- Edgar Barrier, Macbeth, 1947. Introduced to cinema by Orson Welles in Citizen Kane (what a way to start!), Sloane was a member of Welles’ Mercury stage and radio company – and first choice for Banquo. But…
- Gregory Ratoff, All About Eve, 1950.
- Micheál MacLiammóir, The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice, 1951. The London born Irish stage star (co-founder, with his lover Hilton Edwards, of Dublin’s Gate Theatre, early home of Geraldine Fitzgerald, Michael Gambon, James Mason, Orson Welles, et al) took over Iago as the titular Welles cut Shakespeare’s three-hour play to 90 minutes… and then took three years to film it due to his usual budget difficulties. Those delays led to Sloane striding out of the movie. Welles never forgave him and unfairly disparaged him for ever after. (Edwards played Brabantio).
- Jack Elam, Rawhide, 1951. Susan Hayward was far from happy about being rough-housed – thrown to the floor – by Sloane. Director Henry Hathaway obeyed orders to sack him. Enter: Elam in the 14th of his 202 screen roles.
- Edward G Robinson, The Ten Commandments, 1954.
- Tom Hellmore, Vertigo, 1957. In November 1956, Alfred Hitchcock was undecided between Lee J Cobb and Joseph Cotten for the villainous Gavin Elster. He then turned to Sloane and finally settled for Helmore as the suave manipiulator of a acrophobiac James Stewart. A rare Hitchcock flop – he blamed it on poor Stewart for “looking old.” (Well, he was). Hitch never worked with him again.
Birth year: 1909Death year: 1965Other name: Casting Calls: 6