Editing Cornel Wilde (section)

==Personal life==
In 1937, he married actress [[Patricia Knight]]. She starred alongside him in ''[[Shockproof]]'' (1949). Their daughter, Wendy, was born on February 22, 1943. The family lived at Country House on Deep Canyon Road, Los Angeles.<ref>{{cite web |title=Search &#124; 1950 Census |url=https://1950census.archives.gov/search/?county=Los%20Angeles&ed=66-681&page=1 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220416192257/https://1950census.archives.gov/search/?county=Los%20Angeles&ed=66-681&page=1 |archive-date=April 16, 2022 |access-date=April 11, 2022}}</ref> They divorced in 1951.<ref>{{cite news |date=August 31, 1951 |title=Mrs. Mary J. M'Elhiney Funeral at St. Charles |page=21 |newspaper=[[St. Louis Post-Dispatch]] |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/18922774/st-louis-post-dispatch/ |url-status=live |access-date=June 5, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200605222658/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/18922774/st-louis-post-dispatch/ |archive-date=June 5, 2020}}</ref>

Five days after his divorce, he married actress [[Jean Wallace]].<ref>{{cite news |date=September 5, 1951 |title=Cornel Wilde Weds Jean Wallace |language=en-US |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1951/09/05/archives/cornel-wilde-weds-jean-wallace.html |url-status=live |access-date=June 5, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200605224042/https://www.nytimes.com/1951/09/05/archives/cornel-wilde-weds-jean-wallace.html |archive-date=June 5, 2020 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Patricia Knight |url=http://www.glamourgirlsofthesilverscreen.com/show/150/Patricia+Knight/index.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200605222734/http://www.glamourgirlsofthesilverscreen.com/show/150/Patricia+Knight/index.html |archive-date=June 5, 2020 |access-date=June 5, 2020 |website=Glamour Girls of the Silver Screen}}</ref> Wilde became stepfather to Wallace's two sons, Pascal and Thomas, from her marriage to [[Franchot Tone]].<ref name="latobit">{{cite news |last=Folkart |first=Burt A. |date=October 17, 1989 |title=Cornel Wilde, Dashing Film Star, Dies at 74 |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-10-17-mn-328-story.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200605222648/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-10-17-mn-328-story.html |archive-date=June 5, 2020 |access-date=June 5, 2020 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}</ref> Their son, Cornel Wallace Wilde, was born on December 19, 1967. Wilde senior and Wallace starred together in several films including ''[[The Big Combo]]'' (1955), ''[[Lancelot and Guinevere]]'' (1963), and ''[[Beach Red]]'' (1967). They divorced in 1981.<ref>{{cite news |last=Fowler |first=Glenn |date=February 18, 1990 |title=Jean Wallace, 66, Screen Actress Known for 1940's and 50's Roles |language=en-US |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/02/18/obituaries/jean-wallace-66-screen-actress-known-for-1940-s-and-50-s-roles.html |url-status=live |access-date=June 5, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180719234904/https://www.nytimes.com/1990/02/18/obituaries/jean-wallace-66-screen-actress-known-for-1940-s-and-50-s-roles.html |archive-date=July 19, 2018 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

At the time of his death in 1989 he was engaged to Colleen Conte, the widow of actor [[Richard Conte]].<ref name=":1">{{cite web |title=Movie star Cornel Wilde dead at 74 |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1989/10/17/Movie-star-Cornel-Wilde-dead-at-74/4325624600000/ |access-date=2024-03-19 |website=UPI |language=en}}</ref> Richard Conte had starred in Wilde's film ''The Big Combo''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/51442|title=The Big Combo|website=afi.com|access-date=2025-05-04}}</ref>

A [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]], Wilde supported the campaign of [[Adlai Stevenson II|Adlai Stevenson]] during the [[1952 United States presidential election|1952 presidential election]].<ref>''Motion Picture and Television Magazine''. November 1952. page 33.</ref> He expressed liberal views about race and homosexuality.<ref name="billington">{{Cite news |last=Billington |first=Michael |author-link=Michael Billington (critic) |date=8 August 1970 |title=From hero to director |work=[[The Times]] |issue=57939 |page=7}}</ref> In the 1960s he appeared on the TV show ''[[The American Sportsman]]'' hunting an [[Kodiak bear|Alaskan grizzly]], but may have had a change of heart about bloodsports later in life.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/13/archives/they-kill-animals-and-they-call-it-art-more-and-more-directors-are.html | work=[[The New York Times]] | title=They Kill Animals And They Call It Art | first=T.E.D. | last=Klein | author-link=T.E.D. Klein | date=13 January 1974 |url-access=subscription | access-date=9 May 2025}}</ref>