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John Larch

John Larch

Birthday: 1914-10-04 | Place of Birth: Salem, Massachusetts, USA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1979
The Amityville Horror

as    Farther Nuncio

1975
Framed

as    Bundy

1975
The Desperate Miles

as    Dr. Bryson

1974
Winter Kill

as    Dr. Bill Hammond

1974
Bad Ronald

as    Sgt. Lynch

1973
Santee

as    Banner

1971
Dirty Harry

as    Chief

1971
Play Misty for Me

as    Sgt. McCallum

1970
Move

as    Mounted Patrolman

1970
Cannon for Cordoba

as    Warner

1968
The Wrecking Crew

as    MacDonald

1965
Convoy

as    Ben Foster

1963
Miracle of the White Stallions

as    General George S. Patton, Jr.

1960
Hell to Eternity

as    Capt. Schwabe

1958
From Hell to Texas

as    Hal Carmody

1958
The Saga of Hemp Brown

as    Jed Givens

1957
Man in the Shadow

as    Ed Yates

1957
Quantez

as    Heller

1957
The Careless Years

as    Sam Vernon

1956
Man from Del Rio

as    Bill Dawson

1956
The Killer is Loose

as    Otto Flanders

1956
7 Men from Now

as    Payte Bodeen

1956
Written on the Wind

as    Roy Carter

1956
Behind the High Wall

as    William Kiley

1955
The Phenix City Story

as    Clem Wilson