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John Agar is a Actor American born on 31 january 1921 at Chicago (USA)

John Agar

John Agar
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Birth name John George Agar
Nationality USA
Birth 31 january 1921 at Chicago (USA)
Death 7 april 2002 (at 81 years) at Burbank (USA)

John George Agar, Jr. (January 31, 1921 – April 7, 2002) was an American actor. He is best known for starring alongside John Wayne in the films Sands of Iwo Jima, Fort Apache, and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon. In his later career he was the star of B movies, such as Tarantula, The Mole People, The Brain from Planet Arous, Revenge of the Creature, Flesh and the Spur, and Hand of Death. He was the first husband of Shirley Temple.

Best films

Sands of Iwo Jima (1950)
(Actor)
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)
(Actor)

Usually with

John Wayne
John Wayne
(7 films)
Hugo Haas
Hugo Haas
(2 films)
Richard Arlen
Richard Arlen
(6 films)
Paul Dunlap
Paul Dunlap
(6 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of John Agar (53 films)

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Actor

The Naked Monster, 1h26
Directed by Ted Newsom
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Horror, Comic science fiction
Themes Comedy science fiction films
Actors Kenneth Tobey, Brinke Stevens, Forrest J Ackerman, John Agar, Jeanne Carmen, Robert Clarke
Roles Dr. Clete Ferguson
Rating52% 2.6113952.6113952.6113952.6113952.611395
A colossal series of disasters releases something monstrous from a glacier. Strange disappearances in a small California town attract the attention of a thick-headed sheriff (R.G. Wilson), his transparently uninterested scientist girlfriend (Brinke Stevens) and a visiting government agent (John Goodwin). They discover that a giant green monster is at large, the Creaturesaurus Erectus, ("He wrecked us? He nearly KILLED us!") They turn to experienced monster fighter Colonel Patrick Hendry (Kenneth Tobey), who has been locked in a government asylum for decades. With the help of other monster experts, lots of stock footage and incredibly bad special effects, humanity fights back against the "Thing from Another Time Zone".
Body Bags
Body Bags (1993)
, 1h31
Directed by John Carpenter, Tobe Hooper
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror, Slasher
Themes Serial killer films, Comedy horror films
Actors Stacy Keach, David Warner, Sheena Easton, Mark Hamill, Twiggy, Robert Carradine
Roles Dr. Lang
Rating61% 3.099473.099473.099473.099473.09947
Prologue A creepy-looking coroner introduces three different horror tales involving his current work on cadavers in "body bags".
Fear
Fear (1990)
, 1h30
Directed by Rockne S. O'Bannon
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Ally Sheedy, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Michael O'Keefe, Lauren Hutton, Dina Merrill, Keone Young
Roles Leonard Scott Levy
Rating60% 3.000473.000473.000473.000473.00047
Cayce Bridges (Ally Sheedy) is a psychic gifted in a form of remote viewing and empathy/telepathy that allows her to mentally link with murderers enabling police to catch them. That is until she encounters the mysterious and elusive Shadow Man (Pruitt Taylor Vince), who is not only similarly blessed, but is more powerful than she is.
Nightbreed
Nightbreed (1990)
, 1h42
Directed by Clive Barker
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Horror, Romance
Themes Serial killer films, Children's films
Actors Craig Sheffer, David Cronenberg, Charles Haid, Anne Bobby, Hugh Quarshie, Doug Bradley
Roles Gas Station Attendant / Victim
Rating64% 3.248743.248743.248743.248743.24874
Aaron Boone dreams of Midian, a city where monsters are accepted. At the request of girlfriend Lori Winston, Boone is seeing psychotherapist Dr. Phillip K. Decker, who convinces Boone that he committed a series of murders. In reality, Decker is a masked serial killer who has murdered several families. Decker drugs Boone with LSD disguised as lithium and orders Boone to turn himself in. Before he can, Boone is struck by a truck and taken to a hospital. There, Boone overhears the rants of Narcisse who seeks to enter Midian. Narcisse, convinced that Boone is there to test him, gives Boone directions before tearing the skin off his face. Boone makes his way to Midian, a city standing under a massive graveyard. Once there, he encounters supernatural creatures Kinski and Peloquin. Kinski says that they should bring him below, but Peloquin refuses to allow in a normal human. Boone claims to be a murderer, but Peloquin smells his innocence and attacks him. Boone escapes, only to run into a squad of police officers led by Decker. Boone is gunned down by the police after Decker tries to get him to turn himself in. Due to Peloquin's bite, he comes back to life in the morgue. When he returns to Midian, he finds Narcisse there and he is inducted into their society by Dirk Lylesburg, leader of the Nightbreed. In an initiation ceremony, he is touched by the blood of their deity Baphomet.
Miracle Mile, 1h27
Directed by Steve De Jarnatt
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Comedy, Action, Romance
Themes Politique, Films about religion, Films set in the future, Political films, Dystopian films, Arme nucléaire, Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Anthony Edwards, Mare Winningham, Denise Crosby, John Agar, Mykelti Williamson, Lou Hancock
Roles Ivan Peters
Rating69% 3.4988753.4988753.4988753.4988753.498875
The film takes place in a single day and night. The film opens with the two main characters, Harry (Anthony Edwards) and Julie (Mare Winningham), meeting at the La Brea Tar Pits and immediately falling in love. After spending the afternoon together, they make a date to meet after her shift ends at midnight at a local coffee shop, but a power failure means Harry's alarm fails to wake him and Julie leaves for home.
Divided We Fall
Directed by Jeff Burr
Genres Drama, War
Actors John Agar, R. A. Mihailoff, Willard E. Pugh
Roles Yankee Officer
Rating75% 3.760193.760193.760193.760193.76019
King Kong
King Kong (1976)
, 2h14
Directed by John Guillermin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Films about magic and magicians, Seafaring films, La préhistoire, Transport films, Animaux préhistoriques, Natural horror films, Films about apes, King Kong films, Giant monster films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère, Disaster films
Actors Jeff Bridges, Charles Grodin, Jessica Lange, René Auberjonois, Jack O'Halloran, Ed Lauter
Roles City Official
Rating59% 2.953472.953472.953472.953472.95347
Fred Wilson (Charles Grodin), an executive of the Petrox Oil Company, forms an expedition based on infrared imagery which reveals a previously undiscovered Indian Ocean island hidden by a permanent cloud bank. Wilson believes the island has a huge deposit of oil. Jack Prescott (Jeff Bridges), a primate paleontologist who wants to see the island for himself, stows away on the expedition's vessel. Prescott reveals himself when he warns the crew the cloud bank may be caused by an unknown beast. Wilson orders Prescott locked up, claiming that he is really a spy from a rival oil company. While escorted to lock-up, Prescott spots a life raft which carries the beautiful and unconscious Dwan (Jessica Lange). Wilson conducts a thorough background check on Prescott and realizes he is telling the truth. He appoints Prescott the expedition's official photographer and requests that he be present when Dwan revives because of his medical background. Upon waking, Dwan says she is an aspiring actress who was aboard a director's yacht which suddenly exploded.
Big Jake
Big Jake (1971)
, 1h45
Directed by John Wayne, George Sherman
Origin USA
Genres Action, Western
Actors John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Richard Boone, Patrick Wayne, Christopher Mitchum, Bruce Cabot
Roles Bert Ryan
Rating70% 3.5476953.5476953.5476953.5476953.547695
In 1909, there is a raid on the McCandles family ranch by a gang of ruthless outlaws led by John Fain. They kidnap Little Jake, the grandson, leaving a ransom note and heading back for Mexico, where they have been hiding out. Martha, the head of the family, is offered the help of both the army and the Texas Rangers in hunting the gang. She replies that this will be "a harsh and unpleasant kind of business and will require an extremely harsh and unpleasant kind of person to see it through." In consequence, she sends for her estranged husband, the aging Jacob "Big Jake" McCandles, a near-legendary gunfighter who wanders the west with his Rough Collie, simply named Dog.
Chisum
Chisum (1970)
, 1h51
Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen
Origin USA
Genres Action, Western
Actors John Wayne, Forrest Tucker, Ben Johnson, Geoffrey Deuel, Glenn Corbett, Bruce Cabot
Roles Amos Patton
Rating67% 3.398613.398613.398613.398613.39861
John Chisum (John Wayne), a virtuous, patriarchal land baron, locks horns with greedy Lawrence Murphy (Forrest Tucker), who will stop at nothing to get control of the trade and even the law in Lincoln County, New Mexico.
The Undefeated, 1h59
Directed by John Wayne, Andrew V. McLaglen
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Horror, Western
Themes Political films, Children's films
Actors John Wayne, Rock Hudson, Antonio Aguilar, Lee Meriwether, Bruce Cabot, Melissa Newman
Roles Christian
Rating65% 3.296663.296663.296663.296663.29666
After the American Civil War, Union Colonel John Henry Thomas (John Wayne) and company attack a group of Confederate soldiers, only to be informed after defeating them that the war had ended days ago. Another group of Confederate soldiers, led by Colonel James Langdon (Rock Hudson) prepare to join Emperor Maximilian of Mexico. Langdon torches his plantation before he departs rather than have it fall into the hands of carpetbaggers. At the same time, Thomas, with his adopted Indian son Blue Boy (Roman Gabriel) and his surviving command, brings a herd of 3,000 horses across the Rio Grande for sale in Durango, Mexico.
Curse of the Swamp Creature, 1h20
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Actors John Agar, Francine York, Patrick Cranshaw
Roles Barry Rogers
Rating25% 1.284661.284661.284661.284661.28466
Deep in the rural swamps of Texas the reclusive and ruthless wife-abusing mad scientist Dr. Simond Trent is conducting experiments in his laboratory on the local impoverished voodoo-worshiping black "natives" in an attempt to discover the secret to reversing evolution, feeding the failures to the alligators he keeps in his covered outdoor swimming pool. When a party of oil surveyors comes upon his isolated yet strangely suburban-style home he decides to take the final step and turn the duplicitous female leader of the expedition into a grotesque and virtually indestructible amphibious "Fish Man" so that he can take his revenge upon the world.
Hell Raiders
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Actors John Agar, Richard Webb
Roles Maj. Ronald Paxton
Rating37% 1.890981.890981.890981.890981.89098
Night Fright, 1h28
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Natural horror films
Actors John Agar, Brenda Venus
Roles Sheriff Clint Crawford
Rating27% 1.3772451.3772451.3772451.3772451.377245
A Texas community is beset by a rash of mysterious killings involving some of the students from the local college. The sheriff investigating the deaths discovers the startling identity of the killer responsible for the murders. A NASA experiment involving cosmic rays has mutated an alligator into an ogre-like form and bullet-proof unstoppable killing machine with a thirst for blood.
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre, 1h36
Directed by Roger Corman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical, Crime
Themes Films about immigration, Mafia films, Seafaring films, Transport films, L'Outfit de Chicago, Gangster films
Actors Jason Robards, George Segal, Ralph Meeker, Jack Nicholson, Jean Hale, Jan Merlin
Roles Dion O'Bannion
Rating65% 3.296183.296183.296183.296183.29618
An organized crime war breaks out between two rival gangs in Chicago during the Roaring Twenties. The leader of the Southside Mob is the notorious Al Capone, who resents his nemesis George "Bugs" Moran's activity in the city. Moran, too, wants control of the town's bootlegging and gambling operations. His lieutenants Peter and Frank Gusenberg use threats and intimidation to make tavern owners do business with them in exchange for "protection." Moran gives the order to have a crony of Capone's eliminated as the Chicago body count escalates. Inclusive are flashbacks to a lunchtime attack on Capone at a restaurant outside of Chicago by Hymie Weiss and Moran in September 1926 and the murders of Weiss in October 1926 and Dion O'Banion in November 1924 by Capone's gang.