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J. P. McGowan is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter and Producer Australien born on 23 february 1880 at Terowie, South Australia (Australie)

J. P. McGowan

J. P. McGowan
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Birth name John Paterson McGowan
Nationality Australie
Birth 23 february 1880 at Terowie, South Australia (Australie)
Death 26 march 1952 (at 72 years) at Hollywood (USA)

John Paterson McGowan (February 24, 1880 – March 26, 1952) was a pioneering Hollywood actor and director and occasionally a screenwriter and producer. J. P. McGowan, as he was usually known, remains the only Australian to have been made a life member of the Screen Directors Guild (now Directors Guild of America).

Biography

Born in the then-bustling railway centre of Terowie in South Australia, McGowan grew up in Adelaide (Islington) and Sydney. He was a capable horseman and served in the Second Boer War with Montmorency's Scouts as a special dispatch rider.

From South Africa McGowan was recruited to take part in a Boer War exhibit in the US at the 1904 World's Fair. He then began working in live theatre, and in 1910 joined Kalem Studios in New York City. That year McGowan made his first film appearance in A Lad from Old Ireland as part of the crew that traveled to Ireland to do the first American film shot on location outside of the United States. His horseback riding ability enabled him to do many of Kalem's riding stunts.

McGowan directed and often acted in the first 33 episodes of Kalem's 1914 adventure film series, The Hazards of Helen, which eventually ran to 54 episodes, some still with McGowan's participation. While filming he began a relationship with Helen Holmes, the film's star, and the two married. They left Kalem to set up their own production company, Signal Films, which successfully made a series of railroad melodramas but lost out when their distributor (Mutual) failed. The collaboration ended when they divorced in 1925. There was an adopted daughter, Kaye.

McGowan successfully made the transition from silent film to talkies. While never a major star, in a busy career that spanned four decades he is credited with acting in 232 films—mostly strong roles like sheriff or villain—writing 26 screenplays and directing 242 productions. In 1932 he directed a young John Wayne in the 12-episode rail vs airplane serial The Hurricane Express for the independent Mascot Pictures. From 1938 to 1951, as Executive Secretary of the Screen Directors Guild, he fought to secure recognition for the director within the studio systems of the film and emerging television industry.



J.P. McGowan died in 1952 in Hollywood and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. His life story was told in the 2005 McFarland book, J. P. McGowan: Biography of a Hollywood Pioneer by John J. McGowan (ISBN 0-7864-1994-6).

McGowan's career was celebrated in the town of his birth with the Terowie Days of Rail and Screen 2002-2010. The adventurous, stunt-filled partnership with Helen Holmes has been celebrated in the inventive bio-tribute, 'Stunt Love', which was presented at the Adelaide Film Festival in February 2011 and at Museum of Modern Art, New York, in April 2011.

J.P. was known on a personal basis, like many Johns in Australia, as Jack. He should not be confused with the Jack McGowan who was long a screenwriter with MGM. Many movie sales lists do make this confusion, but if the film is a light comedy or musical, that is NOT the solid J.

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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of J. P. McGowan (83 films)

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Actor

Stagecoach
Stagecoach (1939)
, 1h37
Directed by John Ford
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Romance, Western
Actors John Wayne, Claire Trevor, John Carradine, Thomas Mitchell, Andy Devine, Donald Meek
Roles (uncredited)
Rating77% 3.897773.897773.897773.897773.89777
In 1880, a motley group of strangers boards the east-bound stagecoach from Tonto, Arizona Territory to Lordsburg, New Mexico Territory. These travelers are unremarkable and ordinary at first glance. Among them are Dallas (Claire Trevor), a prostitute who is being driven out of town by the members of the "Law and Order League"; an alcoholic doctor, Doc Boone (Thomas Mitchell); pregnant Lucy Mallory (Louise Platt), who is traveling to see her cavalry officer husband; and whiskey salesman Samuel Peacock (Donald Meek).
The Buccaneer, 2h4
Directed by Cecil B. DeMille, Arthur Rosson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Swashbuckler, Action, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Pirate films, Political films, Histoire de France, Napoleonic Wars films
Actors Fredric March, Franciska Gaal, Akim Tamiroff, Margot Grahame, Walter Brennan, Ian Keith
Roles Jailer
Rating65% 3.2952853.2952853.2952853.2952853.295285
Installé dans les bayous de La Nouvelle-Orléans, le pirate français Jean Laffite contrôle le commerce de toute la région tout en tentant de rester neutre dans le conflit qui oppose Américains et Britanniques. Les circonstances vont l'obliger à prendre parti et à s'engager au côté du général américain Andrew Jackson...
The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
Directed by Mack V. Wright, Sam Nelson
Origin USA
Genres Action, Western
Actors Monte Blue, Wild Bill Elliott, Frankie Darro, Dickie Jones, Sammy McKim, Kermit Maynard
Roles Scudder
Rating66% 3.34273.34273.34273.34273.3427
Wild Bill Hickok, U.S. Marshal in Abilene, Kansas, is sent to stop the mysterious "Phantom Riders" from disrupting the cattle drives across the Chisholm Trail and construction of a new railroad.
Kidnapped
Kidnapped (1938)
, 1h30
Directed by Otto Preminger, Alfred L. Werker
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure
Actors Warner Baxter, Freddie Bartholomew, Nigel Bruce, Arleen Whelan, C. Aubrey Smith, Reginald Owen
Roles Clansman
Rating65% 3.2905953.2905953.2905953.2905953.290595
In the late eighteenth century David Balfour's evil uncle arranges for him to be kidnapped and sent to sea where he meets exiled Alan Breck. The two make their way back to Scotland and justice.
Hit the Saddle, 57minutes
Directed by Mack V. Wright, George Blair
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Robert Livingston, Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune, Rita Hayworth, J. P. McGowan, Yakima Canutt
Roles Rance McGowan
Rating59% 2.95392.95392.95392.95392.9539
Cattle rancher Rance McGowan intends to capture a herd of wild horses but they are protected US government. He trains and disguises his own horse, Volcano, to lead them in stampedes across other ranches which will lead to the government removing its protection. In the process, however, the local Sheriff is killed by Volcano and the Sheriff's friends, The Three Mesquiteers, become involved. Meanwhile, Stony Brooke wants to marry saloon singer Rita but the other Mesquiteers do not trust her.
Jungle Jim
Jungle Jim (1937)

Directed by Ford Beebe
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure
Actors Grant Withers, Raymond Hatton, Evelyn Brent, Henry Brandon, Bryant Washburn, Claude King
Roles Ship Captain J.S. Robinson
Rating62% 3.1312953.1312953.1312953.1312953.131295
Two safaris enter the African jungle intent on finding a white girl who is the heiress to a fortune. One safari, led by Jungle Jim, wants to make sure she gets the news that she is now a rich woman and escort her back to civilisation. The leaders of the other safari want to kill the girl so they can try to get hold of her inheritance themselves...
Slave Ship
Slave Ship (1937)
, 1h40
Directed by Tay Garnett
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure
Themes Films about slavery, Seafaring films, Transport films, Children's films
Actors Warner Baxter, Wallace Beery, Elizabeth Allan, Mickey Rooney, George Sanders, Jane Darwell
Roles Helmsman
Rating62% 3.139683.139683.139683.139683.13968
This script must be run from the command line
Borderland
Borderland (1937)
, 1h22
Directed by Nate Watt
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors William Boyd, James Ellison, George "Gabby" Hayes, Morris Ankrum, Nora Lane, Trevor Bardette
Roles El Rio Sheriff
Rating68% 3.432923.432923.432923.432923.43292
Empty Holsters, 1h2
Directed by B. Reeves Eason
Origin USA
Actors Dick Foran, Emmett Vogan, Glenn Strange, Anderson Lawler, Wilfred Lucas, George Chesebro
Roles U.S. Marshal Billy O'Neill
Rating60% 3.0027253.0027253.0027253.0027253.002725
Prairie Thunder, 55minutes
Directed by B. Reeves Eason
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Dick Foran, Frank Orth, Wilfred Lucas, Janet Shaw, Yakima Canutt, Albert J. Smith
Roles Col. Stanton
Rating52% 2.6387452.6387452.6387452.6387452.638745
Pour augmenter les bénéfices de son entreprise de transports, Lynch vend des fusils aux indiens et les incitent à attaquer la nouvelle ligne de chemin de fer et à détruire la ligne du télégraphe. Rod Farrell réussit à capturer Lynch et sa bande, mais les indiens le libère et c'est Farrell qui se retrouve prisonnier.
Little Lord Fauntleroy, 1h38
Directed by John Cromwell
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about children
Actors Freddie Bartholomew, Dolores Costello, C. Aubrey Smith, Henry Stephenson, Mickey Rooney, Constance Collier
Rating72% 3.643073.643073.643073.643073.64307
Young Cedric "Ceddie" Errol (Freddie Bartholomew) and his widowed mother, whom he calls "Dearest" (Dolores Costello), live frugally in 1880s Brooklyn after the death of his father. Cedric's prejudiced English grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt (C. Aubrey Smith), had long ago disowned his son for marrying an American.
Robin Hood of El Dorado, 1h25
Directed by William A. Wellman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Historical, Romance, Western
Actors Warner Baxter, Bruce Cabot, Margo, J. Carrol Naish, Soledad Jiménez, Eric Linden
Roles Danglong
Rating59% 2.95182.95182.95182.95182.9518
In 1848 in California, a Mexican farmer, Joaquin Murietta (Warner Baxter), has turned criminal to avenge the death of his wife, Juanita de la Cuesta (Ann Loring) and brother Jose (Carlos de Valdez) at the hands of the Americans.