Lew Ayres was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and raised in San Diego, California. A college dropout, he was found by a talent scout in the Coconut Grove nightclub in Los Angeles and entered Hollywood as a bit player. He was leading man to Greta Garbo in The Kiss (1929), but it was the role of Paul Baumer in All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) that was his big break. He was profoundly affected by the anti-war message of that film, and when, in 1942, the popular star of Young Dr. Kildare (1938) and subsequent Dr. Kildare films was drafted, he was a conscientious objector. America was outraged, and theaters vowed never to show his films again, but quietly he achieved the Medical Corps status he had requested, serving as a medic under fire in the South Pacific and as a chaplain's aid in New Guinea and the Phillipines. His return to film after the war was undistinguished until Johnny Belinda (1948) - his role as the sympathetic physician treating the deaf-mute Jane Wyman won him an Academy Award nomination as Best Actor. Subsequent movie roles were scarce; an opportunity to play Dr. Kildare in television was aborted when the network refused to honor his request for no cigarette sponsorship. He continued to act, but in the 1970s put his long experience into a project to bring to the west the philosophy of the East - the resulting film, Altars of the World (1976), while not a box-office success, won critical acclaim and a Golden Globe Award. Lew Ayres died in Los Angeles, California on December 30, 1996, just two days after his 88th birthday. Lew Ayres(1908년생, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA) 는 배우로, 대표작으로 오멘 2, 서부 전선 이상 없다, The Kiss가 있으며, 그 외에도 형사 콜롬보, The Love Boat, A 특공대, Hawaii Five-O, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Magnum, P.I., 초원의 집, Simon & Simon, The Virginian, Knots Landing, L.A. Law, Quincy, M.E. 등 다양한 작품에 출연했다. (오뜨랑에서 실시간으로 번역된 한글 프로필도 확인할 수 있어요) 1994년 Hart to Hart: Crimes of the Hart에서 Professor Cabel 역을 맡았다. 1992년 MGM: When the Lion Roars에 출연했다. 1991년 Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker에서 actor 'Advise and 'Consent' (archive footage) (uncredited) 역을 맡았다.