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