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Freddie Mercer(1929-1978)

  • Actor
  • Soundtrack
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A noted singer in Detroit and soloist for the Detroit Symphony at age nine and also soloist for St. Paul's Cathedral. His film career started when he came to Hollywood in1940 to sing at the National Music Conference. He came to the attention of one of the sponsors of the Turnabout Theatre and was cast in a circus show there. The first performance was seen by Harold Schuster of 20th Centruy Fox, who signed Freddie for ON THE SUNNYSIDE (1942) opposite Roddy McDowell. His promising career ended abruptly in 1944 for unknown reasons.
BornMarch 6, 1929
DiedFebruary 5, 1978(48)
BornMarch 6, 1929
DiedFebruary 5, 1978(48)
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Charles Gemora, Marion Martin, and Harold Peary in Gildersleeve's Ghost (1944)
Gildersleeve's Ghost
5.5
  • Leroy Forrester
  • 1944
Billie Burke, Claire Carleton, and Harold Peary in Gildersleeve on Broadway (1943)
Gildersleeve on Broadway
6.2
  • Leroy Forrester
  • 1943
Jane Darwell, Charles Arnt, Nancy Gates, Freddie Mercer, Harold Peary, and Lillian Randolph in Gildersleeve's Bad Day (1943)
Gildersleeve's Bad Day
6.2
  • Leroy Forrestor
  • 1943
Jane Darwell, Charles Arnt, Nancy Gates, Freddie Mercer, Harold Peary, and Lillian Randolph in The Great Gildersleeve (1942)
The Great Gildersleeve
6.0
  • LeRoy Forrester
  • 1942

Credits

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  • Walter Catlett, Bob Crosby, Betty Kean, Grace McDonald, and Alan Mowbray in My Gal Loves Music (1944)
    My Gal Loves Music
    6.5
    • Clarence
    • 1944
  • Jim Jordan and Marian Jordan in Heavenly Days (1944)
    Heavenly Days
    5.5
    • Scout (uncredited)
    • 1944
  • Charles Gemora, Marion Martin, and Harold Peary in Gildersleeve's Ghost (1944)
    Gildersleeve's Ghost
    5.5
    • Leroy Forrester
    • 1944
  • Frank Sinatra, Gloria DeHaven, Adolphe Menjou, George Murphy, Eugene Pallette, and Walter Slezak in Step Lively (1944)
    Step Lively
    6.0
    • Newsboy (uncredited)
    • 1944
  • Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald, and Risë Stevens in Going My Way (1944)
    Going My Way
    7.0
    • Boys Choir Member (uncredited)
    • 1944
  • Ginger Rogers and Robert Ryan in Tender Comrade (1943)
    Tender Comrade
    6.2
    • Boy (uncredited)
    • 1943
  • Billie Burke, Claire Carleton, and Harold Peary in Gildersleeve on Broadway (1943)
    Gildersleeve on Broadway
    6.2
    • Leroy Forrester
    • 1943
  • Jane Darwell, Charles Arnt, Nancy Gates, Freddie Mercer, Harold Peary, and Lillian Randolph in Gildersleeve's Bad Day (1943)
    Gildersleeve's Bad Day
    6.2
    • Leroy Forrestor
    • 1943
  • Maureen O'Hara in This Land Is Mine (1943)
    This Land Is Mine
    7.5
    • Boy in Classroom (uncredited)
    • 1943
  • Jane Darwell, Charles Arnt, Nancy Gates, Freddie Mercer, Harold Peary, and Lillian Randolph in The Great Gildersleeve (1942)
    The Great Gildersleeve
    6.0
    • LeRoy Forrester
    • 1942
  • Ray Milland and Ginger Rogers in The Major and the Minor (1942)
    The Major and the Minor
    7.4
    • Wilbur (uncredited)
    • 1942
  • Linda Darnell, Virginia Gilmore, and Shepperd Strudwick in The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe (1942)
    The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe
    5.6
    • Poe, age 12
    • 1942
  • Jimmie Dodd, Bob Steele, Tom Tyler, and Cheryl Walker in Shadows on the Sage (1942)
    Shadows on the Sage
    7.6
    • Johnny Jackson
    • 1942
  • Claudia Drake, Edward Gargan, George Givot, Jayne Hazard, Jane Kean, Dorothy Kelly, William Marshall, Margaret Roach, and Marjorie Woodworth in Flying with Music (1942)
    Flying with Music
    4.0
    • One of the Singing Children (uncredited)
    • 1942
  • Roddy McDowall, Jane Darwell, and Stanley Clements in On the Sunny Side (1942)
    On the Sunny Side
    6.3
    • Don Andrews
    • 1942

Soundtrack

  • Jane Darwell, Charles Arnt, Nancy Gates, Freddie Mercer, Harold Peary, and Lillian Randolph in The Great Gildersleeve (1942)
    The Great Gildersleeve
    6.0
    • performer: "Lyonel's aria (M'appari, tutt'amor)" (1847), "My Bonnie (Lies Over the Ocean)" (1881) (uncredited)
    • 1942

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  • Born
    • March 6, 1929
    • Detroit, Michigan, USA
  • Died
    • February 5, 1978
    • Michigan, USA
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