John Maxwell
Nascimento : 1918-03-11, Spokane, Washington, USA
Morte : 1982-07-18
História
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John Maxwell (March 11, 1918 Spokane, Washington – July 18, 1982) was an American film and television actor who appeared in over 100 films of the 1940s and 1950s. Many times the actor appeared in films uncredited. Occasionally he played larger roles in films, such as in The Prowler. He was born in Spokane, Washington. His television guest appearances included The Lone Ranger, Lassie, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, The Rifleman and Bonanza.
Maxwell also starred as Pappy Sawyer in Disneyland's television miniseries The Nine Lives of Elfego Baca.
Insp. Daniel A. Melrose
While investigating a diamond heist, disgruntled cop Harper falls for Holly, the top suspect's main squeeze. When she convinces him to kill her boyfriend and make off with her and the loot, they start down a treacherous path full of dark surprises.
Chief Sloane
An innocent nightclub singer becomes mixed up in illegal drug dealings shortly after witnessing her husband's death and the murder of a couple of narcotics agents.
John Brighton
When the testimony of a crippled child sends a murder suspect to prison, a friend of the accused sets out to investigate the crime on his own.
Parole Agent
Framed by her stepmother for manslaughter, a convict turns to a parole racket.
Frank Scovie
Jim Trask, ex-xerife de Abilene, retorna à cidade depois de lutar para a Confederação,mas todos pensavam que ele estava morto. Seu velho amigo Dave Mosely está agora com a ex-namorada de Trask e é um dos criadores de gado cada vez mais brigando com os produtores originais. Trask é persuadido a assumir como xerife de novo, mas há algo sobre a morte do irmão de Mosely na Guerra Civil que está assombrando ele.
Insurance Company Representative
A trio of thieves make their getaway by kidnapping a young hot-rodder, and take over a mountain cabin for a hideout after overpowering its occupants.
Edward Ryan
A Ha-Ha-Haunted House Has Got 'Em! ...and it's every ghost for himself!
Capt. Allyson
A newly promoted police sergeant discovers his girlfriend my be involved with a gang of car thieves.
Colonel Welnick (uncredited)
O pai de Jim Slater morreu na emboscada Apache em Gila Valley, e o rapaz nunca o conheceu. Ele agora está buscando o único sobrevivente do massacre, que supostamente despareceu com um monte de ouro. No caminho, ele acaba com várias pessoas à sua caça, e encontra repetidamente a liberal Karyl Orton, que parece estar um uma missão semelhante à sua. Mas um novo rompante Apache e uma iminente guerra poderão atrapalhar seus planos.
Train Conductor
An insurance detective encounters numerous surprises when he is assigned to investigate a meticulously-planned train robbery in Arizona.
Adm. William F. 'Bull' Halsey
Biografia do contra-almirante John M. Hoskins (Sterling Hayden) focada em sua luta para continuar na ativa depois de perder uma perna em um acidente num porta-aviões na Segunda Guerra Mundial.
Doctor (uncredited)
As vidas e os romances de três irmãs em uma família musical; a vida da filha mais nova é complicada com a chegada de um compositor encantador e depois a chegada de um arranjador de música cínico. Quando Alex Burke (Gig Young) entra na vida da família musical Tuttle, cada uma das três filhas se apaixona por ele. Ele é encantador, bonito e charmoso. Laurie Tuttle (Doris Day) e Alex parecem feitos um para o outro e começam a namorar. Quando Barney Sloan (Frank Sinatra) entra em cena para ajudar Alex com alguns arranjos musicais as coisas ficam complicadas. Ele é visto como um desafio por Laurie, que não pode acreditar que alguém pudesse ser tão cínico. - traduzido de Ron Kerrigan
Judge
San Francisco businessman Harry Graham and his wife and business partner, Eve, are in the process of adopting a child. When private investigator Mr. Jordan uncovers the fact that Graham has another wife, Phyllis, and a small child in Los Angeles, he confesses everything.
Doctor (uncredited)
Os cientistas Clayton Forrester e Sylvia Van Buren são os primeiros a chegar no local onde caiu um meteorito. Logo depois, uma máquina alienígena aparece e começa uma matança aleatória. Fuzileiros navais são enviados para o local, porém as forças de ataque deles não está a altura da força de ataque dos alienígenas.
Grocer
An outlaw woman helps one Arizona convict stop another with a Gatling gun.
Mr. Spooner
In 1904, Doc Tilbee, medicine show huckster and champion tall-tale teller, gives a ride to a young boy escaped from an orphanage, where bad conditions (the result of political graft) are being investigated by new appointee Zerelda Wing, who doesn't know that her fiancée is one of the politicians responsible. Tad wants to stay with his new friend Doc, who is attracted to Zerelda, to the discomfiture of his old flame Clara...all amid nostalgic musical numbers.
Fred Saunders
Police track a serial killer.
Detective (uncredited)
Eric Wainwright, a busy impresario, is besieged by hordes of wannabe concert stars, eager for their big break. One of them is Cynthia Potter, a talented pianist... but she can't get in to see him. When she learns that Wainwright is auditioning young musicians for a children's concert tour, Cynthia dons braces and bobby sox and passes herself off as a child prodigy.
Dr. Palmer
A scrupulously honest lawyer discovers that the client he's gotten off was really guilty.
Mr. Deevers
An eccentric Civil War widow is accused of being insane.
Dr. Huntington
Berkeley university professor adjusts (using alcohol) to tragic fire deaths of wife & son.
Bud Crocker
Los Angeles, Califórnia. Um policial que, descontente com seu trabalho, culpa outros por seus problemas de trabalho, é designado para investigar o caso de alguém que persegue a casa de uma mulher casada.
Dr. Matthew Hardy
A stewardess becomes romantically involved with an airline pilot, a college professor, and a successful businessman...all of whom are named Mike. When the three find out about each other, she has to decide which one she loves the most.
Simmons (uncredited)
A young woman living in Manhattan pretends to be the mother of an infant in order to get a seat on the subway.
Detective Kilrain (uncredited)
When a young woman's skeletal remains turn up on a Massachusetts beach, Barnstable cop Peter Moralas teams with Boston police and uses forensics, with the help of a Harvard professor, to determine the woman's identity, how she died, and who killed her.
Dr. Swanson
Quando o inteligente criminoso Erwin "Doc" Riedenschneider é libertado da prisão, ele procura um investidor de cinquenta mil dólares na casa de apostas Cobby para recrutar um pequeno grupo de especialistas e realizar um assalto de milhões de dólares de joias de uma joalheria. Doc é apresentado ao advogado Alonzo D. Emmerich, que se oferece para financiar toda a operação e comprar as pedras imediatamente após o roubo. Doc contrata o arrombador Louis Ciavelli, o motorista Gus Minissi e o pistoleiro Dix Handley para o assalto. No início, o plano funciona como um relógio, mas pequenos acidentes se acumulam e cada parceiro mostra ter sua própria fraqueza fatal. No fundo é um perverso e doentio submundo sujo.
Policeman
A struggling young father-to-be gives in to temptation and impulsively steals an envelope of money from the office of a corrupt attorney. Instead of a few hundred dollars, it contains $30,000, and when he decides to return the money things go wrong and that is only the beginning of his troubles.
Court Clerk (uncredited)
Casal de advogados se vê em lados opostos em um caso no qual a ré disparou contra o marido, ao encontrá-lo com a amante. No início marido e mulher mantêm as discussões durante o julgamento, mas em virtude da cobertura dada pela imprensa o casal não expõe suas posições apenas no tribunal e isto gera algumas confusões.
Detective
An arson investigator goes undercover to break up a ring that sets fires in order to collect the insurance.
Village gossip
Calamity Jane, uma famosa pistoleira, é libertada da prisão por seus comparsas. Levada à presença do Governador Johnson e do Comissário, eles lhe contam que a sua fuga foi planejada, de forma que todos pensassem que ela teria sido executada pelos colegas. É proposta a ela seu perdão, em troca de Jane ajud-a-los a prender uma quadrilha que contrabandeia armas para os indígenas.
Kallan
A man who has been framed on a murder charge is placed in the custody of a crooked U.S. marshal, who is secretly running a murderous claim-jumping gang.
Cash Watson
Former Hopalong Cassidy sidekick Russell Hayden retains his nickname of Lucky in this average entry in his short-lived starring series for Columbia.
Richard Snell
As a woman walks the "last mile" to her execution she remembers back to the incidents that got her framed for murder.
Sam Fletcher
Em Gotham City, Batman (Lewis Wilson) luta contra Dr. Daka (J. Carrol Naish), um japonês mentor de um grupo de espionagem que sabota instituições. Daka tem um aparelho que pulveriza uma radiação mortal, tendo assim, muita facilidade de destruir seus inimigos, além de poder recrutar homens, fazer uma lavagem cerebral neles e transformá-los em seus servos. Batman precisa usar todo o seu poder de morcego para enfrentar este inimigo.
Assistant District Attorney Stewart
A district attorney sets out to vindicate his son who's been accused of murdering a nightclub singer.
Reporter at Train (uncredited)
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to America as an advocate of Stalinism.
Blake
The management of touring ice show faces mounting debts.
Stockbroker (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.
City Editor (uncredited)
Little Delft, Michigan follows the customs of old-world Holland and is known for its Tulip Festival. The owner of the hotel insists that his seven daughters marry in order, from eldest to youngest.
Hayden enters the lawless prairie in which criminals have had free reign to manipulate the innocent settlers.
Croupier
The coming of the railroad to the West triggers an Indian war.
Ernie Haskell
A radio reporter begins to suspect that a commentator at his station may be using her position to broadcast shipping information to enemy spies. With the help of the girl's sister, he sets out to expose the spy and her Nazi gang.
Detective Strom (uncredited)
Conniving Broadway starlet Mida King has plenty of enemies, so when she's found murdered at Grand Central Station, Inspector Gunther calls together a slew of suspects for questioning. Mida's shady ex-flame, Turk, seems the most likely culprit, but when smart-mouthed private eye Rocky Custer -- also a suspect himself -- begins to piece together the crime, a few clues that Gunther has overlooked come to light.
Prison Doctor
When a prisoner on Death Row is "accidentally" killed just before his execution, a reporter smells something fishy...
Editor (uncredited)
The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being suspected communists. Trustee Ed Keller has also threatened mild mannered English Professor Tommy Turner, because he plans to read a controversial piece of prose in class. Tommy is upset that his wife Ellen also suggested he not read the passage. Meanwhile, Ellen's old boyfriend, the football player Joe Ferguson, comes to visit for the homecoming weekend. He takes Ellen out dancing after the football rally, causing Tommy to worry that he will lose her to Joe.
Rancher
The Western hero takes on a ruthless land baron whose henchmen killed his best friend.
Managing Editor Marvin
A police reporter solves a murder case in Chicago, then moves on to St. Louis-but not voluntarily, since he has been kidnapped by the minions of the Windy City gang leader (Max Hoffman Jr.) against whom he is scheduled to testify.
Madden, the Counterfeiter
A crooked gambler poses as a descendant of a noble Spanish family has successfully secured court validation of a counterfeit land grant, and proceeds to drive out ranchers already settled on the land with high taxes, road tolls and violent tactics. A pair of horse sellers pitch in to help a customer, his daughter, and the other "tenant" ranchers after being roughed up by toll collectors when they refuse to pay the assessed toll.
Army Doctor
Incompetent door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesmen become enlisted without their knowledge.
City Editor
A struggling lawyer is named as special prosecutor in a racketeering case.
'Pinkie' Taylor, FAA inspector
Story of test pilots at a school that trains new flyers.
Dist. Atty. Kendall
Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things right.
Gillis
A reporter is constantly in trouble for jumping to conclusions.
City Editor Macy
Story concerns railroad tycoon J.B. Matthews (Jed Prouty) taking over a rival line, being sent on an R&R vacation by his doctor, falling off his private train-car and landing in a hobo jungle occupied by Faylen and Hall, and being cured of all his ills, while reporter Jimmy Dugan (Frank Albertson) poses as a doctor in order to get an exclusive story about the railroad takeover.