John Close

Nascimento : 1921-06-01,

Morte : 1963-12-21

Filmes

Convicts 4
Guard
After his death sentence is commuted to life in prison, John Resko is transferred from Sing-Sing to Dannemora where, with the help of a humane prison guard, he becomes a rehabilitated man and a successful painter.
O Mar é Nosso Túmulo
Co-ordinate Fixer at Bungo Straits (uncredited)
Ao capitão de um submarino afundado pelos japoneses durante a WW2 finalmente é dada a chance de ser capitão de outro submarino após um ano de trabalho burocrático. Sua determinação, obcecado por vingança contra o destruidor que afundou seu navio anterior, coloca sua nova tripulação em um perigo desnecessário. E causa atrito com seu primeiro oficial e equipe.
Beginning of the End
Maj. Everett
An attractive reporter investigating the mysterious destruction of an Illinois town stumbles upon a secret government laboratory conducting radiation experiments on vegetables. The lead scientist is eager to help find out what happened. Together they discover that giant grasshoppers are behind the devastation. Worse yet, thousands of them are headed toward Chicago! Can they be stopped... or is this the BEGINNING OF THE END?
O Monstro Que Desafiou o Mundo
Deputy Larry
Giants Mollusks are released from the earth by an earthquake and start killing people.
Footsteps in the Night
Detective Mac McConnell (Uncredited)
Two detectives investigate the strangulation murder of a man whom everyone seemed to like.
Chain of Evidence
Lead State Trooper
A police lieutenant fights to prove a boy's innocence after he's accused of murder. The fourth of five Ben Schwab productions that starred Bill Elliott as a detective lieutenant in the L.A. Sheriff's department.
World Without End
Reporter (uncredited)
Four astronauts returning from man's first mission to Mars enter a time warp and crash on a 26th Century Earth devastated by atomic war. At first unaware where they are, but finding the atmosphere safe to breathe, they start exploring and find themselves in a divided future where disfigured mutants living like cavemen inhabit the surface, while the normals live comfortably below the surface but are dying as a race from lack of natural water, air and sunlight.
Rastros da Corrupção
Deputy
In 1899 Alaska, miners have to protect themselves from a phony legal team trying to steal their gold claims.
Sudden Danger
Det. Sgt. Mike Duncan
Det Andy Doyle (Bill Elliott) suspects that a suicide is actually a murder. He suspects the victim's son, Wallace (Tom Drake) who is blind and he pursues him until he gets to the truth..
Juventude Transviada
Police Officer (uncredited)
Em uma das performances que mais influenciaram a história do cinema, James Dean interpreta um jovem recém-chegado a uma cidade e cuja solidão, frustação e fúria e que espelharia os adolescentes do pós-guerra — e ainda reverberaria pelos 50 anos seguintes...
Balas na Noite
'Big' Walters
An ex-con is inspired to go undercover and "finger" the mob after finding out his sister is hooked on illegal drugs.
Black Tuesday
Vicious gangster Vincent Canelli pulls off a daring prison escape just moments before going to the electric chair, taking with him Peter Manning – a bank robber and cop killer who was to die right after him. Taking several hostages along, they try to get their hands on the loot from Manning’s robbery to finance their escape from the country.
Dá-me Tua Mão
Military Policeman (uncredited)
Sgt. Thorne Ryan, who once fought bravely in Korea, now serves as a hard-nosed drill instructor to new Army recruits at Fort Bliss, Texas. But is he really the man he is often described as? His fellow instructor, and friend helps him to face the ghosts of his past experiences in Korea. One night in a bar across the border in Juarez, Mexico, Sgt. Ryan meets a lady who begins to turn his life around. Will this be enough to help him deal with the past? Or will he continue to be so hard on his troops?
Os Corruptos
Policeman (uncredited)
O policial durão Dave Bannion enfrenta o sindicato do crime politicamente poderoso. Dave Bannion é um policial honesto investigando uma gangue cruel que ele suspeita ter influência sobre a força policial. Bannion é alertado após o suicídio de um colega e o silêncio suspeito de seus colegas policiais o leva a acreditar que eles estão na folha de pagamento dos gângsteres. Quando uma bomba destinada a ele mata sua esposa, Bannion se torna uma furiosa força de vingança e justiça, auxiliado ao longo do caminho pela rejeitada namorada do gângster, Debby. Quando Bannion e Debby caem cada vez mais na armadilha traiçoeira e brutal do mundo do crime, eles devem usar todos os meios necessários (incluindo assassinato) para chegar à verdade. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)
Fangs of the Arctic
Henchman Howell
Canadian Mounties Corporal Rod Webb and Constable Mike Kelly, along with Rod's dog Chinook, are sent to the Blackfoot Crossing country to find a killer.
You for Me
Cop (uncredited)
A good-hearted nurse gets mixed up with a millionaire who could help her hospital.
Montanhas Ardentes
Lewisohn (uncredited)
When a large forest fire breaks out in the mountains of Montana, a squad of 'Smoke Jumpers', the paratroop-corps of fire-fighters in the U. S. Forest Service, is flown to the scene from their regional headquarters in Missoula, Montana. The Forest Rangers, under Cliff Mason, put out the blaze, but several of the fire-fighters are killed. Ed Miller, son of one of the dead rangers, thinks he died because Mason was a coward, and sets out to prove it.
The Girl on the Bridge
Harry Olson (as Johnny Close)
A young woman's suicide attempt is stopped by an old man passing by. The two fall in love -- but the relationship between the young girl and old man is threatened when a blackmailer from her past shows up.
Submarine Command
Frogman (as John V. Close)
Submarine commander Ken White is forced to suddenly submerge, leaving his captain and another crew member to die outside the sub during WW II. Subsequent years of meaningless navy ground assignments and the animosity of a former sailor, leave White (now a captain) feeling guilty and empty. His life spirals downward and his wife is about to leave him. Suddenly, he is forced into a dangerous rescue situation at the start of the Koren War.... reassigned to the same submarine where all of his problems began.
Até o Último Homem
Richard Widmark encabeça um elenco de primeira linha que conta com Jack Palance, Robert Wagner, Karl Malden, Richard Boone e Jack Webb, rumo à batalha em uma ilha fortemente fortificada pelo inimigo. O objetivo da missão é descobrir de onde são lançados os foguetes japoneses no interior da ilha. Avançando em meio à selva infestada de inimigos, eles estão sempre em constante alerta. Nesse processo, o oficial sênior (Widmark) transforma-se de ex-professor em líder empedernido e seu heterogêneo esquadrão se funde em uma coesa unidade de luta. Até o Último Homem foi dirigido por Lewis Milestone, vencedor de um Oscar (Melhor Diretor, 1930) por "Sem Novidade no Front".
Redenção Sangrenta
Deputy (uncredited)
Um pescador com problemas financeiros aluga seu barco para transportar criminosos.
Passos na Noite
Hanson (uncredited)
O Sargento Detetive Mark Dixon quer ser algo que seu velho pai não era: um cara do lado certo da lei. Será que a natureza cruel de Dixon vai extrair dele a melhor?