John Larch

Birthday:

10/04/1914

Place of birth:

Salem, Massachusetts, USA:

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.



Credits

Airplane II: The Sequel (1982)
Prosecuting Attorney
The Amityville Horror (1979)
Farther Nuncio
A Fire in the Sky (1978)
Johnson
Future Cop (1976)
Commisioner Forman
Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur (1976)
Gen. Omar Bradley
Framed (1975)
Bundy
Ellery Queen: Too Many Suspects (1975)
District Attorney
The Desperate Miles (1975)
Dr. Bryson
Bad Ronald (1974)
Sgt. Lynch
The Chadwick Family (1974)
Fargo
Winter Kill (1974)
Dr. Bill Hammond
Santee (1973)
Banner
Magic Carpet (1972)
Mr. Tracy
Women in Chains (1972)
Barney
Dirty Harry (1971)
Chief
Play Misty for Me (1971)
Sgt. McCallum
The City (1971)
Holland Yermo
Cannon for Cordoba (1970)
Warner
Move (1970)
Mounted Patrolman
Hail, Hero! (1969)
Mr. Conklin
The Great Bank Robbery (1969)
Sheriff of Friendly
The Wrecking Crew (1968)
MacDonald
Miracle of the White Stallions (1963)
General George S. Patton, Jr.
How the West Was Won (1962)
Grimes (uncredited)
Pages of Death (1962)
Councilman Halliday
Hell to Eternity (1960)
Capt. Schwabe
The Saga of Hemp Brown (1958)
Jed Givens
From Hell to Texas (1958)
Hal Carmody
Man in the Shadow (1957)
Ed Yates
Quantez (1957)
Heller
The Careless Years (1957)
Sam Vernon
Gun for a Coward (1956)
Stringer
Man from Del Rio (1956)
Bill Dawson
Written on the Wind (1956)
Roy Carter
7 Men from Now (1956)
Payte Bodeen
Behind the High Wall (1956)
William Kiley
Johnny Moccasin (1956)
Frank Hill
The Killer is Loose (1956)
Otto Flanders
Illegal (1955)
District Attorney's Man (uncredited)
The McConnell Story (1955)
Cy
The Phenix City Story (1955)
Clem Wilson
5 Against the House (1955)
Police Detective (uncredited)
Seven Angry Men (1955)
Sergeant
Tight Spot (1955)
First Detective (uncredited)
This Is My Love (1954)
Police Detective
Moby Dick (1954)
1st Sailor
Bitter Creek (1954)
Hired Gunman