John Ireland
Born: 1914-01-31 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Died: 1992-03-21
Known For: Acting
Biography
John Benjamin Ireland was a Canadian-American actor and film director. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his performance in All the King's Men (1949), making him the first Vancouver-born actor to receive an Academy Award nomination. Ireland was a supporting actor in several famous Western films such as My Darling Clementine (1946), Red River (1948), Vengeance Valley (1951), and Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957). His other notable film roles were in 55 Days at Peking (1963), The Adventurers (1970), and Farewell, My Lovely (1975). Ireland also appeared in many television series, notably The Cheaters (1960–1962). He was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contribution to the TV industry.
Filmography
2015
- 3-D Rarities as (archive footage)
2002
- The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller as Bob Ford (archive footage)
1992
- Merlin
- Waxwork II: Lost in Time as King Arthur
- Hammer Down as Lt. Bates
1991
- Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat as Jefferson
- The Graveyard Story as Dr. McGregor
1989
- Snoops as Gabriel Franken
- Christine Cromwell
- Terror Night as Lance Hayward
1988
- War of the Worlds as Harv
- Messenger of Death as Zenas Beecham
- Bonanza: The Next Generation as Capt. Aaron Cartwright
- Perry Mason: The Case of the Lady in the Lake as Walter
1987
- J.J. Starbuck as Charles Capstone
1986
- Seasons in the Sun as Keith Slattery
1985
- Treasure of the Amazon as Priest
- Thunder Run as George Adams
- Martin's Day as Brewer
- Miami Golem as Anderson
1984
- Murder, She Wrote as Sheriff Hainer
- Airwolf as Hardesty
1983
- Hardcastle and McCormick as Bucky Miller
- The Hitchhiker as Jack Guttman
- Trauma Center
- A Matter of Cunning as John Markham
1982
- Cassie & Co. as Lyman 'Shack' Shackelford
- Incubus as Hank Walden
1981
- Bordello as Judge
1980
- Magnum, P.I. as Wyndom Jackson
- Marilyn: The Untold Story as John Huston
- The Courage of Kavik, the Wolf Dog as George Hunter
- Tourist as Joe Vigil, Sr.
1979
- Hart to Hart as Zeke BaIllinger
- The Littlest Hobo as Pa
- $weepstake$
- The Shape of Things to Come as Senator Smedley
- Guyana: Crime of the Century as Dave Cole
- Delta Fox as Lucas Johnson
- Crossbar as Miles Kornylo
- When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion as Self
- On the Air Live with Captain Midnight as Agent Pierson
1978
- Tomorrow Never Comes as Captain
- The Millionaire as Marshall Wayburn
1977
- Satan's Cheerleaders as Sheriff B.L.Z. Bubb
- Ransom as Chief Haliburton
- Mission to Glory: A True Story as Father Mora
- The Perfect Killer as Benny
- Love and the Midnight Auto Supply as Tony Santore
1976
- Quincy, M.E. as Attorney John Packard
- Salon Kitty as Cliff
- Sex Diary as Milton
- The Swiss Conspiracy as Dwight McGowan
1975
- Switch as Verne Deamer
- Farewell, My Lovely as Nulty
- Khan!
- We Are No Angels as Mr. Shark
1974
- Little House on the Prairie as Frank Carlin
- Planet of the Apes as Brun
- Welcome to Arrow Beach as Sheriff Duke Bingham
- The House of Seven Corpses as Eric Hartman
- The Phantom of Hollywood as Lt. Gifford
- Wam Bam Thank You Spaceman
- The Rangers as Carson
- The Girl on the Late, Late Show as Bruno Walters
- Northeast of Seoul as Flanaghan
- Blood River as Abel Webster
1973
1972
- Ghost Story as Arthur Mundy
- Escape to the Sun as Jacob Kagan
1970
- The Adventurers as Mr.James Hadley
- Challenge of McKenna as Jones/Jonas MacKenna
1969
- One on Top of the Other as Inspector Wald
- Zenabel as Don Alonso Imolne
- Carnal Circuit as Richard Salinger
- The War Devils
1968
- Hawaii Five-O as Phil Coleman
- The Name of the Game as Mel Wexler
- Villa Rides as Client in Barber Shop (uncredited)
- Run, Man, Run as Santillana
- Arizona Bushwhackers as Dan Shelby
- A Gun for One Hundred Graves as Douglas
- Dead for a Dollar as Der Colonel
- Go For Broke as Owl/Gufo/le Hibou
- Gatling Gun as Tarpas
- Bloody Che Contra as Stuart
- A Taste of Death as Dan El/Ralph
- Vengeance for Vengeance as Maj. Bower
1967
- Fort Utah as Tom Horn
- Dirty Heroes as Captain O’Connor
- Hate for Hate as James Cooper
- Caxambu! as Vince Neff
1966
- Mission: Impossible as Andrew Metzger
- The Man Who Never Was
1965
- Run for Your Life as Dr. Mason
- Branded as Cattle Rancher Renger
- I Saw What You Did as Steve Marak
- Day of the Nightmare as Sgt. Dave Harmon
1964
- Daniel Boone as Hiram Manville
- The Fall of the Roman Empire as Ballomar
- The Big Parade of Comedy as Captain Calbern in 'A Southern Yankee' (arch. foot.) (uncred.)
1963
- Burke's Law as Orrin Lashwell
- Kraft Suspense Theatre as William 'Scotty' Scott
- 55 Days at Peking as Sgt. Harry
- The Ceremony as Prison Warden
- No Time To Kill as Johnny Greco
1962
- The Virginian as Kinroy
- Brushfire as Jeff Saygure
1961
- Wild in the Country as Phil Macy
- Return of a Stranger as Ray Reed
1960
- Thriller as Eddie Wilson
- Spartacus as Crixus
- The Cheaters as John Hunter
- Faces in the Dark as Max Hammond
1959
1958
- Party Girl as Louis Canetto
- No Place to Land as Jonas Bailey
- Stormy Crossing as Griff Parker
1957
- Suspicion
- Gunfight at the O.K. Corral as Johnny Ringo
- Without Incident as Sgt. Turley
- A Sound of Different Drummers as Ben Hammond
1956
- Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Marshal Harry Phillips
- Armchair Theatre as Monroe Stahr
- Gunslinger as Cane Miro
1955
- Gunsmoke as Jed Coombs
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Captain McCabe
- Queen Bee as Judson Prentiss
- The Glass Cage as Pel Pelham
- Hell's Horizon as Capt. John Merrill
1954
- Climax! as Greg
- Studio 57
- The Whistler
- The Fast and the Furious as Frank Webster
- Southwest Passage as Clint McDonald
- The Good Die Young as Eddie Blaine
- Security Risk as Ralph Payne
- The Steel Cage as Al, a Ringleader, segment "The Hostages"
1953
- General Electric Theater as Abe Lincoln
- The 49th Man as Investigator John Williams
- Hannah Lee: An American Primitive as Marshal Sam Rochelle
- Combat Squad as Sgt. Ken 'Fletch' Fletcher
1952
- Hurricane Smith as Hurricane Smith
1951
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
- Vengeance Valley as Hub Fasken
- Red Mountain as Gen. William Quantrill
- Little Big Horn as Lt. John Haywood
- The Basketball Fix as Pete Ferreday
- The Bushwhackers as Jefferson Waring
- The Scarf as John Howard Barrington
- This Is Korea! as Narrator
1950
- Lux Video Theatre as Milt Shanks
- The Return of Jesse James as Johnny Callum
- Cargo to Capetown as Steve Conway
1949
- All the King's Men as Jack Burden
- The Undercover Man as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- I Shot Jesse James as Bob Ford
- Roughshod as Lednov
- The Doolins of Oklahoma as Bitter Creek
- Mr. Soft Touch as Henry 'Early' Byrd
- The Walking Hills as Frazee
- Anna Lucasta as Danny Johnson
1948
- The Philco Television Playhouse
- Red River as Cherry Valance
- Joan of Arc as Jean de la Boussac (St. Sevére), Captain
- Raw Deal as Fantail
- I Love Trouble as Reno
- A Southern Yankee as Capt. Jed Calbern
- Open Secret as Paul Lester
1947
- The Gangster as Karty
- Railroaded! as Duke Martin
- Repeat Performance as Narrator (Voice)
1946
- My Darling Clementine as Billy Clanton
- Somewhere in the Night as Thug (voice) (uncredited)
- Behind Green Lights as Det. Oppenheimer
- Wake Up and Dream as Howard Williams
- It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog as Benny Smith
1945
- A Walk in the Sun as Pfc. Windy Craven