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John Qualen is a Actor Canadien born on 6 december 1899 at Vancouver (Canada)

John Qualen

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Birth name Johan Mandt Kvalen
Nationality Canada
Birth 6 december 1899 at Vancouver (Canada)
Death 12 september 1987 (at 87 years) at Torrance (USA)

John Qualen (born Johan Mandt Kvalen, December 8, 1899 – September 12, 1987) was a Canadian-American character actor of Norwegian heritage who specialized in Scandinavian roles.

Biography

John Qualen grandit aux États-Unis et se découvre une vocation d'acteur durant ses années universitaires. Il joue d'abord au théâtre, à Broadway, dans deux pièces d'Elmer Rice, Street Scene (1929-1930) et Counsellor at Law (1931-1933, avec Paul Muni). Ces deux pièces seront adaptées au cinéma, sous les mêmes titres, respectivement en 1931 et 1933, et dans chacune de ces adaptations, John Qualen reprendra son rôle initial.

C'est d'ailleurs dans Street Scene qu'il débute au cinéma, donc en 1931. La même année, il participe à un film de John Ford, qu'il retrouvera à plusieurs reprises, ainsi que John Wayne. Du fait de ses origines norvégiennes, il interprétera souvent des scandinaves au long de sa carrière, riche d'environ 130 films (le dernier en 1973). Notons encore qu'il aura comme partenaires Simone Simon dans L'Heure suprême (1937) et Tous les biens de la terre (1941), et Jean Gabin dans L'Imposteur (1944).

À partir de 1951 et jusqu'en 1974, il se produit à la télévision (téléfilms, séries), notamment dans trois épisodes (en 1956) d’Alfred Hitchcock présente, et deux épisodes (1958-1961) de Maverick.

Il est parfois crédité "John M. Qualen" ou "John T. Qualen".

Best films

The Searchers (1956)
(Actor)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
(Actor)
Jungle Book (1942)
(Actor)

Usually with

John Wayne
John Wayne
(12 films)
John Ford
John Ford
(9 films)
James Stewart
James Stewart
(12 films)
George Chandler
George Chandler
(12 films)
Henry Fonda
Henry Fonda
(12 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of John Qualen (127 films)

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Actor

La Classe américaine, 1h10
Directed by Michel Hazanavicius, Dominique Mézerette
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Crime
Actors John Wayne, Christine Delaroche, Dustin Hoffman, Burt Lancaster, Robert Redford, Marc Cassot
Roles V12 (archive footage) (uncredited)
Rating78% 3.936623.936623.936623.936623.93662
The film begins with the following lines appearing on screen, complete with deliberate spelling mistakes: "Attention! Ce flim n'est pas un flim sur le cyclimse. Merci de votre compréhension." ("Attention! This flim is not a flim about cyclign. Thank you for your understanding.")
La Classe américaine, 39minutes
Directed by Michel Hazanavicius, Dominique Mézerette
Genres Comedy, Crime
Actors John Wayne, Christine Delaroche, Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Marc Cassot, Steve McQueen
Roles V12 (archive footage) (uncredited)
Rating73% 3.665473.665473.665473.665473.66547
Diffusé pour les fêtes de fin d'année, ce second détournement (qui fait suite à Derrick contre Superman) est un Ça cartoon déjanté mêlant des séquences originales présenté par Valérie Payet et Philippe Dana à des extraits redoublés de dessins animés avec Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck... et de films avec Steve McQueen, Burt Lancaster, Jack Nicholson, Jean Gabin, etc. Il s'agit du second des trois téléfilms du Grand Détournement.
La Classe américaine
Directed by Michel Hazanavicius, Dominique Mézerette
Genres Comedy, Crime
Actors John Wayne, Christine Delaroche, Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Marc Cassot, Paul Newman
Roles V12 (archive footage) (uncredited)
Rating78% 3.936623.936623.936623.936623.93662
George Abitbol, l'homme le plus classe du monde, meurt tragiquement lors d'une croisière. Dans un dernier souffle, il murmure : « Monde de merde ». Pourquoi ? Ces mots intriguent le rédacteur en chef d'un quotidien américain. Il dépêche ses trois meilleurs enquêteurs : Dave, Peter et Steven (prononcer « Pétère et Stéveune ») pour éclaircir ce mystère...
Hail, Hero!, 1h40
Directed by David Miller
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Michael Douglas, Peter Strauss, John Arthur Kennedy, Teresa Wright, Deborah Winters, Charles Drake
Roles Billy Hurd
Rating52% 2.6196652.6196652.6196652.6196652.619665
During the Vietnam War, college student Carl Dixon quits school and joins the Army in hopes of using love, not bullets, to combat the Viet Cong.
P.J.
P.J. (1968)
, 1h49
Directed by John Guillermin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors George Peppard, Raymond Burr, Gayle Hunnicutt, Brock Peters, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Jason Evers
Roles Poppa
Rating63% 3.1867653.1867653.1867653.1867653.186765
New York City private eye P.J. (Peter Joseph) Detweiler needs the work, so he accepts an offer to be a bodyguard to protect Maureen Preble, the mistress of shady millionaire William Orbison.
Firecreek
Firecreek (1968)
, 1h44
Directed by Vincent McEveety
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Inger Stevens, Jay C. Flippen, Jacqueline Scott, Gary Lockwood
Roles Hall
Rating67% 3.3959953.3959953.3959953.3959953.395995
After years of backing away from criminals and gunfights, one resident of the small western town of Firecreek decides to fight back. Part-time sheriff Johnny Cobb (James Stewart) decides to avenge the death of a young man against gunmen led by Bob Larkin (Henry Fonda).
The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin, 1h45
Directed by James Neilson, Arthur J. Vitarelli
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Western
Themes Children's films
Actors Roddy McDowall, Suzanne Pleshette, Karl Malden, Harry Guardino, Richard Haydn, Mike Mazurki
Roles Le barbier
Rating63% 3.198023.198023.198023.198023.19802
Griffin est le majordome très propre sur lui d'un habitant de Boston, Jack Flagg. Mais lorsque Flagg décide de déménager pour la Californie lors de la Ruée vers l'or de 1949, Griffin le suit docilement.
A Big Hand for the Little Lady, 1h35
Directed by Fielder Cook
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Western
Themes Jeu, Poker
Actors Henry Fonda, Joanne Woodward, Paul Ford, Jason Robards, Burgess Meredith, Charles Bickford
Roles Jesse Buford
Rating72% 3.6462453.6462453.6462453.6462453.646245
The five richest men in the territory gather in Laredo for their annual high-stakes poker game. The high rollers let nothing get in the way of their yearly showdown. When undertaker Tropp (Charles Bickford) calls for them in his horse-drawn hearse, cattleman Henry Drummond (Jason Robards) forces a postponement of his daughter's wedding, while lawyer Otto Habershaw (Kevin McCarthy) abandons his closing arguments in a trial, with his client's life hanging in the balance. They are joined by Wilcox (Robert Middleton) and Buford (John Qualen) in the back room of Sam's saloon, while the curious gather outside for occasional reports.
Those Calloways, 2h11
Directed by Norman Tokar, Tom Leetch
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Children's films
Actors Brian Keith, Vera Miles, Brandon deWilde, Walter Brennan, Ed Wynn, Linda Evans
Roles Ernie Evans
Rating64% 3.244263.244263.244263.244263.24426
La famille Calloway vit dans la forêt juste en dehors de la petite ville de Swiftwater en Nouvelle-Écosse. Le père Cam rêve de construire un sanctuaire pour les oies sauvages qui migrent. Mais la population de la ville trouve Cam trop excentrique. Cam et son fils Bucky décident d'amasser des fourrures pour récolter assez d'argent pour acheter un lac. Mais la somme récoltée ne suffit pas et ils sont contraints de vendre leur maison. La famille construit une nouvelle maison au bord du lac mais un promoteur envisage de construire une zone de loisirs dans la petite ville. Il propose à Cam en échange d'argent et de promesses d'aider à construire le sanctuaire de planter un champ de maïs pour attirer les oiseaux. Cam apprend par la suite que le but du promoteur est de faire un plan d'eau pour la chasse aux oies.
A Patch of Blue, 1h45
Directed by Guy Green
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about families, Medical-themed films, Films about sexuality, Films about prostitution, Films about disabilities, La cécité
Actors Sidney Poitier, Shelley Winters, Elizabeth Hartman, Wallace Ford, Ivan Dixon, Elisabeth Fraser
Roles Mr. Faber
Rating79% 3.9963553.9963553.9963553.9963553.996355
Selina D'Arcey (Elizabeth Hartman) is a blind girl living with her prostitute mother Rose-Ann (Shelley Winters) and grandfather Ole Pa (Wallace Ford), in a city apartment. She strings beads to supplement her family's small income, and spends most of her time doing chores. Her mother is abusive, and Ole Pa is an alcoholic. Selina has no friends, rarely leaves the apartment, and has never received an education.
I'll Take Sweden, 1h37
Directed by Frederick de Cordova
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical, Romance
Actors Bob Hope, Tuesday Weld, Frankie Avalon, Dina Merrill, Roy Roberts, John Qualen
Roles Olaf
Rating52% 2.607012.607012.607012.607012.60701
Single father Bob Holcomb (Hope), a widower, is unhappy with the guitar-playing boy (Avalon) his daughter JoJo (Weld) chooses as a husband-to-be. An executive with an oil company, Bob accepts a transfer to the firm's Stockholm branch and he takes JoJo along, hoping it will distract her.
The Sons of Katie Elder, 1h57
Directed by Henry Hathaway
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Western
Themes Films about families
Actors John Wayne, Dean Martin, Martha Hyer, Michael Anderson Jr., Earl Holliman, George Kennedy
Roles Charlie Biller
Rating70% 3.5492953.5492953.5492953.5492953.549295
The four adult sons of Katie Elder – John (John Wayne), who is a famous (or infamous) professional gunman; Tom (Dean Martin), a professional gambler; Bud (Michael Anderson, Jr.), the youngest brother, still in school; and Matt (Earl Holliman), an unsuccessful hardware dealer – reunite in their hometown of Clearwaters, Texas (approximately 2 hours east of Dallas, Texas), in 1898 for their mother's funeral, sharing regret that none of them has lived up to her high expectations of them.
7 Faces of Dr. Lao, 1h40
Directed by George Pal
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Fantasy, Action, Western
Themes Circus films
Actors Tony Randall, Barbara Eden, John Ericson, Arthur O'Connell, Noah Beery, Jr, Lee Patrick
Roles Luther Lindquist
Rating70% 3.546833.546833.546833.546833.54683
It is the dawn of the 20th century, and an elderly Chinese man rides a jackass into Abalone, Arizona, his only visible possession a fishbowl occupied by an innocuous-looking fish. This magical visitor, Dr. Lao (Tony Randall), visits Edward Cunningham's (John Ericson) newspaper and places a large ad for his traveling circus, which will play in Abalone for two nights only.
Cheyenne Autumn, 2h34
Directed by John Ford
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Western
Actors Richard Widmark, Carroll Baker, James Stewart, Dolores del Río, Edward G. Robinson, Karl Malden
Roles Svenson (uncredited)
Rating66% 3.349083.349083.349083.349083.34908
In 1878, Chiefs Little Wolf (Ricardo Montalban) and Dull Knife (Gilbert Roland) led over three hundred starved and weary Cheyenne from their reservation in the Oklahoma territory to their traditional home in Wyoming. The US government sees this as an act of rebellion, and the sympathetic Captain Thomas Archer (Richard Widmark) is forced to lead his troops in an attempt to stop the tribe. As the press misrepresents the natives' motives and goals for their trek as malicious, Secretary of the Interior Carl Schurz (Edward G. Robinson) tries to prevent violence from erupting between the army and the natives. Also featured are James Stewart as Wyatt Earp, Dolores del Río as "Spanish Woman" and Carroll Baker as a pacifist Quaker school teacher and Archer's love interest.
Donovan's Reef, 1h49
Directed by John Ford
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Jack Warden, Elizabeth Allen, Cesar Romero, Dorothy Lamour
Roles Deckhand (uncredited)
Rating66% 3.346423.346423.346423.346423.34642
The film is a morality play in the guise of an action/comedy. It deals harshly (though not in an obvious way) with issues of racial bigotry, corporate connivance and greed, American beliefs of societal "superiority" and hypocrisy (i.e., the Boston shipping company considers carrying rum to be immoral, so they euphemistically refer to it as "West Indies goods"). Otherwise, Donovan's Reef is a light-hearted movie made in a period conforming, formulaic and sweetly naive manner (see "Critical Reception", below).