While in California, Wilde was put under contract by Warner Bros., and after completing his role as Tybalt for Olivier, he played a handful of uncredited movie parts and scored his first significant role in the Humphrey Bogart/Ida Lupino thriller "High Sierra" (1941). As star Vivien Leigh was completing a movie, the company rehearsed in Los Angeles even though the show was to be staged on Broadway. During this period, the tall, handsome, multilingual Wilde married aspiring actress Patricia Knight and got his first taste of the West Coast when he was offered a role in Laurence Olivier's forthcoming production of "Romeo and Juliet" (1940). Interested in pursuing a performing career, Wilde studied under acting teacher Lee Strasberg and earned parts in Broadway productions like "Moon Over Mulberry Street" (1935-36) and "Having Wonderful Time" (1937-38). 13, 1912 and adopted the anglicized name Cornelius Louis Wilde when his family immigrated to the United States a few years later. Kornel Lajos Weisz was born in Prievidza, Hungary on Oct. An intelligent and able performer, Wilde was a solid actor and also an unfairly overlooked directorial talent of that era. His later credits in this vein included such graphic, groundbreaking films as the jungle adventure "The Naked Prey" (1966), the Vietnam drama "Beach Red" (1967), and the post-apocalyptic thriller "No Blade of Grass" (1970). Wilde also carved out a successful second career behind the camera as a producer, director and sometime screenwriter. He also did laudable work in successful productions like "Leave Her to Heaven" (1945), "Forever Amber" (1947), and "Road House" (1948) during his tenure at 20th Century Fox. It also did not hurt that he was an effective dramatic performer and proved it when he earned a Best Actor Oscar nomination for "A Song to Remember" (1945) early on in his career. fencing team, he was able to utilize skills that made him a desirable lead for period swashbucklers, a la Errol Flynn. Fluent in several languages and good with accents, he was also highly athletic and often emphasized physicality in his performances. Handsome leading men were hardly in short supply in Hollywood during the 1940s, but Cornel Wilde was a unique specimen.
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