John Litel
Born: 1892-12-30 in Albany, Wisconsin, USA
Died: 1972-02-03
Known For: Acting
Biography
John Litel was an American stage, screen, and television actor. From 1919 to 1936 he performed in several plays on Broadway. In 1929 he began appearing in films and was in over 200 movies throughout his career. Litel often played supporting roles such as hard-nosed cops and district attorneys. He appeared in many television series. John Litel's acting career concluded in 1967.
Filmography
1983
- Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1966
- Nevada Smith as Doctor
1965
- Branded
- The Sons of Katie Elder as Minister
1964
- Rendezvous in Space as Priest
1963
- Vacation Playhouse as Albert P. Leviathan
- The Gun Hawk as Drunk - Madden's father
1962
- The Virginian as Finley
1961
- Hazel
- Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea as Vice Admiral B.J. Crawford
- Pocketful of Miracles as Police Inspector McCrary
- Lover Come Back as Williams, Ad Council Board Member (uncredited)
1960
- Route 66
- Stagecoach West as Dan Murchison
1959
- Bonanza as Judge Jeremy Clarence Billington
- Rawhide as Jim Rye
- Hawaiian Eye
- Lock-Up
1958
- Wanted: Dead or Alive as Judge George Healy
- 77 Sunset Strip
- Bronco
- Houseboat as Mr. William Farnsworth
1957
- Perry Mason as Judge
- Maverick as Ellsworth Greeley
- Have Gun, Will Travel
- Zorro as The Governor
- Sugarfoot as Hank Tatum
- Trackdown as Judge Henry
- Decision at Sundown as Charles Summerton
- The Hired Gun as Mace Beldon
1956
- Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Sheriff Martin Calder
- Comanche as Gen. Nelson A. Miles
- Runaway Daughters as George Barton
- The Wild Dakotas as Morgan Wheeler
1955
- The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
- Cheyenne
- The Kentuckian as Pleasant Tuesday Babson
- Texas Lady as Meade Moore (wigwam owner)
- Double Jeopardy as Emmett Devery
1954
- Climax! as Judge Sam Crowley
- Sitting Bull as Wilford Howell
1953
- City Detective
- General Electric Theater as Phillip Saunders
- Jack Slade as Judge Davidson
1952
- Four Star Playhouse as Van Alten
- Cavalcade of America as Dr. Silkworth
- My Hero as Willis Thackery
- Scaramouche as Dr. Dubuque
- Montana Belle as Matt Towner
- Jet Job as Sam Bentley
1951
- I Love Lucy as Harvey Cromwell
- Take Care of My Little Girl as John Erickson (uncredited)
- The Texas Rangers as John B. Jones
- The Groom Wore Spurs as Chief of Police
- Flight to Mars as Dr. Lane
- Little Egypt as Shuster
- Two Dollar Bettor as John Hewitt
- Cuban Fireball as Pomeroy Sr.
1950
- Lux Video Theatre as Dr. Robbins
- The Fuller Brush Girl as Mr. Watkins
- Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye as Police Chief Sam Tolgate
- The Sundowners as John Gall
- Woman in Hiding as John Chandler
1949
- The Gal Who Took the West as Colonel Logan
- Rusty Saves a Life as Hugh Mitchell
- Mary Ryan, Detective as Capt. Billings
- Outpost in Morocco as Colonel Pascal
- Rusty's Birthday as Hugh Mitchell
- Shamrock Hill as Ralph Judson
1948
- Key Largo as Dispatcher (uncredited)
- Pitfall as District Attorney
- I, Jane Doe as Horton
- Rusty Leads the Way as Hugh Mitchell
- Smart Woman as Clark
- My Dog Rusty as Hugh Mitchell
- The Valiant Hombre as Lon Lansdell
- Triple Threat
1947
- Cass Timberlane as Webb Wargate
- The Beginning or the End as K.T. Keller
- Easy Come, Easy Go as Tom Clancy
- Christmas Eve as Joe Bland, FBI Agent
- Heaven Only Knows as Reverend Wainwright
- Lighthouse as Hank Armitage
- The Guilty as Alex Tremholt
1946
- Sister Kenny as Medical Director
- She Wrote the Book as Dean Fowler
- The Madonna's Secret as Lt. Roberts
- Night in Paradise as Archon
- Okay for Sound
- The Return of Rusty as Hugh Mitchell
- Smooth as Silk as Stephen Elliott
- Swell Guy as Arthur Tyler
1945
- The Crime Doctor's Warning as Inspector Dawes
- Salome, Where She Danced as General Lee
- San Antonio as Charlie Bell
- The Daltons Ride Again as Mitchael J. 'Mike' Bohannon
- Brewster's Millions as Swearengen Jones
- The Crimson Canary as Roger Quinn
- Northwest Trail as Sergeant Means
- The Enchanted Forest as Ed Henderson
1944
- Henry Aldrich Plays Cupid as Mr. Aldrich
- Murder in the Blue Room as Frank Baldrich
- Faces in the Fog as Dr. Mason
- Henry Aldrich's Little Secret as Mr. Samuel J. Aldrich
- Henry Aldrich, Boy Scout as Sam Aldrich
- My Buddy as Jim Donnelly
1943
- So Proudly We Hail as Dr. Harrison
- Submarine Base as James Xavier 'Jim' Taggart
- Murder in Times Square as Dr. Blaine
- Henry Aldrich Gets Glamour as Sam Aldrich
- Where Are Your Children? as Judge Edmonds
- Henry Aldrich Swings It as Mr. Aldrich
- Henry Aldrich Haunts a House as Sam Aldrich
- Crime Doctor as Emilio Caspari, the mystery man
1942
- Invisible Agent as John Gardiner
- Sealed Lips as Mike Rofano / Fred Morton
- Mississippi Gambler as Jim Hadley aka Francis Carvel
- The Mystery of Marie Roget as Henri Beauvais
- Kid Glove Killer as Matty
- For the Common Defense! as Subprefect Santiago Castillo
- A Desperate Chance for Ellery Queen as Norman Hadley
- Don Winslow of the Navy as Spencer Merlin
- The Boss of Big Town as Michael Lynn
- Madame Spy as Peter Rolf
- Henry and Dizzy as Sam Aldrich
- Henry Aldrich, Editor as Sam Aldrich
- Soldiers in White as Charles Anthony
- March On, America! as Patrick Henry (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Men of Texas as Colonel Colbert Scott
1941
- They Died with Their Boots On as Gen. Phil Sheridan
- Henry Aldrich for President as Sam Aldrich
- The Great Mr. Nobody as John Wade
- The Trial of Mary Dugan as Mr. West
- Thieves Fall Out as Tim Gordon
- Father's Son as William Emory
- The Big Boss as Bob Dugan
1940
- They Drive by Night as Harry McNamara
- Santa Fe Trail as Martin
- Knute Rockne All American as Committee Chairman
- It All Came True as Mr. Roberts
- An Angel from Texas as Quigley
- Castle on the Hudson as Prison Chaplain
- Lady with Red Hair as Charles Bryant
- Father Is A Prince as Dr. Mark Stone
- Money and the Woman as Jerremy Helm
- Virginia City as Marshall
- Gambling on the High Seas as U.S. District Attorney Homer Sears
- The Fighting 69th as Captain Mangan
- The Man Who Talked Too Much as District Attorney Dickson
- Murder in the Air as Saxby
- Men Without Souls as Reverend Thomas Storm
- Flight Angels as Dr. Barclay
- March On, Marines as Colonel Myers
1939
- Dodge City as Matt Cole
- A Child is Born as Dr. Brett
- The Return of Doctor X as Dr. Flegg
- Secret Service of the Air as Chief Agent Tom Saxby
- Wings of the Navy as Commander Clark
- You Can't Get Away with Murder as Attorney Carey
- Dust Be My Destiny as Prosecutor
- Nancy Drew... Trouble Shooter as Carson Drew
- Nancy Drew... Reporter as Carson Drew
- The Bill of Rights as Patrick Henry
- One Hour to Live as Rudolph Spain
- Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase as Carson Drew
- On Dress Parade as Col. Michael Riker
- Old Glory as Patrick Henry (voice) (uncredited)
- On Trial as Robert Strickland
1938
- Jezebel as Jean La Cour
- The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse as Mr. Monroe, Prosecuting Attorney
- A Slight Case of Murder as Post
- Gold Is Where You Find It as Ralph Ferris
- Valley of the Giants as Hendricks
- Love, Honor and Behave as Jim Blake
- Breakdowns of 1938 as Inspector Lane (archive footage) (uncredited)
- The Declaration of Independence as Thomas Jefferson
- Nancy Drew… Detective as Carson Drew
- Broadway Musketeers as Stan Dowling
- Comet Over Broadway as Bill Appleton
- Over the Wall as Father Neil Connor
- Little Miss Thoroughbred as Nelson "Nails" Morgan
- My Bill as John C. Rudlin
1937
- Marked Woman as Gordon
- The Life of Emile Zola as Charpentier
- Slim as Wyatt Ranstead
- The Man Without a Country as Lt. Philip Nolan
- Black Legion as Tommy Smith
- Alcatraz Island as 'Gat' Brady
- Missing Witnesses as Inspector Lane
- Back in Circulation as Dr. Eugene Forde
- Midnight Court as Victor Shanley
1936
- Fugitive in the Sky as Mike Phelan
- Give Me Liberty as Patrick Henry
1932
- Wayward as Robert 'Bob' Daniels
1930
- Don't Believe It as Dick
- On the Border as Dave (as John B. Litel)
- Oh Darling!
1929
- The Sleeping Porch
- Finders Keepers as (as John B. Litel)
- Always Faithful as Wayne