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John Davidson is a Actor American born on 25 december 1886 at New York City (USA)

John Davidson

John Davidson
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Nationality USA
Birth 25 december 1886 at New York City (USA)
Death 16 january 1968 (at 81 years) at Los Angeles (USA)

John Davidson (December 25, 1886 – January 16, 1968) was an American film actor. He appeared in 148 films between 1915 and 1963. He was born in New York, New York and died in Los Angeles, California.

Biography

John Davidson débute au théâtre et joue à Broadway dans neuf pièces, entre 1911 et 1928.

Au cinéma, il contribue d'abord à quarante-six films muets sortis de 1915 à 1924. Mentionnons Le Détour de Cecil B. DeMille (1922, avec Leatrice Joy et Conrad Nagel) et Monsieur Beaucaire de Sidney Olcott (1924, avec Rudolph Valentino et Bebe Daniels, lui-même personnifiant le cardinal Richelieu).

Après le passage au parlant, John Davidson apparaît dans cent-deux autres films américains (tenant parfois des petits rôles non crédités), les sept premiers sortis en 1929 (dont The Thirteenth Chair de Tod Browning, avec Conrad Nagal et Leila Hyams). Fait particulier, il collabore à plusieurs serials, dont Le Capitaine Marvel de John English et William Witney (1941, avec Tom Tyler dans le rôle-titre).

Citons également Les Invités de huit heures de George Cukor (1933, avec Marie Dressler et John Barrymore) et The Devil Bat de Jean Yarbrough (1940, avec Béla Lugosi). Son dernier film est Le Téléphone rouge de Delbert Mann (avec Rock Hudson et Rod Taylor), sorti en 1963.

Pour la télévision, il participe à la série policière Front Page Detective (un épisode, diffusé en 1951), avec Edmund Lowe dans le rôle principal.

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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of John Davidson (98 films)

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Actor

The Squeeze, 1h37
Directed by Roger Young
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Action, Crime, Romance
Actors Michael Keaton, Danny Aiello III, Joe Pantoliano, Rae Dawn Chong, Meat Loaf, John Davidson
Rating48% 2.4086652.4086652.4086652.4086652.408665
After retrieving a mysterious parcel for his ex-wife, eccentric down-on-his-luck artist Harry Berg (Keaton) enlists the help of private eye Rachel Dobs (Chong) when he suddenly becomes embroiled with thugs and a murder investigation. The combination of Harry's many comic eccentricities and Rachel's straight-and-narrow, naive personality ends up working in their favor to help solve the crime.
The Concorde... Airport '79, 2h3
Directed by David Lowell Rich
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Disaster, Action
Themes La fin du monde, Transport films, Aviation films, Dans un avion, Disaster films, American disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents
Actors Alain Delon, Susan Blakely, Robert Wagner, Sylvia Kristel, George Kennedy, Eddie Albert
Roles Robert Palmer
Rating44% 2.2068652.2068652.2068652.2068652.206865
Kevin Harrison (Robert Wagner), a corrupt arms dealer, attempts to destroy an American-owned Concorde on its maiden flight after one of the passengers, reporter Maggie Whelan (Susan Blakely), learns of his weapons sales to communist countries during the Cold War.
The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band, 1h50
Directed by Michael O'Herlihy
Origin USA
Genres Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Walter Brennan, Buddy Ebsen, Lesley Ann Warren, John Davidson, John Davidson, Janet Blair
Roles Joe Carder
Rating62% 3.1482153.1482153.1482153.1482153.148215
The Bower Family Band petitions the Democratic National Committee to sing a rally song for President Grover Cleveland at the party's 1888 convention. On the urging of Joe Carder, a journalist and suitor to eldest Bower daughter Alice, the family decides instead to move to the Dakota Territory. There, Grandpa Bower, a staunch Democrat, causes trouble with his pro-Cleveland sentiments. The Dakota residents are overwhelmingly Republican, and hope to get the territory admitted as two states (North and South Dakota) rather than one (so as to send four Republican senators to Washington rather than two). Grandpa's actions result in family strife, including nearly costing Alice her position as the town's new school teacher. The budding romance between Joe and Alice also suffers. In the end, more ballots are cast for Cleveland, but Republican nominee Benjamin Harrison nonetheless wins the Electoral College reversal and the presidency. Before he leaves office, Cleveland grants statehood to the two Dakotas, along with two Democrat-voting territories, evening the gains for both parties. The Dakotans, particularly the feuding young couple, resolve to live together in peace.
The Happiest Millionaire, 2h24
Directed by Norman Tokar
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Fred MacMurray, Tommy Steele, Greer Garson, Gladys Cooper, Geraldine Page, Hermione Baddeley
Roles Angie Buchanan Duke
Rating64% 3.2498053.2498053.2498053.2498053.249805
The story begins in Autumn of 1916, and follows an Irish immigrant named John Lawless (Tommy Steele) as he applies for a butler position with eccentric Philadelphia millionaire Anthony J. Drexel Biddle (Fred MacMurray). Even though the family is a bit strange, Lawless soon learns that he fits right in. Mr. Biddle takes a liking to him immediately. For the rest of the film, Lawless serves as the narrator/commentator.
A Gathering of Eagles, 1h55
Directed by Delbert Mann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Political films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Rock Hudson, Rod Taylor, Mary Peach, Barry Sullivan, Kevin McCarthy, Henry Silva
Rating60% 3.0450553.0450553.0450553.0450553.045055
The Inspector General of the Strategic Air Command (SAC), Major General "Happy Jack" Kirby (Kevin McCarthy), lands unannounced at the fictional Carmody Air Force Base in northern California (a role actually filled by the real life Beale AFB), home of the 904th Strategic Aerospace Wing. Accompanied by a 30-man inspection team, he demands that the Air Police take him directly to the wing's command post and once there announces a no-notice Operational Readiness Inspection (ORI). As the inspection continues, General Kirby receives a score report from a member of his team. With this in hand, he calls General Hewitt, the commanding general of SAC at his Omaha headquarters and soberly informs him, "It doesn't look too good so far, sir.
A Stranger in My Arms
Directed by Helmut Käutner
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Political films
Actors Jeff Chandler, June Allyson, Sandra Dee, Mary Astor, Charles Coburn, Peter Graves
Roles Man (uncredited)
Rating60% 3.0435353.0435353.0435353.0435353.043535
A Korean War pilot, Pike Yarnell, a major, survives a jet crash in the Pacific Ocean, as does Donald Beasley, his navigator. After many days on a raft, Donald dies.
Around the World in Eighty Days, 2h47
Directed by John Farrow, Michael Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Films based on science fiction novels
Actors David Niven, Cantinflas, Robert Newton, Shirley MacLaine, Charles Boyer, Cedric Hardwicke
Roles Extra (uncredited)
Rating66% 3.349333.349333.349333.349333.34933
Broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow presents an onscreen prologue, featuring footage from A Trip to the Moon (1902) by Georges Méliès, explaining that it is based loosely on the book From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne. Also included is the launching of an unmanned rocket and footage of the earth receding.
All That Heaven Allows, 1h29
Directed by Douglas Sirk
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Melodrama, Romance
Actors Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead, Conrad Nagel, Virginia Grey, William Reynolds
Roles Man (uncredited)
Rating75% 3.796623.796623.796623.796623.79662
Cary Scott (Jane Wyman) is an affluent widow in suburban New England, whose social life involves her country club peers, college-age children, and a few men vying for her affection.
Prince Valiant, 1h40
Directed by Henry Hathaway, Gerd Oswald, Richard Talmadge
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Films set in the Viking Age, Children's films
Actors James Mason, Janet Leigh, Robert Wagner, Debra Paget, Sterling Hayden, Victor McLaglen
Rating61% 3.096533.096533.096533.096533.09653
The story begins with the recounting of the forced exile which has befallen the Christian royal family of the Viking kingdom of Scandia - King Aguar (Donald Crisp), his wife, and his son Prince Valiant (Robert Wagner) - by the Viking rebels led by the usurper Sligon (Primo Carnera), a worshipper of the old Norse god pantheon. Aguar has since come under the protection of King Arthur (Brian Aherne), and once Valiant has grown to a man, he is sent to Camelot to undergo training as a knight under the tutelage of Aguar's family friend, the noble knight of the Round Table, Sir Gawain (Sterling Hayden).
Thunder in the East, 1h37
Directed by Charles Vidor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Actors Alan Ladd, Deborah Kerr, Charles Boyer, Corinne Calvet, Cecil Kellaway, John Abbott
Roles Hotel Clerk
Rating62% 3.1425653.1425653.1425653.1425653.142565
The film is set in 1947 after India has gained its independence from Britain. Steve Gibbs (Alan Ladd), an American arms dealer, flies into a small Indian state intending to sell weapons to a local maharajah whose capital is facing an attack from a bandit army. He is opposed by the maharajah's prime minister (Charles Boyer), who is a proponent of Gandhi's philosophy of non-violence. He also falls in love with a blind woman (Deborah Kerr).
We're Not Married!, 1h26
Directed by Edmund Goulding
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Children's films, Films about marriage
Actors Ginger Rogers, Victor Moore, Marilyn Monroe, David Wayne, Eve Arden, Paul Douglas
Roles Best Man at Wedding (uncredited)
Rating63% 3.196913.196913.196913.196913.19691
When elderly Mr. Bush (Victor Moore) is appointed justice of the peace, he starts marrying couples on Christmas Eve. However, his appointment isn't valid until the first of January. Two years later, this issue becomes known when one of the six couples he married files divorce. To avoid a bigger scandal, the remaining five couples are informed that they are not really married. The film then shows how the couples react on the news:
People Will Talk, 1h50
Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Curt Goetz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films based on plays, Children's films
Actors Cary Grant, Jeanne Crain, Hume Cronyn, Finlay Currie, Walter Slezak, Sidney Blackmer
Roles Faculty Board Member (uncredited)
Rating72% 3.6473953.6473953.6473953.6473953.647395
People Will Talk describes an episode in the life of Dr. Noah Praetorius (Cary Grant), a physician who teaches in a medical school and founded a clinic dedicated to treating patients humanely and holistically. The plot contains two parallel story lines: a professional-misconduct challenge brought against Praetorius by his more conventional colleague Dr. Rodney Elwell (Hume Cronyn), who dislikes Praetorius's unorthodox but effective methods; and the struggle of a distressed young woman named Deborah Higgins (Jeanne Crain), who falls in love with Praetorius while dealing with an out-of-wedlock pregnancy. The film also highlights Praetorius's close friend and confidant, physics professor Lyonel Barker (Walter Slezak), who plays bass viol in the student/faculty orchestra conducted by Praetorius.
A Letter to Three Wives, 1h38
Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Children's films
Actors Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell, Ann Sothern, Kirk Douglas, Hobart Cavanaugh, Paul Douglas
Roles John, First Waiter (uncredited)
Rating76% 3.845073.845073.845073.845073.84507
Just as they are about to take a group of underprivileged children on a riverboat ride and picnic, Deborah Bishop (Jeanne Crain), Rita Phipps (Ann Sothern), and Lora Mae Hollingsway (Linda Darnell) receive a message from Addie Ross informing them that she has run off with one of their husbands. She, however, leaves them in suspense as to which one. All three marriages are shown in flashback to be strained.
Slattery's Hurricane, 1h27
Directed by André de Toth
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Themes La fin du monde, Météorologie, Transport films, Aviation films, Catastrophe climatique, Children's films, Disaster films
Actors Richard Widmark, Linda Darnell, Veronica Lake, John Russell, Gary Merrill, Raymond Greenleaf
Roles Maitre D' (uncredited)
Rating63% 3.1926653.1926653.1926653.1926653.192665
"...This is a hurricane. Hurricanes are windstorms of great violence several hundred miles in diameter, with a dead calm at the center called the eye. Like whirlpools, they spin rapidly, hurling great destruction in their paths. They're spawned in the doldrums, their father the heat of the sun, their mother the moisture of the sea. From July to December every year, the Caribbean crawls with these evil offspring of the elements..."