John Ireland

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1914-01-31 (78 years old)

Deathday

1992-03-21

Place of Birth

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

John Ireland

Biography

John Benjamin Ireland (January 30, 1914 – March 21, 1992) was a Canadian-American actor and film director. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his performance in All the King's Men (1949), making him the first Vancouver-born actor to receive an Academy Award nomination. Ireland was a supporting actor in several famous Western films such as My Darling Clementine (1946), Red River (1948), Vengeance Valley (1951), and Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957). His other notable film roles were in 55 Days at Peking (1963), The Adventurers (1970), and Farewell, My Lovely (1975). Ireland also appeared in many television series, notably The Cheater...

Acting

1960

Spartacus

as Crixus

1946

My Darling Clementine

as Billy Clanton

1948

Red River

as Cherry Valance

1954

The Fast and the Furious

as Frank Webster

1957

1969

Zenabel

as Don Alonso Imolne

1949

All the King's Men

as Jack Burden

1958

Party Girl

as Louis Canetto

1947

The Gangster

as Karty

1961

1948

Raw Deal

as Fantail

1988

Messenger of Death

as Zenas Beecham

1963

55 Days at Peking

as Sgt. Harry

1955

Queen Bee

as Judson Prentiss

1989

Terror Night

as Lance Hayward

1965

I Saw What You Did

as Steve Marak

1992

1949

1979

The Shape of Things to Come

as Senator Smedley

1977

Satan's Cheerleaders

as Sheriff B.L.Z. Bubb

1947

Repeat Performance

as Narrator (Voice)

1985

Miami Golem

as Anderson

1951

The Scarf

as John Howard Barrington

1974

1951

Vengeance Valley

as Hub Fasken

1947

Railroaded!

as Duke Martin

1948

1976

The Swiss Conspiracy

as Dwight McGowan

1946

Behind Green Lights

as Det. Oppenheimer

1950

Cargo to Capetown

as Steve Conway

1949

The Undercover Man

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

1954

The Good Die Young

as Eddie Blaine

1978

1983

A Matter of Cunning

as John Markham

1974

Welcome to Arrow Beach

as Sheriff Duke Bingham

1968

Villa Rides

as Client in Barber Shop (uncredited)

1968

Run, Man, Run

as Santillana

1949

Mr. Soft Touch

as Henry 'Early' Byrd

1948

Open Secret

as Paul Lester

1985

Thunder Run

as George Adams

1965

Day of the Nightmare

as Sgt. Dave Harmon

1960

Faces in the Dark

as Max Hammond

1982

Incubus

as Hank Walden

1968

Gatling Gun

as Tarpas

1970

The Adventurers

as Mr.James Hadley

1968

Dead for a Dollar

as Der Colonel

1969

Carnal Circuit

as Richard Salinger

1955

The Glass Cage

as Pel Pelham

1949

Roughshod

as Lednov

1951

The Basketball Fix

as Pete Ferreday

1974

The Rangers

as Carson

1953

The 49th Man

as Investigator John Williams

1954

The Steel Cage

as Al, a Ringleader, segment "The Hostages"

1949

1968

A Taste of Death

as Dan El/Ralph

1968

Go For Broke

as Owl/Gufo/le Hibou

1954

Security Risk

as Ralph Payne

1951

Red Mountain

as Gen. William Quantrill

1951

Little Big Horn

as Lt. John Haywood

1974

Blood River

as Abel Webster

1970

Challenge of McKenna

as Jones/Jonas MacKenna

1977

1961

1968

1963

The Ceremony

as Prison Warden

1956

Gunslinger

as Cane Miro

1953

Hannah Lee: An American Primitive

as Marshal Sam Rochelle

1963

No Time To Kill

as Johnny Greco

1958

Stormy Crossing

as Griff Parker

1985

Martin's Day

as Brewer

1949

Anna Lucasta

as Danny Johnson

1952

Hurricane Smith

as Hurricane Smith

1967

Fort Utah

as Tom Horn

1980

1992

1951

This Is Korea!

as Narrator

1949

1948

A Southern Yankee

as Capt. Jed Calbern

1967

Dirty Heroes

as Captain O’Connor

1946

Wake Up and Dream

as Howard Williams

2023

The Enigmatic Charlotte Rampling

as Self (archive footage)

2002

The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller

as Bob Ford (archive footage)

1954

Southwest Passage

as Clint McDonald

1975

We Are No Angels

as Mr. Shark

1979

Crossbar

as Miles Kornylo

1991

The Graveyard Story

as Dr. McGregor

1975

Sex Diary

as Milton

1977

The Ransom

as Chief Haliburton

1968

1967

Caxambu!

as Vince Neff

1968

1953

Combat Squad

as Sgt. Ken 'Fletch' Fletcher

1980

Tourist

as Joe Vigil, Sr.

1950

1958

No Place to Land

as Jonas Bailey

1978

The Millionaire

as Marshall Wayburn

1979

Delta Fox

as Lucas Johnson

1962

Brushfire

as Jeff Saygure

1976

Salon Kitty

as Cliff

2015

3-D Rarities

as (archive footage)

1974

1988

Bonanza: The Next Generation

as Capt. Aaron Cartwright

1946

Somewhere in the Night

as Thug (voice) (uncredited)

1945

A Walk in the Sun

as Pfc. Windy Craven

1951

The Bushwhackers

as Jefferson Waring

1967

Hate for Hate

as James Cooper

1981

Bordello

as Judge

1948

Joan of Arc

as Jean de la Boussac (St. Sevére), Captain

1974

Northeast of Seoul

as Flanaghan

1964

The Big Parade of Comedy

as Captain Calbern in 'A Southern Yankee' (arch. foot.) (uncred.)

1972

Escape to the Sun

as Jacob Kagan

1986

Seasons in the Sun

as Keith Slattery

1955

Hell's Horizon

as Capt. John Merrill

1969

One on Top of the Other

as Inspector Wald

1992

Hammer Down

as Lt. Bates

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