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Known For

Acting

Known Credits

192

Gender

Male

Birthday

1914-01-31

Deathday

1992-03-21 (78 years old)

Place of Birth

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Also Known As

John Ireland Jr
John Benjamin Ireland

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 Cheaters (1960–1962). He was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contribution to the television industry.

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Acting

2023

The Enigmatic Charlotte Rampling as Self (archive footage)

2015

3-D Rarities as (archive footage)

2002

The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller as Bob Ford (archive footage)

1992		Waxwork II: Lost in Time as King Arthur
1992		Merlin
1992		Hammer Down as Lt. Bates

1991

The Graveyard Story as Dr. McGregor

1989		Terror Night as Lance Hayward
1989		Snoops as Gabriel Franken
1989		Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat as Jefferson

1988		War of the Worlds as Harv
1988		Messenger of Death as Zenas Beecham
1988		Perry Mason: The Case of the Lady in the Lake as Walter
1988		Bonanza: The Next Generation as Capt. Aaron Cartwright

1987

J.J. Starbuck as Charles Capstone

1986

Seasons in the Sun as Keith Slattery

1985		Miami Golem as Anderson
1985		Thunder Run as George Adams
1985		Treasure of the Amazon as Priest
1985		Martin's Day as Brewer

1984		Murder, She Wrote as Sheriff Hainer
1984		Airwolf as Hardesty
1984		Airwolf as Carl Barron

1983		The Hitchhiker as Jack Guttman
1983		Trauma Center
1983		Hardcastle and McCormick as Bucky Miller
1983		A Matter of Cunning as John Markham

1982		Incubus as Hank Walden
1982		Cassie & Co. as Lyman Shackelford

1981

Bordello as Judge

1980		Magnum, P.I. as Wyndom Jackson
1980		Marilyn: The Untold Story as John Huston
1980		Tourist as Joe Vigil, Sr.
1980		The Courage of Kavik, the Wolf Dog as George Hunter

1979		Delta Fox as Lucas Johnson
1979		The Littlest Hobo as Pa
1979		Hart to Hart as Zeke BaIllinger
1979		Guyana: Crime of the Century as Dave Cole
1979		Crossbar as Miles Kornylo
1979		On the Air Live with Captain Midnight as Agent Pierson
1979		When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion as Self
1979		The Shape of Things to Come as Senator Smedley

1978		The Millionaire as Marshall Wayburn
1978		Tomorrow Never Comes as Captain

1977		The Perfect Killer as Benny
1977		Love and the Midnight Auto Supply as Tony Santore
1977		The Ransom as Chief Haliburton
1977		Satan's Cheerleaders as Sheriff B.L.Z. Bubb
1977		Mission to Glory: A True Story as Father Mora

1976		Quincy, M.E. as Attorney John Packard
1976		Quincy, M.E. as Jerry Driskill
1976		Quincy, M.E. as Sheriff Ned Evers
1976		Salon Kitty as Cliff
1976		The Swiss Conspiracy as Dwight McGowan

1975		We Are No Angels as Mr. Shark
1975		Switch as Verne Deamer
1975		Farewell, My Lovely as Nulty
1975		Sex Diary as Milton
1975		Khan!

1974		Wam Bam Thank You Spaceman
1974		The Rangers as Carson
1974		Planet of the Apes
1974		Little House on the Prairie
1974		Blood River as Abel Webster
1974		Welcome to Arrow Beach as Sheriff Duke Bingham
1974		Northeast of Seoul as Flanaghan
1974		The Girl on the Late, Late Show as Bruno Walters
1974		The Phantom of Hollywood as Lt. Gifford
1974		The House of Seven Corpses as Eric Hartman

1973

Police Story

1972		Escape to the Sun as Jacob Kagan
1972		Ghost Story as Arthur Mundy

1970		The Adventurers as Mr.James Hadley
1970		Challenge of McKenna as Jones/Jonas MacKenna

1969		The War Devils
1969		Zenabel as Don Alonso Imolne
1969		One on Top of the Other as Inspector Wald
1969		Carnal Circuit as Richard Salinger

1968		Gatling Gun as Tarpas
1968		Hawaii Five-O as Phil Coleman
1968		The Name of the Game as Mel Wexler
1968		Vengeance for Vengeance as Maj. Bower
1968		A Taste of Death as Dan El/Ralph
1968		Run, Man, Run as Santillana
1968		A Gun for One Hundred Graves as Douglas
1968		Dead for a Dollar as Der Colonel
1968		Villa Rides as Client in Barber Shop (uncredited)
1968		Go For Broke as Owl/Gufo/le Hibou
1968		Arizona Bushwhackers as Dan Shelby
1968		Bloody Che Contra as Stuart

1967		Dirty Heroes as Captain O’Connor
1967		Fort Utah as Tom Horn
1967		Hate for Hate as James Cooper
1967		Caxambu! as Vince Neff

1966		Mission: Impossible as Andrew Metzger
1966		The Man Who Never Was

1965		Day of the Nightmare as Sgt. Dave Harmon
1965		Run for Your Life as Dr. Mason
1965		I Saw What You Did as Steve Marak
1965		Branded as Cattle Rancher Renger
1965		Branded as Ted Evers

1964		Daniel Boone as Hiram Manville
1964		The Big Parade of Comedy as Captain Calbern in 'A Southern Yankee' (arch. foot.) (uncred.)
1964		The Fall of the Roman Empire as Ballomar

1963		The Ceremony as Prison Warden
1963		Kraft Suspense Theatre as William 'Scotty' Scott
1963		Burke's Law as Orrin Lashwell
1963		Burke's Law as Bullock
1963		55 Days at Peking as Sgt. Harry
1963		No Time To Kill as Johnny Greco

1962		The Virginian as Kinroy
1962		Brushfire as Jeff Saygure

1961		Wild in the Country as Phil Macy
1961		The Asphalt Jungle
1961		Return of a Stranger as Ray Reed

1960		The Cheaters as John Hunter
1960		Faces in the Dark as Max Hammond
1960		Spartacus as Crixus
1960		Thriller as Eddie Wilson

1959		Riverboat as Chris Slade
1959		Bonanza as Marshal Will Rimbau
1959		Rawhide as Winch
1959		Rawhide as Frank Trask
1959		Rawhide as Dr. Joseph Merritt
1959		Rawhide as Jed Colby

1958		Party Girl as Louis Canetto
1958		No Place to Land as Jonas Bailey
1958		Stormy Crossing as Griff Parker

1957		Suspicion
1957		Gunfight at the O.K. Corral as Johnny Ringo

1956		Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Marshal Harry Phillips
1956		Armchair Theatre as Monroe Stahr
1956		Gunslinger as Cane Miro

1955		Hell's Horizon as Capt. John Merrill
1955		Queen Bee as Judson Prentiss
1955		Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Captain McCabe
1955		Gunsmoke as Jed Coombs
1955		Gunsmoke as Parker
1955		The Glass Cage as Pel Pelham

1954		The Steel Cage as Al, a Ringleader, segment "The Hostages"
1954		The Fast and the Furious as Frank Webster
1954		Climax! as Greg
1954		Studio 57
1954		Security Risk as Ralph Payne
1954		The Whistler
1954		Southwest Passage as Clint McDonald
1954		The Good Die Young as Eddie Blaine

1953		Combat Squad as Sgt. Ken 'Fletch' Fletcher
1953		Hannah Lee: An American Primitive as Marshal Sam Rochelle
1953		The 49th Man as Investigator John Williams
1953		General Electric Theater as Abe Lincoln

1952

Hurricane Smith as Hurricane Smith

1951		The Bushwhackers as Jefferson Waring
1951		Red Mountain as Gen. William Quantrill
1951		Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951		Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as Jim Regan
1951		Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as Billy Bob Jackson
1951		Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as Pete Bronson
1951		Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as Andrew Evans
1951		This Is Korea! as Narrator
1951		The Basketball Fix as Pete Ferreday
1951		Little Big Horn as Lt. John Haywood
1951		The Scarf as John Howard Barrington
1951		Vengeance Valley as Hub Fasken

1950		Lux Video Theatre as Milt Shanks
1950		Lux Video Theatre as Marty
1950		The Return of Jesse James as Johnny Callum
1950		Cargo to Capetown as Steve Conway

1949		All the King's Men as Jack Burden
1949		Mr. Soft Touch as Henry 'Early' Byrd
1949		Anna Lucasta as Danny Johnson
1949		The Doolins of Oklahoma as Bitter Creek
1949		Roughshod as Lednov
1949		The Undercover Man as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1949		The Walking Hills as Frazee
1949		I Shot Jesse James as Bob Ford

1948		Joan of Arc as Jean de la Boussac (St. Sevére), Captain
1948		The Philco Television Playhouse
1948		Red River as Cherry Valance
1948		A Southern Yankee as Capt. Jed Calbern
1948		Raw Deal as Fantail
1948		Open Secret as Paul Lester
1948		I Love Trouble as Reno

1947		The Gangster as Karty
1947		Railroaded! as Duke Martin
1947		Repeat Performance as Narrator (Voice)

1946		Wake Up and Dream as Howard Williams
1946		My Darling Clementine as Billy Clanton
1946		It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog as Benny Smith
1946		Somewhere in the Night as Thug (voice) (uncredited)
1946		Behind Green Lights as Det. Oppenheimer

1945

A Walk in the Sun as Pfc. Windy Craven

Directing

1954

The Fast and the Furious as Director

1953

Hannah Lee: An American Primitive as Director

Production

1953

Hannah Lee: An American Primitive as Co-Producer