 During World War II, Strudwick served in the Navy.He played Edgar Allan Poe in "The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe" (1942) and also appeared in "Strange Triangle" (1946), "Fighter Squadron" (1948), "The Reckless Moment" (1949), "The Red Pony" (1949), "Under the Gun" (1951) and "A Place in the Sun" (1951), starring Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift, as the Taylor character's father.Perhaps his most famous film role was that of Adam Stanton, the idealistic doctor who finally kills Willie Stark (played by Broderick Crawford) in the classic film "All the King's Men" (1949).