John Larch
Born: 1914-10-04 in Salem, Massachusetts, USA
Died: 2005-10-16
Known For: Acting
Biography
John Larch (October 4, 1914 - October 16, 2005) was an American film and television actor. After his lead role in the radio serial Captain Starr of Space (1953–54), John Larch entered films in 1954. He usually appeared in westerns (How The West Was Won) and action films, including Miracle of the White Stallions as General George S. Patton Jr. (1963), Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur as General Omar Bradley (1976), replacing James Gregory as Mac in the Matt Helm movie The Wrecking Crew (1969) starring Dean Martin, Sharon Tate and Elke Sommer. Larch, an old friend of Clint Eastwood, appeared in Eastwood films, including Dirty Harry (1971) and Play Misty for Me (1971). He also appeared on a number of television programs, including Naked City (three episodes), Route 66 (three episodes), The Fugitive (two episodes), The Invaders, The Restless Gun (four episodes), Gunsmoke (seven episodes), The Virginian (four episodes), Bonanza, Hawaii Five-0, Mission Impossible (two episodes), The Troubleshooters, Bus Stop, Laramie, The Law and Mr. Jones, and possibly most famously as Bill Mumy's father in The Twilight Zone episode "It's a Good Life" in 1961. He also appeared in two other The Twilight Zone episodes, playing a psychiatrist in "Perchance to Dream" and the sheriff in "Dust". Description above from the Wikipedia article John Larch, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
1982
- Airplane II: The Sequel as Prosecuting Attorney
1981
- Dynasty
- Simon & Simon as Deputy Sheriff John Burns
1979
- The Amityville Horror as Father Nuncio
- Big Shamus, Little Shamus
1978
- Dallas as Wally Windham
- Vega$
- A Fire in the Sky as Johnson
- The Critical List as Sprony
1976
- Charlie's Angels as Kamden
- Quincy, M.E.
- Future Cop as Commisioner Forman
- Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur as Gen. Omar Bradley
1975
- Switch as Stocker
- Framed as Bundy
- Bronk
- The Desperate Miles as Dr. Bryson
- Ellery Queen: Too Many Suspects as District Attorney
1974
- Little House on the Prairie as Arthur Mahoney
- The Six Million Dollar Man as Arthur Vale
- Police Woman as Lester Hummel
- Bad Ronald as Sgt. Lynch
- Winter Kill as Dr. Bill Hammond
- The Chadwick Family as Fargo
1973
- Police Story
- Santee as Banner
- Hawkins as Herb Talley
1972
- The Streets of San Francisco
- Magic Carpet as Mr. Tracy
- Women in Chains as Barney
1971
- Cannon
- Alias Smith and Jones
- Dirty Harry as Chief
- Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law as George Patterson
- The City as Holland Yermo
- The Partners as Sheriff Luke Fender
- Play Misty for Me as Sgt. McCallum
1970
- Move as Mounted Patrolman
- Nanny and the Professor
- Cannon for Cordoba as Warner
1969
- Hail, Hero! as Mr. Conklin
- The Great Bank Robbery as Sheriff of Friendly
1968
- Hawaii Five-O as Joseph Trinian
- The Wrecking Crew as MacDonald
1967
- Ironside
- The Invaders as Greg Lucather
- Judd for the Defense
1966
- Mission: Impossible as Premier Anton Rojek
- Felony Squad
1965
- The F.B.I. as Fred Wallace
- Convoy as Ben Foster
1964
- Daniel Boone as Sam Hawken
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E. as Dr. Killman
1963
- The Fugitive as George Duncan
- Arrest and Trial as Deputy District Attorney Jerry Miller
- Miracle of the White Stallions as General George S. Patton, Jr.
1962
- The Virginian as Sheriff Neil Brady
- How the West Was Won as Grimes (uncredited)
- Stoney Burke
- Pages of Death as Councilman Halliday
1961
- Dr. Kildare as Dr. Victor Jonah
- Ben Casey
- Cain's Hundred as Benjamin Riker
- The New Breed as John Clark
- Bus Stop
- The Dick Powell Show as Sam Baker
1960
- Route 66
- Outlaws
- Hell to Eternity as Capt. Schwabe
1959
- Bonanza as Blake McCall
- The Twilight Zone as Eliot Rathmann
- The Untouchables as Bryan 'Bull' Hanlon
- Rawhide as Lennie Dawson
- Laramie
- Adventures in Paradise as Nicholas
- Johnny Ringo as Mills Walker
- Law of the Plainsman as Jasper Mullen
- Black Saddle as Ty Northrup
- Tightrope
- Wichita Town
- The Troubleshooters as McGuire
1958
- The Rifleman
- Naked City as John Clinton
- Wanted: Dead or Alive as Howie Kale
- Bat Masterson as Garrickson
- The Texan as Les Torbit
- Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
- Yancy Derringer as Wayland Farr
- The Saga of Hemp Brown as Jed Givens
- From Hell to Texas as Hal Carmody
- Jefferson Drum as John Larkin
1957
- Wagon Train as John Ramsey
- Have Gun, Will Travel as McNagle
- The Restless Gun as Sheriff Riker
- The Walter Winchell File
- Man in the Shadow as Ed Yates
- The Careless Years as Sam Vernon
- Quantez as Heller
1956
- Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Quine - Scout
- Telephone Time
- Written on the Wind as Roy Carter
- Johnny Moccasin as Frank Hill
- Gun for a Coward as Stringer
- Man from Del Rio as Bill Dawson
- The Killer Is Loose as Otto Flanders
- Seven Men from Now as Payte Bodeen
- Behind the High Wall as William Kiley
1955
- Gunsmoke as Clay Young
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Sgt. Shaw
- Tight Spot as First Detective (uncredited)
- The Millionaire as Thomas J. 'Tom' Mead
- Illegal as District Attorney's Man (uncredited)
- The Phenix City Story as Clem Wilson
- The McConnell Story as Cy
- The Naked Street as Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
- Seven Angry Men as Sergeant
- 5 Against the House as Police Detective (uncredited)
1954
- Climax! as Cab Driver
- Studio 57
- Public Defender as Trusty
- Bitter Creek as Hired Gunman
- The Lone Wolf as Lt. Cellars
- This Is My Love as Police Detective
- Moby Dick as 1st Sailor
- The Wonderful World of Disney as Frank Boyd
1953
- I Led Three Lives
- Letter to Loretta as S / Sgt. Ernie Robbins
- I Led 3 Lives as Terry
1952
- Four Star Playhouse as Harris
1951
- Dragnet
- Hallmark Hall of Fame
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as Luke Powers
1950
- Space Patrol as Korwin