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John Harmon is a Actor American born on 30 june 1905 at Washington, D.C. (USA)
John Harmon (June 30, 1905 – August 6, 1985) was an American actor.
Harmon was a very prolific bit actor. His career spanned over six decades and almost 300 movie and television roles in a wide variety of genres. Many of his earlier appearances are uncredited. His first major screen credit was in I Was Framed (1942). His movie career highlights were roles in Gallant Bess, The Monster of Piedras Blancas, Live Fast, Die Young and The Street is my Beat. The movie in which he made his last screen appearance, The Naked Monster, was released 20 years after his death. Harmon's most notable TV roles were in Bonanza, Perry Mason (as a police fingerprint/ballistics expert), Star Trek, and The Rifleman (as the hotel clerk Eddie Halstead).
In his later years, Harmon became a used books dealer in Los Angeles. He collected first editions of Mark Twain. He suffered a stroke about a year before he died from heart failure.
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Birth name John Harmon
Nationality USA
Birth 30 june 1905 at Washington, D.C. (USA)
Death 6 august 1985 (at 80 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 30 june 1905 at Washington, D.C. (USA)
Death 6 august 1985 (at 80 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Harmon was a very prolific bit actor. His career spanned over six decades and almost 300 movie and television roles in a wide variety of genres. Many of his earlier appearances are uncredited. His first major screen credit was in I Was Framed (1942). His movie career highlights were roles in Gallant Bess, The Monster of Piedras Blancas, Live Fast, Die Young and The Street is my Beat. The movie in which he made his last screen appearance, The Naked Monster, was released 20 years after his death. Harmon's most notable TV roles were in Bonanza, Perry Mason (as a police fingerprint/ballistics expert), Star Trek, and The Rifleman (as the hotel clerk Eddie Halstead).
In his later years, Harmon became a used books dealer in Los Angeles. He collected first editions of Mark Twain. He suffered a stroke about a year before he died from heart failure.
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The Naked Monster (2005)
, 1h26Directed by Ted Newsom
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Horror, Comic science fiction
Themes Comedy science fiction films
Actors Kenneth Tobey, Brinke Stevens, Forrest J Ackerman, John Agar, Jeanne Carmen, Robert Clarke
Roles Mr. Lipschitz
Rating52%
A colossal series of disasters releases something monstrous from a glacier. Strange disappearances in a small California town attract the attention of a thick-headed sheriff (R.G. Wilson), his transparently uninterested scientist girlfriend (Brinke Stevens) and a visiting government agent (John Goodwin). They discover that a giant green monster is at large, the Creaturesaurus Erectus, ("He wrecked us? He nearly KILLED us!") They turn to experienced monster fighter Colonel Patrick Hendry (Kenneth Tobey), who has been locked in a government asylum for decades. With the help of other monster experts, lots of stock footage and incredibly bad special effects, humanity fights back against the "Thing from Another Time Zone".
Microwave Massacre (1983)
, 1h16Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror
Themes Serial killer films, Comedy horror films
Actors Jackie Vernon, John Harmon
Roles Dr. Gestalp
Rating42%
Donald (Vernon) is a construction worker with a big problem: his shrew of a wife May (Claire Ginsberg) has started to only cook gourmet foods in a Hyacinth Bucket-style misguided effort to make themselves seem classier than they are. While his friends Roosevelt (Loren Schein) and Phillip (Al Troupe) dine on simple bologna-and-cheese sandwiches for lunch, Donald is saddled with crab sandwiches and other cooking atrocities. To his horror, he discovers his wife has bought an unusually large Major Electric microwave oven, which makes the meals worse in half the time.
Malibu High (1979)
, 1h32Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Crime
Actors John Harmon
Roles Mr. Elmhurst
Rating50%
High school student Kim Bentley (Jill Lansing) is having a tough time of things at the moment, she has been dumped by her boyfriend Kevin (Stuart Taylor) for rich girl Annette (Tammy Taylor), her grades are slipping and she has no money, and all her mother (Phyllis Benson) seems to care about is cleaning. Kim tells her best friend Lucy (Katie Johnson) that the nonsense ends today. Kim's been feeling sorry for herself ever since her father hanged himself. She begins working for Tony the pimp (Alex Mann) and things start to look good for her, new clothes, new car and good grades. Annette begins to hate Kim even more and Kevin becomes jealous. Kim then meets Lance (Garth Howard) who frees her from turning tricks in a beat up old van which leads her to better clothes and nicer cars. Prostitution isn't the worst of it as Kim is forced to kill a man in self-defense when he tries to have his way with her being tied up. Kim becomes a hit woman and after murdering several people, she herself is killed on a deserted beach.
The Unholy Rollers (1972)
, 1h28Directed by Vernon Zimmerman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action
Themes Sports films
Actors Claudia Jennings, Louis Quinn, Roberta Collins, John Steadman, Joe E. Tata, John Harmon
Roles Doctor
Rating54%
Karen wants more action out of life and quits her job at the cannery to become a skater in the roller derby. She encounters friction from the other skaters - especially Mickey, the current number one star of the team. Karen proves herself a feisty competitor but refuses to be a team player. As she skates her way to roller stardom, she incurs the wrath of jealous team members and the owner of the team.
The Honkers (1972)
, 1h42Directed by Steve Ihnat
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action, Western
Actors James Coburn, Lois Nettleton, Slim Pickens, Anne Archer, Richard Anderson, Jim Davis
Roles Sam Martin
Rating60%
This script must be run from the command line
The Barefoot Executive (1971)
, 1h36Directed by Robert Butler
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about animals, Films about television, Films about apes, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Joe Flynn, Wally Cox, Johnny Flynn, Heather North, John Ritter, Harry Morgan
Rating58%
A satire of network television, the movie follows the adventures of an ambitious mailroom clerk, Steven Post (Russell) at the fictional UBC Network who discovers his girlfriend Jennifer Scott's (Heather North) pet chimpanzee has the supernatural ability to predict which television programs will receive the highest ratings, in which he blows a raspberry to shows that will bomb, or claps his hands in applause to shows that will be hits.
Funny Girl (1968)
, 2h31Directed by William Wyler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Théâtre, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, Kay Medford, Anne Francis, Walter Pidgeon, Mae Questel
Roles Company Manager
Rating73%
Set in and around New York City just prior to and following World War I, the story opens with Ziegfeld Follies star Fanny Brice (Barbra Streisand) awaiting the return of husband Nicky Arnstein (Omar Sharif) from prison, and then moves into an extended flashback focusing on their meeting and marriage.
Las Vegas Hillbillys (1966)
, 1h30Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Jayne Mansfield, Mamie Van Doren, Billie Bird, Robert V. Barron, Louis Quinn, Richard Kiel
Rating42%
Texas Across the River (1966)
, 1h41Directed by Michael Gordon
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Western
Actors Dean Martin, Joey Bishop, Alain Delon, Rosemary Forsyth, Peter Graves, Michael Ansara
Roles Gabe
Rating61%
Phoebe Ann Naylor (Rosemary Forsyth) is about to be wed to Don Andrea Baldazar, El Duce de la Casala (Alain Delon) in 1845 Louisiana. The festivities are broken up with the arrival of Yancey Cottle (Stuart Anderson) and his relatives, who form a U.S. Dragoons troop under the command of Cottle's cousin, Captain Rodney Stimpson (Peter Graves).
Sylvia (1965)
, 1h55Directed by Gordon Douglas
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Romance
Actors Carroll Baker, George Maharis, Peter Lawford, Joanne Dru, Viveca Lindfors, Edmond O'Brien
Roles Sid (uncredited)
Rating65%
Sylvia West seems just about perfect in the eyes of California millionaire Frederic Summers, who proposes marriage to her. She is beautiful, brilliant, financially independent, writes poetry and seems to personify exactly what he wants in a woman.
One Man's Way (1964)
, 1h45Directed by Denis Sanders
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Don Murray, Diana Hyland, William Windom, Virginia Christine, Carol Ohmart, Veronica Cartwright
Roles Elder Sam Marcus
Rating66%
This script must be run from the command line
Move Over, Darling (1963)
, 1h43Directed by Michael Gordon
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about marriage
Actors Doris Day, James Garner, Polly Bergen, Thelma Ritter, Don Knotts, Chuck Connors
Roles Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Rating68%
Ellen Wagstaff Arden (Doris Day), a mother of two young girls named Jenny and Didi, was believed to be lost at sea following an airplane accident. Her husband, Nick Arden (James Garner), was one of the survivors.
, 1h11Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Actors Les Tremayne, John Harmon, Jeanne Carmen
Roles Sturges, the Lighthouse Keeper
Rating53%
The setting is the sleepy lighthouse town of Piedras Blancas. Sturges (Harmon) is the lighthouse keeper of the town and is very superstitious and concerned for the safety of his teenage daughter, Lucy (Carmen). He leaves food for a sea monster who lives in a nearby cave. The locals disregard him at first, but they begin to take notice when the bodies of people murdered by the monster are found on the beach. A local scientist identifies a scale as being from a "diplovertebron," a prehistoric amphibious reptile presumed long extinct.
Live Fast, Die Young (1958)
Directed by Paul Henreid
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Mary Murphy, Mike Connors, Norma Eberhardt, Peggy Maley, Troy Donahue, Joan Marshall
Roles Jake
Rating64%
Two sisters, Kim Winters (Murphy) and Jill Winters (Eberhardt) run away from their home and school. They escape to the city, where they become criminals and jewelry thieves.
Looking for Danger (1957)
, 1h2Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Huntz Hall, Stanley Clements, David Gorcey, Lili Kardell, Dick Elliott, Richard Avonde
Roles Lester Bradfield
Rating54%
Duke recounts the days of when he and the rest of the Bowery Boys served in World War II. During the war, the boys' sergeant, who gets fed up with Duke and Sach, gladly gives them the duties of a suicide mission. The duo go under cover as German soldiers to deliver a message to a sultan.