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John Larch

John Larch

Actor · 1914 – 2005 · Salem, Massachusetts, USA

John Larch (October 4, 1914 - October 16, 2005) was an American film and television actor. After his lead role in the radio serial Captain Starr of Space (1953–54), John Larch entered films in 1954. He usually appeared in westerns (How The West Was Won) and action films, including Miracle of the White Stallions as General George S. Patton Jr. (1963), Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur as General Omar Bradley (1976), replacing James Gregory as Mac in the Matt Helm movie The Wrecking Crew (1969) starring Dean Martin, Sharon Tate and Elke Sommer. Larch, an old friend of Clint Eastwood, appeared in Eastwood films, including Dirty Harry (1971) and Play Misty for Me (1971). He also appeared on a number of television programs, including Naked City (three episodes), Route 66 (three episodes), The Fugitive (two episodes), The Invaders, The Restless Gun (four episodes), Gunsmoke (seven episodes), The Virginian (four episodes), Bonanza, Hawaii Five-0, Mission Impossible (two episodes), The Troubleshooters, Bus Stop, Laramie, The Law and Mr. Jones, and possibly most famously as Bill Mumy's father in The Twilight Zone episode "It's a Good Life" in 1961. He also appeared in two other The Twilight Zone episodes, playing a psychiatrist in "Perchance to Dream" and the sheriff in "Dust". Description above from the Wikipedia article John Larch, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Series24

  • TV8.0
  • TV7.5

    Bonanza

    1959 · 500 votes

  • TV6.8

    Ironside

    1967 · 71 votes

  • TV5.7

    Dr. Kildare

    1961 · 19 votes

  • TV6.9

    Dallas

    1978 · 248 votes

  • TV7.1

    The Rifleman

    1958 · 54 votes

  • TV7.5

    Quincy, M.E.

    1976 · 123 votes

  • TV7.3

    The Fugitive

    1963 · 63 votes

  • TV7.6

    Mission: Impossible

    1966 · 320 votes

  • TV7.3
  • TV6.5

    Dynasty

    1981 · 135 votes

  • TV6.6

    Wagon Train

    1957 · 31 votes

  • TV7.2

    Hawaii Five-O

    1969 · 164 votes

  • TV7.0

    Daniel Boone

    1964 · 34 votes

  • TV7.3

    Have Gun, Will Travel

    1957 · 44 votes

  • TV8.5

    The Twilight Zone

    1959 · 1.1K votes

  • TV7.8

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    1955 · 265 votes

  • TV6.5

    Dragnet

    1951 · 36 votes

  • TV6.7

    Cannon

    1971 · 41 votes

  • TV6.8

    Four Star Playhouse

    1952 · 11 votes

  • TV6.5

    The Virginian

    1962 · 35 votes

  • TV6.7

    Charlie's Angels

    1976 · 241 votes

  • TV5.6

    The F.B.I.

    1965 · 25 votes

  • TV3.8

    Climax!

    1954 · 12 votes

Movies23

  • Movie7.5

    Dirty Harry

    1971 · 2.8K votes

  • Movie6.1

    Airplane II: The Sequel

    1982 · 1.3K votes

  • Movie6.3

    The Amityville Horror

    1979 · 1.1K votes

  • Movie7.0

    How the West Was Won

    1962 · 513 votes

  • Movie6.6

    Play Misty for Me

    1971 · 586 votes

  • Movie6.8

    7 Men from Now

    1956 · 129 votes

  • Movie7.0

    Written on the Wind

    1956 · 278 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Man from Del Rio

    1956 · 26 votes

  • Movie6.0

    Gun for a Coward

    1956 · 15 votes

  • Movie6.7

    The Killer Is Loose

    1956 · 62 votes

  • Movie5.9

    5 Against the House

    1955 · 43 votes

  • Movie5.7

    The Wrecking Crew

    1968 · 74 votes

  • Movie5.8
  • Movie6.4

    Bad Ronald

    1974 · 61 votes

  • Movie5.8

    A Fire in the Sky

    1978 · 15 votes

  • Movie6.0

    From Hell to Texas

    1958 · 33 votes

  • Movie6.4

    The Saga of Hemp Brown

    1958 · 9 votes

  • Movie6.6

    The Great Bank Robbery

    1969 · 12 votes

  • Movie5.6

    Cannon for Cordoba

    1970 · 23 votes

  • Movie5.8

    Quantez

    1957 · 11 votes

  • Movie6.7

    Man in the Shadow

    1957 · 54 votes

  • Movie6.5

    The Phenix City Story

    1955 · 66 votes

  • Movie6.2

    The Naked Street

    1955 · 23 votes