John Larch
Nascimento : 1914-10-04, Salem, Massachusetts, USA
Morte : 2005-10-16
História
John Larch (October 4, 1914 - October 16, 2005) was an American film and television actor.
After his lead role in the radio serial Captain Starr of Space (1953–54), John Larch entered films in 1954. He usually appeared in westerns (How The West Was Won) and action films, including Miracle of the White Stallions as General George S. Patton Jr. (1963), Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur as General Omar Bradley (1976), replacing James Gregory as Mac in the Matt Helm movie The Wrecking Crew (1969) starring Dean Martin, Sharon Tate and Elke Sommer. Larch, an old friend of Clint Eastwood, appeared in Eastwood films, including Dirty Harry (1971) and Play Misty for Me (1971).
He also appeared on a number of television programs, including Naked City (three episodes), Route 66 (three episodes), The Fugitive (two episodes), The Invaders, The Restless Gun (four episodes), Gunsmoke (seven episodes), The Virginian (four episodes), Bonanza, Hawaii Five-0, Mission Impossible (two episodes), The Troubleshooters, Bus Stop, Laramie, The Law and Mr. Jones, and possibly most famously as Bill Mumy's father in The Twilight Zone episode "It's a Good Life" in 1961. He also appeared in two other The Twilight Zone episodes, playing a psychiatrist in "Perchance to Dream" and the sheriff in "Dust".
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Prosecuting Attorney
Diversas confusões acontecem quando o Mayflower 1, o primeiro ônibus espacial de passageiros, ruma para a Lua, pois há um louco detonador a bordo. O primeiro módulo lunar está para se autodestruir, as máquinas não estão funcionando e o pior de tudo: a tripulação descobre que está sem nenhum café.
Farther Nuncio
Horror em Amityville: Após se mudarem para uma casa onde aconteceram terríveis assassinatos de uma mesma família, George, Kathy e seus filhos passam a viver uma forte experiência sobrenatural. As forças diabólicas que ali habitam perturbam toda a família durante 28 dias. No 28° dia, eles decidem tomar uma atitude.
Johnson
Astronomers discover a comet that they believe will crash into Phoenix, Arizona. They attempt to warn officials, but without 100% certainty, the governor of Arizona is reticent to cause a panic. Even after a television news reporter discovers the truth and threatens to go live with it, the response is understated enough to doom some residents of Phoenix to certain death.
A veteran street cop is assigned a new partner. The partner is not exactly what he seems to be, though--he is an experimental android who has been programmed by the police lab.
Bundy
Joe Don Baker plays a gambler who is framed for a crime he did not commit. A corrupt legal system leads him into a plea bargain and four years behind bars. By the time he gets out of prison, he's determined to put together the pieces of his frame-up and dole out the justice he was denied to those responsible.
District Attorney
When a famous fashion designer is found murdered, Inspector Richard Queen of the NYPD is baffled by her dying clue, prompting him to bring in his son, mystery writer Ellery Queen, to help in the investigation. This was the pilot film for the short-lived TV series.
Dr. Bryson
A disabled Vietnam vet sets out to prove that disabled people don't have to be helpless by starting a 180-mile trip in a wheelchair. On the way he finds his life is endangered by a deranged truck driver.
Sgt. Lynch
Filme televisivo que conta a história de Ronald, um rapaz introvertido e de caráter difícil, que mata acidentalmente uma vizinha. Sua mãe, com medo, o esconde em um quarto secreto na casa.
Fargo
A father finds himself taking care of a family that, in addition to his son and three daughters, also consists of two sons-in-law and his youngest daughter's Chinese boyfriend.
Dr. Bill Hammond
Someone is shooting the residents of a mountain resort town. Sheriff McNeill (Andy Griffith) must figure out the connection that links the victims and find the sniper before he (or she) kills again, and before the town council relieves him of duty.
Banner
Jody Deakes joins up with his father after many years, just to discover that his dad is part of an outlaw gang on the run from a relentless bounty hunter named Santee. Jody is orphaned soon after Santee catches up to the gang, and follows Santee in hopes of taking vengeance for his father's death. Instead, however, Jody discovers that Santee is a good and loving man, tormented by the death of his young son at the hands of another outlaw gang. Santee and his wife take Jody in and a father and son relationship begins to grow. Then the gang that shot Santee's son shows up. The film was produced by Edward Platt of Get Smart fame. It was one of the first motion pictures to be shot electronically on videotape and then transferred to film.
Barney
A parole officer goes undercover to investigate prison brutality but is trapped when the only person on the outside who knows why she's there is killed.
Chief
O policial Harry Callahan tenta rastrear um assassino psicopata num terraço antes que uma garota sequestrada morra. Quando o encontra, Harry abusa do direito civil do assassino, o que o coloca de volta nas ruas. Um ônibus escolar é sequestrado e Harry sai à busca do assassino novamente e a única maneira de pará-lo é a sangue frio.
Sgt. McCallum
Na cidade de Carmel, o popular radialista David passa uma noite com uma estranha que conhece num bar, Evelyn. A mulher, no entanto, é uma fã obcecada e passa a atormentar sua vida e a de todos que o cercam.
Holland Yermo
The trials and tribulations of the first Hispanic mayor of a major Southwestern city.
Warner
Na fronteira do Texas, em 1912, capitão da cavalaria americana luta contra um exército de bandidos mexicanos na tentativa de destruir canhões que foram roubados por um líder rebelde chamado Córdoba.
Mounted Patrolman
A young playwright who writes porno novels to overcome a writer's block, lives the fantasies of one of his books, while trying to move with his wife from one apartment into a larger one.
Mr. Conklin
Carl Dixon decides to quit school and enlist in the Army, even though he's already run afoul of the law as a Vietnam protestor. It is our hero's intention to use love, rather than bullets, to combat the Viet Cong. Needless to say, his idealism is no match for the harsher realities of war.
Sheriff of Friendly
A motley group of phony church leaders attempts to rob a bank controlled by brothers in 1880's Texas.
MacDonald
Quando o Conde Contini tenta destruir a economia mundial, planejando o roubo de US $ 1 bilhão em ouro dos EUA, o chefe da ICE MacDonald convoca o agente secreto Matt Helm para detê-lo.
General George S. Patton, Jr.
Na Áustria da segunda guerra mundial, Alois Podhajsky precisa proteger seus queridos cavalos garanhões da raça Lipizzan e providenciar que eles estejam em mãos seguras. Mas Patton, um adorador de cavalos, pode ajudá-lo... se puder ver os garanhões se apresentarem.
Councilman Halliday
A campy, over-the-top educational short that tells the story of a young man who becomes deranged from reading pornographic magazines.
Capt. Schwabe
Baseado na história de Guy Gabaldon, um menino hispânico de Los Angeles criado na década de 1930 por uma família adotiva nipo-americana. Depois de Pearl Harbor, sua família adotiva está internada no campo de Manzanar para nipo-americanos, enquanto ele se alista nos fuzileiros navais, onde sua capacidade de falar japonês se torna um bem vital. Durante a Batalha de Saipan, ele convence 800 japoneses a se renderem depois que seu general comete suicídio. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)
Jed Givens
Ex-army sergeant Jed Givens and his gang rob an army payroll shipment led by Lt. Hemp Brown. Givens kills a civilian woman and all the soldiers, leaving Brown alive to face a military tribunal in which he is branded a coward, stripped of all insignia and drummed out of the army. Brown sets out to track down Givens in an effort to clear his name.
Hal Carmody
O ingénuo cowboy Tod Lohman mata acidentalmente o filho do poderoso barão terrestre Hunter Boyd. Tod corre pela sua vida, perseguido pelos irmãos vingativos do homem morto. Tod abriga-se no rancho de Amos Bradley e apaixona-se pela sua filha Juanita. No entanto, Tod está preocupado com o facto de eventualmente ter de partir quando os seus perseguidores o apanharem.
Ed Yates
Na cidade rural de Spurline, Virgil Renchler (Orson Welles) é o poderoso dono da fazenda "Golden Empire". Uma noite, um trabalhador rural é espacando até à morte por empregados de Renchler. Quando o novo xerife Ben Sadler (Jeff Chandler) chega à cidade, descobre que será mais dificil do que se imagina, investigar esse crime.
Heller
A gang of bank robbers with a posse in hot pursuit. Riding into the desert, they take refuge in Quantez, a small town they find deserted. Their horses tired and near death, they’re forced to stay the night — with the plan to cross the border into Mexico the next day.
Sam Vernon
A high school girl from a wealthy family falls for a fellow student from a poor family. Both families disapprove, and, unable to stand the pressure, the couple quit school and flee to Mexico.
Stringer
Depois da morte do pai, seus três filhos continuam cuidando do rancho da família. O mais velho é o líder, o mais jovem é meio desmiolado. A mãe preocupa-se mais com o filho do meio, tentando protegê-lo das maldades do mundo, enquanto os irmãos brigam por ele. Acaba ganhando a reputação de covarde.
Bill Dawson
Mexican gunfighter Dave Robles outdraws the town's outlaw-turned-sheriff and is invited to fill the dead man's shoes. But a tin star doesn't bring automatic respectability and Robles is shunned by the town's leading citizens. His popularity with its less-savory element, particularly saloonkeeper Bannister, wanes dramatically, too, as he starts to take his job seriously. It is his love for a decent, caring woman that keeps Dave in town, but can she convince him to lay down his gun and start a new life?
Roy Carter
Mitch Wayne e Kyle Hadley são amigos desde criança. A irmã de Kyle, Marylee, pretende se casar com Mitch. Mas este considera a jovem praticamente uma irmã e na verdade está apaioxonado por Lucy. O problema é que Kyle também está e é ele quem acaba se casando com Lucy, antes mesmo que Mitch pudesse expressar seus sentimentos. Kyle, antes um playboy e bebedor, com o tempo passa a ter mais responsabilidade. Mas então descobre que é estéril e mergulha com tudo na bebida. Marylee, movida pelo ódio de ter sido rejeitada, sugere ao irmão que Mitch e Lucy são amantes. E quando Lucy revela estar grávida, Kyle acusa o amigo Mitch de ser o pai.
Payte Bodeen
Aging lawman Ben Stride burns a trail of murderous revenge across a hardscrabble landscape searching for his wife's murderers.
William Kiley
A group prison breakout goes from bad to worse when the desperate warden tries to steal the gang's dough.
Otto Flanders
Um desequilibrado criminoso cuja mulher, acidentalmente foi morta por um detetive da polícia durante sua prisão, pretende vingar-se matando a esposa do policial.
Clem Wilson
Cidadãos decentes travam uma guerra sangrenta para expulsar a marginália que deu à cidade do Alabama o título de "Cidade do Pecado".
A former model, serving time in prison, becomes a key witness in a trial against a notorious gangster. She is put under protective watch by the District Attorney in a posh hotel, but the crime kingpin makes attempts to get to her.
Police Detective
A single woman tries to keep her sister from another man by framing her for her husband's murder.
1st Sailor
The demented, ruthless Captain Ahab pursues the white whale which took off his leg years before.
Hired Gunman
"Wild" Bill Elliott is a cowboy who goes in search of the man who killed his brother, and finds himself in the small town of Bitter Creek.
Mr. Tracy
A young student living in Rome gets a job as a tour guide and falls in love with a young stowaway who is being sought by the police.
