Johnny Calkins

Movies

Sub Rosa Rising
Interviewer
A sex documentary examining the varieties of sexual activity in San Francisco. It includes explicit footage from live sex shows and behind the scenes of a pornographic movie. A highlight is the film's period footage of San Francisco in the late '60s and early '70s.
And Then There Were Four
Buddy
Driving safety film sponsored as a public service by oil companies. Of five drivers who leave home in the morning, only four return, and we wait to learn who the victim is. The film gives considerable discussion to careless driving habits and depicts Angelenos from different walks of life as well as their homes, neighborhoods, streets, and freeways.
It Happens Every Spring
Boy Sitting Next to Debbie at Ballpark (uncredited)
A scientist discovers a formula that makes a baseball which is repelled by wood. He promptly sets out to exploit his discovery.
The Boy with Green Hair
Danny
Peter, an orphaned boy, is adopted by Gramp Frye after his parents are killed in Europe while doing war relief work. The boy feels safe with his new caretaker, but when he is taunted for being an orphan, he gets demoralized. The next day Peter wakes up with green hair. Embarrassed and further ridiculed, Peter seeks solace in a nearby forest. To his surprise, he finds other orphans in the woods, who encourage him to spread news of the injustices of war.
Life with Father
Whitney Benjamin Day
A straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost.
Ginger
Chip O'Hara
The adventures of a boy and his dog in a small town.
Night Editor
Boy (Uncredited)
A daily news editor recalls a married detective and the deadly woman behind his downfall.
Song of Arizona
Clarence (as Johny Calkins)
Roy Rogers rides to the rescue when a bank robber's orphaned son (Tommy Cook), who is living at a ranch for homeless boys run by Gabby Whittaker (George "Gabby" Hayes), attracts the attention his father's rowdy gang, who want to claim the boy's inheritance for themselves
Divorce
Robby Phillips
A woman who has been married and divorced five times comes back to her small hometown, where she proceeds to complicate, and potentially destroy, the marriage of her childhood boyfriend.
Gentleman Jim
Boy (uncredited)
As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the boxing world.