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John Emery is a Actor and Scriptwriter American born on 20 may 1905 at New York City (USA)

John Emery

John Emery
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Nationality USA
Birth 20 may 1905 at New York City (USA)
Death 16 november 1964 (at 59 years)

John Emery est un acteur américain, né le 20 mai 1905 à New York (État de New York), ville où il est mort le 16 novembre 1964.

Biography

John Emery débute sa carrière d'acteur au théâtre et joue notamment à Broadway (New York) entre 1934 et 1960. En particulier, il y interprète trois pièces de William Shakespeare, Roméo et Juliette (1934-1935), avec Basil Rathbone et Katharine Cornell dans les rôles-titre, Hamlet (1936), avec John Gielgud dans le rôle-titre, Judith Anderson et Lillian Gish, et enfin Antoine et Cléopâtre (1937), avec Conway Tearle et Tallulah Bankhead dans les rôles-titre. Notons ici qu'il épouse cette dernière la même année 1937, mais divorce en 1941.

Toujours à Broadway, citons également Liliom de Ferenc Molnár (1940), avec Burgess Meredith dans le rôle-titre et Ingrid Bergman. Son avant-dernière pièce sur les planches new-yorkaises est une adaptation de L'Hôtel du libre échange de Georges Feydeau et Maurice Desvallières (1957), avec Bert Lahr et Angela Lansbury.

Au cinéma, John Emery contribue à seulement vingt-neuf films américains, le premier sorti en 1937. Mentionnons Mademoiselle Fifi de Robert Wise (1944, avec Simone Simon et Kurt Kreuger), La Maison du docteur Edwardes d'Alfred Hitchcock (1945, avec Ingrid Bergman et Gregory Peck), Jeanne d'Arc de Victor Fleming (1948, avec Ingrid Bergman dans le rôle-titre et Francis L. Sullivan), ou encore La Blonde et moi de Frank Tashlin (1956, avec Tom Ewell et Jayne Mansfield).

Son dernier film est Youngblood Hawke de Delmer Daves (avec James Franciscus dans le rôle-titre et Suzanne Pleshette), sorti le 4 novembre 1964, moins de deux semaines avant sa mort prématurée d'un cancer.

Pour la télévision, John Emery collabore entre 1951 et 1962 à dix-neuf séries. Ses trois dernières sont Alfred Hitchcock présente (un épisode, 1961), Échec et mat (deux épisodes, 1961-1962) et La Grande Caravane (un épisode, 1962).

Best films

Blood on the Sun (1945)
(Actor)
The Spanish Main (1945)
(Actor)

Usually with

Kurt Neumann
Kurt Neumann
(2 films)
Morris Ankrum
Morris Ankrum
(4 films)
Marie Windsor
Marie Windsor
(4 films)
Alan Napier
Alan Napier
(4 films)
Wallace Ford
Wallace Ford
(4 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of John Emery (29 films)

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Actor

Youngblood Hawke, 2h17
Directed by Delmer Daves, Robert Totten
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about writers
Actors James Franciscus, Suzanne Pleshette, Geneviève Page, Eva Gabor, Mary Astor, Lee Bowman
Roles Georges Peydal
Rating60% 3.0018653.0018653.0018653.0018653.001865
Based on the 1962 novel of the same name, Youngblood Hawke is about a Kentucky truck driver, (James Franciscus), who moves to New York City with dreams of becoming a hot-shot writer. Almost immediately he meets editor Jeanne Green, (Suzanne Pleshette). She sees great promise in Hawke's writing and falls for the handsome Kentuckian while helping him put together his first book deal. His first novel is moderately successful, but is soon transformed into a Broadway play by a has-been stage actress. Jeanne discovers that Youngblood has an effect on a great many women, so she takes a new job at a new publishing company. Soon after, Hawke's second novel is heralded and he becomes the toast of the town. He then has an affair with a married socialite. His third novel bombs and is also panned by critics. Hawke's financial state declines and he has to move back to Kentucky. While in Kentucky working on his next book, he contracts pneumonia just before realizing that Jeanne was his true ideal woman.
Ten North Frederick, 1h42
Directed by Philip Dunne
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Children's films
Actors Gary Cooper, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Diane Varsi, Suzy Parker, Tom Tully, Tom Tully
Roles Paul Donaldson
Rating67% 3.3950353.3950353.3950353.3950353.395035
In April 1945, outside the titular address in the fictional town of Gibbsville, Pennsylvania, a radio reporter is describing the funeral of distinguished attorney Joseph Chapin (Gary Cooper). While his shrewish wife Edith (Geraldine Fitzgerald) delivers his eulogy, daughter Ann (Diane Varsi) thinks back to Joe's fiftieth birthday celebration five years earlier.
Kronos
Kronos (1957)
, 1h18
Directed by Kurt Neumann
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction
Themes Films set in the future, Films about extraterrestrial life, Giant monster films, Films about extraterrestrial life, Alien invasions in films, Robot films, Disaster films
Actors Jeff Morrow, Barbara Lawrence, John Emery, George O'Hanlon, Morris Ankrum, Richard Harrison
Roles Dr. Hubbell Eliot
Rating57% 2.8516052.8516052.8516052.8516052.851605
A huge, blinking flying saucer that's approaching the Earth emits a glowing object. This object races ahead of it to intercept a man who's driving down a lonely road. It takes over the man's body and directs him to Central Labs, a U.S. research facility that's been tracking the saucer (supposing it to be an asteroid).
The Girl Can't Help It, 1h39
Directed by Frank Tashlin
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Tom Ewell, Jayne Mansfield, Edmond O'Brien, Henry Jones, Julie London, John Emery
Roles Wheeler
Rating67% 3.3925053.3925053.3925053.3925053.392505
A slot-machine mobster, Marty "Fats" Murdock (Edmond O'Brien), wants his blonde girlfriend, Jerri Jordan (Jayne Mansfield), to be a singing star, despite her seeming lack of talent. He hires alcoholic press agent Tom Miller (Tom Ewell) to promote Jordan, both because of his past success with the career of singer Julie London (a fiction of the script) and because he never makes sexual advances towards his female clients.
Forever, Darling
Directed by Alexander Hall
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, James Mason, Louis Calhern, John Emery, Natalie Schafer
Roles Dr. Edward R. Winter
Rating60% 3.001863.001863.001863.001863.00186
After five years of marriage, chemical engineer Lorenzo Xavier Vega (Arnaz) tends to neglect his wife Susan (Ball) in favor of his work. When she wishes aloud that she had a more attentive spouse, her Guardian Angel—coincidentally the mirror image of her favorite movie star (Mason) -- appears.
A Lawless Street, 1h18
Directed by Joseph H. Lewis
Origin USA
Genres Action, Western
Actors Randolph Scott, Angela Lansbury, Jean Parker, Warner Anderson, Wallace Ford, Michael Pate
Roles Cody Clark
Rating63% 3.1912653.1912653.1912653.1912653.191265
The marshal of Medicine Bend, Calem Ware (Randolph Scott), tries to keep peace in a lawless town whilst trying to prevent himself from being killed. The arrival of a show troupe reunites the marshal with someone from his past, leading to a showdown with his would-be killers and his old flame, Tally Dickinson (Angela Lansbury).
The Mad Magician, 1h12
Directed by John Brahm
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror, Crime
Themes Films about magic and magicians
Actors Vincent Price, Mary Murphy, Eva Gabor, John Emery, Patrick O'Neal, Donald Randolph
Roles Rinaldi aka 'The Great Rinaldi'
Rating65% 3.251253.251253.251253.251253.25125
Don Gallico (Vincent Price) is a magician, master of disguise, and inventor of stage-magic effects in the late 1800s aspiring to become a star magician under the stage name Gallico the Great. Disguised as The Great Rinaldi, a headlining rival magician, Mr. Gallico performs a number of magic tricks successfully, building up to the reveal of his latest invention, the buzz-saw, an illusion that "severs" the head of the magician's assistant Karen Lee (Mary Murphy). Before Mr. Gallico can perform the buzz-saw illusion, the curtains come down to stop the performance. Businessman Ross Ormond (Donald Randolph) and his lawyer serve Mr. Gallico a cease and desist order against the performance of the buzz-saw trick much to the anger of Mr. Gallico. Ms. Lee's boyfriend, police detective Lt. Alan Bruce (Patrick O'Neal), is asked by her to intervene in the dispute between Mr. Gallico and Mr. Ormond. Mr. Gallico informs the detective that he signed a contract to Mr. Ormond's Illusions, Inc., a magician's trick provider, to invent new tricks, the issue is that Mr. Ormond owns all work created by Mr. Ormond, not just the ones produced for Illusions, Inc., Mr. Gallico's understanding.
Double Crossbones, 1h15
Directed by Charles Barton
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Adventure, Historical
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Pirate films
Actors Donald O'Connor, James Arness, Helena Carter, Will Geer, John Emery, Stanley Logan
Roles Governor Elden
Rating59% 2.998992.998992.998992.998992.99899
After being accused falsely of dishonesty, Davey Crandall (O'Connor) decides to become a pirate.
Frenchie
Frenchie (1950)
, 1h21
Directed by Louis King
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Joel McCrea, Shelley Winters, Paul Kelly, Elsa Lanchester, Marie Windsor, John Russell
Roles Clyde Gorman
Rating62% 3.1438853.1438853.1438853.1438853.143885
Frank Dawson is killed in the town of Bottleneck by his double-crossing partner Jack Lambert, leaving a young girl without a father. For the next 15 years, she lives in orphanages and works for the Fontaines, originally from Paris, earning her the nickname "Frenchie."
Rocketship X-M, 1h18
Directed by Kurt Neumann
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Adventure
Themes Space adventure films, Films about music and musicians, Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Mars in film, Films set in the future, Films about extraterrestrial life, Musical films, Political films, Martiens, Dystopian films, Space opera, Films about extraterrestrial life, Disaster films
Actors Lloyd Bridges, Osa Massen, John Emery, Noah Beery, Jr, Hugh O'Brian, Morris Ankrum
Roles Dr. Karl Eckstrom
Rating49% 2.4542552.4542552.4542552.4542552.454255
Four men and a woman blast into outer space from the White Sands Proving Ground aboard the RX-M (Rocketship Expedition-Moon) on humanity's first expedition to Luna. Halfway to their destination, the RX-M's engines shut down; the problem is resolved by recalculating the fuel mixture ratios and then moving around some of the propellent tanks and their connecting hoses. When the engines are reignited, the RX-M rapidly careens out of control, accidentally setting the spaceship on a runaway course heading beyond the Moon and into deep space. During this burst of rapid acceleration, the crew, one by one, becomes unconscious due to a drop in oxygen pressure. The engines are shut off just in time. At some later time, perhaps many days, they slowly come around. The revived crew soon discovers the RX-M has traveled some 50,000,000 miles while they were unconscious. Against all odds, this surprising sequence of events has put them on a direct course heading toward Mars. They also notice the RX-M's speed is still increasing, this time due to gravitational attraction: the Red Planet is drawing them in. They quickly calculate they are only 50,000 miles away. This forces Dr. Karl Eckstrom (John Emery) to "pause and observe respectfully while something infinitely greater assumes control.
Dakota Lil
Dakota Lil (1950)
, 1h28
Directed by Lesley Selander
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors George Montgomery, Rod Cameron, Marie Windsor, John Emery, Wallace Ford, Jack Lambert
Roles Vincent
Rating58% 2.906212.906212.906212.906212.90621
Tom, un agent secret à la recherche de bande de faussaires, gagne la confiance de l'un des instigateurs du gang.
The Voice of the Turtle, 1h43
Directed by Irving Rapper
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Ronald Reagan, Eleanor Parker, Eve Arden, Wayne Morris, Kent Smith, John Emery
Roles George Harrington
Rating67% 3.3927553.3927553.3927553.3927553.392755
A young actress, Sally Middleton, agrees to a date with a soldier, Bill Page, on a weekend pass after he's stood up by Olive Lashbrooke, her friend. When the soldier has trouble getting a hotel room, he ends up spending the weekend at her apartment.
The Woman in White, 1h49
Directed by Peter Godfrey, Peter Godfrey
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Romance
Actors Alexis Smith, Eleanor Parker, Sydney Greenstreet, Gig Young, Agnes Moorehead, John Abbott
Roles Sir Percival Glyde
Rating65% 3.2931153.2931153.2931153.2931153.293115
Arriving at an estate in England to teach drawing to wealthy Laura Fairlie (Eleanor Parker), artist Walter Hartright (Gig Young) sees a mysterious woman in white who promptly vanishes.
Joan of Arc, 2h25
Directed by Richard Rosson, Victor Fleming
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Films about religion, Jeanne d'Arc, Political films, Films based on plays, Histoire de France
Actors Ingrid Bergman, José Ferrer, Francis L. Sullivan, J. Carrol Naish, George Coulouris, Gene Lockhart
Roles Jean, Duke d'Alencon, cousin of Charles
Rating63% 3.1975853.1975853.1975853.1975853.197585
Unlike the play Joan of Lorraine, which is a drama that shows how the story of Joan affects a group of actors who are performing it, the film is a straightforward recounting of the life of the French heroine. It begins with an obviously painted shot of the inside of a basilica with a shaft of light, possibly descending from heaven, shining down from the ceiling, and a solemn off-screen voice pronouncing the canonization of the Maid of Orleans. Then, the opening page of what appears to be a church manuscript recounting Joan's life in Latin is shown on the screen, while some uncredited voiceover narration by actor Shepperd Strudwick sets up the tale. The actual story of Joan then begins, from the time she becomes convinced that she has been divinely called to save France to her being burnt at the stake at the hands of the English and the Burgundians.
The Gay Intruders, 1h8
Directed by Ray McCarey
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors John Emery, Leif Erickson, Roy Roberts, Virginia Gregg, Sara Berner, Harry Lauter
Roles John Newberry
Rating63% 3.158273.158273.158273.158273.15827