Richard Cromwell (born LeRoy Melvin Radabaugh; 1910-01-08 – ) was an American actor. His career was at its pinnacle with his work in Jezebel (1938) with Bette Davis and Henry Fonda and again with Fonda in John Fords Young Mr. Lincoln (1939). Cromwells fame was perhaps first assured in The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935), sharing top billing with Gary Cooper and Franchot Tone.That film was the first major effort directed by Henry Hathaway and it was based upon the popular novel by Francis Yeats-Brown. The Lives of a Bengal Lancer earned Paramount Studios a nomination for Best Picture in 1935, though Mutiny on the Bounty instead took the top award at the Academy Awards that year.Leslie Halliwell in The Filmgoers Companion, summed up Cromwells enduring appeal when he described him as a leading man, [the] gentle hero of early sound films.
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