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
- Pocketful of Miracles as Police Inspector McCrary
- Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea as Vice Admiral B.J. Crawford
- 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
- Cheyenne
- The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
- The Kentuckian as Pleasant Tuesday Babson
- Double Jeopardy as Emmett Devery
- Texas Lady as Meade Moore (wigwam owner)
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
- Scaramouche as Dr. Dubuque
- Montana Belle as Matt Towner
- My Hero
- Jet Job as Sam Bentley
1951
- I Love Lucy as Harvey Cromwell
- The Texas Rangers as John B. Jones
- The Groom Wore Spurs as Chief of Police
- Flight to Mars as Dr. Lane
- Two Dollar Bettor as John Hewitt
- Little Egypt as Shuster
- Cuban Fireball as Pomeroy Sr.
- Take Care of My Little Girl as John Erickson (uncredited)
1950
- Lux Video Theatre as Dr. Robbins
- The Sundowners as John Gall
- Woman in Hiding as John Chandler
- Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye as Police Chief Sam Tolgate
- The Fuller Brush Girl as Mr. Watkins
1949
- The Gal Who Took the West as Colonel Logan
- Mary Ryan, Detective as Capt. Billings
- Shamrock Hill as Ralph Judson
- Rusty Saves a Life as Hugh Mitchell
- Outpost in Morocco as Colonel Pascal
- Rusty's Birthday as Hugh Mitchell
1948
- Key Largo as Dispatcher (uncredited)
- Pitfall as District Attorney
- I, Jane Doe as Horton
- Rusty Leads the Way as Hugh Mitchell
- Triple Threat
- Smart Woman as Clark
- The Valiant Hombre as Lon Lansdell
- My Dog Rusty as Hugh Mitchell
1947
- The Guilty as Alex Tremholt
- Christmas Eve as Joe Bland, FBI Agent
- Heaven Only Knows as Reverend Wainwright
- Lighthouse as Hank Armitage
- Cass Timberlane as Webb Wargate
- The Beginning or the End as K.T. Keller
- Easy Come, Easy Go as Tom Clancy
1946
- Smooth as Silk as Stephen Elliott
- Sister Kenny as Medical Director
- Swell Guy as Arthur Tyler
- Okay for Sound
- She Wrote the Book as Dean Fowler
- The Madonna's Secret as Lt. Roberts
- Night in Paradise as Archon
- The Return of Rusty as Hugh Mitchell
1945
- San Antonio as Charlie Bell
- Salome, Where She Danced as General Lee
- Northwest Trail as Sergeant Means
- The Crime Doctor's Warning as Inspector Dawes
- Brewster's Millions as Swearengen Jones
- The Enchanted Forest as Ed Henderson
- The Daltons Ride Again as Mitchael J. 'Mike' Bohannon
- The Crimson Canary as Roger Quinn
1944
- My Buddy as Jim Donnelly
- Faces in the Fog as Dr. Mason
- Murder in the Blue Room as Frank Baldrich
- Henry Aldrich Plays Cupid as Mr. Aldrich
- Henry Aldrich's Little Secret as Mr. Samuel J. Aldrich
- Henry Aldrich, Boy Scout as Sam Aldrich
1943
- So Proudly We Hail as Dr. Harrison
- Crime Doctor as Emilio Caspari, the mystery man
- Murder in Times Square as Dr. Blaine
- Submarine Base as James Xavier 'Jim' Taggart
- Henry Aldrich Gets Glamour as Sam Aldrich
- Henry Aldrich Swings It as Mr. Aldrich
- Where Are Your Children? as Judge Edmonds
- Henry Aldrich Haunts a House as Sam Aldrich
1942
- Invisible Agent as John Gardiner
- A Desperate Chance for Ellery Queen as Norman Hadley
- Men of Texas as Colonel Colbert Scott
- Sealed Lips as Mike Rofano / Fred Morton
- Henry and Dizzy as Sam Aldrich
- The Mystery of Marie Roget as Henri Beauvais
- For the Common Defense! as Subprefect Santiago Castillo
- Kid Glove Killer as Matty
- March On, America! as Patrick Henry (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Madame Spy as Peter Rolf
- Soldiers in White as Charles Anthony
- The Boss of Big Town as Michael Lynn
- Henry Aldrich, Editor as Sam Aldrich
- Don Winslow of the Navy as Spencer Merlin
- Mississippi Gambler as Jim Hadley aka Francis Carvel
1941
- They Died with Their Boots On as Gen. Phil Sheridan
- The Great Mr. Nobody as John Wade
- Thieves Fall Out as Tim Gordon
- Henry Aldrich for President as Sam Aldrich
- The Big Boss as Bob Dugan
- Father's Son as William Emory
- The Trial of Mary Dugan as Mr. West
1940
- Santa Fe Trail as Martin
- They Drive by Night as Harry McNamara
- Virginia City as Marshall
- Money and the Woman as Jerremy Helm
- The Fighting 69th as Captain Mangan
- It All Came True as Mr. Roberts
- Knute Rockne All American as Committee Chairman
- Castle on the Hudson as Prison Chaplain
- An Angel from Texas as Quigley
- Men Without Souls as Reverend Thomas Storm
- The Man Who Talked Too Much as District Attorney Dickson
- Flight Angels as Dr. Barclay
- Lady with Red Hair as Charles Bryant
- Father Is A Prince as Dr. Mark Stone
- Gambling on the High Seas as U.S. District Attorney Homer Sears
- Murder in the Air as Saxby
- March On, Marines as Colonel Myers
1939
- Dodge City as Matt Cole
- The Return of Doctor X as Dr. Flegg
- Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase as Carson Drew
- Wings of the Navy as Commander Clark
- Dust Be My Destiny as Prosecutor
- Secret Service of the Air as Chief Agent Tom Saxby
- You Can't Get Away with Murder as Attorney Carey
- Nancy Drew... Trouble Shooter as Carson Drew
- Old Glory as Patrick Henry (voice) (uncredited)
- A Child is Born as Dr. Brett
- Nancy Drew... Reporter as Carson Drew
- One Hour to Live as Rudolph Spain
- The Bill of Rights as Patrick Henry
- On Trial as Robert Strickland
- On Dress Parade as Col. Michael Riker
1938
- Jezebel as Jean La Cour
- The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse as Mr. Monroe, Prosecuting Attorney
- The Declaration of Independence as Thomas Jefferson
- Breakdowns of 1938 as Inspector Lane (archive footage) (uncredited)
- A Slight Case of Murder as Post
- Valley of the Giants as Hendricks
- Gold Is Where You Find It as Ralph Ferris
- Nancy Drew… Detective as Carson Drew
- Broadway Musketeers as Stan Dowling
- Over the Wall as Father Neil Connor
- Little Miss Thoroughbred as Nelson "Nails" Morgan
- Comet Over Broadway as Bill Appleton
- My Bill as John C. Rudlin
- Love, Honor and Behave as Jim Blake
1937
- Marked Woman as Gordon
- Slim as Wyatt Ranstead
- Black Legion as Tommy Smith
- The Life of Emile Zola as Charpentier
- Alcatraz Island as 'Gat' Brady
- Missing Witnesses as Inspector Lane
- Back in Circulation as Dr. Eugene Forde
- The Man Without a Country as Lt. Philip Nolan
- 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
- Oh Darling!
- On the Border as Dave (as John B. Litel)
- Don't Believe It as Dick
1929
- The Sleeping Porch
- Finders Keepers as (as John B. Litel)
- Always Faithful as Wayne