John Alderson

AKA: John Anderson
1.314

1916-04-10

Horden, Durham, England, UK

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {86}

Lt. Cmdr. Diplock

1957-11-14 5.1

Don't Go Near the Water

Madison Avenue-trained Navy men handle public relations on a South Pacific island during World War II. ...
Genre :Comedy, Adventure, Romance, War

Detective at the Costume Ball (uncredited)

1955-08-03 7.272

To Catch a Thief

When a string of jewel robberies hits the French Riviera, suspicion falls on retired thief John “The Cat” Robie. To clear his name, he sets out to trap the copycat himself—entangling a wealthy widow a ...
Genre :Mystery, Romance, Thriller

Johnson

1958-10-26 0

Wolf Larsen

A mean-spirited ship captain keeps his crew under his autocratic thumb while indulging his more refined side. But when his men rise up in mutiny, Larsen forces the cultured Van Weyden to help him quas ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama, Romance

Crewman Svenson

1963-02-15 6.1

The Hook

Three soldiers in Korea go through inner torment when they're ordered to execute an enemy soldier. ...
Genre :War, Drama

Clyde Walters

1957-05-04 5.818

Shoot-Out At Medicine Bend

In Medicine Bend, a crooked businessman has the town mayor and sheriff in his pocket while his henchmen raid the wagon trains passing through the region. ...
Genre :Western

Tanner (uncredited)

1972-12-26 5.8

Fear Is the Key

A deep-sea salvage expert enacts an elaborate plan to infiltrate and take revenge on a criminal organization that dealt him a foul misdeed. ...
Genre :Action, Thriller

Jamie - Doolittle's crony (uncredited)

1964-12-01 7.504

My Fair Lady

A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Corporal (uncredited)

1953-03-26 6.3

The Desert Rats

In North Africa, German Field Marshal Rommel and his troops have successfully fended off British forces, and now intend to take Tobruk, an important port city. A ramshackle group of Australian reinfor ...
Genre :War, Action

Gum Chewer (uncredited)

1974-02-07 7.243

Blazing Saddles

A town—where everyone seems to be named Johnson—stands in the way of the railroad. In order to grab their land, robber baron Hedley Lamarr sends his henchmen to make life in the town unbearable. After ...
Genre :Western, Comedy

Eric Kort

1975-01-04 10

The Log of the Black Pearl

A young stockbroker, Christopher Sand, inherits an old ship named "Black Pearl" along with a medallion that is the key to a sunken Nazi treasure. But there are other people looking for the sunken trea ...
Genre :Adventure, TV Movie

Truck Driver (uncredited)

1965-02-09 5.9

Strange Bedfellows

After a hasty wedding, Carter and Toni find that they disagree on everything. They separate and seven years later, on the eve before their divorce, meet again and spend the night together. Reality se ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Big Jack Milna

1957-04-04 0

Spoilers of the Forest

Vera Ralston plays Joan Milna, who shares several thousand acres of valuable Montana timberland with her stepfather (John Alderson). Coveting Joan's property, lumber baron Eric Warren (Ray Collins) se ...
Genre :Western

Mr. Smith

1978-06-09 5.939

The Cat from Outer Space

A UFO is stranded on earth and impounded by the US government. Its pilot, a cat with a collar that gives it special powers, including the ability to communicate with humans, has eluded the authorities ...
Genre :Comedy, Family, Science Fiction

Cpl. Kraus (uncredited)

1958-04-02 6.768

The Young Lions

The lives of three young men, a German and two Americans, during WWII. ...
Genre :War, Drama, Action

Officer (uncredited)

1963-06-12 6.2

Donovan's Reef

After her great aunt's death, a high-society woman arrives on a Hawaiian island in search of the heir - the father she has never met. ...
Genre :Adventure, Comedy, Romance

Jenkins

1977-12-16 6.9

Candleshoe

When ex-con artist Harry claims that a secret treasure is hidden inside Candleshoe, an English estate, he creates an elaborate plan to find and steal the prize. By convincing a girl named Casey to imp ...
Genre :Family

Cop

1977-09-07 5.7

Valentino

The untimely death of silent screen star Rudolph Valentino prompts the many women in his past to reminisce about his troubled rise to superstardom. ...
Genre :Drama

Police Sergeant

1982-03-05 6.9

Evil Under the Sun

An opulent beach resort provides a scenic background to this amusing whodunit as Poirot attempts to uncover the nefarious evildoer behind the strangling of a notorious stage star. ...
Genre :Thriller, Crime, Mystery, Drama

Randal Wix

1961-06-08 5.4

Romanoff and Juliet

Political satire has Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet story updated for the cold war era, with the children of the US and Russian ambassadors falling in love. ...
Genre :Comedy

Chaffee

1959-02-01 6.6

No Name on the Bullet

When hired killer John Gant rides into Lordsburg, the town's folk become paranoid as each leading citizen has enemies capable of using the services of a professional killer for personal revenge. ...
Genre :Action, Thriller, Western

Cpl. Devon Enoch

1955-11-15 5.3

Target Zero

International soldiers fight to ignore their differences while holding a hill during the Korean War. ...
Genre :War

Nathanial Greening

1955-06-24 6.5

Moonfleet

Set in the eighteenth century, Moonfleet is about John Mohune, a young orphan who is sent to the Dorset village of Moonfleet to stay with an old friend of his mother's, Jeremy Fox. Fox is a morally am ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama, History

English Bobby

1954-04-06 6.652

Knock on Wood

Ventriloquist Jerry Morgan has failed with another love affair. The reason: when the relationship reaches the point when it is time to discuss marriage, his two dolls become mean and jealous. Morgan's ...
Genre :Action, Comedy

Fitzroy - Baritone

1953-06-27 4.4

South Sea Woman

Marine Sergeant James O'Hearn is being tried at the San Diego Marine base for desertion, theft, scandalous conduct and destruction of property in time of war. He refuses to testify or plead guilty or ...
Genre :Adventure, Comedy, Romance, War

Sailor Harris

1952-12-24 6

Against All Flags

In the 18th century, the pirates of Madagascar, lords of the Republic of Libertatia and masters of the Indian Ocean, live in an impregnable natural fortress, killing, robbing and plundering with impun ...
Genre :Drama, Adventure

Iceman

1967-04-05 4.9

Double Trouble

When singer Guy Lambert goes on tour in Europe, he is pursued by two beautiful women, bumbling jewel thieves, and a mysterious killer. ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime, Drama, Music, Romance

Jim Hatch

1968-11-27 6.4

Hellfighters

The adventures of oil well fire specialist Chance Buckman (based on real-life Red Adair), who extinguishes massive fires in oil fields around the world. ...
Genre :Action, Adventure, Romance

Jenkins

1970-02-08 6.313

The Molly Maguires

Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, 1876. A secret society of Irish coal miners, bond by a sacred oath, put pressure on the greedy and ruthless company they work for by sabotaging mining facilities in th ...
Genre :Drama, History, Thriller

Audrey's Husband

1973-01-22 1

Kisses at Fifty

A father leaves his grown-up family to move in with his lover in the south, alienating himself from his four children. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy, TV Movie

U.S. Army Major

1970-07-23 5.9

You Can't Win 'Em All

During the 1922 Turkish Civil War, two Americans and a group of foreign mercenaries offer their services to a local Turkish governor who hires them as guards for a secret transport. ...
Genre :War, Adventure, Comedy, Action

Marshal Wyatt Earp

1966-05-21 6.333

Doctor Who: The Gunfighters

Arriving in the town of Tombstone, the First Doctor finds himself involved with gunmen out to kill Doc Holliday... ...
Genre :Science Fiction, Drama, Adventure

Angus MacKendrick

1957-07-16 4.3

Last Stagecoach West

The coming of the railroad to Cedar City spells the end of the stagecoach as the government gives the mail contract to the fastest means of delivery. McCord loses the stagecoach line gambling with the ...
Genre :Action, Adventure, Western

Andrew (uncredited)

1980-05-14 5

Haywire

Based on the autobiography of Brooke Hayward, daughter of famous Broadway producer Leland Hayward and actress Margaret Sullavan, who grows up in the glamorous, cruel and emotionally unstable world of ...
Genre :Drama

Amish Farmer on Train

1955-04-01 6.757

Violent Saturday

Three men case a small town very carefully, with plans to rob the bank on the upcoming Saturday, which turns violent and deadly. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Vernon Hodo

1974-10-25 5.6

The Klansman

A small southern town has just been rocked by a tragedy: a young white woman has been raped by a black man. When young black man Garth witnesses the Ku Klux Klan's violent retaliation against his inno ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Thriller

Trent

1976-04-01 6.067

The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox

A female hustler is chasing after rich men, but becomes repeatedly mixed up with a suave con man and card shark through a series of misadventures before falling in love with him. ...
Genre :Comedy, Western

Holbracht

1965-11-17 6.196

The War Lord

A knight in the service of a duke goes to a coastal village where an earlier attempt to build a defensive castle has failed. He begins to rebuild the duke's authority in the face of the barbarians at ...
Genre :History, Drama, War

Sheriff

1980-05-05 6

The Memory of Eva Ryker

A young woman has spent her life tormented by the death of her mother, who was on a ship torpedoed during World War II. When her father hires an investigator to look into the circumstances of the moth ...
Genre :Action, Drama, Mystery, War, TV Movie

Waldo's Aide No. 1

1981-11-20 7

Ragtime

A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City. ...
Genre :Drama, History

Roman Officer (uncredited)

1963-06-12 7

Cleopatra

Determined to hold on to the throne, Cleopatra seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. When Caesar is murdered, she redirects her attentions to his general, Marc Antony, who vows to take power—but Ca ...
Genre :Drama, History, Romance

1951-08-11 0

The Highwayman

Genre :Adventure

Kyle Sandor

1976-06-07 0

The Switch

Our heroes find themselves at the famed Cannes Film Festival to help foil a plot to murder a former American union boss cum government witness, Kyle Sander. Suspects include the beautiful Marissa and ...
Genre :Action

Yankee Catcher (uncredited)

1954-08-04 6.4

Living It Up

Homer Flagg is a railroad worker in the small New Mexico town of Desert Hole. One day, he finds an abandoned automobile at an old atomic proving ground. His doctor and best friend, Steve Harris, diagn ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

Citizen of Rome (uncredited)

1953-06-04 7.061

Julius Caesar

The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but both have sorely underestimate ...
Genre :Drama, History

1985-05-12 4.8

Reunion at Fairborough

World War II vets travel to England for a reunion at their old base. Stars Judi Trott, Barry Morse, Red Buttons, Deborah Kerr, Shane Rimmer, Robert Mitchum ...
Genre :Drama, Romance, TV Movie

Mr. Durkin

1955-07-29 6.4

The Scarlet Coat

An American officer goes undercover to unmask a Revolutionary War traitor. ...
Genre :History, Drama, Adventure, War

Big Sam Davis

1959-01-10 6

Black Saddle

Black Saddle is an American Western television series starring Peter Breck that aired 44 episodes on ABC from January 10, 1959 to May 6, 1960. The half-hour program was produced by Dick Powell's Four ...
Genre :Western, Drama

Bill

1964-09-13 7.2

The Rogues

The Rogues is an American television series that appeared on NBC from September 13, 1964, to April 18, 1965, starring David Niven, Charles Boyer, and Gig Young as a related trio of former conmen who c ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Crime

Sgt. Bullock

1957-09-19 5

Boots and Saddles

Boots and Saddles is an American Western television series created by Robert A. Cinader which aired in syndication from 1957 to 1958. ...
Genre :Western

Sgt. Duncan MacGregor

1954-10-27 7.8

The Wonderful World of Disney

Walt Disney Productions has produced an anthology television series under several different titles since 1954. The original version of the series premiered on ABC, Wednesday night, October 27, 1954. T ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Animation, Documentary, Kids, Family

Beef Simpkins

1955-09-20 6.023

Cheyenne

Cheyenne Bodie was a big man, a former army scout who went west after the American Civil War and drifted from job to job, here a cowboy, there a lawman, and always a larger-than-life hero. CHEYENNE i ...
Genre :Western, Drama

Audrey's Husband

1970-10-15 6.3

Play for Today

Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original tel ...
Genre :Drama

Max Clay

1957-09-14 7.274

Have Gun, Will Travel

Have Gun – Will Travel is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from 1957 through 1963. It was rated number three or number four in the Nielsen ratings every year of its first four s ...
Genre :Western, Action & Adventure, Drama

1957-09-22 6.9

Maverick

The Maverick boys - Bret, Bart, Beau and Brent - are a clan of well-dressed dandies, gamblers who'd much rather make their money playing cards than messing up their fine clothing with actual work. Sly ...
Genre :Comedy, Western

Kyle Sandor

1971-09-17 7.6

The Persuaders!

An English aristocrat and an American millionaire come together to tackle crime. ...
Genre :Comedy, Action & Adventure, Crime

Clive Marchmount

1965-09-17 7.563

The Wild Wild West

The Wild Wild West is an American television series. Developed at a time when the television western was losing ground to the spy genre, this show was conceived by its creator, Michael Garrison, as "J ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Western, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Follet

1966-09-17 7.6

Mission: Impossible

Mission: Impossible is an American television series that was created and initially produced by Bruce Geller. It chronicles the missions of a team of secret government agents known as the Impossible M ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Crime, Drama

Swede

1955-10-05 6.5

Screen Director's Playhouse

Presented by Eastman Kodak, this show was a series of original scripts directed by acclaimed directors and featuring well-known performers. The stories ranged from musicals to comedies and dramas. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Zindler

1957-09-22 6.9

Maverick

The Maverick boys - Bret, Bart, Beau and Brent - are a clan of well-dressed dandies, gamblers who'd much rather make their money playing cards than messing up their fine clothing with actual work. Sly ...
Genre :Comedy, Western

Baron

1967-09-11 5

Cowboy in Africa

Cowboy in Africa was an American Broadcasting Company television series produced during 1967-1968 by Ivan Tors and featuring Chuck Connors as the main actor. A 1966 television pilot show featuring Hug ...
Genre :Action & Adventure

Jenkins

1964-09-22 7.088

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

Agents Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin work for a secret intelligence service working under the auspices of the U.N. Their immediate superior is Mr. Waverly. Together they operate out of a secret ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Sgt. Rawlings

1962-10-02 7.693

Combat!

Combat! is an American television program that originally aired on ABC from 1962 until 1967. The show covered the grim lives of a squad of American soldiers fighting the Germans in France during World ...
Genre :War & Politics, Drama

Hugh Gwylnedd

1959-09-12 7.504

Bonanza

The High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch while helping the surrounding community. ...
Genre :Western, Action & Adventure, Drama, Family

Miguel

1959-10-12 0

Play of the Week

This syndicated anthology series staged a different play every week covering all genres, dramas, comedies, musicals, fantasies, mysteries, et al, utilizing some of the best talent appearing on Broadwa ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Corporal

1965-09-15 7.3

Green Acres

Green Acres is an American sitcom starring Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor as a couple who move from New York City to a rural country farm. Produced by Filmways as a sister show to Petticoat Junction, the ...
Genre :Comedy

Darcy

1959-10-05 5.7

Adventures in Paradise

Adventures in Paradise is an American television series created by James Michener which ran on ABC from 1959 until 1962, starring Gardner McKay as Adam Troy, the captain of the schooner Tiki III, whic ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Drama

Sergeant McDonald

1954-10-27 7.8

The Wonderful World of Disney

Walt Disney Productions has produced an anthology television series under several different titles since 1954. The original version of the series premiered on ABC, Wednesday night, October 27, 1954. T ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Animation, Documentary, Kids, Family

Ben Chapman

1957-09-22 6.9

Maverick

The Maverick boys - Bret, Bart, Beau and Brent - are a clan of well-dressed dandies, gamblers who'd much rather make their money playing cards than messing up their fine clothing with actual work. Sly ...
Genre :Comedy, Western

Granger

1970-12-16 7.814

Night Gallery

Rod Serling narrates an anthology of fantasy, horror and sci-fi stories from a set resembling a macabre museum. A chilling work of art serves as the connective link between the stories. ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Bosun

1971-10-15 6.8

The Onedin Line

The Onedin Line is a BBC television drama series which ran from 1971 to 1980. The series was created by Cyril Abraham. The series is set in Liverpool from 1860 to 1886 and deals with the rise of a sh ...
Genre :Drama

Richard F Snyder, US Consul in Moscow

1965-10-19 5

BBC Play of the Month

A BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stag ...
Genre :Drama

Canby

1955-09-10 6.6

Gunsmoke

Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the sett ...
Genre :Western, Action & Adventure, Drama

Bartender

1963-09-15 7.7

Arrest and Trial

Arrest and Trial is a 90-minute American crime/legal drama series that ran during the 1963-1964 season on ABC, airing Sundays from 8:30-10 p.m. Eastern. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Simon Girty

1957-09-22 6.9

Maverick

The Maverick boys - Bret, Bart, Beau and Brent - are a clan of well-dressed dandies, gamblers who'd much rather make their money playing cards than messing up their fine clothing with actual work. Sly ...
Genre :Comedy, Western

John Tunstall (as John Anderson)

1952-10-01 6.4

Death Valley Days

Death Valley Days is an American radio and television anthology series featuring true stories of the old American West, particularly the Death Valley area. Created in 1930 by Ruth Woodman, the program ...
Genre :Western, Drama

Ab Laster

1955-09-10 6.6

Gunsmoke

Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the sett ...
Genre :Western, Action & Adventure, Drama

Hugh Glass

1952-10-01 6.4

Death Valley Days

Death Valley Days is an American radio and television anthology series featuring true stories of the old American West, particularly the Death Valley area. Created in 1930 by Ruth Woodman, the program ...
Genre :Western, Drama

Wyatt Earp

1963-11-23 7.9

Doctor Who

The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British ...
Genre :Drama, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Guard #3

1962-09-20 7.8

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

A continuation of the anthology series “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”, hosted by the master of suspense and featuring thrillers and mysteries. ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery, Drama

Grote

1959-10-15 7.832

The Untouchables

Special Agent Eliot Ness and his elite team of incorruptible agents battle organized crime in 1930s Chicago. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Round-Face

1964-09-14 7.726

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

Join the crew of the Seaview aboard their super high-tech submarine, where no mission is too dangerous and no threat is too deadly, be it enemy agents, mad scientists, deadly sea creatures, or impendi ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Sheriff

1967-09-08 6.2

The Guns of Will Sonnett

The Guns of Will Sonnett is a Western television series ...
Genre :Western

Sgt. Dunbar

1964-09-18 7.2

12 O'Clock High

This series chronicles the adventures--in the air and on the ground--of the men of the 918th Bombardment Group of the U.S. Eighth Air Force. First commanded by irascible General Frank Savage--and late ...
Genre :Drama, War & Politics

Montague

1959-09-12 7.504

Bonanza

The High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch while helping the surrounding community. ...
Genre :Western, Action & Adventure, Drama, Family

Barker

1954-09-21 0

Studio 57

Studio 57 is an American anthology series that was broadcast on the now-defunct DuMont Television Network from September 1954 to September 1955, and in syndication from 1955 to 1956. ...
Genre :Drama, Family

Tracy

1987-12-13 6.6

The Beiderbecke Tapes

The Beiderbecke Tapes is a two-part 1987 British television comedy-drama serial written by Alan Plater. The second installment in The Beiderbecke Trilogy, it stars James Bolam and Barbara Flynn as sch ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama