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John Beal is a Actor, Director and Sound American born on 14 august 1909 at Joplin (USA)
John Beal (August 13, 1909 – April 26, 1997) was an American actor.
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Birth name James Alexander Bliedung
Nationality USA
Birth 14 august 1909 at Joplin (USA)
Death 26 april 1997 (at 87 years) at Santa Cruz (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 14 august 1909 at Joplin (USA)
Death 26 april 1997 (at 87 years) at Santa Cruz (USA)
Biography
Marié de 1934 à 1986 à l'actrice Helen Craig avec qui il eut deux enfants.Usually with
Filmography of John Beal (41 films)
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The Firm (1993)
, 2h34Directed by Sydney Pollack
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Mafia films, Films about the labor movement, Gangster films
Actors Tom Cruise, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Gene Hackman, Ed Harris, Holly Hunter, Hal Holbrook
Roles Nathan Locke
Rating68%
Mitch McDeere (Tom Cruise) is a young man from an impoverished background, but with a promising future in law. About to graduate from Harvard Law School near the top of his class, he receives a generous job offer from Bendini, Lambert & Locke, a small, boutique firm in Memphis specializing in accounting and tax law. He and his wife, Abby (Jeanne Tripplehorn), move to Memphis and Mitch sets to work studying to pass the Tennessee bar exam. Avery Tolar (Gene Hackman), one of the firm's senior partners, becomes his mentor and begins introducing Mitch to BL&Ls professional culture, which demands complete loyalty, strict confidentiality, and a willingness to charge exceptional fees for their services. Seduced by the money and perks showered on him, including a house and car, he is at first totally oblivious to the more sinister side of his new employer, although Abby has her suspicions. Mitch passes the bar exam and begins working long hours that put a strain on his marriage. Working closely with Avery, Mitch learns that most of the Firm's work involves helping wealthy clients hide large amounts of money in off-shore shell corporations and other dubious tax-avoidance schemes. While on a trip to the Cayman Islands on behalf of a client, Mitch lets himself be seduced by a local woman. But the encounter is a set-up and their tryst on the beach is photographed by people working for the firm's sinister "head of security", Bill DeVasher (Wilford Brimley), who uses it to blackmail Mitch into keeping quiet about what he knows.
Amityville 3-D (1983)
, 1h45Directed by Richard Fleischer
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Fantastic, Horror
Themes Films about religion, Demons in film, Ghost films
Actors Tony Roberts, Tess Harper, Robert Joy, Lori Loughlin, Candy Clark, Leora Dana
Roles Harold Caswell
Rating42%
After he exposes a pair of con artists with his partner Melanie (Candy Clark) in the infamous 112 Ocean Avenue house in Amityville journalist John Baxter (Tony Roberts) is persuaded to purchase the house by real estate agent Clifford Sanders (John Harkins). While preparing the house for John, Clifford investigates footsteps in the attic. He is locked in the room, where a swarm of flies attack and kill him. John believes Clifford died of a stroke, even after Melanie shows him some photos she took of the real estate agent before his death which depict him as a rotting corpse.
, 3hDirected by David Susskind, Daniel Petrie
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Films about disabilities, Political films
Actors Jane Alexander, Edward Herrmann, Charles Lampkin, Priscilla Pointer, Rosemary Murphy, Blair Brown
Roles Dr. Carr
Rating78%
The Legend of Lizzie Borden (1975)
, 1h40Directed by Paul Wendkos
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Films about families, Films about capital punishment
Actors Elizabeth Montgomery, Katherine Helmond, Ed Flanders, Fionnula Flanagan, Don Porter, Fritz Weaver
Roles Dr. Bowen
Rating73%
The film, although based on fact, is a stylized retelling of the events of August 4, 1892 when the father and step-mother of New England spinster Lizzie Andrew Borden were found brutally murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home. The subsequent incarceration of the prime suspect (Lizzie herself) as well as the coroner's inquest and trial are largely faithfully depicted, using actual testimony. In what may be seen as deviation from the film's docudrama narrative, as Lizzie hears her verdict, flashbacks are shown of her actually committing the murders in the nude and bathing after each death, thus explaining why no blood was ever found on her or her clothes; however, it is left ambiguous whether Lizzie was actually reminiscing about the crimes or simply fantasizing how she herself would have disposed of her victims. The film ends after Lizzie's acquittal with Lizzie's sister Emma asking her point-blank if she killed their parents; Lizzie does not answer. The epilogue states that the killings of Andrew and Abby Borden remained unsolved.
Ten Who Dared (1960)
, 1h32Directed by William Beaudine
Origin USA
Genres Adventure, Western
Themes Children's films
Actors Brian Keith, Ben Johnson, John Beal, James Drury, R.G. Armstrong, Roy Barcroft
Roles Maj. John Wesley Powell
Rating55%
En 1869, John Wesley Powell se lance dans une expédition pour descendre le fleuve Colorado dans le Grand Canyon.
The Sound and the Fury (1959)
, 1h55Directed by Martin Ritt
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Yul Brynner, Joanne Woodward, Margaret Leighton, Stuart Whitman, Jack Warden, Françoise Rosay
Roles Howard Compson
Rating62%
Quentin Compson is a girl of 17 in the small Mississippi town of Jefferson. She lives with her step-uncle, Jason, who has practically raised Quentin ever since her promiscuous mother, Caddy, abandoned her.
The Vampire (1957)
, 1h15Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Horror
Themes Vampires in film
Actors John Beal, Coleen Gray, Kenneth Tobey, Paul Brinegar, Lydia Reed, James Griffith
Roles Dr. Paul Beecher
Rating58%
The late Dr. Campbell was experimenting with vampire bat blood just before his death. Fellow doctor Beecher finds a bottle of pills among Dr. Campbell's effects and takes them home. Dr. Beecher's daughter accidentally substitutes the vampire blood pills for her father's migraine tablets. As a result, the kindly Dr. Beecher starts having blackouts from the pills, making him change into a bloodthirsty monster by night.
That Night! (1957)
, 1h28Directed by John Newland
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors John Beal, Augusta Dabney, Shepperd Strudwick, Rosemary Murphy, Beverly Lunsford, Fran Bennett
Roles Commuter Christopher J. Bowden
Rating77%
This script must be run from the command line
Remains to Be Seen (1953)
Directed by Don Weis
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Horror, Musical, Crime
Actors June Allyson, Van Johnson, Louis Calhern, Angela Lansbury, John Beal, Dorothy Dandridge
Roles Dr. Glenson
Rating61%
A girl vocalist and her apartment manager get mixed up in a creepy Park Avenue murder and find themselves facing danger at every turn.
My Six Convicts (1952)
, 1h44Directed by Hugo Fregonese
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Prison films
Actors John Beal, Gilbert Roland, Millard Mitchell, Marshall Thompson, Alf Kjellin, Fay Roope
Roles Dr. Wilson aka Doc
Rating65%
My Six Convicts is the true story of a prison psychologist (John Beal) and his attempts to get through to his incarcerated patients. While dealing with serious issues, the film was created in comedic form. While the film is true to the overall spirit of the book, dramatic license was taken with the adaptation and certain events (e.g., the failed prison break and the resulting death of an innocent inmate) are fictional and were created solely to add dramatic elements to the film.
Alimony (1949)
, 1h10Directed by Alfred Zeisler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Martha Vickers, John Beal, Hillary Brooke, Douglass Dumbrille, Blossom Rock, Leonid Kinskey
Roles Dan Barker
Rating53%
Paul Klinger is on a desperate search for his lost daughter, Kate. He goes to see a man in New York, Dan Barker, a songwriter who knew Kate in the past when she lived in the city. Dan tells Paul that Kate changed her name to Kitty Travers, and then continues to tell the story of what he knows about "Kitty":
Chicago Deadline (1949)
, 1h26Directed by Lewis Allen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists
Actors Alan Ladd, Donna Reed, June Havoc, Irene Hervey, John Arthur Kennedy, Berry Kroeger
Roles Paul Jean d'Ur
Rating63%
Ed Adams (Alan Ladd) is a reporter for a Chicago newspaper. By chance he is in a boardinghouse just when the body of a dead woman is found by a cleaning lady. The body belongs to a beautiful female tenant named Rosita Jean d’Ur (Donna Reed). Ed is drawn to the dark, mysterious woman, and manages to steal her diary before the law gets to the scene. In the diary Rosita has listed a total of fifty-four names.
Song of Surrender (1949)
, 1h33Directed by Mitchell Leisen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Actors Wanda Hendrix, Claude Rains, Macdonald Carey, Andrea King, Elizabeth Patterson, Henry Hull
Roles Dubois
Rating65%
So Dear to My Heart (1948)
, 1h19Directed by Harold D. Schuster, Hamilton Luske
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Animation
Themes Children's films
Actors Bobby Driscoll, Luana Patten, Beulah Bondi, Burl Ives, Harry Carey, John Beal
Roles Jeremiah as an Adult - Narrator (voice)
Rating66%
Set in Indiana in 1903, the film tells the tale of Jeremiah Kincaid (Bobby Driscoll) and his determination to raise a black-wool lamb that had been rejected by its mother. Jeremiah names the lamb Danny for the famed race horse, Dan Patch (who is also portrayed in the film). Jeremiah's dream of showing Danny at the Pike County Fair must overcome the obstinate objections of his loving—yet tough—grandmother Granny (Beulah Bondi). Jeremiah's confidant, Uncle Hiram (Burl Ives), is the boy's steady ally. Inspired by the animated figures and stories, the boy perseveres.
Key Witness (1947)
, 1h7Directed by D. Ross Lederman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors John Beal, Trudy Marshall, Barbara Read, Wilton Graff, Charles Trowbridge, Harry Hayden
Roles Milton Higby
Rating58%
A man runs away to avoid suspicion of murder and ends up in more trouble.