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
- Lover Come Back as Williams, Ad Council Board Member (uncredited)
- Pocketful of Miracles as Police Inspector McCrary
- Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea as Vice Admiral B.J. Crawford
1960
- Route 66
- Stagecoach West as Dan Murchison
1959
- Bonanza as Judge Jeremy Clarence Billington
- Rawhide as Jim Rye
- Lock-Up
- Hawaiian Eye
1958
- Wanted: Dead or Alive as Judge George Healy
- Bronco
- 77 Sunset Strip
- 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
- The Hired Gun as Mace Beldon
- Decision at Sundown as Charles Summerton
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
- Double Jeopardy as Emmett Devery
- Texas Lady as Meade Moore (wigwam owner)
- The Kentuckian as Pleasant Tuesday Babson
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
- The Texas Rangers as John B. Jones
- Flight to Mars as Dr. Lane
- Take Care of My Little Girl as John Erickson (uncredited)
- Little Egypt as Shuster
- The Groom Wore Spurs as Chief of Police
- Two Dollar Bettor as John Hewitt
- Cuban Fireball as Pomeroy Sr.
1950
- Lux Video Theatre as Dr. Robbins
- Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye as Police Chief Sam Tolgate
- The Fuller Brush Girl as Mr. Watkins
- The Sundowners as John Gall
- Woman in Hiding as John Chandler
1949
- Outpost in Morocco as Colonel Pascal
- The Gal Who Took the West as Colonel Logan
- Rusty Saves a Life as Hugh Mitchell
- Mary Ryan, Detective as Capt. Billings
- Shamrock Hill as Ralph Judson
- Rusty's Birthday as Hugh Mitchell
1948
- Key Largo as Dispatcher (uncredited)
- Pitfall as District Attorney
- My Dog Rusty as Hugh Mitchell
- I, Jane Doe as Horton
- Smart Woman as Clark
- Rusty Leads the Way as Hugh Mitchell
- The Valiant Hombre as Lon Lansdell
- Triple Threat
1947
- Cass Timberlane as Webb Wargate
- Heaven Only Knows as Reverend Wainwright
- The Guilty as Alex Tremholt
- Christmas Eve as Joe Bland, FBI Agent
- The Beginning or the End as K.T. Keller
- Easy Come, Easy Go as Tom Clancy
- Lighthouse as Hank Armitage
1946
- Sister Kenny as Medical Director
- Night in Paradise as Archon
- Smooth as Silk as Stephen Elliott
- Okay for Sound
- Swell Guy as Arthur Tyler
- She Wrote the Book as Dean Fowler
- The Return of Rusty as Hugh Mitchell
- The Madonna's Secret as Lt. Roberts
1945
- San Antonio as Charlie Bell
- Northwest Trail as Sergeant Means
- Salome, Where She Danced as General Lee
- The Crimson Canary as Roger Quinn
- Brewster's Millions as Swearengen Jones
- The Daltons Ride Again as Mitchael J. 'Mike' Bohannon
- The Crime Doctor's Warning as Inspector Dawes
- The Enchanted Forest as Ed Henderson
1944
- Faces in the Fog as Dr. Mason
- Murder in the Blue Room as Frank Baldrich
- Henry Aldrich Plays Cupid as Mr. Aldrich
- My Buddy as Jim Donnelly
- Henry Aldrich, Boy Scout as Sam Aldrich
- Henry Aldrich's Little Secret as Mr. Samuel J. Aldrich
1943
- Crime Doctor as Emilio Caspari, the mystery man
- So Proudly We Hail as Dr. Harrison
- Submarine Base as James Xavier 'Jim' Taggart
- Where Are Your Children? as Judge Edmonds
- Henry Aldrich Gets Glamour as Sam Aldrich
- Murder in Times Square as Dr. Blaine
- Henry Aldrich Swings It as Mr. Aldrich
- Henry Aldrich Haunts a House as Sam Aldrich
1942
- Invisible Agent as John Gardiner
- Sealed Lips as Mike Rofano / Fred Morton
- Mississippi Gambler as Jim Hadley aka Francis Carvel
- Kid Glove Killer as Matty
- Men of Texas as Colonel Colbert Scott
- The Mystery of Marie Roget as Henri Beauvais
- For the Common Defense! as Subprefect Santiago Castillo
- The Boss of Big Town as Michael Lynn
- A Desperate Chance for Ellery Queen as Norman Hadley
- Madame Spy as Peter Rolf
- Henry and Dizzy as Sam Aldrich
- March On, America! as Patrick Henry (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Don Winslow of the Navy as Spencer Merlin
- Henry Aldrich, Editor as Sam Aldrich
- Soldiers in White as Charles Anthony
1941
- They Died with Their Boots On as Gen. Phil Sheridan
- Thieves Fall Out as Tim Gordon
- The Great Mr. Nobody as John Wade
- Father's Son as William Emory
- Henry Aldrich for President as Sam Aldrich
- The Big Boss as Bob Dugan
- The Trial of Mary Dugan as Mr. West
1940
- Santa Fe Trail as Martin
- They Drive by Night as Harry McNamara
- The Fighting 69th as Captain Mangan
- Knute Rockne All American as Committee Chairman
- Castle on the Hudson as Prison Chaplain
- Virginia City as Marshall
- Lady with Red Hair as Charles Bryant
- Father Is A Prince as Dr. Mark Stone
- It All Came True as Mr. Roberts
- Gambling on the High Seas as U.S. District Attorney Homer Sears
- Flight Angels as Dr. Barclay
- An Angel from Texas as Quigley
- Men Without Souls as Reverend Thomas Storm
- Money and the Woman as Jerremy Helm
- Murder in the Air as Saxby
- The Man Who Talked Too Much as District Attorney Dickson
- March On, Marines as Colonel Myers
1939
- Dodge City as Matt Cole
- The Return of Doctor X as Dr. Flegg
- On Dress Parade as Col. Michael Riker
- Nancy Drew... Reporter as Carson Drew
- You Can't Get Away with Murder as Attorney Carey
- Secret Service of the Air as Chief Agent Tom Saxby
- One Hour to Live as Rudolph Spain
- Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase as Carson Drew
- A Child is Born as Dr. Brett
- Old Glory as Patrick Henry (voice) (uncredited)
- Dust Be My Destiny as Prosecutor
- Wings of the Navy as Commander Clark
- The Bill of Rights as Patrick Henry
- Nancy Drew... Trouble Shooter as Carson Drew
- On Trial as Robert Strickland
1938
- Jezebel as Jean La Cour
- Breakdowns of 1938 as Inspector Lane (archive footage) (uncredited)
- The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse as Mr. Monroe, Prosecuting Attorney
- A Slight Case of Murder as Post
- Nancy Drew… Detective as Carson Drew
- Gold Is Where You Find It as Ralph Ferris
- Over the Wall as Father Neil Connor
- Valley of the Giants as Hendricks
- Broadway Musketeers as Stan Dowling
- Comet Over Broadway as Bill Appleton
- The Declaration of Independence as Thomas Jefferson
- My Bill as John C. Rudlin
- Love, Honor and Behave as Jim Blake
- Little Miss Thoroughbred as Nelson "Nails" Morgan
1937
- Marked Woman as Gordon
- Slim as Wyatt Ranstead
- The Life of Emile Zola as Charpentier
- Black Legion as Tommy Smith
- Alcatraz Island as 'Gat' Brady
- Missing Witnesses as Inspector Lane
- The Man Without a Country as Lt. Philip Nolan
- Midnight Court as Victor Shanley
- Back in Circulation as Dr. Eugene Forde
1936
- Give Me Liberty as Patrick Henry
- Fugitive in the Sky as Mike Phelan
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