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Jon Shepodd is a Actor American born on 19 december 1925 at Birmingham (USA)
Jon Shepodd (born December 19, 1925) is an American actor.
On television, he was the first actor to play the role of Paul Martin in the long-running series Lassie, making his debut mid-fourth season (1957) opposite Cloris Leachman as his wife Ruth Martin.
The two performers appeared for the remainder of the fourth season (27 episodes) but were released upon completion of filming in March 1958 after ratings plunged and letters to the producers indicated strong disapproval of the icy Leachman.
Though no fan complaints had been registered against Shepodd, it was felt he needed to be released with Leachman as a "new wife" for him would be difficult to explain to an audience composed mainly of children. Paul and Ruth Martin were thereafter played by Hugh Reilly and June Lockhart until the characters were dropped in the eleventh season (1964).
In the film Attack (1956), he plays Cpl. John Jackson, the orderly to the unpopular Captain Cooney (Eddie Albert). During an opening sequence, Jackson irritates the other men in the unit who are queuing up for coffee, when he jumps the queue. He also appeared as Jesus Christ in The Power of the Resurrection (1958), in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), and as Alredi in The Garment Jungle (1957).
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On television, he was the first actor to play the role of Paul Martin in the long-running series Lassie, making his debut mid-fourth season (1957) opposite Cloris Leachman as his wife Ruth Martin.
The two performers appeared for the remainder of the fourth season (27 episodes) but were released upon completion of filming in March 1958 after ratings plunged and letters to the producers indicated strong disapproval of the icy Leachman.
Though no fan complaints had been registered against Shepodd, it was felt he needed to be released with Leachman as a "new wife" for him would be difficult to explain to an audience composed mainly of children. Paul and Ruth Martin were thereafter played by Hugh Reilly and June Lockhart until the characters were dropped in the eleventh season (1964).
In the film Attack (1956), he plays Cpl. John Jackson, the orderly to the unpopular Captain Cooney (Eddie Albert). During an opening sequence, Jackson irritates the other men in the unit who are queuing up for coffee, when he jumps the queue. He also appeared as Jesus Christ in The Power of the Resurrection (1958), in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), and as Alredi in The Garment Jungle (1957).
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, 2h8Directed by Robert Aldrich
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about films, Films about families, Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about television, Vieillesse, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities
Actors Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono, Gina Gillespie, Wesley Addy, Maidie Norman
Rating79%
In 1917, Baby Jane Hudson is a vaudevillian child star while her sister Blanche Hudson is not famous and overlooked by their father. By 1935, both sisters are movie actors, but Blanche has achieved stardom, while Jane’s films have flopped, leading Jane to drink heavily. One night, returning from a party, one of the sisters (implied to be Blanche) gets out of the car to open the garage door, while the driver (implied to be Jane) attempts to run her over, misses, and crashes into the garage. The accident leaves Blanche paralyzed.
I'll Give My Life (1960)
, 1h18Directed by William F. Claxton
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Ray Collins, Angie Dickinson, Katherine Warren, Donald Woods, Jon Shepodd, Stuart Randall
Roles Bob Conners
Rating59%
John Bradford expects son Jim to join his engineering firm, but Jim instead joins the ministry, attending a seminary for four years before being assigned to New Guinea.
The Garment Jungle (1957)
, 1h28Directed by Robert Aldrich, Vincent Sherman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Noir, Crime
Themes Films about the labor movement, Political films
Actors Lee J. Cobb, Kerwin Mathews, Gia Scala, Richard Boone, Valerie French, Robert Loggia
Roles Alredi
Rating65%
Alan Mitchell is a returning Korean War veteran who joins his father Walter's garment company, Roxton Fashions. The firm has been paying protection money to gangsters led by Artie Ravidge to keep the union out.
Dragoon Wells Massacre (1957)
, 1h28Directed by Harold D. Schuster
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Barry Sullivan, Dennis O'Keefe, Mona Freeman, Katy Jurado, Sebastian Cabot, Max Showalter
Roles Tom
Rating60%
This script must be run from the command line
Attack (1956)
, 1h47Directed by Robert Aldrich
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action
Themes Political films
Actors Jack Palance, Eddie Albert, Lee Marvin, Robert Strauss, William Smithers, Buddy Ebsen
Roles Cpl. John Jackson
Rating73%
Europe 1944: Fragile Fox is a company of American G.I.s based in a Belgian town near the front line. They are led by Captain Erskine Cooney (Eddie Albert), a man from Riverview, Kentucky who appears to be better at handling red tape than military strategy. On the other hand, Cooney is a natural coward out of depth who freezes under fire and cannot bring himself to send more men into battle to reinforce those already under attack. The increasing and unnecessary loss of life is causing morale problems among the troops and trying the patience of Platoon Leader Lt. Joe Costa (Jack Palance), a bold and brave fighter and a natural leader of men. The Executive Officer, Lt. Harold Woodruff (William Smithers, in his first credited screen role) is the "voice of reason" who tries to keep the peace between Cooney and Costa. Both he and Costa are respected by the enlisted troops. While Woodruff tries to get Cooney reassigned to a desk job behind the lines, Costa hints at a more direct solution to the problem. It's a well-known fact that Cooney owes his position to battalion commander Lt. Col. Clyde Bartlett (Lee Marvin), a man who has known the Cooney family since he was a 14-year-old clerk in the office of Cooney's father, a top judge. The judge and his influence could be very useful to Bartlett's post-war political ambitions and it all depends on his and Erskine's war records. Neither Captain Cooney nor Bartlett are liked by the company: as PFC. Bernstein (Robert Strauss) puts it: "When you salute them two, you have to apologize to your arm.