John Russell

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1921-01-03 (70 years old)

Deathday

1991-01-19

Place of Birth

Los Angeles, California, USA

John Russell

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. John Lawrence Russell was an American actor, and World War II veteran, most noted for playing Marshal Dan Troop in the successful ABC western television series Lawman from 1958 to 1962, and his lead role as international adventurer Tim Kelly in the syndicated TV series Soldiers of Fortune from 1955 to 1957. Russell signed a contract with 20th Century Fox in 1945 and made his first film appearance as a guard in A Royal Scandal. He played several supporting parts while at Fox, acting the role of a junior law partner in the Clifton Webb comedy Sitting Pretty, as well as a navy pilot in Slattery's Hurrican...

Acting

1959

Rio Bravo

as Nathan Burdette

1948

Yellow Sky

as Lengthy

1952

Hoodlum Empire

as Joe Gray

1949

Slattery's Hurricane

as Lt. F.A. 'Hobbie' Hobson

1949

1951

Man in the Saddle

as Hugh Clagg

2002

American Nightmare

as Police Officer

1957

Hell Bound

as Jordan

1951

The Fat Man

as Gene Gordon

1949

1949

Undertow

as Danny Morgan

1970

Cannon for Cordoba

as General Pershing

1957

Untamed Youth

as Russ Tropp

1947

Forever Amber

as Black Jack Mallard

1953

The Sun Shines Bright

as Ashby Corwin

1950

Saddle Tramp

as Rocky

1954

Jubilee Trail

as Oliver Hale

1968

Buckskin

as Patch

1965

Apache Uprising

as Vance Buckner

1945

1957

The Dalton Girls

as W.T. "Illinois" Grey

1967

Hostile Guns

as Aaron Pleasant

1950

Frenchie

as Lance Cole

1952

Oklahoma Annie

as Dan Fraser

1946

Somewhere in the Night

as Marine Captain (uncredited)

1970

Noon Sunday

as Darmody

1958

Fort Massacre

as Travis

1959

Yellowstone Kelly

as Gall, Sioux Chief

1953

1985

Pale Rider

as Stockburn

1951

Fighting Coast Guard

as Barney Walker

1988

Under the Gun

as Simon Stone

1948

Sitting Pretty

as Bill Philby

1976

The Outlaw Josey Wales

as Bloody Bill Anderson

1971

Blood Legacy

as Frank Mantee

1955

The Last Command

as Lt. Dickinson

1954

Hell's Outpost

as Ben Hodes

1967

Fort Utah

as Eli Jonas

1968

Fireball Jungle

as Nero Solitarius

1945

A Bell for Adano

as Capt. Anderson (uncredited)

1945

A Royal Scandal

as Guard (uncredited)

1975

Smoke In The Wind

as Cagle Mondier

1959

1946

The Dark Corner

as Policeman at Tony's Apartment (uncredited)

Production

1929

Side Street

as Adaptation

1924

Dangerous Money

as Screenplay

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