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Profile of Rondo Hatton
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Rondo Hatton |
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22nd April 1894 |
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Hagerstown, Maryland, USA |
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Rondo Hatton (April 22, 1894 - February 2, 1946) had a brief, but prolific career playing thuggish bit parts in a slew of Hollywood, California B-movies.
He was known for his brutish facial features, due to his acromegaly, a disorder of the pituitary gland. Because the symptoms developed in adulthood (as is common with the disorder), the disfigurement was incorrectly attributed to his exposure to mustard gas during service in WWI. Interestingly, Hatton was voted most handsome student in high school before his face was disfigured by acromegaly. He was noticed and cast by Henry King for the film Hell Harbor (1930) while working as a reporter covering the filming. After some hesitation, Hatton moved to Hollywood in 1936 to pursue a career playing similar, often uncredited bit roles. His most notable of these was as a contestant in the "ugly man competition" (which he loses to Charles Laughton) in the RKO production of The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939).
Universal Studios attempted to exploit Hatton's unusual features to promote him as a horror star after he played the part of henchman Hoxton Creeper in their sixth Sherlock Holmes film, Pearl of Death (1944), but he died of a heart attack (a direct result of his acromegalic condition) in 1946 before getting a chance to really make his mark.
His famous face has become an icon of Hollywood cinema. His legacy lives on through such tributes as a character in Disney's The Rocketeer (1991) and The Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards.
Filmography
Because of the numerous uncredited extra roles in Hatton's career, compiling a complete and accurate filmography is a difficult endeavor. The titles here reflect as thorough and accurate an attempt as possible but is by no means comprehensive.
- 1930 Hell Harbor (uncredited)
- 1937 In Old Chicago
- 1938 Alexander's Rag Time Band (uncredited)
- 1939 Captain Fury (uncredited)
- 1939 The Hunchback of Notre Dame (uncredited)
- 1939 The Big Guy (uncredited)
- 1939 Union Pacific (uncredited)
- 1939 Gun Cargo (uncredited)
- 1940 Chad Hanna
- 1940 Moon Over Burma
- 1942 The Cyclone Kid (uncredited)
- 1942 Black Swan (uncredited)
- 1942 Tales of Manhattan (uncredited)
- 1942 Sin Town (uncredited)
- 1942 Moon and Sixpence (uncredited)
- 1943 Sleepy Lagoon
- 1943 Ox-Bow Incident (uncredited)
- 1944 The Princess and the Pirate (uncredited)
- 1944 The Lodger (uncredited)
- 1944 Raiders of Ghost City (uncredited)
- 1944 Johnny Doesn't Live Here Anymore (uncredited)
- 1944 Pearl of Death
- 1945 The Royal Mounted Rides Again (uncredited)
- 1945 The Jungle Captive
- 1946 Spider Woman Strikes Back
- 1946 House of Horrors
- 1946 The Brute Man
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