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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1914-01-31 (111 years old)

Place of Birth

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

John Ireland

Biography:

John Benjamin Ireland (January 30, 1914 – March 21, 1992) was a Canadian-American actor and film director. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his performance in All the King's Men (1949), making him the first Vancouver-born actor to receive an Academy Award nomination.

Ireland was a supporting actor in several famous Western films such as My Darling Clementine (1946), Red River (1948), Vengeance Valley (1951), and Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957). His other notable film roles were in 55 Days at Peking (1963), The Adventurers (1970), and Farewell, My Lovely (1975).

Ireland also appeared in many television series, notably The Cheaters (1960–1962). He was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contribution to the television industry.

Known For

Acting

2023

The Enigmatic Charlotte Rampling as Self (archive footage)

2015

3-D Rarities as (archive footage)

2002

The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller as Bob Ford (archive footage)

1992

Hammer Down as Lt. Bates

1991

The Graveyard Story as Dr. McGregor

1989

Terror Night as Lance Hayward
Snoops as Gabriel Franken

1988

Messenger of Death as Zenas Beecham
Bonanza: The Next Generation as Capt. Aaron Cartwright

1987

J.J. Starbuck as Charles Capstone

1986

Seasons in the Sun as Keith Slattery

1985

Miami Golem as Anderson
Thunder Run as George Adams
Martin's Day as Brewer

1984

Murder, She Wrote as Sheriff Hainer
Airwolf as Hardesty
Airwolf as Carl Barron

1983

A Matter of Cunning as John Markham
Hardcastle and McCormick as Bucky Miller
The Hitchhiker as Jack Guttman

1982

Incubus as Hank Walden
Cassie & Co. as Lyman Shackelford

1981

Bordello as Judge

1980

Tourist as Joe Vigil, Sr.
Magnum, P.I. as Wyndom Jackson

1979

The Shape of Things to Come as Senator Smedley
Crossbar as Miles Kornylo
Delta Fox as Lucas Johnson
Hart to Hart as Zeke BaIllinger

1978

The Millionaire as Marshall Wayburn

1977

Satan's Cheerleaders as Sheriff B.L.Z. Bubb
The Ransom as Chief Haliburton

1976

The Swiss Conspiracy as Dwight McGowan
Salon Kitty as Cliff
Quincy, M.E. as Attorney John Packard
Quincy, M.E. as Jerry Driskill
Quincy, M.E. as Sheriff Ned Evers

1975

We Are No Angels as Mr. Shark
Sex Diary as Milton
Switch as Verne Deamer

1974

Welcome to Arrow Beach as Sheriff Duke Bingham
The Rangers as Carson
Blood River as Abel Webster
Northeast of Seoul as Flanaghan

1973

1972

Escape to the Sun as Jacob Kagan
Ghost Story as Arthur Mundy

1970

The Adventurers as Mr.James Hadley
Challenge of McKenna as Jones/Jonas MacKenna

1969

Zenabel as Don Alonso Imolne
Carnal Circuit as Richard Salinger
One on Top of the Other as Inspector Wald

1968

Villa Rides as Client in Barber Shop (uncredited)
Run, Man, Run as Santillana
Gatling Gun as Tarpas
Dead for a Dollar as Der Colonel
A Taste of Death as Dan El/Ralph
Go For Broke as Owl/Gufo/le Hibou
Arizona Bushwhackers as Dan Shelby
Hawaii Five-O as Phil Coleman
The Name of the Game as Mel Wexler

1967

Fort Utah as Tom Horn
Dirty Heroes as Captain O’Connor
Caxambu! as Vince Neff
Hate for Hate as James Cooper

1966

Mission: Impossible as Andrew Metzger

1965

I Saw What You Did as Steve Marak
Day of the Nightmare as Sgt. Dave Harmon
Run for Your Life as Dr. Mason
Branded as Cattle Rancher Renger
Branded as Ted Evers

1964

The Big Parade of Comedy as Captain Calbern in 'A Southern Yankee' (arch. foot.) (uncred.)
Daniel Boone as Hiram Manville

1963

55 Days at Peking as Sgt. Harry
The Ceremony as Prison Warden
No Time To Kill as Johnny Greco
Burke's Law as Orrin Lashwell
Kraft Suspense Theatre as William 'Scotty' Scott
Burke's Law as Bullock

1962

Brushfire as Jeff Saygure
The Virginian as Kinroy

1961

Wild in the Country as Phil Macy

1960

Spartacus as Crixus
Faces in the Dark as Max Hammond
Thriller as Eddie Wilson
The Cheaters as John Hunter

1959

Riverboat as Chris Slade
Bonanza as Marshal Will Rimbau
Rawhide as Frank Trask
Rawhide as Dr. Joseph Merritt
Rawhide as Jed Colby
Rawhide as Winch

1958

Party Girl as Louis Canetto
Stormy Crossing as Griff Parker
No Place to Land as Jonas Bailey

1957

1956

Gunslinger as Cane Miro
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Marshal Harry Phillips
Armchair Theatre as Monroe Stahr

1955

Queen Bee as Judson Prentiss
The Glass Cage as Pel Pelham
Hell's Horizon as Capt. John Merrill
Gunsmoke as Jed Coombs
Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Captain McCabe
Gunsmoke as Parker

1954

The Fast and the Furious as Frank Webster
The Good Die Young as Eddie Blaine
The Steel Cage as Al, a Ringleader, segment "The Hostages"
Security Risk as Ralph Payne
Southwest Passage as Clint McDonald
Climax! as Greg

1953

The 49th Man as Investigator John Williams
Hannah Lee: An American Primitive as Marshal Sam Rochelle
Combat Squad as Sgt. Ken 'Fletch' Fletcher

1952

Hurricane Smith as Hurricane Smith

1951

The Scarf as John Howard Barrington
Vengeance Valley as Hub Fasken
The Basketball Fix as Pete Ferreday
Red Mountain as Gen. William Quantrill
Little Big Horn as Lt. John Haywood
This Is Korea! as Narrator
The Bushwhackers as Jefferson Waring
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as Billy Bob Jackson

1950

Cargo to Capetown as Steve Conway
The Return of Jesse James as Johnny Callum
Lux Video Theatre as Milt Shanks

1949

All the King's Men as Jack Burden
I Shot Jesse James as Bob Ford
The Undercover Man as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Mr. Soft Touch as Henry 'Early' Byrd
Roughshod as Lednov
The Doolins of Oklahoma as Bitter Creek
Anna Lucasta as Danny Johnson

1948

Red River as Cherry Valance
Raw Deal as Fantail
Open Secret as Paul Lester
A Southern Yankee as Capt. Jed Calbern
Joan of Arc as Jean de la Boussac (St. Sevére), Captain

1947

The Gangster as Karty
Repeat Performance as Narrator (Voice)
Railroaded! as Duke Martin

1946

My Darling Clementine as Billy Clanton
Behind Green Lights as Det. Oppenheimer
Wake Up and Dream as Howard Williams
Somewhere in the Night as Thug (voice) (uncredited)

1945

A Walk in the Sun as Pfc. Windy Craven

Directing

1954

Production