Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
January 31, 1914
Place of Birth:
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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John Ireland
Biography
John Benjamin Ireland (January 30, 1914 – March 21, 1992) was a Canadian-American actor and film director. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his performance in All the King's Men (1949), making him the first Vancouver-born actor to receive an Academy Award nomination.
Ireland was a supporting actor in several famous Western films such as My Darling Clementine (1946), Red River (1948), Vengeance Valley (1951), and Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957). His other notable film roles were in 55 Days at Peking (1963), The Adventurers (1970), and Farewell, My Lovely (1975).
Ireland also appeared in many television series, notably The Cheaters (1960–1962). He was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contribution to the television industry.
Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | The Enigmatic Charlotte Rampling | Self (archive footage) |
| 2015 | 3-D Rarities | (archive footage) |
| 2002 | The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller | Bob Ford (archive footage) |
| 1992 | Waxwork II: Lost in Time | King Arthur |
| 1992 | Merlin | |
| 1992 | Hammer Down | Lt. Bates |
| 1991 | The Graveyard Story | Dr. McGregor |
| 1989 | Terror Night | Lance Hayward |
| 1989 | Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat | Jefferson |
| 1988 | Messenger of Death | Zenas Beecham |
| 1988 | Bonanza: The Next Generation | Capt. Aaron Cartwright |
| 1988 | Perry Mason: The Case of the Lady in the Lake | Walter |
| 1986 | Seasons in the Sun | Keith Slattery |
| 1985 | Miami Golem | Anderson |
| 1985 | Thunder Run | George Adams |
| 1985 | Treasure of the Amazon | Priest |
| 1985 | Martin's Day | Brewer |
| 1983 | A Matter of Cunning | John Markham |
| 1982 | Incubus | Hank Walden |
| 1981 | Bordello | Judge |
| 1980 | Marilyn: The Untold Story | John Huston |
| 1980 | The Courage of Kavik, the Wolf Dog | George Hunter |
| 1980 | Tourist | Joe Vigil, Sr. |
| 1979 | Guyana: Crime of the Century | Dave Cole |
| 1979 | The Shape of Things to Come | Senator Smedley |
| 1979 | When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion | Self |
| 1979 | On the Air Live with Captain Midnight | Agent Pierson |
| 1979 | Crossbar | Miles Kornylo |
| 1979 | Delta Fox | Lucas Johnson |
| 1978 | Tomorrow Never Comes | Captain |
| 1978 | The Millionaire | Marshall Wayburn |
| 1977 | Satan's Cheerleaders | Sheriff B.L.Z. Bubb |
| 1977 | Mission to Glory: A True Story | Father Mora |
| 1977 | The Perfect Killer | Benny |
| 1977 | The Ransom | Chief Haliburton |
| 1977 | Love and the Midnight Auto Supply | Tony Santore |
| 1976 | The Swiss Conspiracy | Dwight McGowan |
| 1976 | Salon Kitty | Cliff |
| 1975 | Farewell, My Lovely | Nulty |
| 1975 | We Are No Angels | Mr. Shark |
| 1975 | Sex Diary | Milton |
| 1974 | The House of Seven Corpses | Eric Hartman |
| 1974 | Welcome to Arrow Beach | Sheriff Duke Bingham |
| 1974 | The Girl on the Late, Late Show | Bruno Walters |
| 1974 | Wam Bam Thank You Spaceman | |
| 1974 | The Rangers | Carson |
| 1974 | Blood River | Abel Webster |
| 1974 | The Phantom of Hollywood | Lt. Gifford |
| 1974 | Northeast of Seoul | Flanaghan |
| 1972 | Escape to the Sun | Jacob Kagan |
| 1970 | The Adventurers | Mr.James Hadley |
| 1970 | Challenge of McKenna | Jones/Jonas MacKenna |
| 1969 | Zenabel | Don Alonso Imolne |
| 1969 | Carnal Circuit | Richard Salinger |
| 1969 | The War Devils | |
| 1969 | One on Top of the Other | Inspector Wald |
| 1968 | Villa Rides | Client in Barber Shop (uncredited) |
| 1968 | Run, Man, Run | Santillana |
| 1968 | Gatling Gun | Tarpas |
| 1968 | Dead for a Dollar | Der Colonel |
| 1968 | A Gun for One Hundred Graves | Douglas |
| 1968 | A Taste of Death | Dan El/Ralph |
| 1968 | Go For Broke | Owl/Gufo/le Hibou |
| 1968 | Arizona Bushwhackers | Dan Shelby |
| 1968 | Vengeance for Vengeance | Maj. Bower |
| 1968 | Bloody Che Contra | Stuart |
| 1967 | Fort Utah | Tom Horn |
| 1967 | Dirty Heroes | Captain O’Connor |
| 1967 | Caxambu! | Vince Neff |
| 1967 | Hate for Hate | James Cooper |
| 1965 | I Saw What You Did | Steve Marak |
| 1965 | Day of the Nightmare | Sgt. Dave Harmon |
| 1964 | The Fall of the Roman Empire | Ballomar |
| 1964 | The Big Parade of Comedy | Captain Calbern in 'A Southern Yankee' (arch. foot.) (uncred.) |
| 1963 | 55 Days at Peking | Sgt. Harry |
| 1963 | The Ceremony | Prison Warden |
| 1963 | No Time To Kill | Johnny Greco |
| 1962 | Brushfire | Jeff Saygure |
| 1961 | Wild in the Country | Phil Macy |
| 1961 | Return of a Stranger | Ray Reed |
| 1960 | Spartacus | Crixus |
| 1960 | Faces in the Dark | Max Hammond |
| 1958 | Party Girl | Louis Canetto |
| 1958 | Stormy Crossing | Griff Parker |
| 1958 | No Place to Land | Jonas Bailey |
| 1957 | Gunfight at the O.K. Corral | Johnny Ringo |
| 1956 | Gunslinger | Cane Miro |
| 1955 | Queen Bee | Judson Prentiss |
| 1955 | The Glass Cage | Pel Pelham |
| 1955 | Hell's Horizon | Capt. John Merrill |
| 1954 | The Fast and the Furious | Frank Webster |
| 1954 | The Good Die Young | Eddie Blaine |
| 1954 | The Steel Cage | Al, a Ringleader, segment "The Hostages" |
| 1954 | Security Risk | Ralph Payne |
| 1954 | Southwest Passage | Clint McDonald |
| 1953 | The 49th Man | Investigator John Williams |
| 1953 | Hannah Lee: An American Primitive | Marshal Sam Rochelle |
| 1953 | Combat Squad | Sgt. Ken 'Fletch' Fletcher |
| 1952 | Hurricane Smith | Hurricane Smith |
| 1951 | The Scarf | John Howard Barrington |
| 1951 | Vengeance Valley | Hub Fasken |
| 1951 | The Basketball Fix | Pete Ferreday |
| 1951 | Red Mountain | Gen. William Quantrill |
| 1951 | Little Big Horn | Lt. John Haywood |
| 1951 | This Is Korea! | Narrator |
| 1951 | The Bushwhackers | Jefferson Waring |
| 1950 | Cargo to Capetown | Steve Conway |
| 1950 | The Return of Jesse James | Johnny Callum |
| 1949 | All the King's Men | Jack Burden |
| 1949 | I Shot Jesse James | Bob Ford |
| 1949 | The Undercover Man | Narrator (voice) (uncredited) |
| 1949 | Mr. Soft Touch | Henry 'Early' Byrd |
| 1949 | Roughshod | Lednov |
| 1949 | The Doolins of Oklahoma | Bitter Creek |
| 1949 | Anna Lucasta | Danny Johnson |
| 1949 | The Walking Hills | Frazee |
| 1948 | Red River | Cherry Valance |
| 1948 | Raw Deal | Fantail |
| 1948 | I Love Trouble | Reno |
| 1948 | Open Secret | Paul Lester |
| 1948 | A Southern Yankee | Capt. Jed Calbern |
| 1948 | Joan of Arc | Jean de la Boussac (St. Sevére), Captain |
| 1947 | The Gangster | Karty |
| 1947 | Repeat Performance | Narrator (Voice) |
| 1947 | Railroaded! | Duke Martin |
| 1946 | My Darling Clementine | Billy Clanton |
| 1946 | Behind Green Lights | Det. Oppenheimer |
| 1946 | It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog | Benny Smith |
| 1946 | Wake Up and Dream | Howard Williams |
| 1946 | Somewhere in the Night | Thug (voice) (uncredited) |
| 1945 | A Walk in the Sun | Pfc. Windy Craven |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1989 | Snoops | Gabriel Franken |
| 1989 | Christine Cromwell | |
| 1988 | War of the Worlds | Harv |
| 1987 | J.J. Starbuck | Charles Capstone |
| 1984 | Murder, She Wrote | Sheriff Hainer |
| 1984 | Airwolf | Hardesty |
| 1984 | Airwolf | Carl Barron |
| 1983 | Hardcastle and McCormick | Bucky Miller |
| 1983 | The Hitchhiker | Jack Guttman |
| 1983 | Trauma Center | |
| 1982 | Cassie & Co. | Lyman Shackelford |
| 1980 | Magnum, P.I. | Wyndom Jackson |
| 1979 | Hart to Hart | Zeke BaIllinger |
| 1979 | The Littlest Hobo | Pa |
| 1976 | Quincy, M.E. | Attorney John Packard |
| 1976 | Quincy, M.E. | Jerry Driskill |
| 1976 | Quincy, M.E. | Sheriff Ned Evers |
| 1975 | Khan! | |
| 1975 | Switch | Verne Deamer |
| 1974 | Planet of the Apes | |
| 1974 | Little House on the Prairie | |
| 1973 | Police Story | |
| 1972 | Ghost Story | Arthur Mundy |
| 1968 | Hawaii Five-O | Phil Coleman |
| 1968 | The Name of the Game | Mel Wexler |
| 1966 | Mission: Impossible | Andrew Metzger |
| 1966 | The Man Who Never Was | |
| 1965 | Run for Your Life | Dr. Mason |
| 1965 | Branded | Cattle Rancher Renger |
| 1965 | Branded | Ted Evers |
| 1964 | Daniel Boone | Hiram Manville |
| 1963 | Burke's Law | Orrin Lashwell |
| 1963 | Kraft Suspense Theatre | William 'Scotty' Scott |
| 1963 | Burke's Law | Bullock |
| 1962 | The Virginian | Kinroy |
| 1961 | The Asphalt Jungle | |
| 1960 | Thriller | Eddie Wilson |
| 1960 | The Cheaters | John Hunter |
| 1959 | Riverboat | Chris Slade |
| 1959 | Bonanza | Marshal Will Rimbau |
| 1959 | Rawhide | Winch |
| 1959 | Rawhide | Dr. Joseph Merritt |
| 1959 | Rawhide | Frank Trask |
| 1959 | Rawhide | Jed Colby |
| 1957 | Suspicion | |
| 1956 | Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre | Marshal Harry Phillips |
| 1956 | Armchair Theatre | Monroe Stahr |
| 1955 | Gunsmoke | Jed Coombs |
| 1955 | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Captain McCabe |
| 1955 | Gunsmoke | Parker |
| 1954 | Climax! | Greg |
| 1954 | The Whistler | |
| 1954 | Studio 57 | |
| 1953 | General Electric Theater | Abe Lincoln |
| 1951 | Schlitz Playhouse of Stars | |
| 1951 | Schlitz Playhouse of Stars | Jim Regan |
| 1951 | Schlitz Playhouse of Stars | Billy Bob Jackson |
| 1951 | Schlitz Playhouse of Stars | Pete Bronson |
| 1951 | Schlitz Playhouse of Stars | Andrew Evans |
| 1950 | Lux Video Theatre | Milt Shanks |
| 1950 | Lux Video Theatre | Marty |
| 1948 | The Philco Television Playhouse |