After the family’s relocation to Boston, Payne, who showed an early interest in theater, was sent by his father to work at an accounting firm in New York City.
Billed initially as John Howard Payne, he made his debut with a minor role in Dodsworth (1936), but nothing else came of it and he was released. Freelancing in minor musicals and comedies, he appeared in a starring role (billed now as John Payne) opposite soon-to-be acting guru Stella Adler in Love on Toast (1937) , and also teamed up vocally ...
John Howard Payne (1791-1852) was America's first international actor-dramatist. Though he was a prolific playwright, he is best remembered for his song "Home, Sweet Home." John Howard Payne was born in New York City on June 9, 1791. Against his family's wishes he early took to the theater.
