2, 1937, three months after marrying Nagel, with his professional and personal life in disarray and deeply in debt, Alexander shot himself in the head in the barn behind his home. Although it has been reported that Alexander used the same gun with which his first wife Aleta Freel killed herself, he actually shot himself with a .22 pistol (not a rifle). He is buried in lot 292 of the Sunrise Slope section of Forest Lawn Cemetery in Glendale, California. Filmography References External links 1907 births 1937 suicides 20th-century American male actors American male film actors American male stage actors American people of Polish-Jewish descent Burials at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale) Male actors from Los Angeles Male actors from New York City Suicides by firearm in California People from Brooklyn Paramount Pictures contract players 1937 deaths Jewish American male actors Erasmus Hall High School alumni