James Cardwell Net Worth is
$800,000

Mini Biography

Eager young Adam (aka Jimmy) Cardwell had an auspicious beginning and showed great promise in 1940s movies. Dark-haired and thick-browed with an earnest, boyish appear and set-jawed handsomeness that could remind somebody of the John Garfield type, he couldn’t possess started off superior to by playing a, heroic battle casualty among the Sullivans (1944) (aka “The Fighting with each other Sullivans”). By the finish of the 10 years, however, Adam’ film profession did not progress and he finished issues negligibly on Television. Despondency overwhelmed him and on January 31, 1954, he became another tragic Hollywood statistic, The sufferer of suicide at age group 32, he is becoming completely overlooked save for film trivia fanatics. The son of Raymond and Bessie (McCarroll) Cardwell, he was christened Albert Paine Cardwell after his grandfather, a Philadelphia publishing editor. Given birth to in Camden, NJ, on November 21, 1921 (many sources provide 1920) and elevated there, youthful Cardwell went to Alfred Cramer Junior SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL before moving to Woodrow Wilson SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL. While there he discovered himself attracted to performing and, after showing up inside a sophomore play, offered as president from the school’s episode golf club. He also demonstrated athletic prowess around the soccer field, aswell as in monitor and field. Pursuing his graduation in 1940, he toiled about in a few odd careers (clerk, laborer, etc.) but continuing to prod his fascination with acting by signing up for the Camden Crisis Guild. Committed by this time around, he later joined up with the Hedgerow Movie theater Group in Pa. While there he might ends satisfy by employed in the shipping section for RCA Victor, conference and marrying Esther Borton in June of 1942. In the summertime of 1943, while in NY looking for representation/function, James was seen by agents scouting out fresh faces for the next WWII picture about five patriotic soldier-brothers. He earned among the brothers’ jobs. His wife, nevertheless, had no distributed fascination with his fledgling profession or proceed to Los Angeles, as well as the relationship quickly ended. Enrolled in seven years with Twentieth Century-Fox, he was renamed Adam Cardwell for the films and the youthful hopeful produced a heart-tugging debut in the battle crisis The Sullivans (1944), a relatively fictionalized and sentimental, but still inspiring true-life tale of five brothers from Iowa (Cardwell performed George Sullivan) who offered together (by demand) and passed away on a single torpedoed dispatch during WWII. Following this film, Adam appeared in second qualified prospects as various reporters, rookies and private eye types in Charlie Chan mysteries and other various “B” level dramas, functioning through the entire post-war era from the 1940s. Despite his features, he didn’t move to the very best lead status and several from the movies he did come in had been dismissed with the critics. For each participating appearance in a solid quality film like a Walk in sunlight (1945) or He Walked by Evening (1948), you can count doubly many forgettable types in lesser photos (The Devil on Tires (1947), Robin Hood of Tx (1947), King from the Bettors (1948), Down Dakota Method (1949)). His solitary male lead inside a film may possess dimmed a chance of further development after co-starring with Lois Hall in the absurd Monogram experience Daughter from the Jungle (1949), a distaff Tarzan film filled with swinging vine moments and female pet calls. Struggling to grasp the required momentum to upfront, he fell additional straight down the credits list while focusing on primarily “Poverty Row” studio room movie tasks. In the light humor And Baby Makes Three (1949) as well as the Bogart battle episode Tokyo Joe (1949), Wayne received no billing whatsoever, and he was totally forgotten in his last billed film appearance, a assisting part in the assembly-line Rex Allen traditional western, The Az Cowboy (1950). Pressured to check out TV just as one medium, few possibilities came his method apart from several guest parts on the Rod Cameron criminal offense series. An uncredited part in the horror film Them! (1954) happened soon before his loss of life. In anticipation of his fading career, James started attending UCLA during the night and taking on pre-med courses. At one stage he toured Australia with Joe E. Dark brown in the very best comedian’s vaudeville take action and became a member of a circus humor acrobatic act known as the Coleano Troupe that toured through the entire U.S. and European countries. Time for the Expresses in 1953, despair occur when he couldn’t discover TV function. On January 31, 1954, at age group 32, without prospects around the corner and obligations mounting, Adam shot himself in the top in an vehicle he lent from a pal in a car parking great deal near his two-room Western world LA bungalow. He was survived by his parents and buried in his indigenous Camden.

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