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Fred Graham is a Actor and Stunts American born on 26 october 1908

Fred Graham

Fred Graham
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Nationality USA
Birth 26 october 1908
Death 10 october 1979 (at 70 years)

Fred Graham (October 26, 1908 – October 10, 1979) was an American actor and stuntman, who performed in scores of films from the 1930s. A semi-professional baseball player, Graham appeared mainly in Westerns, performing stunts and playing opposite John Wayne, among others. He also featured alongside Wayne in several films with director John Ford. He played small roles in two Alfred Hitchcock films, notably Vertigo, as the Police Officer who falls to his death in its famous opening scene while trying to help James Stewart. He continued working in films to the 1970s.

Best films

How the West Was Won (1962)
(Stunts)
Rio Bravo (1959)
(Stunts)
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)
(Stunts)
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
(Stunt Double)
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
(Stunts)
The War of the Worlds (1953)
(Stunts)

Usually with

Eddie Parker
Eddie Parker
(14 films)
Tom Steele
Tom Steele
(14 films)
John Wayne
John Wayne
(15 films)
Cliff Lyons
Cliff Lyons
(10 films)
Howard Lydecker
Howard Lydecker
(16 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Fred Graham (110 films)

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Actor

Pocket Money, 1h42
Directed by Stuart Rosenberg
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure, Western
Themes Buddy films
Actors Paul Newman, Lee Marvin, Strother Martin, Wayne Rogers, Héctor Elizondo, Gregory Sierra
Roles Uncle Herb
Rating54% 2.702572.702572.702572.702572.70257
Broke and in debt, an otherwise honest cowboy known as Jim Kane (Newman) gets mixed up in some shady dealings with Stretch Russell (Rogers) and Bill Garrett (Martin), a crooked rancher. Russell tells Kane to escort 200 head of cattle from Mexico to the United States for a good sum of money. Kane agrees and brings along his friend Leonard (Marvin) to aid him. Unfortunately, the two come upon many unexpected events that often deter them from completing their job.
Man and Boy, 1h38
Directed by E.W. Swackhamer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Crime, Western
Actors Bill Cosby, Gloria Foster, Leif Erickson, John Anderson, Henry Silva, Dub Taylor
Roles Blockers
Rating55% 2.7664052.7664052.7664052.7664052.766405
Après la Guerre de Sécession, un ancien soldat noir de l'Union, sa femme et son fils s'installent en Arizona pour reconstruire leur vie.
Arizona Raiders
Directed by William Witney
Origin USA
Genres Western
Themes Political films
Actors Audie Murphy, Buster Crabbe, Michael Dante, Ben Cooper, Gloria Talbott, Ray Stricklyn
Roles Quantrell
Rating59% 2.9543052.9543052.9543052.9543052.954305
Clint is a Confederate war hero who has gone out West to join a renegade band, Quantrill's Raiders, and ends up captured by the law.
Arizona Raiders, 1h37
Directed by William Witney
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Audie Murphy, Ben Cooper, Michael Dante, Buster Crabbe, Gloria Talbott, Ray Stricklyn
Roles Quantrell
Rating59% 2.9543052.9543052.9543052.9543052.954305
Clint et son frère se joignent au gang des Quantrell's Raiders et parcourent l'Ouest des États-Unis. Mais ils sont aussitôt arrêtés par la cavalerie américaine. Cependant le chef Tom Andrews leur propose, pour éviter les travaux forcés, de rejoindre les Rangers pour lutter contre divers gangs de renégats qui sévissent dans tout le Far West...
The Alamo
The Alamo (1960)
, 2h47
Directed by John Wayne
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure, Historical, Western
Themes Political films
Actors John Wayne, Richard Widmark, Laurence Harvey, Frankie Avalon, Patrick Wayne, Linda Cristal
Roles Bearded Volunteer (uncredited)
Rating68% 3.402913.402913.402913.402913.40291
The film depicts the Battle of the Alamo and the events leading up to it. Sam Houston leads the forces fighting for Texas independence and needs time to build an army. The opposing Mexican forces, led by General Santa Anna, are numerically stronger and also better armed and trained. Nevertheless, the Texans have spirit and morale remains generally high.
North to Alaska, 1h57
Directed by John Wayne, Henry Hathaway
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure, Romance, Western
Themes Musical films, Children's films
Actors Stewart Granger, John Wayne, Capucine, Fabian Forte, Ernie Kovacs, Mickey Shaughnessy
Roles Ole (uncredited)
Rating68% 3.447353.447353.447353.447353.44735
After finding gold in Nome, Alaska, George Pratt (Stewart Granger) sends partner Sam McCord (John Wayne) to Seattle, Washington to bring back his fiancée, a French girl whom Sam has never met.
Seven Ways from Sundown, 1h36
Directed by Harry Keller
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Audie Murphy, Barry Sullivan, John McIntire, Venetia Stevenson, Kenneth Tobey, Mary Field
Roles Chief Waggoner
Rating66% 3.3407353.3407353.3407353.3407353.340735
Seven Jones (Murphy), is a young Texas Ranger on his first assignment, assigned to bring in the outlaw Jim Flood (Sullivan) well known for his flashy lifestyle. Despite his inexperience Seven manages to capture the outlaw, but finds his efforts to bring his prisoner to jail complicated by people who for various reasons are out to kill him, and other people who consider Flood to be a hero and want to rescue him.
Rio Bravo
Rio Bravo (1959)
, 2h21
Directed by Howard Hawks
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Romance, Western
Themes Films about alcoholism, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Buddy films
Actors John Wayne, Dean Martin, Angie Dickinson, Rick Nelson, Walter Brennan, Ward Bond
Roles 2nd Burdette Man in Shootout (uncredited)
Rating79% 3.9983853.9983853.9983853.9983853.998385
In the town of Rio Bravo, Texas, sheriff's deputy Dude (Dean Martin), who has acquired the contemptuous nickname Borrachón ([bo.raˈtʃon], Spanish for "drunk"), enters a saloon but can't afford a drink. Joe Burdette (Claude Akins), brother of rancher Nathan Burdette, tosses a silver dollar into a spittoon. Presidio County, Texas Sheriff John T. Chance (John Wayne) appears and kicks the spittoon away, looking at Dude with disgust. Dude is shamed by his plight and takes out his anger on Chance, knocking him out with an ax handle. Joe begins punching Dude, then shoots and kills an unarmed bystander who tries to intervene.
The Giant Gila Monster, 1h14
Directed by Edgar Ray Kellogg
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Themes Films about music and musicians, Giant monster films, Musical films, Disaster films
Actors Fred Graham, Shug Fisher
Roles Sheriff Jeff
Rating36% 1.807051.807051.807051.807051.80705
The movie opens with a young couple parked in a bleak, rural locale overlooking a ravine. A giant gila monster attacks the car, sending it into the ravine and killing the couple. Later, some friends of the couple decide to assist the local sheriff (Fred Graham) in his search for the missing teens. Chase Winstead (Sullivan), a young mechanic and hot rod racer, locates the crashed car in the ravine and finds evidence of the giant lizard. However, it is only when the hungry reptile attacks a train (a model train set substituted as a low-budget effect) that the authorities realize they are dealing with a (roughly) 70-foot poisonous lizard. By this time, emboldened by its attacks and hungry for prey, the creature attacks the town. It makes straight for the local dance hall where all the teenagers had gathered for a sock hop. However, Chase packs his prized hot rod with nitroglycerin and rigs it to speed straight into the monster, terminating the lizard in a fiery explosion and heroically saving the town.
The Horse Soldiers, 1h55
Directed by John Ford
Origin USA
Genres War, Action, Adventure, Historical, Western
Themes Political films
Actors John Wayne, William Holden, Constance Towers, Hoot Gibson, Ken Curtis, Bing Russell
Rating70% 3.548263.548263.548263.548263.54826
A Union cavalry brigade, led by Colonel John Marlowe (John Wayne), is sent on a raid behind Confederate lines to destroy a railroad and supply depot at Newton Station. Before the war, Marlowe had been a railroad building engineer. With the troop is a new regimental surgeon, Major Henry Kendall (William Holden), who seems to be constantly at odds with his commander. Kendall is torn between duty and the horror of war.
Vertigo
Vertigo (1958)
, 2h8
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime, Romance
Themes Les fantasmes, Psychologie, Films about sexuality, Films about suicide
Actors James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore, Henry Jones, Ellen Corby
Roles Policeman on Rooftop (uncredited)
Rating82% 4.149314.149314.149314.149314.14931
After a rooftop chase, where his acrophobia and vertigo result in the death of a policeman, San Francisco detective John "Scottie" Ferguson retires. Scottie tries to conquer his fear, but his friend and ex-fiancée Midge Wood suggests another severe emotional shock may be the only cure.
Backlash
Backlash (1956)
, 1h20
Directed by John Sturges
Origin USA
Genres Romance, Western
Actors Richard Widmark, Donna Reed, John McIntire, William Campbell, Barton MacLane, Harry Morgan
Roles Ned McCloud
Rating65% 3.294883.294883.294883.294883.29488
Jim Slater (Richard Widmark) meets Karyl Orton (Donna Reed) in Gila Valley, Arizona. She thinks that he is searching for a gold cache believed to hidden somewhere in the valley. When a man with a rifle starts shooting at him, Jim wonders if she can be trusted. After Jim kills his foe, he discovers the dead man was a deputy sheriff from Silver City. He takes the body there.
7 Men from Now, 1h18
Directed by Budd Boetticher
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Western
Actors Randolph Scott, Gail Russell, Lee Marvin, Walter Reed, Stuart Whitman, John Phillips
Roles Henchman
Rating73% 3.693243.693243.693243.693243.69324
Ben Stride (Randolph Scott) walks into a desert cave encampment during a nighttime rainstorm. He encounters two men taking shelter next to a fire and asks to join them. Stride tells the men he's from the town of Silver Springs, which provokes a mysterious reaction from the two men. They discuss a robbery and murder that recently occurred there. The men become suspicious of Stride, and when they realize his intentions, he guns them down.
The Last Hunt, 1h48
Directed by Richard Brooks
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Robert Taylor, Stewart Granger, Debra Paget, Lloyd Nolan, Russ Tamblyn, Joe De Santis
Roles Bartender
Rating68% 3.4441353.4441353.4441353.4441353.444135
Sandy McKenzie (Stewart Granger) sets out on his last hunt with his new partner, the obsessive Charles Gilson (Robert Taylor). While McKenzie has grown tired of buffalo hunting, Gilson derives a pleasure from his "stands" – killing an entire herd of buffalo at one time. When Gilson chases down and kills an Indian raiding party, he takes an Indian woman and her child captive. The presence of the native woman causes tension and Gilson becomes increasingly paranoid and deranged, leading to a stand-off between the two former partners.
The Steel Jungle, 1h26
Directed by Walter Doniger
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir, Crime
Actors Perry Lopez, Beverly Garland, Walter Abel, Ted de Corsia, Creighton Hale, Kenneth Tobey
Roles Second Detective
Rating58% 2.907222.907222.907222.907222.90722
Ed Novak (Perry Lopez), a two-bit bookie, goes to prison rather than squeal on his Syndicate higher-ups. Novak's silence exacts a toll on his wife Frances (Beverly Garland), who is expecting a child. The longer Novak remains in prison, the more he becomes aware that the mob has deserted him — and the more he's willing to spill what he knows. Fellow prisoner Steve Marlin (Ted de Corsia) intends to see that Novak keeps his mouth shut permanently.