Don Castle

For the baseball player, see Don Castle (baseball).

Don Castle (September 29, 1917 - May 26, 1966) was an American film actor of the 1930s and 1940s.

Biography

Castle was born in Beaumont, Texas. He started his acting career as a stage actor, then moved to films. The actor, who resembled Clark Gable, became close friends with The Guilty co-star Bonita Granville and her husband Jack Wrather who was a successful businessman and film producer. The relationship eventually led the actor to become a television producer for Wrather's Lassie television program. After a traffic accident in 1966, Don Castle died of a medication overdose, aged 48.

Partial filmography

• Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938)
• Rich Man, Poor Girl (1938)
• Men in Fright (1938)
• Out West with the Hardys (1938)
• I Take This Woman (1940)
• The Ghost Comes Home (1940)
• Strike Up the Band (1940)
• You're the One (1941)
• Power Dive (1941)
• World Premiere (1941)
• Seven Were Saved (1947)
• The Guilty (1947)
• High Tide (1947)
• The Invisible Wall (1947)
• Roses Are Red (1947)
• Madonna of the Desert (1948)
• I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes (1948)
• Strike It Rich (1948)
• Stampede (1949)
• Motor Patrol (1950)
• The Big Land (1957)