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John Gavin is a Actor American born on 8 april 1931 at Los Angeles (USA)

John Gavin

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Birth name Juan Vincent Apablasa
Nationality USA
Birth 8 april 1931 at Los Angeles (USA)
Death 9 february 2018 (at 86 years)

John Anthony Golenor, dit John Gavin, né Juan Vincent Apablasa le 8 avril 1931 à Los Angeles (Californie) et mort le 9 février 2018 à Beverly Hills, est un acteur américain et ambassadeur des États-Unis au Mexique de 1981 à 1986.

Biography

Enfance et formation

Né Juan Vincent Apablasa Jr., John Gavin est d'ascendance mexicaine, chilienne et espagnole, et parlait couramment l'espagnol. Son père, Juan Vincent Apablasa, est d'origine chilienne, et ses ancêtres paternels, dont Cayetano Apablasa, étaient parmi les premiers propriétaires fonciers en Californie alors encore sous domination espagnole. La mère de John Gavin, Delia Diana Pablos, est issue de la famille historiquement influente Pablos dans l'État mexicain de Sonora. Environ deux ans après la naissance de John Gavin, sa mère a obtenu le divorce. Son second mariage a permis à Ray Golenor d'adopter John et a changé son nom en John Anthony Golenor.


Carrière militaire

Carrière au cinéma


John Gavin est le jeune premier romantique de l'après-guerre.

D'une grande beauté, dans la lignée de Cary Grant (moins l'humour) et Rock Hudson, il est choisi par Douglas Sirk (qui consacra Hudson) pour être le héros de deux mélodrames brillants : Le Temps d'aimer et le Temps de mourir, une adaptation d'un roman de Erich Maria Remarque, et Mirage de la vie, où il a pour partenaire Lana Turner. En 1960, il figure en bonne place dans Spartacus de Stanley Kubrick et dans Psychose d'Alfred Hitchcock.

Partenaire romantique de Doris Day (Piège à minuit), puis de Sophia Loren (Scandale à la cour) et de Susan Hayward (Histoire d'un amour), sa carrière de jeune premier se marginalise dès 1961 et menace de sombrer dans la mièvrerie, car il est régulièrement associé à Sandra Dee, notamment dans Romanoff et Juliette de Peter Ustinov, une adaptation parodique de Shakespeare où il joue un Roméo devenu le fils d'un ambassadeur russe. John Gavin accepte alors des rôles plus diversifiés. Il interprète, en 1967, le rôle-titre dans Pedro Páramo, un film mexicain réalisé par Carlos Velo d'après le roman éponyme de Juan Rulfo, puis accepte d'être Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath dans Pas de roses pour OSS 117 du Français André Hunebelle en 1968 et, l'année suivante, fait partie de la distribution internationale de La Folle de Chaillot, tourné en Grande-Bretagne, ce qui constitue son baroud d'honneur. Il ne tournera plus ensuite qu'une poignée de films pour le cinéma, d'horreur en général, dont La casa de las sombras au côté d'Yvonne De Carlo en 1976. Cependant, en 1971, les producteurs de James Bond annoncent que Gavin succède à George Lazenby dans le rôle titre mais finalement, suite aux démarches de David Picker de la United Artists, c'est Sean Connery qui reprendra le rôle pour Les diamants sont éternels.

Sa carrière à la télévision s'avère très décevante : des participations à Mannix, La croisière s'amuse et, plus tard, L'Île fantastique et Pour l'amour du risque (ses deux derniers rôles). Seule exception notable : il prête ses traits séduisants pour incarner Cary Grant dans la biographie télévisée de Sophia Loren, avec celle-ci dans son propre rôle.


Diplomatie

D'un père d'origine irlandaise et de mère mexicaine, il parle couramment l'espagnol. Il sera nommé ambassadeur des États-Unis au Mexique par son ami le président Ronald Reagan en mai 1981.


Mort
John Gavin meurt le 9 février 2018 à l’âge de 86 ans.


Vie privée
Divorcé de Cicely Evans, avec laquelle il a eu deux filles, John Gavin est marié de 1974 à sa mort avec l'actrice Constance Towers.

Best films

Spartacus (1960)
(Actor)
Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967)
(Actor)
Psycho (1960)
(Actor)
A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958)
(Actor)

Usually with

Bud Westmore
Bud Westmore
(7 films)
Ross Hunter
Ross Hunter
(6 films)
Vera Miles
Vera Miles
(6 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of John Gavin (30 films)

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Actor

24 Hour Psycho, 24h
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Martin Balsam, John McIntire, Janet Leigh
Roles Sam Loomis (archive footage)
Rating56% 2.809532.809532.809532.809532.80953
Terror in the Aisles, 1h24
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Fantastic, Documentary, Anthology film, Horror
Themes Films about films, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentary films about films
Actors Donald Pleasence, Nancy Allen, Bud Abbott, Michael Ironside, Fred Asparagus, Brooke Adams
Rating62% 3.147833.147833.147833.147833.14783
Director Andrew J. Kuehn has excerpted brief segments of terror and suspense in a wide variety of suspenseful (including humorously so, ex. Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein, Saturday the 14th) films and strung them together with added commentary, as well as some enacted narrative, to create a compilation of fright-inducing effects. Halloween actor Donald Pleasence and Dressed to Kill star Nancy Allen provide the commentary on topics such as "sex and terror" (Dressed to Kill, Klute, Ms. 45, The Seduction, When a Stranger Calls), loathsome villains (Dracula, Frankenstein, Friday the 13 1 and/or 2, Halloween I and II, Marathon Man, Nighthawks, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Touch of Evil, Vice Squad, Wait Until Dark, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?), "natural terror" (Alligator, The Birds, Frogs, Jaws 1 and 2, Nightwing) and the occult (An American Werewolf in London, Rosemary's Baby, The Exorcist, The Omen, Carrie, The Shining). In one segment of the anthology, legendary filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock presents his concepts of how to create suspense in a clip from Alfred Hitchcock: Men Who Made The Movies.
Jennifer
Jennifer (1978)
, 1h30
Directed by Brice Mack
Origin USA
Genres Horror
Themes Films about animals, Films about snakes
Actors Lisa Pelikan, Bert Convy, Nina Foch, John Gavin, Jeff Corey, Wesley Eure
Roles Senator Tremayne
Rating54% 2.7145552.7145552.7145552.7145552.714555
Jenifer Baylor (Lisa Pelikan) is a poor, red-headed young woman from West Virginia. Jennifer possesses a power over snakes, an ability to control them and communicate with them. She and her father, Luke Baylor (Jeff Corey), left their home in disgrace, because when Jennifer was around the age of seven, some snakes she had been handling killed the town preacher's son. She refused to handle snakes ever again, though Luke now runs a pet store and often encourages her to use her power again. Luke is mentally disabled, unable to make meals for himself without burning them, and relies on Jennifer since his wife died. While Luke does run the pet store, he spends most of the time in a back room, listening to Christian radio.
The New Adventures of Heidi
Directed by Ralph Senensky
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical
Themes Films about children, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Katy Kurtzman, Burl Ives, John Gavin, Sean Marshall, Alex Henteloff, Charles Aidman
Roles Dan Wyler
Rating45% 2.260572.260572.260572.260572.26057
When Heidi's grandfather finds he is losing his sight he doesn't wish to tell Heidi, but he makes her live with her relatives, Cousins Tobias and Martha to attend school in a large city. There Heidi meets the troubled Elizabeth Wyler who is fascinated by Heidi and her rural life. Through his secretary Mady, Heidi joins Elizabeth and her busy widowed father Dan Wyler for a Christmas in New York City.
House of Shadows
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors John Gavin, Yvonne De Carlo, Mecha Ortiz
Roles Roland Stewart
Rating38% 1.948671.948671.948671.948671.94867
Keep It in the Family
Directed by Larry Kent
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy
Actors John Gavin, Patricia Gage, Adrienne La Russa
Roles Roy McDonald
Rating49% 2.4769752.4769752.4769752.4769752.476975
Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You, 1h39
Directed by Rodney Amateau
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Ian McShane, John Gavin, Anna Calder-Marshall, Beba Loncar, Severn Darden, Leopoldo Trieste
Roles Charlie Harrison (Grant Granite)
Rating44% 2.2215852.2215852.2215852.2215852.221585
The Madwoman of Chaillot, 2h12
Directed by John Huston, Bryan Forbes
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Katharine Hepburn, Paul Henreid, Oskar Homolka, Margaret Leighton, Yul Brynner, Giulietta Masina
Roles The Reverend
Rating60% 3.0017553.0017553.0017553.0017553.001755
The story is of a modern society endangered by power and greed and the rebellion of the "little people" against corrupt and soulless authority.
Cutter's Trail
Directed by Vincent McEveety
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors John Gavin, Marisa Pavan, Joseph Cotten, Manuel Padilla, Jr., Beverly Garland, J. Carrol Naish
Roles Ben Cutter
Rating69% 3.475983.475983.475983.475983.47598
A marshall returns to his home town to find it has been taken over by outlaws.
OSS 117 Murder for Sale, 1h45
Directed by André Hunebelle, Jean-Pierre Desagnat
Origin France
Genres Action, Spy, Crime
Themes Spy films
Actors John Gavin, Robert Hossein, Margaret Lee, Curd Jürgens, Piero Lulli, Luciana Paluzzi
Roles Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath
Rating52% 2.6238652.6238652.6238652.6238652.623865
À Rome, OSS 117 se fait passer pour le gangster William Chandler de manière à infiltrer une organisation criminelle dirigée par « le Major ». Il est envoyé au Moyen-Orient pour assassiner un délégué de l'ONU , mais il arrivera à le sauver et à mettre fin à l'organisation du Major...
Thoroughly Modern Millie, 2h18
Directed by George Roy Hill
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films, Films based on plays
Actors Julie Andrews, James Fox, Mary Tyler Moore, John Gavin, Carol Channing, Beatrice Lillie
Roles Trevor Graydon
Rating68% 3.448833.448833.448833.448833.44883
In New York City in 1922, flapper Millie Dillmount (Julie Andrews) is determined to find work as a stenographer to a wealthy businessman and then marry him – a "thoroughly modern" goal. Millie befriends the sweet yet naive Miss Dorothy Brown (Mary Tyler Moore) as the latter checks into the Priscilla Hotel. When house mother Mrs. Meers (Beatrice Lillie) learns Miss Dorothy is an orphan, she remarks, "Sad to be all alone in the world." Unbeknown to Millie, the woman is selling her tenants into white slavery, and those without family or close friends are her primary targets.
Back Street, 1h47
Directed by David Miller
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Susan Hayward, John Gavin, Vera Miles, Charles Drake, Virginia Grey, Natalie Schafer
Roles Paul Saxon
Rating65% 3.293923.293923.293923.293923.29392
Wealthy department-store heir Paul Saxon has a romantic fling with a Nebraska dress-shop owner, Rae Smith, who breaks it off when she discovers he is married.