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John Harmon (actor)
John Harmon (June 30, 1905 – August 6, 1985) was an American character actor. Harmon was a very prolific bit actor. His career spanned over six decades and almost 300 movie and television roles in a wide variety of genres. Many of his earlier appearances are uncredited. His first major screen credit was in ''I Was Framed'' (1942). His movie career highlights were roles in '' Gallant Bess'', ''The Monster of Piedras Blancas'', '' Live Fast, Die Young'' and ''The Street is my Beat''. The movie in which he made his last screen appearance, ''The Naked Monster'', was released in 2005, twenty years after his death. Harmon's most notable TV roles were in ''Bonanza'', ''The Twilight Zone'', ''Perry Mason'' (as a police fingerprint/ballistics expert), ''Star Trek'' (in the episodes "The City on the Edge of Forever" and " A Piece of The Action"), ''The Rifleman'' (as the hotel clerk Eddie Halstead) and again as a hotel clerk in ''Gunsmoke'' (in S1E15’s “Gold Mine”). He also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dangerous Money
''Dangerous Money'', also known as ''Hot Money'', is a 1946 American film directed by Terry O. Morse, featuring Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan. This is the second and last appearance of Willie Best as Chattanooga Brown, the cousin of Charlie Chan's usual chauffeur, Birmingham Brown (Mantan Moreland). Plot Aboard an ocean liner in the South Pacific, United States Department of the Treasury, US Treasury agent Scott Pearson confidentially asks Charlie Chan for help; two attempts have been made on his life. Chan rescues him from a third, but not the fourth (a knife in the back). The captain asks Chan to complete the dead man's mission and find out who is responsible for the recent surfacing of counterfeit dollars and stolen art. Chan declines, citing urgent business in Australia, but sets out to find the murderer. Cast * Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan * Victor Sen Yung as Jimmy Chan (Number 2 son) * Joseph Crehan as Captain Black * Willie Best as Chattanooga Brown * John Harmon (a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rifleman
''The Rifleman'' is an American Western television program starring Chuck Connors as rancher Lucas McCain and Johnny Crawford as his son Mark McCain. It was set in the 1880s in the fictional town of North Fork, New Mexico Territory. The show was filmed in black and white, in half-hour episodes. ''The Rifleman'' aired on ABC from September 30, 1958, to April 8, 1963, as a production of Four Star Television. It was one of the first primetime series on US television to show a single parent raising a child. The program was titled to reflect McCain's use of a Winchester Model 1892 rifle, a historical anachronism, as the show was set in the 1880s, and customized to allow repeated firing by cycling its lever action. He demonstrated this technique in the opening credits, as well as a second modification that allowed him to cycle the action with one hand using a technique known as "spin-cocking". Overview The series centers on Lucas McCain, a Union veteran of the American Civil War an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tangier Incident (film)
''Tangier Incident'' is a 1953 American thriller film directed by Lew Landers and starring George Brent, Mari Aldon and Dorothy Patrick. It was one of several Hollywood films set in Tangier during the International Zone period.Edwards p.122 Plot Cast * George Brent as Steve Gordon * Mari Aldon as Millicent * Dorothy Patrick as Nadine * Bert Freed as Kozad * Dan Seymour as Police Inspector Rabat * Alix Talton as Olga * John Harmon as Tony * Richard Karlan as Rosnov * Shepard Menken as Kravich * Benny Rubin as Blalu * Michael Ross as Ivan * Dayton Lummis Dayton Lummis (August 8, 1903 – March 23, 1988) was an American film, television and theatre actor. He was perhaps best known for playing the role of General Douglas MacArthur in the 1955 film ''The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell''. Lummis d ... as Henry Morrison References Bibliography * Edwards, Brian. ''Morocco Bound: Disorienting America’s Maghreb, from Casablanca to the Marrakech Express ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Homicide (1949 Film)
''Homicide'' is a 1949 American crime drama film directed by Felix Jacoves and written by William Sackheim. The film stars Robert Douglas, Helen Westcott, Robert Alda, Monte Blue, Warren Douglas and John Harmon. The film was released by Warner Bros. on April 2, 1949. Plot Police Lt. Michael Landers suspects that a suicide at a local flop house is not what it appears to be. When his boss doesn't share his suspicions, Landers takes a leave of absence and travels to a desert spa town in order to investigate the death. At his hotel, he strikes up a romance with the pretty cigarette counter girl, Jo Ann. Cast * Robert Douglas as Police Lt. Michael Landers * Helen Westcott as Jo Ann Rice * Robert Alda as Andy * Monte Blue as Sheriff George * Warren Douglas as Brad Clifton * John Harmon as Pete Kimmel * James Flavin James William Flavin Jr. (May 14, 1906 – April 23, 1976) was an American character actor whose career lasted for nearly half a century. Early life The son of a ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whiplash (1948 Film)
''Whiplash'' is a 1948 American film noir directed by Lewis Seiler and written by Kenneth Earl, Harriet Frank Jr., Maurice Geraghty and Gordon Kahn. The film stars Dane Clark, Alexis Smith, Zachary Scott and Eve Arden. Plot The film opens with a middle-weight bout in Madison Square Garden, New York City, where Mike Angelo battles a seemingly superior opponent. He's going down for the count when he's saved by the bell. Cut to Mike Gordon, a happy-go-lucky painter in California, upset that cafe owner Sam has let customer Laurie Rogers buy a painting hanging on the wall. Mike is unsatisfied with his work and confronts Laurie to get it back. She convinces him it's good if not perfect, so Mike invites her to dinner. After a romantic dinner and swim in the ocean, they've got a date for breakfast. When a shady character enters Sam's cafe, Laurie abruptly leaves town. At her hotel, Mike sees the painting wrapped and addressed to Dr. Vincent, New York City. Sam gives Mike money to go to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monsieur Verdoux
''Monsieur Verdoux'' is a 1947 American black comedy film directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin, who plays a bigamist wife killer inspired by serial killer Henri Désiré Landru. The supporting cast includes Martha Raye, William Frawley, and Marilyn Nash. Plot Henri Verdoux had been a bank teller for thirty years before being laid off. To support his wheelchair-using wife and child, he turns to the business of marrying and murdering wealthy widows. The Couvais family becomes suspicious when Thelma Couvais withdraws all her money and disappears two weeks after marrying a man named "Varnay", whom they only know through a photograph. As Verdoux (Chaplin) prepares to sell Thelma Couvais's home, the widowed Marie Grosnay (Isobel Elsom) visits. Verdoux sees her as another "business" opportunity and attempts to charm her, but she refuses. Over the following weeks, Verdoux has a flower girl ( Barbara Slater) repeatedly send Grosnay flowers. In need of money to invest, Verdoux, as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louisiana (1947 Film)
''Louisiana'' is a 1947 American drama film film directed by Phil Karlson and starring Jimmie Davis, Margaret Lindsay and John Gallaudet. Davis, a singer and Governor of Louisiana, came to Karlson, wanting to be in movies and Monogram Pictures agreed to finance one based on his life. Karlson says the film helped Davis get re-elected. Synopsis The music-loving fourteen-year-old son of a Louisiana sharecropper determines to get a good education. He goes on to enjoy success as a gospel singer and culminates his rise by being elected Governor. Cast * Jimmie Davis as Jimmie Davis * Margaret Lindsay as Alvern Adams * John Gallaudet as Charlie Mitchell * Freddie Stewart as Freddie Stewart * Dottye Brown as Laura * Ralph Reed as Jimmie Davis as a Boy * Russell Hicks as Fred Astor * Lee 'Lasses' White as Old Timer * John Harmon as Steve * Tristram Coffin as Tomlins * Eddy Waller as Mr. Davis * Mary Field as Mrs. Davis * Joseph Crehan as Neilson * Charles Lane as McCormac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Find The Blackmailer
''Find the Blackmailer'' is a 1943 American crime film directed by D. Ross Lederman. According to Warner Bros records the film earned $230,000 domestic and $77,000 foreign. Plot Cast * Jerome Cowan as D. L. Trees * Faye Emerson as Mona Vance * Gene Lockhart as John M. Rhodes * Marjorie Hoshelle as Pandora Pines * Robert Kent as Mark Harper * Wade Boteler as Detective Lieutenant Cramer * John Harmon as Ray Hickey * Bradley Page as Mitch Farrell * Lou Lubin as Mr. Olen * Ralph Peters as Mr. Coleman Home media In 2010, the film was released by Warner Archive The Warner Archive Collection is a home video division for releasing classic and cult films from Warner Bros.' library. It started as a manufactured-on-demand (MOD) DVD series by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment on March 23, 2009, with the inte ... as part of the six-film DVD-R collection ''Warner Bros. Horror/Mystery Double Features''. References External links * 1943 films 1943 crime films American cri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (1942 Film)
''Tramp, Tramp, Tramp'' is a 1942 American comedy film directed by Charles Barton and starring Jackie Gleason, Jack Durant and Florence Rice. The film's sets were designed by the studio's regular art director Lionel Banks. The production was an attempt to replicate the success of rival studio Universal's hit film ''Buck Privates'', starring Abbott and Costello.Erickson p.100 Synopsis Two small town barbers attempt to enlist in the Army following America's entry into World War II. However they are both rejected military unfit. Inspired by a sense of patriotism they form their own "home defense" unit, recruiting other men who have been rejected by the draft board. Cast * Jackie Gleason as Hank * Jack Durant as Jed * Florence Rice as Pam Martin * Bruce Bennett as Tommy Lydel * Hallene Hill as Granny * Billy Curtis as Midget * Mabel Todd as Vivian * Forrest Tucker as Blond Bomber * James Seay as Biggie Waldron * John Tyrrell as Lefty * John Harmon as Mousey * Eddie Foster as Bla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Shepherd Of The Hills (1941 Film)
''The Shepherd of the Hills'' is a 1941 American drama film starring John Wayne, Betty Field and Harry Carey. The supporting cast includes Beulah Bondi, Ward Bond, Marjorie Main and John Qualen. The picture was Wayne's first film in Technicolor and was based on the novel of the same name by Harold Bell Wright. The director was Henry Hathaway, who directed several other Wayne films including ''True Grit'' almost three decades later. The story was filmed previously in the silent era by author Wright himself '' in 1919'', released on State Rights basis. It was filmed again, in ''The Shepherd of the Hills (1928 film)'', starring Molly O'Day at First National Pictures, and later, in color in 1964. The film also prominently features two uncredited pieces of music. The first is used as a leit motif to represent the spirit of Young Matt's deceased mother: the Wiegenlied ("Guten Abend, gut' Nacht" 868 of Johannes Brahms, commonly known in English as the Brahms Lullaby. The second ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King Of The Underworld (1939 Film)
''King of the Underworld'' is a 1939 crime drama film starring Humphrey Bogart as a gangster and Kay Francis as a doctor forced to treat him. It was directed by Lewis Seiler. It is a remake of the 1935 film '' Dr. Socrates'', which was based on a short story by W. R. Burnett. Plot Married doctors Niles and Carole Nelson save the life of a gangster shot in a gunfight. Joe Gurney, the patient's boss, gives Niles $500 as a reward, and suggests he take his "million dollar hands" uptown, where he can treat the rich. Niles takes his suggestion, but soon neglects his practice for his addiction: betting on the horses. The doctor also starts treating Joe's gang without telling his wife. One night, he is called away to do just that. Suspicious, Carole follows him. When the police raid the gang's hideout, a shootout ensues and Niles is killed while Joe and his gang escape. Though the district attorney has no case, he charges Carole with being guilty of being married to Niles just to put on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Missing Guest
''The Missing Guest'' is a 1938 American mystery-comedy film directed by John Rawlins. It is a remake of the 1933 film ''Secret of the Blue Room''. Synopsis A newspaper reporter is sent by his editor to spend a night in a country house where a notorious murder had been committed exactly twenty years before. Cast Production ''The Missing Guest'' was the first of two remakes of the 1933 film ''Secret of the Blue Room''. The film was budgeted at $80,400 and was completed under budget, at $72,000. Music in ''The Missing Guest'' is recycled from previous films including ''Werewolf of London'' and ''Dracula's Daughter''. Release ''The Missing Guest'' was distributed by Universal Pictures on August 12, 1938. Reception From contemporary reviews, "Hobe." of ''Variety'' referred to the film as a "feeble whodunnit for bottom billing" and that "Every outdated aunted housesituation and piece of business is included - not only included, but embarrassingly highlighted." ''The New York W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
