John Maxwell

John Maxwell

Рождение : 1918-03-11, Spokane, Washington, USA

Смерть : 1982-07-18

История

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.

Профиль

John Maxwell

Фильмы

Cage of Evil
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.
The Man Who Died Twice
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.
Flood Tide
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.
The Wayward Girl
Parole Agent
Framed by her stepmother for manslaughter, a convict turns to a parole racket.
Showdown at Abilene
Frank Scovie
Jim Trask, former sheriff of Abilene, returns to the town after fighting for the Confederacy to find everyone thought he was dead. His old friend Dave Mosely is now engaged to Trask's former sweetheart and is one of the cattlemen increasingly feuding with the original farmers. Trask is persuaded to take up as sheriff again but there is something about the death of Mosely's brother in the Civil War that is haunting him.
A Strange Adventure
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.
Francis in the Haunted House
Edward Ryan
A Ha-Ha-Haunted House Has Got 'Em! ...and it's every ghost for himself!
Terror at Midnight
Capt. Allyson
A newly promoted police sergeant discovers his girlfriend my be involved with a gang of car thieves.
Ответный удар
Colonel Welnick (uncredited)
Отец Джима Слейтера, которого Джим никогда не знал, погибает в стычке с апачами в долине Хила. Джим ищет единственного выжившего человека, который якобы отправился за помощью, но бесследно исчез. Вместе с ним исчезло и золото, найденное отцом Джима и его товарищами в долине Хила...
Time Table
Train Conductor
An insurance detective encounters numerous surprises when he is assigned to investigate a meticulously-planned train robbery in Arizona.
The Eternal Sea
Adm. William F. 'Bull' Halsey
Biography of Admiral John Hoskins' efforts to retain active command despite WW2 injury.
Это молодое сердце
Doctor (uncredited)
Лори одна из трех дочерей музыканта Грегори Туттла они умны, красивы, воспитаны и давно хотят замуж. Лори и Эми договариваются о совместной свадьбе. Найдя подходящих женихов, они начинают приготовления к свадьбам. В это время Алекс — жених Лори, для своего нового проекта приглашает Барни Слоана — музыканта и аранжировщика, чтобы написать музыку. Барни поселяется в доме Грегори Туттла и постепенно знакомится со всей семьей. Он пессимист и считает себя неудачником, особенно он откровенен с Лори, они много говорят на разные темы. Приходит день свадьбы и неожиданно Лори понимает, что Алекс с которым она помолвлена, не ее мужчина, только меланхоличный Барни мил ее сердцу — именно он должен стать ее мужем и отцом будущих детей…
The Bigamist
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.
Война миров
Doctor (uncredited)
На окраине маленького городка упал метеорит. Это событие будоражит воображение местных жителей. Это же первый Контакт, но… марсиане пришли не с миром. Долгое время они пристально изучали землю, чтобы начать вторжение. Всего за пару дней все города были разрушены, армии всего мира потерпели поражение. Кажется, что гибель человечества неизбежна. Спасения нет! А доктор Клайтон Форрестер пытается уберечь свою возлюбленную Сильвию от кошмара, творящегося вокруг. Неужели человечество будет стерто с лица земли?
Devil's Canyon
Grocer
An outlaw woman helps one Arizona convict stop another with a Gatling gun.
Встреть меня на ярмарке
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.
Without Warning!
Fred Saunders
Police track a serial killer.
Too Young to Kiss
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.
The Unknown Man
Dr. Palmer
A scrupulously honest lawyer discovers that the client he's gotten off was really guilty.
The Lady from Texas
Mr. Deevers
An eccentric Civil War widow is accused of being insane.
Night Into Morning
Dr. Huntington
Berkeley university professor adjusts (using alcohol) to tragic fire deaths of wife & son.
The Prowler
Bud Crocker
Los Angeles, California. A cop who, unhappy with his job, blames others for his work problems, is assigned to investigate the case of a prowler who stalks the home of a married woman.
Three Guys Named Mike
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.
Pretty Baby
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.
Таинственная улица
Detective Kilrain (uncredited)
На пляже обнаружен скелет. Дело поручено лейтенанту Мораласу, который вынужден обратиться за помощью к криминальным медэкспертам Гарварда. Из фильма можно почерпнуть статистику исчезновений и краж в Америке на тот момент.
Асфальтовые джунгли
Dr. Swanson
Знаменитый медвежатник Док Риденшнайдер выходит из тюрьмы с готовым блестящим планом многомиллионной кражи со взломом. Он набирает группу профессионалов, а реализовать товар планирует через вальяжного скупщика краденого Эммериха. Свои преступные дела тот успешно сочетает с охмурением молоденькой любовницы — которая ждет от него слишком многого. Для каждого в бригаде это ограбление должно было стать рубежом, после которого началась бы новая, сладкая жизнь. Сначала все идет как по маслу, но трагическое стечение обстоятельств заставляет гангстеров бороться уже не за деньги, а за жизнь.
Side Street
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.
Ребро Адама
Court Clerk (uncredited)
Настырный и упрямый прокурор ведет в зале суда обвинение против клиентки его жены-защитницы. Женщину обвиняют в попытке убийства из-за того, что та, которую она хотела застрелить, встречалась с ее недобропорядочным и лживым мужем. Адвокат, защитница прав женщин, решительно настроена доказать, что точка зрения прокурора отражает сексистские двойные стандарты и что мужа обвиняемой за подобные действия даже и не судили бы. Это возмущает консервативного прокурора. В течение процесса брак блюстителей закона трещит по швам, а судебные препирательства продолжаются и дома…
Arson, Inc.
Detective
An arson investigator goes undercover to break up a ring that sets fires in order to collect the insurance.
Бледнолицый
Village gossip
Кто-то на Диком Западе продает оружие индейцам. Для того, чтобы найти преступников, правительство, в обмен на помилование, отправляет в опасное путешествие Каламити Джейн и секретного агента под прикрытием, которые должны изображать из себя мужа и жену. Когда агента убивают, Джейн приходится срочно найти себе нового «мужа» – дантиста «Безболезненного» Питера Поттера, неудачника и труса, который хочет оставить варварский запад далеко позади и вернуться на восток. Когда на караван фургонов нападают индейцы, свою меткую стрельбу Джейн приписывает Поттеру, который мгновенно становится героем в глазах горожан, прикрытием Джейн, и приманкой для индейцев и торговцев оружием
Alaska
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.
The Last Horseman
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.
Lady in the Death House
Richard Snell
As a woman walks the "last mile" to her execution she remembers back to the incidents that got her framed for murder.
Batman
Sam Fletcher
Japanese master spy Daka operates a covert espionage-sabotage organization located in Gotham City's now-deserted Little Tokyo, which turns American scientists into pliable zombies. The great crime-fighters Batman and Robin, with the help of their allies, are in pursuit.
False Faces
Assistant District Attorney Stewart
A district attorney sets out to vindicate his son who's been accused of murdering a nightclub singer.
Миссия в Москву
Reporter at Train (uncredited)
Хроника впечатлений о Советском Союзе американского посла Дэвиса, его встреч со Сталиным, и его общая точка зрения на отношения Советского Союза и Соединенных Штатов.
Silver Skates
Blake
The management of touring ice show faces mounting debts.
Джентльмен Джим
Stockbroker (uncredited)
История Джима Корбетта, прозванного одним из «отцов современного бокса». В новую эру бокса он применил инновационные тренировки и отстаивал соблюдение джентльменских правил во время поединков.
Семь невест
City Editor (uncredited)
Журналист по заданию редакции приезжает в небольшой городок, чтобы написать репортаж о местном фестивале тюльпанов. Он поселяется в отеле, у владельца которого, потомка голландских иммигрантов, имеется семь незамужних дочерей. По старинной голландской традиции, а отец тщательно хранит их, старшая дочь, Регина, должна выйти замуж первой. Однако замужество не входит в ее планы - Регина мечтает стать актрисой и хочет правдами или неправдами уехать в Нью Йорк...
The Lone Prairie
Hayden enters the lawless prairie in which criminals have had free reign to manipulate the innocent settlers.
The Omaha Trail
Croupier
The coming of the railroad to the West triggers an Indian war.
Spy Ship
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.
Grand Central Murder
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.
Murder in the Big House
Prison Doctor
When a prisoner on Death Row is "accidentally" killed just before his execution, a reporter smells something fishy...
Зверь мужского пола
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.
Wild Bill Hickok Rides
Rancher
The Western hero takes on a ruthless land baron whose henchmen killed his best friend.
Man From Headquarters
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.
Arizona Terrors
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.
You're in the Army Now
Army Doctor
Incompetent door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesmen become enlisted without their knowledge.
Borrowed Hero
City Editor
A struggling lawyer is named as special prosecutor in a racketeering case.
Flying Cadets
'Pinkie' Taylor, FAA inspector
Story of test pilots at a school that trains new flyers.
Honky Tonk
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.
Nine Lives Are Not Enough
Gillis
A reporter is constantly in trouble for jumping to conclusions.
Father Steps Out
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.