- Received the 1957 'Supporting or Featured Actor (Dramatic)' Tony Award for his performance in Graham Greene's "The Potting Shed".
- English-born character actor who played figures of authority. Easily his best performance was as the hate-driven former Confederate Major Tetley, leading the lynch mob in 'The Ox-Bow Incident' (1943).
- Was in four Oscar Best Picture nominees: Grand Hotel (1932), The White Parade (1934), The Ox-Bow Incident (1942) and The Snake Pit (1948), with only the first of these winning.
- Survived by his widow, Ruth, and a son, Richard.
- Father: Joseph Henry Conroy; Mother: Anna Bertha Brunner.
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