John Archer

Born: 1915-05-08

John Archer (May 8, 1915 – December 5, 1999) was an American movie and television actor. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Archer,  licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


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White Heat

as Philip Evans
Released: 1949-09-02

A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads...

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Blue Hawaii

as Jack Kelman
Released: 1961-11-22

Chad Gates has just been discharged from the Army, and is happy to be back in Hawaii with his...

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Sherlock Holmes in Washington

as Naval Lt. Pete Merriam
Released: 1943-03-24

In World War II, a British secret agent carrying a vitally important document is kidnapped en...

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Decision at Sundown

as Dr. John Storrow
Released: 1957-11-10

A man and his partner arrive at a small Western town to kill its most powerful man because the...

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Colorado Territory

as Reno Blake
Released: 1949-06-11

After escaping from jail, outlaw Wes McQueen is convinced by his old partner in crime to do one...

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Apache Rifles

as Col. Nathan Perry
Released: 1964-11-26

A young cavalry officer is assigned the job of bringing in a band of Apaches who have been...

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Destination Moon

as Jim Barnes
Released: 1950-06-27

A team composed of an aerospace scientist, an ex-Air Force general, and an industrialist...

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Crash Dive

as Curly Bowman (uncredited)
Released: 1943-04-22

A US Navy submarine, the USS Corsair, is operating in the North Atlantic, hunting German...

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I Saw What You Did

as John Austin
Released: 1965-07-21

Teenage friends Kit and Libby make prank phone calls for fun but then find themselves involved...

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Guadalcanal Diary

as Lt. Thurmond
Released: 1943-10-27

Concentrating on the personal lives of those involved, a war correspondent takes us through the...

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The Big Trees

as Frenchy LeCroix
Released: 1952-02-05

In 1900, unscrupulous timber baron Jim Fallon plans to take advantage of a new law and make...

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My Favorite Spy

as Henderson
Released: 1951-12-25

A burlesque comic doubles for a spy in Tangier and meets the spy's girlfriend, who is also a spy.

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The Great Jewel Robber

as Police Detective Lou Sampter
Released: 1950-07-15

Director Peter Godfrey's 1950 drama, inspired by true events, dramatizes the crime spree of the...

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Roger Touhy, Gangster

as FBI Agent Kerrigan
Released: 1944-06-03

Set during Prohibition, the movie centers on Touhy's rise from small time thug to the city's...

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Bowery at Midnight

as Richard Dennison
Released: 1942-10-30

A seemingly charitable soup kitchen operator (who moonlights as a criminology professor) uses...

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King of the Zombies

as Bill Summers
Released: 1941-05-14

During World War II, a small plane somewhere over the Caribbean runs low on fuel and is blown...

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Santa Fe

as Clint Canfield
Released: 1951-04-01

After their service in the Civil War, four brothers go their separate ways, but later find...

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Gangs Inc.

as Bob Elliott
Released: 1941-06-13

Circumstances force naive Rita Adams into serving an unjust prison term, but she emerges from it...

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Ten Thousand Bedrooms

as Bob Dudley
Released: 1957-04-03

In this musical-comedy, Dean Martin plays an American hotel mogul who becomes smitten with a...

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The Lost Moment

as Charles Russell
Released: 1947-11-21

In a long flashback, a New York publisher is in Venice pursuing the lost love letters of an...

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Rock Around the Clock

as Mike Dodd
Released: 1956-03-21

A frustrated big-band promoter runs in to rock-and-rollers Bill Haley and the Comets at a...

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How to Frame a Figg

as Gerard
Released: 1971-02-01

Don Knotts is Hollis Figg, the dumbest bookkeeper in town. When the city fathers buy a...

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Best of the Badmen

as Curley Ringo
Released: 1951-08-09

After the North defeats the South, Union Maj. Jeff Clanton heads to Missouri to provide the...

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Barnyard Follies

as Jeff Hill
Released: 1940-10-05

A country orphanage puts on a show with some musicians to save their 4H club from being shut...

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Scattergood Baines

as Johnny Bones
Released: 1941-02-21

Young Scattergood Baines arrives in the small New England town of Coldriver. Through some shrewd...

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No Man's Woman

as Harlow Grant
Released: 1955-10-27

A greedy, scheming woman is found murdered in her studio, and the police find that there is no...

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City of Fear

as Lt. Mark Richards
Released: 1959-02-01

An escaped convict gets a hold of some radioactive material after his escape. Authorities...

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Emergency Hospital

as Dr. Ellis
Released: 1956-11-02

About the lives and loves of the staff of an emergency hospital as reflected in a single...

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Overland Stage Raiders

as Bob Whitney (as Ralph Bowman)
Released: 1938-09-20

After gold shipments from a mining town have been hijacked, the three Mesquiteers buy a plane to...

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Hello, Frisco, Hello

as Ned Clark
Released: 1943-03-26

In turn-of-the-century San Francisco, an ambitious vaudevillian takes his quartet from a honky...

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She Devil

as Barton Kendall
Released: 1957-04-01

Biochemists give fruit-fly serum to a dying woman, with side effects.

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Cheers for Miss Bishop

as Richard Clark (as Ralph Bowman)
Released: 1941-02-21

Ella Bishop is an inhibited girl whose frustrations grow as she approaches womanhood. As a...

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City of Missing Girls

as James Horton
Released: 1941-03-27

A female reporter goes undercover to investigate the series of mysterious disappearances of...

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High Lonesome

as Pat Farrell
Released: 1950-09-01

When a sudden spurt of murders occurs in the Big Bend country, suspicion immediately falls on a...

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Affair in Reno

as Tony Lamarr
Released: 1957-02-15

The story of a PR man hired by a millionaire to go to Reno to prevent his daughter from marrying...

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The Stars Are Singing

as Dave Parish
Released: 1953-03-11

After she enters the United States illegally, 15-year-old Polish singer Katri Walenska (Anna...

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Curtain Call

as Ted Palmer
Released: 1940-04-18

Two theatrical producers plan to get even with a demanding actress by tricking her into starring...

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Scattergood Survives a Murder

as Dunker Gilson
Released: 1942-10-01

Rural sage Scattergood Baines (Guy Kibbee) shows big-city newsman how to solve a mystery.

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Flaming Frontiers

as Tom Grant
Released: 1938-07-05

Tom Grant has found a rich gold vein and Bart Eaton is after it. Tom's sister Mary heads for the...

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The Eve of St. Mark

as Pvt. Carter
Released: 1944-05-22

Quizz West is conscripted into the United States Army in late 1940. Prior to being shipped out...

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Sucker List

as William Allen
Released: 1941-07-26

In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a man and his racketeer buddies devise a scheme to...

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Thursday's Game

as Mr. Wood
Released: 1974-04-14

Harry Evers and Marvin Ellison have been playing poker Thursday nights with their friends for...

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Police Bullets

as Prof. J. Thomas Quincy
Released: 1942-09-25

A gangster running a protection racket gets information that he's about to be prosecuted on...

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Rodeo

as Slim Martin
Released: 1952-03-09

Nancy Cartwright is determined to collect an $1,800 feed bill owed to her father Harry...

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Shantytown

as Bill Allen
Released: 1943-04-20

Liz lives with her mother and stepfather in a boarding house on the "wrong side of the tracks"

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Lassie, the Voyager

as uncredited
Released: 1966-01-01

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A Yank in Indo-China

as uncredited
Released: 1952-04-02

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Hi, Neighbor

as Dr. Hall
Released: 1942-07-27

A financially strapped college is transformed into a summer holiday resort with the help of...

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Dragon's Gold

as Mack Rossiter
Released: 1954-02-10

Murder and intrigue follow an insurance investigator Mack Rossiter (John Archer) after he is...

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Sound Off

as Maj. Paul Whiteside
Released: 1952-05-15

An obnoxious nightclub comedian at Ciro's is drafted into the U.S. Army during the Korean War....

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Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch

as Dr. Robert Redmond
Released: 1942-10-01

In the shanty town called the Cabbage Patch, Mrs. Wiggs scrabbles for survival with her brood of...

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Sea Tiger

as Ben McGrun
Released: 1952-07-27

Murder ensues when owners and hired help contrive against each other to obtain diamonds and gold...

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Career

as Ray Cruthers
Released: 1939-07-07

Set in a tiny midwestern town, this sentimental drama centers on the rivalry between two...

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Mountain Moonlight

as Dr. Ed
Released: 1941-07-12

A cyclone destroys the Weaver family farm leaving only the old stone chimney. When the chimney...

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Spring Madness

as Dartmouth College Student
Released: 1938-11-11

Harvard senior Sam Thatcher and his best friend and roommate, known as "The Lippencott", plan to...

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Always Tomorrow: The Portrait of an American Business

as Jim Westlake
Released: 1941-11-03

Feature length promotional film presented by The Coca-Cola Company during World War II, focuses...

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Columbo

as Paul
First aired: 1971-09-15

Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently...

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Perry Mason

as Frank Maddox
First aired: 1957-09-21

The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most...

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Perry Mason

as Major Frank Lessing
First aired: 1957-09-21

The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most...

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Perry Mason

as James R. Bradbury
First aired: 1957-09-21

The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most...

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Perry Mason

as Burt Farwell
First aired: 1957-09-21

The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most...

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Perry Mason

as Harry Arnold
First aired: 1957-09-21

The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most...

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Batman

as Club President
First aired: 1966-01-12

Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually...

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Batman

as Captain Carlisle
First aired: 1966-01-12

Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually...

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Ironside

as uncredited
First aired: 1967-03-28

When an assassin's bullet confines him to a wheelchair for life ending his career as Chief of...

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The Virginian

as Paul Nelson
First aired: 1962-09-19

The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth,...

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The Virginian

as Connally
First aired: 1962-09-19

The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth,...

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The Twilight Zone

as Bill Padgett
First aired: 1959-10-02

A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science...

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Lassie

as uncredited
First aired: 1954-09-12

Lassie is the pet of Jeff Miller, an 11-year-old farm boy. The two become best friends and enjoy...

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Bat Masterson

as Jim
First aired: 1958-10-08

Bat Masterson is an American Western television series which showed a fictionalized account of...

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Mannix

as uncredited
First aired: 1967-09-16

Mannix is an American television detective series that ran from 1967 through 1975 on CBS....

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Maverick

as uncredited
First aired: 1957-09-22

The Maverick boys - Bret, Bart, Beau and Brent - are a clan of well-dressed dandies, gamblers...

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Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

as Ad Masters
First aired: 1956-10-05

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American...

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Cheyenne

as uncredited
First aired: 1955-09-20

Cheyenne is an American western television series of 108 black-and-white episodes broadcast on...

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Laramie

as uncredited
First aired: 1959-09-15

Laramie is an American Western television series that aired on NBC from 1959 to 1963. A Revue...

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Riverboat

as Dunnigan
First aired: 1959-09-13

Riverboat is a 44-episode western television series starring Darren McGavin and Burt Reynolds...

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Sea Hunt

as uncredited
First aired: 1958-01-04

Sea Hunt is an American adventure television series that aired in syndication from 1958 to 1961...

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Surfside 6

as uncredited
First aired: 1960-10-06

Surfside 6 was an ABC television series which aired from 1960 to 1962. The show centered on a...

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77 Sunset Strip

as uncredited
First aired: 1958-10-10

Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this...

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M Squad

as Brad Morgan
First aired: 1957-09-20

Lt. Frank Ballinger is a no-nonsense plain clothes cop in the elite M Squad Division. The...

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The Millionaire

as Tom Williams
First aired: 1955-01-19

An anthology series that explored the ways sudden and unexpected wealth changed life for better...

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Lock-Up

as uncredited
First aired: 1959-09-28

Lock-Up is an American legal drama series that premiered in syndication in September 1959 and...

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The Tall Man

as uncredited
First aired: 1960-09-10

The Tall Man is a half-hour American western television series about Sheriff Pat Garrett and the...

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Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II

as Gentleman
First aired: 1976-09-21

Weekly series spun off from the miniseries.

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Suspense

as uncredited
First aired: 1949-01-06

An anthology series adapted from the radio program of the same name. Like the radio program,...

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State Trooper

as uncredited
First aired: 1956-09-25

State Trooper is an American crime drama set in the 1950s American West, starring Rod Cameron as...

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Coronado 9

as uncredited
First aired: 1960-09-06

Dan Adams, former Naval Intelligence officer, works in San Diego as a private detective.

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The Outsider

as uncredited
First aired: 1968-09-18

The Outsider was the story of David Ross, a go-it-alone private investigator who's always where...

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87th Precinct

as uncredited
First aired: 1961-09-25

87th Precinct is an American crime drama starring Robert Lansing, Gena Rowlands, and Ron Harper,...

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Crossroads

as Ramsey Carr
First aired: 1955-10-07

An anthology series based on the activities of clergymen from different denominations.

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Philip Marlowe

as uncredited
First aired: 1959-10-06

Philip Marlowe is a 1959-1960 half-hour ABC crime series, featuring Philip Carey as Marlowe, the...

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Letter to Loretta

as Perry Blodgett
First aired: 1953-09-20

Letter to Loretta is an American anthology drama series telecast on NBC from September 1953 to...

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Letter to Loretta

as Gene Vernon
First aired: 1953-09-20

Letter to Loretta is an American anthology drama series telecast on NBC from September 1953 to...

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Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

as Barney Wallace
First aired: 1951-10-05

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS....

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