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Howard St. John is a Actor American born on 9 october 1905 at Chicago (USA)
Howard St. John (October 9, 1905 – March 13, 1974) was a Chicago-born character actor who specialized in unsympathetic roles. His work spanned Broadway, film and television. He is probably best remembered for his bombastic General Bullmoose, which he played in the stage and screen versions of the 1956 musical Li'l Abner.
Il travaille surtout à Hollywood à partir de 1949 et tient là encore des seconds rôles typés dans des plusieurs films et dans plusieurs épisodes de séries télévisées à partir de 1951. Il remonte aussi sur les scènes de Broadway à plusieurs reprises dans les années 1950 et 1960, ce qui l'oblige à de fréquents voyages entre la côte Ouest et New York.
Il meurt subitement d'une crise cardiaque à New York en 1974.
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Nationality USA
Birth 9 october 1905 at Chicago (USA)
Death 13 march 1974 (at 68 years) at New York City (USA)
Birth 9 october 1905 at Chicago (USA)
Death 13 march 1974 (at 68 years) at New York City (USA)
Howard St. John (October 9, 1905 – March 13, 1974) was a Chicago-born character actor who specialized in unsympathetic roles. His work spanned Broadway, film and television. He is probably best remembered for his bombastic General Bullmoose, which he played in the stage and screen versions of the 1956 musical Li'l Abner.
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Il amorce sa carrière d'acteur au théâtre dès 1925 sur Broadway. Il assume le plus souvent des rôles de personnages antipathiques, prétentieux ou retors.Il travaille surtout à Hollywood à partir de 1949 et tient là encore des seconds rôles typés dans des plusieurs films et dans plusieurs épisodes de séries télévisées à partir de 1951. Il remonte aussi sur les scènes de Broadway à plusieurs reprises dans les années 1950 et 1960, ce qui l'oblige à de fréquents voyages entre la côte Ouest et New York.
Il meurt subitement d'une crise cardiaque à New York en 1974.
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Don't Drink the Water (1969)
, 1h40Directed by Howard Morris
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Jackie Gleason, Estelle Parsons, Ted Bessell, Michael Constantine, Richard Libertini, Howard St. John
Roles Ambassador Magee
Rating55%
Walter Hollander, a caterer, is on vacation with his wife Marion and daughter Susan. While flying to Athens, their plane is hijacked to Vulgaria, behind the Iron Curtain. While waiting for the plane to be cleared to take off again, Marion insists they go outside and take a few pictures. Unfortunately they are in a restricted area so the secret police suspect them of being spies. Inspector Krojak sends a squad of soldiers with machine guns to arrest them, and the Hollanders flee to the car of the American ambassador which is parked nearby.
Matchless (1967)
, 1h40Directed by Alberto Lattuada
Origin Italie
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Comedy, Action, Spy, Comic science fiction
Themes Spy films, Comedy science fiction films, Political films
Actors Patrick O'Neal, Donald Pleasence, Henry Silva, Nicoletta Machiavelli, Sorrell Booke, Howard St. John
Roles General Shapiro
Rating52%
Banning (1967)
, 1h42Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Sports films, Golf films
Actors Robert Wagner, Anjanette Comer, Jill St John, Guy Stockwell, Sean Garrison, Susan Clark
Roles J. Pallister Young
Rating57%
Mike McDermot is a rising golf star on the PGA Tour until he is accused of cheating. He supposedly has offered to split a winner's purse with a competitor, Jonathan Linus, if his opponent deliberately misses a final putt. In fact, the competitor is the one who approached him. McDermot refuses, so Jonathan Linus goes to another pro, Tommy Del Gaddo, whose glory days were behind him. Then they turn in McDermot, accusing him of their crime.
Strange Bedfellows (1965)
, 1h38Directed by Melvin Frank
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Rock Hudson, Gina Lollobrigida, Gig Young, Terry-Thomas, Edward Judd, Alan Caillou
Roles Julius L. Stevens
Rating61%
A wealthy American (Hudson) and a bohemian Italian woman (Lollobrigida) meet in London, and impulsively marry. Then finding they have virtually nothing in common they separate. Seven years later, just days before the divorce is due to be finalized, they meet again and begin to rekindle the romance.
Fate Is the Hunter (1964)
, 1h46Directed by Ralph Nelson
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Disaster films, American disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents
Actors Glenn Ford, Nancy Kwan, Rod Taylor, Suzanne Pleshette, Jane Russell, Constance Towers
Roles Mark Hutchins
Rating67%
Pilot Jack Savage (Rod Taylor) is suspected of drinking and causing an airliner crash that kills 53 people and leaves only a single survivor, Martha Webster (Susanne Pleshette), a flight attendant. The captain's wartime buddy, airline executive Sam C. McBane (Glenn Ford), is convinced of his friend's innocence and investigates doggedly. Flashbacks deal with both Jack's past and Sam meeting him, plus others they used to know.
Strait-Jacket (1964)
, 1h29Directed by William Castle
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Actors Joan Crawford, Diane Baker, Leif Erickson, Rochelle Hudson, George Kennedy, Lee Majors
Roles Raymond Fields
Rating67%
Lucy Harbin has spent twenty years in a psychiatric hospital for the decapitation axe-murder of her husband (Lee Majors) and his mistress, after catching him cheating on her. After she is released, she takes up residence at the farm of her brother Bill Cutler and sister-in-law Emily.
Sex and the Single Girl (1964)
, 1h50Directed by Richard Quiney
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists, Psychologie, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Psychanalyse
Actors Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Henry Fonda, Lauren Bacall, Mel Ferrer, Fran Jeffries
Roles George Randall
Rating64%
Bob Weston works for STOP, a scandal magazine. His colleague has written a dirty article about Helen Gurley Brown, the author of a best-selling new book with advice to single women on how to deal with men, calling her a virgin. She is very offended. Due to this article, Helen has lost six appointments. Weston wants to interview her, but she refuses to see him.
Lafayette (1962)
, 2h38Directed by Jean Dréville
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors Pascale Audret, Jack Hawkins, Folco Lulli, Wolfgang Preiss, Renée Saint-Cyr, Liselotte Pulver
Roles George Washington
Rating59%
En 1776 le jeune marquis de La Fayette épouse la fille du duc d'Ayen, Adrienne. Sensible au soulèvement des colons des États-Unis, La Fayette rencontre à Paris, Silas Deane, envoyé par le congrès des Insurgés, puis Benjamin Franklin lui-même. Gagné à leur cause, il quitte l'armée royale et part combattre en Amérique
Lover Come Back (1961)
, 1h47Directed by Delbert Mann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Doris Day, Rock Hudson, Tony Randall, Edie Adams, Jack Oakie, Joe Flynn
Roles Mr. John Brackett
Rating70%
In a New York advertising agency, Jerry Webster (Rock Hudson), a Madison Avenue ad executive, has achieved success not through hard work or intelligence but by wining and dining his clients, even setting them up on dates with attractive girls.
Cry for Happy (1961)
, 1h50Directed by George Marshall
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Political films
Actors Glenn Ford, Donald O'Connor, James Shigeta, Miiko Taka, Miyoshi Umeki, Howard St. John
Roles Vice Adm. Junius B. Bennett
Rating58%
During the Korean War, Andy Cyphers (Glenn Ford), a Navy photographer and his three-man team occupy a Tokyo geisha house, though it is off-limits and four girls are living there.
Sanctuary (1961)
, 1h30Directed by Tony Richardson, David S. Hall
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Lee Remick, Yves Montand, Bradford Dillman, Howard St. John, Reta Shaw, Harry Townes
Roles Gov. Drake
Rating60%
In 1928, in the county of Yoknapatawpha, Mississippi, Nancy Mannigoe, a 30-year-old black woman, is condemned to death for the willful murder of the infant son of her white employer Mrs. Gowan Stevens, the former Temple Drake. On the eve of the scheduled execution, Temple tries to save Nancy by telling her father, the governor, of the events leading up to the murder.
One, Two, Three (1961)
, 1h55Directed by Billy Wilder
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Political films
Actors Horst Buchholz, Pamela Tiffin, Arlene Francis, James Cagney, Liselotte Pulver, Howard St. John
Roles Wendell P. Hazeltine
Rating77%
C.R. "Mac" MacNamara is a high-ranking executive in the Coca-Cola Company, assigned to West Berlin after a business fiasco a few years earlier in the Middle East (about which he is still bitter). While based in Germany for now, Mac is angling to become head of Western European Coca-Cola Operations, based in London. After working on an arrangement to introduce Coke into the Soviet Union, Mac receives a call from his boss, W.P. Hazeltine, in Atlanta. Scarlett Hazeltine, the boss's hot-blooded but slightly dim 17-year-old socialite daughter, is coming to Berlin. Mac is assigned the unenviable task of taking care of this young whirlwind.
Madison Avenue (1961)
, 1h30Directed by H. Bruce Humberstone
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Dana Andrews, Eleanor Parker, Jeanne Crain, Eddie Albert, Howard St. John, David White
Roles J.D. Jocelyn
Rating59%
Clint Lorimer (Dana Andrews) works for an advertising company run by J.D. Jocelyn (Howard St. John). He is fired after Jocelyn finds out that Clint intends to form his own ad agency and steal a top client.
Li'l Abner (1959)
, 1h54Directed by Melvin Frank
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors Peter Palmer, Leslie Parrish, Julie Newmar, Stubby Kaye, Stella Stevens, Billie Hayes
Roles General Bullmoose
Rating66%
It's a "typical day" in Dogpatch, U. S. A., a hillbilly town where Abner Yokum lives with his parents. Mammy Yokum insists on giving Abner his daily dose of "Yokumberry tonic," although he is grown. He has a crush on Daisy Mae Scragg (although he resists marrying her) and she on him; Abner's rival for her affections is the World's Dirtiest Rassler, Earthquake McGoon.
World in My Corner (1956)
, 1h22Directed by Jesse Hibbs
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Boxing films
Actors Audie Murphy, Barbara Rush, John McIntire, Jeff Morrow, Tommy Rall, Howard St. John
Roles Harry Cram
Rating62%
Tommy Shea (Audie Murphy), a boxer from Jersey City, is sponsored by millionaire Robert Mallinson (Jeff Morrow). He falls for Mallinson's daughter, Dorothy (Barbara Rush) and decides to work for crooked fight promoter Harry Cram to earn the money to keep her in the style to which she has become accustomed.