Dudley Field Malone

Dudley Field Malone June 3 1882 October 5 1950 was an American attorney politician liberal activist and actor Malone is best remembered as one of the most prominent liberal attorneys in the United States during the decade of the 1920s and for his unsuccessful 1920 campaign for Governor of New York After being admitted to the bar in 1907 he began practicing law and became active in the Democratic Party in New York specifically in the reform faction opposed to the Tammany Hall organization In 1912 he helped organize Woodrow Wilsons successful primary and general election campaign for US president In 1925 Malone accepted an invitation to join Clarence Darrow as cocounsel for the defense of John T Scopes in the famous Monkey Trial In response to Bryans argument against admitting scientific testimony Malone gave arguably the best speech of the trial in defense of academic freedom I have never learned anything from any man who agreed with me was one of his famous quotes Malone declared bankruptcy in New York and moved to Westwood Los Angeles California He claimed his debts consisted mostly of sums owed to personal friends including William K Vanderbilt Edward F Hutton and the late Otto H Kahn He served as counsel to 20th Century Fox and appeared in a few movies as a character actor As Malone bore a strong resemblance to Winston Churchill he was called on to play Churchill in the film adaptation of Joseph E Daviess book Mission to Moscow 1943