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John Agar

John Agar

Actor · 1921 – 2002 · Chicago, Illinois, USA

John G. Agar (January 31, 1921 – April 7, 2002) was an American actor. He starred alongside John Wayne in the films Sands of Iwo Jima and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, but was later relegated to B movies, such as Tarantula, The Mole People, The Brain from Planet Arous, Flesh and the Spur, and Hand of Death. He also starred with Lucille Ball in the 1951 movie The Magic Carpet. Agar was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Lillian (née Rogers) and John Agar, Sr., a meat packer (see Agar Hams). He was educated at the Harvard School for Boys in Chicago and Lake Forest Academy in Lake Forest, Illinois and graduated from Trinity-Pawling Preparatory School in Pawling, New York, but did not attend college. He and his family moved from Chicago to Los Angeles in 1942, following his father’s death. During World War II he served in the Army Air Corps, and he was a sergeant at the time he left the army in 1946. He was Shirley Temple's first husband (1945–1950), and they worked together in Fort Apache. His marriage to Temple lasted five years and they had one daughter together, Linda Susan Agar, who was later known as Susan Black, taking the surname of her stepfather Charles Alden Black. Following his divorce from Temple, Agar was married in 1951 to model Loretta Barnett Combs (1922–2000). They remained married until her death in 2000. They had two sons, Martin Agar and John G. Agar III. Agar died on April 7, 2002 at Burbank, California of complications from emphysema. He was buried beside his wife at Riverside National Cemetery in Riverside, California. Agar made six movies with John Wayne: Fort Apache, Sands of Iwo Jima, Big Jake, Chisum, The Undefeated and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon. He also made two movies with Shirley Temple, Fort Apache and Adventure in Baltimore, also starring Robert Young. He is mentioned in the Frank Zappa song "The Radio is Broken" from the album The Man From Utopia (1983). Description above from the Wikipedia article John Agar, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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  • Movie6.3

    King Kong

    1976 · 957 votes

  • Movie6.4

    Nightbreed

    1990 · 564 votes

  • Movie6.6

    Chisum

    1970 · 212 votes

  • Movie6.9

    She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

    1949 · 421 votes

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    Fort Apache

    1948 · 428 votes

  • Movie6.3

    The Undefeated

    1969 · 134 votes

  • Movie6.4

    Sands of Iwo Jima

    1950 · 181 votes

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    Miracle Mile

    1989 · 334 votes

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    Big Jake

    1971 · 255 votes

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    The Movie Orgy

    1968 · 19 votes

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    Body Bags

    1993 · 403 votes

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    Star in the Dust

    1956 · 23 votes

  • Movie5.6

    Revenge of the Creature

    1955 · 172 votes

  • Movie7.4

    Along the Great Divide

    1951 · 49 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Law of the Lawless

    1964 · 10 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Tarantula

    1955 · 314 votes

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  • Movie5.1
  • Movie3.9
  • Movie5.6

    Young Fury

    1964 · 13 votes

  • Movie6.7

    Waco

    1966 · 8 votes

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  • TV7.7

    Perry Mason

    1957 · 140 votes

  • TV3.8

    Climax!

    1954 · 12 votes

  • TV6.7

    Charlie's Angels

    1976 · 241 votes

  • TV6.5

    The Virginian

    1962 · 35 votes

  • TV7.7

    The Twilight Zone

    1985 · 266 votes

  • TV7.3

    Rawhide

    1959 · 50 votes

  • TV7.4

    Highway to Heaven

    1984 · 208 votes

  • TV7.0

    The Name of the Game

    1968 · 13 votes

  • TV6.4

    Bat Masterson

    1958 · 16 votes

  • TV7.0

    Police Story

    1973 · 20 votes

  • TV6.7

    Family Affair

    1966 · 43 votes

  • TV6.8

    Branded

    1965 · 18 votes

  • TV6.6

    Letter to Loretta

    1953 · 7 votes

  • TV6.9

    Hondo

    1967 · 7 votes

  • TV8.0

    The Delphi Bureau

    Delphi Bureau

    1972 · 1 votes

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