Biografía

27 de agosto de 1890 · Ciudad del Cabo, Sudáfrica

28 de febrero de 1973 · Hollywood, Los Ángeles, California, Estados Unidos (una arteriosclerosis)

Cecil Lauriston Kellaway

1.73 m

Father of Peter Kellaway, pioneer in the clinical use of the electroencephalogram (EEG) test to evaluate patients with possible neurological difficulties. When Jack Ruby stood trial for the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, President John F. Kennedy's assassin, Kellaway testified about the results of Ruby's EEG tests.

Interred at Westwood Memorial Park, Los Angeles, California, USA, in the Sanctuary of Remembrance.

The second South African-born actor to be nominated for an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actor, for El amor que tú me diste (1948), but lost to Walter Huston in El tesoro de la Sierra Madre (1948). The first was Basil Rathbone for Romeo and Juliet (1936) who lost to another Walter - Walter Brennan in Come and Get It (1936).

After he turned down the role of Santa Clause in the original De ilusión también se vive (1947), his cousin Edmund Gwenn was offered and accepted the part, winning an Academy Award as Best Actor in a Supporting Role.