John McGuire

John McGuire

Birth : 1910-10-22,

Death : 1980-09-30

History

John McGuire was born on October 22, 1910. He was an actor, known for Stranger on the Third Floor (1940), Sands of Iwo Jima (1949) and Invisible Ghost (1941). He died on September 30, 1980 in Dublin, Ireland.

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John McGuire

Movies

The Sea Hornet
Policeman
"The Sea Hornet" was a merchant ship sunk, supposedly by a torpedo, less than a mile off the California Coast during World War Two. Six years later when his buddy is killed, attempting to blow up the sunken ship, on the orders of Suntan Radford and Tony Sullivan, deep-sea diver "Gunner" McNeil has his suspicions aroused... especially since Suntan is the daughter of the ship's captain that died when the ship sunk, and Sullivan was a crew member. Plus the fact the ship had over a million dollars in cash on board. During the course of his investigation, he becomes romantically involved with Ginger Sullivan
The Racket
Policeman in Locker Room (uncredited)
Mobster Nick Scanlon has managed to buy several of the local government and law-enforcement officials. However, he can't seem to touch the incorruptible police captain Tom McQuigg, who refuses all attempts at bribery. Prosecuting attorney, Welch, and a police detective, Turck, are crooked and make McQuigg's job as an honest officer nearly impossible.
The First Legion
Father Tom Rawleigh
A Catholic priest fights against his colleagues' immediate acceptance of an ambiguous “miracle”.
You're in the Navy Now
When Lt. John Harkness is assigned as the new skipper of a submarine chaser equipped with an experimental steam engine, he hopes that the U.S.S. Teakettle's veterans will afford him enough help to accomplish the ship's goals. Unfortunately, he finds the crew and its officers share his novice status or only have experience in diesel engines.
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Detective Gertessen (uncredited)
A police detective's violent nature keeps him from being a good cop.
Rock Island Trail
Army Lieutenant
A greedy businessman tries to block the building of a new railroad in his area.
Sands of Iwo Jima
Capt. Joyce
The relationship between Sergeant Stryker and a group of rebellious recruits is made difficult by the Sergeant's tough training tactics. At Tarawa, the leathernecks have a chance to see Stryker in action, and begin to appreciate him.
White Heat
Psychiatrist #2 (uncredited)
A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. After the heist, events take a crazy turn.
Sky Liner
George Eakins
Travellers board a flight, unaware that other passengers might be spies and counterspies, complete with secret documents, poison and elaborate plans to engage in international espionage!
He Walked by Night
Officer Robert Rawlins (uncredited)
This film-noir piece, told in semi-documentary style, follows police on the hunt for a resourceful criminal who shoots and kills a cop.
Fighter Squadron
During World War II, an insubordinate fighter pilot finds the shoe on the other foot when he's promoted.
The Strawberry Roan
Bud Williams
Young Joe is paralyzed as he is bucked by a wild horse, a strawberry roan. Angered, his father, Walt, tries to shoot the horse but is stopped by his foreman, Gene Autry. The roan escapes and Autry, told to leave the ranch by Walt, finds and trains the horse, now named Champ, in hopes that by returning it to Joe it will provide him with the will to overcome his disability.
Bells of San Angelo
Rex Gridley
Gridley is mining silver from an old Mexican mine and bringing it into the USA thru a passage into his worthless mine. Border guard Rogers suspects Gridley and finally finds the secret entrance to the Mexican mine. He sends Lee Madison for help only to have her captured by Gridley. Trigger brings help that takes care of Gridley's men and now Roy has to rescue Madison.
Dead of Night
Hugo Fitch (Segment "The Ventriloquist's Dummy") (Uncredited)
Architect Walter Craig, seeking the possibility of some work at a country farmhouse, soon finds himself once again stuck in his recurring nightmare. Dreading the end of the dream that he knows is coming, he must first listen to all the assembled guests' own bizarre tales.
Shadow of a Doubt
Teen at Crosswalk (uncredited)
Just when Charlotte ‘Charlie’ Newton, is feeling especially frustrated by the lack of excitement in her small town in California, she receives wonderful news: Her uncle and namesake, Charlie Oakley, is coming to visit. However, as secrets about him come to the fore, Charlotte’s admiration turns into suspicion.
The Navy Comes Through
James Bayless (as John Maguire)
A U.S. Navy crew aboard a merchant marine ship battle Nazis.
Highways by Night
James 'Duke' Wellington
A young millionaire (Richard Carlson) joins the real world and meets a maid (Jane Randolph) and mobsters.
The Magnificent Ambersons
Young Man (uncredited)
The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.
Mexican Spitfire Sees a Ghost
Luders
Carmelita and Uncle Matt find themselves in a haunted house, but the "ghosts" are actually enemy agents who are trying to frighten away visitors in order to develop a nitroglycerin bomb.
My Favorite Spy
Nightclub Patron
The Army takes a bandleader (Kay Kyser) away from his bride (Ellen Drew) and sends him on a spy mission with a woman (Jane Wyman).
Powder Town
Harvey Dodge
Director Rowland V. Lee's wacky 1942 comedy, about an absent-minded scientist working on a secret formula at an explosives plant, stars Edmond O'Brien, Victor McLaglen, Dorothy Lovett, June Havoc, Eddie Foy Jr., Marion Martin and Mary Gordon.
Wedded Blitz
Errol is a character actor who wears various makeups, costumes, and disguises when he goes home. His neighbors mistakenly suspect his glamorous young wife is playing around with strange men.
Mexican Spitfire at Sea
First Officer Reynolds
An advertising executive and his temperamental wife sail to Hawaii in search of business. The fifth entry (of eight) in the "Mexican Spitfire" comedy series.
Ever Since Eden
Livingston
A history of the tomato. Begins with the discovery of the plant by Cortes when he conquered Montezuma.
Sea Raiders
Tom Adams
A bunch of waterfront youths pursue the Sea Raiders, a gang of saboteurs.
Invisible Ghost
Ralph Dickson / Paul Dickson
The town's leading citizen is a man victim of homicidal impulses beyond his control. He is being controlled by his wife who had left him for another man. She was involved in a car accident that has left her brain damaged and is kept in the basement, in secret, by Kessler's gardener.
Street of Memories
Joe Mason / Richard Havens
Joe Mason suffers from amnesia and is often in trouble. Catherine Foster befriends him and they marry. After a fight remembers that he is the son of a rich businessman from Chicago, but he can't remember anything recent.
Stranger on the Third Floor
Michael Ward
Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has sentenced the wrong man to death.
Women Without Names
Walter Ferris
Joyce and Fred MacNeil's honeymoon comes to an abrupt and unsatisfying halt when Fred is accused of murder. Railroaded into prison through the efforts of politically ambitious assistant DA Marlin, Fred awaits his doom on Death Row, while Joyce works overtime on the outside to clear her husband's name
Fugitives for a Night
Casino Extra
A faded star is suspected of killing a studio executive.
Wanted: Jane Turner
Jerry Turner
Investigators set out to capture a gang of thieves transporting stolen cash through the U.S. mail.
End of the Trail
Larry Pearson
In this western, a Spanish-American war veteran cannot find gainful employment. In desperation, he becomes a cattle rustler until he can get back on his feet. Just as he is ready to go straight, his girlfriend's younger brother is shot.
Human Cargo
'Spike' Davis
Bonnie Brewster and "Packy" Campbell, rival reporters on competing newspapers, team up to put an end to a smuggling gang that brings illegal aliens to the United States, and then makes further victims of them by extortion payments. They go to Vancouver, Canada and board a ship carrying aliens. But the gang recognizes them as reporters and gang-henchmen Tony Scula (Ralf Harolde) and Ira Conklin take them off the ship. But Campbell recognizes Scula as the gunman who killed Carmen Zoro.
Charlie Chan at the Circus
Hal Blake
While visiting the circus with his family, Charlie is recruited by the big top's co-owner to investigate threatening letters that he's received.
Love in September
Love in September
The Prisoner of Shark Island
Lieutenant Lovett
After healing the leg of the murderer John Wilkes Booth, responsible for the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, perpetrated on April 14, 1865, during a performance at Ford's Theatre in Washington; Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, considered part of the atrocious conspiracy, is sentenced to life imprisonment and sent to the sinister Shark Island Prison.
Your Uncle Dudley
Robert Kirby
A paint store owner turns his attention to civic affairs while his business falls apart.
This Is the Life
Michael Grant
A popular child star, exploited and overworked by her greedy guardians, decides enough is enough--and takes it on the lam.
Steamboat Round the Bend
Duke
A Louisiana con man enters his steamboat into a winner-take-all race with a rival while trying to find a witness to free his nephew, about to be hanged for murder.
Outlaw Rule
Danny Taylor
A rancher, frustrated with constant cattle rustling and the inability of the local sheriff to stop it, is accused of murder when the sheriff is found dead.
Contented Calves
Reddington Company Office Worker
An add campaign for stockings embarrasses the girls.