Word: hodiak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...home state to become the first Oklahoma draftee called into the Korean war. Four years later an old soda-jerk friend, Producer Paul Gregory, gave Garner a job cueing Lloyd Nolan in the touring company of The Caine Mutiny Court Martial, and he eventually replaced the late John Hodiak in the show. "I didn't register beyond the sixth row," he admits. But later, Garner landed a small part in TV's Cheyenne, and on the strength of it, Warner Bros, signed him to play Marlon Brando's Marine buddy in Sayonara...
Equally striking is the contrast between the resiliency of many older men after a heart attack and the way in which younger men may succumb. A noted example last week was Cinemactor John Hodiak, 41, who seemed in excellent health-he had just passed an insurance examination-but had a quickly fatal attack while shaving. There are undoubtedly many cases in which a younger man will be killed simply because his disease is new while an older man with slowly developing disease will already have compensated, through collateral circulation, for a shutdown in an artery of the same size...
Died. John Hodiak (real name: John Pagorzelliec), 41, actor of stage (The Caine Mutiny Court Martial) and screen (Trial, Battleground), and onetime husband of Cinemactress Anne Baxter; of a coronary thrombosis while shaving in his parents' home as he prepared to leave for 20th Century-Fox studios to complete work on his 32nd movie, Threshold of Space, the story of Space Surgeon John Paul Stapp, whom he was playing; in Tarzana, Calif...
...determination to put a hood over his conscience. As Queeg, Lloyd Nolan plays brilliantly, is as self-revealing when still in control as when losing control. Henry Fonda's sober courtroom Greenwald is in fine contrast both to Queeg and to Greenwald drunk. The whole cast, from John Hodiak's Maryk on, is admirable: out of the stylized nature of the court-martial has been forged just the right style for a theater piece...
General Electric Theater (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., CBS). John Hodiak in A Bell for Adano...