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Johnny Downs is a Actor American born on 10 october 1913 at Brooklyn (USA)
Johnny Downs (October 10, 1913 – June 6, 1994) was an American actor. Son of a naval aviator, he was taken to Hollywood in 1921 when his father was transferred to the San Diego naval base. He began his career as a child actor, most notably playing Johnny in the Our Gang short series from 1923 to 1926. He remained active in films, television, and theatre up through the early 1960s.
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Birth name John Morey Downs
Nationality USA
Birth 10 october 1913 at Brooklyn (USA)
Death 6 june 1994 (at 80 years) at Coronado (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 10 october 1913 at Brooklyn (USA)
Death 6 june 1994 (at 80 years) at Coronado (USA)
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Cruisin' Down the River (1953)
, 1h19Directed by Richard Quiney
Origin USA
Genres Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Dick Haymes, Audrey Totter, Cecil Kellaway, Connie Russell, Douglas Fowley, Larry J. Blake
Roles Young Jack
Rating65%
Column South (1953)
, 1h22Directed by Frederick de Cordova
Origin USA
Genres Western
Themes Political films
Actors Audie Murphy, Ray Collins, Joan Evans, Robert Sterling, Dennis Weaver, James Best
Roles Posick
Rating62%
Immediately prior to the American Civil War, a Union officer (Audie Murphy), tries to prove local Navajo Indians are innocent of killing a prospector. He has to fight the anti-Indian attitudes of his superior officer (Robert Sterling) and North-South tensions within the soldiers. He discovers Confederate sympathizers are planning to cause the Indians to go on the warpath for their own benefit.
Musical Varieties (1948)
, 10minutesGenres Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Rosemary Lane, Johnny Downs
Farm workers harvest the crop whilst singing. At night they meet at the barn dance for more singing and dancing. Later, a man and a woman declare their love for each other, that "you could have knocked me over with a feather". The pair's song number is imitated by a male trio, one impersonating the woman.
The Kid from Brooklyn (1946)
, 1h53Directed by Norman Z. McLeod
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Boxing films, Le boxe anglaise
Actors Danny Kaye, Vera-Ellen, Steve Cochran, Eve Arden, Virginia Mayo, Lionel Stander
Roles Master of Ceremonies
Rating64%
Well-meaning and mild-mannered milkman Burleigh Sullivan (Kaye) meets Polly Pringle (Mayo), a beautiful, but out-of-work, singer, whilst on his rounds early in the morning. He tries to get her a job at the club where his sister Susie (Vera-Ellen) is performing, but gets the sack for his trouble. Whilst meeting Susie after the show, he sees her being molested by drunken boxer 'Speed' McFarlane and his bodyguard 'Spider'. In the fracas, Speed is knocked out and his manager, Gabby Sloan, is furious.
Rhapsody in Blue (1945)
, 2h15Directed by Irving Rapper
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians, Jazz films, Musical films
Actors Robert Alda, Joan Leslie, Alexis Smith, Hazel Scott, Julie Bishop, Charles Coburn
Roles Dancer
Rating69%
La relation tumultueuse du compositeur George Gershwin avec la chanteuse Julie Adams.
Trocadero (1944)
, 1h14Directed by William Nigh
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Rosemary Lane, Johnny Downs, Ralph Morgan, Dick Purcell, Sheldon Leonard, Dave Fleischer
Roles Johnny Edwards
Rating56%
The film is a fictional story of the creation of the Trocadero night club with the two foster children of Tony Rocadero erecting the club in their late father's memory. The film is an excuse to feature a variety of performers doing their act in the club, including an animated character from Dave Fleischer.
Directed by Ray Taylor, Lewis D. Collins
Origin USA
Genres War, Adventure
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Political films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Johnny Downs, Bobby Jordan, Ward Wood, William Benedict, Eduardo Ciannelli, Regis Toomey
Roles Danny Collins
Rating60%
Flying students Danny Collins (Johnny Downs), "Jinx" Roberts (Bobby Jordan), "Scrapper" McKay (Ward Wood) and "Zombie" Parker (William Benedict) are suspected of a series of murders perpetrated by engineer, Arthur Galt (Robert Armstrong) operating as a Nazi agent known as the Black Hangman. He has disposed of several people who accompanied him on an expedition which located lost helium deposits in Africa.
The Mad Monster (1942)
, 1h17Directed by Sam Newfield
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Horror, Romance
Themes Films about animals, Films about music and musicians, Wolves in film, Werewolves in film, Musical films
Actors Johnny Downs, George Zucco, Anne Nagel, Reginald Barlow, Glenn Strange, Gordon De Main
Roles Tom Gregory
Rating35%
The plot involves a scientist who has been discredited by his peers. He attempts to kill them off after he develops a secret formula that transforms his gardener into a murderous wolfman.
Freckles Comes Home (1942)
Directed by Jean Yarbrough
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Johnny Downs, Gale Storm, Mantan Moreland, Irving Bacon, Bradley Page, Marvin Stephens
Roles Freckles Winslow
Rating49%
Freckles Winslow (Johnny Downs) is on his way home from college. On the bus he encounters a crook, "Muggsy" Dolan who calls himself Jack Leach (Walter Sande). Jack is on the run from the law, and is looking for a safe place to hide. The two men come to talking and Freckles mentions his serene home town to Jack, having only good things to say about it. Jack decides to tag along and take his refuge in Freckles home town. With Freckles help he gets to stay at the local hotel, owned by Danny Doyle (Marvin Stephens), who is Freckles’ friend. Danny is about to rerun the road through town, so that it runs over a number of worthless lots of land he has bought. Danny bought the real estate because he thought he could find gold on them, using a new expensive device he has bought. Danny needs Freckles to help him get a favorable decision by Freckles’ father (Irving Mitchell), who is one of the two road commissioners.
Adam Had Four Sons (1941)
, 1h21Directed by Gregory Ratoff
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about families
Actors Ingrid Bergman, Warner Baxter, Susan Hayward, Fay Wray, Richard Denning, Johnny Downs
Roles David Stoddard
Rating65%
Adam Stoddard (Warner Baxter) is a wealthy, easy-going family patriarch who falls on hard times after the death of his wife, Molly and a stock market crash in 1907, that wipes out his wealth. Recently arrived governess Emilie (Ingrid Bergman) works to keep the family together. But with the loss of Adam's fortune the boys are sent off to boarding school, their schooling paid for by wealthy, aged Cousin Phillipa. Emilie must return to France until Adam can afford to repurchase the family estate and recall her to look after it. Reversing his fortunes takes Adam several years. By then, the three older boys are fighting in World War I. Then, just as the family is getting back to its former way of life.
Moonlight in Hawaii (1941)
, 1hDirected by Charles Lamont
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Adventure, Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Jane Frazee, Johnny Downs, Leon Errol, Mischa Auer, Marjorie Gateson, Charles Coleman
Roles Pete Fleming
Rating57%
Sing Another Chorus (1941)
Directed by Charles Lamont
Origin USA
Genres Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Jane Frazee, Johnny Downs, Mischa Auer, George Barbier, Iris Adrian
Roles Andy Peyton
Rating59%
All-American Co-Ed (1941)
, 53minutesOrigin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Frances Langford, Johnny Downs, Noah Beery, Jr, Esther Dale, Harry Langdon, Alan Hale Jr.
Roles Bob Sheppard / Bobbie DeWolfe
Rating49%
Mar Brynn college is failing, as a scheme to perk-up attendance a newspaper reporter stages a show featuring "Odd girls" from all over the country. For publicity Mar Brynn's President Aunt Matilda Collinge (Esther Dale) begins poking fun of the Quincton college Zeta frat. For revenge the Quincton Zeta frat sends a man dressed in drag to participate in a free admission contest. After falling in love with Virginia Collinge (Frances Langford) Bob Sheppard/Bobbie DeWolfe (Johnny Downs) comes clean and for revenge stages a "Zeta" publicity shot at the end of the show.
Honeymoon for Three (1941)
, 1h15Directed by Lloyd Bacon
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Ann Sheridan, George Brent, Charles Ruggles, Jane Wyman, Osa Massen, Lee Patrick
Roles Chester T Farrington III
Rating60%
Le romancier Kenneth Bixby (George Brent), a une relation amoureuse avec sa secrétaire Anne Rogers (Ann Sheridan). Il accepte néanmoins un tête-à-tête avec Julie Wilson (Osa Massen), une ancienne relation, mariée avec Harvey Wilson (Charles Ruggles) et persuadée d'être la source d'inspiration de ses romans.
Melody and Moonlight (1940)
Directed by Joseph Santley
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Jane Frazee, Johnny Downs, Jonathan Hale, Barbara Jo Allen, Mary Lee, Frank Jenks
Roles Danny O'Brian
Rating62%