Monroe Owsley

Biography

Monroe Owsley was an American stage and screen actor born on August 11, 1900, in Atlanta, Georgia, to a manufacturing executive father and a concert singer mother. He began his career as a reporter and drama critic before gaining experience with stock theater troupes and making his Broadway debut in Young Blood (1925). Owsley's film career spanned several notable roles, including Fletcher Colton in "Goin' to Town" (1935) and Maurice Le Brun in "The Keyhole" (1933).