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Date of Birth

30 November 1928, Berlin, Germany

Birth Name

Rex George Reason Jr.

Height

6' 2" (1.88 m)

Mini Biography

Rex Reason was born in Germany, while his family was in Europe on a business trip. Although he grew up in Los Angeles, his acting aspirations were nil; his mother, however, hoped that both Rex and his lookalike brother Rhodes Reason would get into the acting profession. He played the lead in "Seventh Heaven" at Glendale's Hoover High School, then enlisted in the army at 17. After his discharge, he enrolled at the Pasadena Playhouse and then became involved in little theater. Reason was top-billed in his very first movie, Storm Over Tibet (1952), then played smaller parts in pictures at Columbia and MGM. A contract player at Universal-International, he allowed the studio to bill him as "Bart Roberts" in two features before he balked and insisted on going back to his own name. When his TV series "The Roaring 20's" (1960) wrapped up, Reason--who once told an interviewer, "If I couldn't act, I wouldn't know what to do with my life"--turned his back on Hollywood. In recent years he has begun appearing at autograph shows.

IMDb Mini Biography By: Tom Weaver <TomWeavr@aol.com>

Spouse

Shirley Hake	(11 September 1968 - present) 3 children
Sanita Pelkey	(25 August 1962 - 30 August 1963) (divorced)
Eloise Seybert (Joan Johannes)	(19 April 1952 - 1960) (divorced) 2 children

Trivia

Brother of actor Rhodes Reason.

Well known for his distinctive baritone speaking voice and his good looks.

Interviewed in Tom Weaver's book "They Fought in the Creature Features" (McFarland & Co., 1995).

In 1961, he was offered the role of Raymond Shaw in John Frankenheimer's The Manchurian Candidate (1962) by Frank Sinatra as a professional nod to him since they had done a screen test together for Fred Zinnemann's From Here to Eternity (1953) and Sinatra liked his work on the Warner Bros. TV series "The Roaring 20's" (1960). However, Reason had just quit the motion picture business to go into real estate, and could not be reached, so Sinatra cast Laurence Harvey instead.