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