Biography
Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) was an American actor who appeared in more than fifty feature films. After working as a radio broadcaster in Iowa, he moved to Los Angeles in 1937 and made his screen debut in Love Is on the Air that year. His early roles included Brother Rat (1938) and Knute Rockne, All American (1940).
Reagan's performance as Drake McHugh in Kings Row (1942) is often cited among his strongest. He later hosted the television series General Electric Theater from 1954 to 1962 and served as president of the Screen Actors Guild. His films continued to appear in archive footage in later documentaries, including An Inconvenient Truth (2006).
