Hero of the Month: Adrian Morris
When siblings enter the acting profession, there is always the urge the compare them, like the Baldwins or the Arquettes, and decide who was more successful. And in looking at the career of Adrian Morris, it’s hard not to notice that his brother Chester Morris had the more successful career, and briefly achieved leading man status, while Adrian spent his sadly short lived career as a supporting player.
The son of Broadway stars William Morris and Edna Hawkins, he entered films in 1931 with The Age of Love (1931). For the next ten years, until his unexpected death at the age of 38, Morris garnered small roles in many big budget films like G-Men (1935), The Petrified Forest (1936), Angels With Dirty Faces (1938), Gone With the Wind (1939) and The Grapes of Wrath (1940).
His biggest roles were in serials. In Mascot’s The Fighting Marines (1935) Morris was teamed with Grant Withers as two marines tracking down a modern day pirate called the Tiger Shark. Two Years later, Morris was re-teamed with Withers, this time as a comedic sidekick, in Universal’s adaptation of the popular comic strip Radio Patol (1937), tracing down a gang of crooks after a formula for flexible, bullet proof steel.
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