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John Beal

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John Beal (born James Alexander Bliedung, August 13, 1909 – April 26, 1997) was an American actor.

14-08-1909

Birthday

Leo

Zodiac Sign

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Genres

53

Total Films

Also known as (male)

Joplin, Missouri, USA

Place of Birth

Popular works

Creative career

actor

53 Works

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director

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The Firm

The Firm

Mitch McDeere is a young man with a promising future in Law. About to sit his Bar exam, he is approached by 'The Firm' and made an offer he doesn't refuse. Seduced by the money and gifts showered on him, he is totally oblivious to the more sinister side of his company. Then, two Associates are murdered. The FBI contact him, asking him for information and suddenly his life is ruined. He has a choice - work with the FBI, or stay with the Firm. Either way he will lose his life as he knows it. Mitch figures the only way out is to follow his own plan...
6.7

Year:

1993

The Kid Who Loved Christmas

The Kid Who Loved Christmas

In this sentimental holiday tale, a young boy is taken away from his loving, adoptive household when his new mom is killed in an auto accident and his traveling musician dad is deemed unfit to care for him, being on the road too much. Now, the only thing that can help is if a cold, bureaucratic adoption agency caseworker sees the error of her ways and allows them to be together.
6.6

Year:

1990

A Place at the Table

A Place at the Table

A young student is determined to motivate her community after a friend of hers is found to be suffering from hunger.
0.0

Year:

1988

Amityville 3-D

Amityville 3-D

To debunk the Amityville house's infamous reputation and take advantage of a rock-bottom asking price, skeptical journalist John Baxter buys the place and settles in to write his first novel.
4.5

Year:

1983

Jennifer: A Woman’s Story

Jennifer: A Woman’s Story

The widow of a wealthy shipbuilder tries to hold onto his business and becomes involved with boardroom intrigue in her bitter struggle to maintain control of the company. Based on British TV series "The Foundation." Pilot to a prospective series.
0.0

Year:

1979

Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years

Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years

The story of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt during their 12-year stay at the White House.
5.1

Year:

1977

The Legend of Lizzie Borden

The Legend of Lizzie Borden

A dramatization of the famous 1893 Massachusetts trial of the woman accused of murdering her father and stepmother with an ax.
6.7

Year:

1975

The House That Cried Murder

The House That Cried Murder

Neurotic and newlywed Barbara finds her husband in bed with his old flame, Ellen. Barbara doesn't get mad — she gets even. Using funds supplied by her wealthy father, the scorned bride turns the couple's love nest into a dungeon of horror.
5.7

Year:

1973

Ten Who Dared

Ten Who Dared

The John Wesley Powell expedition of 1869 explores the dangerous Colorado River, withstands internal dissension, and finally discovers the Grand Canyon.
5.9

Year:

1960

Rapids Ahead/Bear Country

Rapids Ahead/Bear Country

The first half is a salute to John Wesley Powell, the first man to explore the Colorado River. Walt Disney presents a behind-the-scenes look at the filming of Ten Who Dared on the same waters. Then the True-Life Adventure Featurette: Bear Country is shown.
0.0

Year:

1960

The Sound and the Fury

The Sound and the Fury

Drama focusing on a family of Southern aristocrats who are trying to deal with the dissolution of their clan and the loss of its reputation, faith, fortunes and respect.
6.6

Year:

1959

That Night!

That Night!

When a driven business man suffers a series of heart attacks, he and his family must reassess their values.
10.0

Year:

1957

The Vampire

The Vampire

A small town doctor mistakenly ingests an experimental drug made from the blood of vampire bats which transforms the kindly medic into a bloodthirsty monster.
6.3

Year:

1957

Twelve Angry Men

Twelve Angry Men

Twelve Angry Men is a 1954 teleplay by Reginald Rose for the Studio One anthology television series. Initially staged as a CBS live production on 20 September 1954, the drama was later rewritten for the stage in 1955 under the same title and again for a feature film, 12 Angry Men (1957). The episode garnered three Emmy Awards for writer Rose, director Franklin Schaffner and Robert Cummings as Best Actor.
8.1

Year:

1954

Remains to Be Seen

Remains to Be Seen

A singer and her apartment manager get mixed up in a creepy Park Avenue murder and find themselves facing danger at every turn.
5.7

Year:

1953

The Trip to Bountiful

The Trip to Bountiful

A woman has to live with a daughter in law who hates her and a son who does not dare take her side. While the unhappy family lives in a Houston apartment, Carrie Watts dreams of returning to Bountiful, where she was raised.
0.0

Year:

1953

My Six Convicts

My Six Convicts

A psychologist takes on the daunting task of getting into the mind of prisoners. He must gain the trust and cooperation from a group of men who have no reason to help him and who might enjoy killing him.
6.3

Year:

1952

Chicago Deadline

Chicago Deadline

On Chicago's South Side reporter Ed Ames finds the body of a dead girl. Her address book leads to a host of names of men frightened by her death but claiming never to have known her. Ames comes to know quite a lot, dangerously so.
6.0

Year:

1949

Song of Surrender

Song of Surrender

In 1906 in Connecticut, Elisha Hunt, the 55-year-old curator of a small government museum, marries Abigail, the 19-year-old daughter of a local farmer. In addition to the differences in their ages in this May-to-December union, Elizha is a man of culture while Abigail is uneducated. Bruce Edridge, young, handsome and wealthy, comes into her life, and they fall in love. Abigail is now faced with two choices; the chance of wealth versus her present mediocre circumstances, or her love for Bruce versus her loyalty to Elisha.
0.0

Year:

1949

Alimony

Alimony

A promising young composer is tempted away from his devoted wife by a fortune-seeking woman who cares more for his prospects than for him.
5.8

Year:

1949

So Dear to My Heart

So Dear to My Heart

The tale of Jeremiah Kincaid and his quest to raise his 'champion' lamb, Danny. Jeremiah's dream of showing Danny at the Pike County Fair must overcome the obstinate objections of his loving, yet strict, grandmother Granny. Jeremiah's confidant, Uncle Hiram, is the boy's steady ally.
6.5

Year:

1948

Messenger of Peace

Messenger of Peace

Poignant true story of Pastor Armin Ritter, who is sent to build a church in a backwoods community and rebuilds the faith of the residents. He ministers to the town folk, including an alcoholic carpenter.
0.0

Year:

1947

Key Witness

Key Witness

A man takes over the identity of a dead man while on the lam from a crime he didn't commit.
4.6

Year:

1947

Land and Live in the Desert

Land and Live in the Desert

Documentary short film depicting the correct methods of surviving the crash landing of a military aircraft in the desert. Methods of conserving water, providing shelter, and signaling for help are depicted.
0.0

Year:

1945

Know Your Enemy: Japan

Know Your Enemy: Japan

Frank Capra-directed propaganda film produced during World War II depicting the United States' new enemy: Japan.
5.8

Year:

1945

Edge of Darkness

Edge of Darkness

The film pivots around the local Norwegian doctor and his family. The doctor's wife (Ruth Gordon) wants to hold on to the pretence of gracious living and ignore their German occupiers. The doctor, Martin Stensgard (Walter Huston), would also prefer to stay neutral, but is torn. His brother-in-law, the wealthy owner of the local fish cannery, collaborates with the Nazis. The doctor's daughter, Karen (Ann Sheridan), is involved with the resistance and with its leader Gunnar Brogge (Errol Flynn). The doctor's son has just returned to town, having been sent down from the university, and is soon influenced by his Nazi-sympathizer uncle. Captain Koenig (Helmut Dantine), the young German commandant of the occupying garrison, whose fanatic determination to do everything by the book and spoutings about the invincibility of the Reich hides a growing fear of a local uprising.
6.1

Year:

1943

Let's Have Fun

Let's Have Fun

When a musical star discovers her leading man is married, she quits the show and takes its financial backer with her.
0.0

Year:

1943

Photographic Intelligence for Bombardment Aviation

Photographic Intelligence for Bombardment Aviation

When naval Lieutenant Phil Bowen encounters his friend, Air Forces Captain Grover, he inquires as to what Grover's aerial reconnaissance team is doing to protect ships from attack by submarine. Grover introduces him to Captain Smith, an expert at photographic intelligence. The two men explain to Bowen just how aerial photographic reconnaissance works and how their work in the air and on the ground is helping win the war even at sea.
3.0

Year:

1943

Eyes Aloft

Eyes Aloft

In this documentary short film, a woman volunteer for the civilian aviation observer corps in World War II explains how the U.S. military depends on civilians watching the skies to warn of possible attacking or spying enemy aircraft. An army major explains to a group of civic leaders how volunteers are to be recruited and organized. Then the volunteers man posts day and night, always watching for unidentified aircraft that might be enemy forces.
0.0

Year:

1943

Stand By All Networks

Stand By All Networks

An intrepid radio reporter sets out to track down and expose Nazi agents.
4.8

Year:

1942

Atlantic Convoy

Atlantic Convoy

American naval forces are using a port in Iceland as a base for anti-submarine patrols to protect North Atlantic convoys from Nazi subs. The Nazis send undercover agents into the port in a scheme to blow up the entrance to the harbor and keep the patrols blocked in. The officers in charge of the patrols have to find the spies and stop them before they achieve their objective.
5.3

Year:

1942

One Thrilling Night

One Thrilling Night

A honeymoon couple in New York for one night of wedded bliss before he's to join the army, become involved with gangsters after they find a cadaver under their bed.
5.2

Year:

1942

Doctors Don't Tell

Doctors Don't Tell

Dr. Ralph Snyder and Dr. Frank Blake open an office together but soon split over a rivalry for nightclub singer Diana Wayne and a difference over ethics.
4.9

Year:

1941

Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime

Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime

Several days after one of his company's dams burst, ruining the life savings of several investors, a shady power company president is found stabbed to death. Ellery Queen gets to the bottom of the mystery.
5.8

Year:

1941

The Cat and the Canary

The Cat and the Canary

Ten years after the death of millionaire Cyrus Norman, his will is to be read out to his six relatives, including Joyce Norman and Wally Campbell. Organized by Norman's lawyer, Crosby, the six meet at Norman's eerie New Orleans Gothic mansion. During the reading, the superstitious housekeeper declares that someone will be dead by midnight. Wally fears for Joyce when she is declared the sole inheritor, but all are alarmed when Crosby turns up dead.
7.0

Year:

1939

The Great Commandment

The Great Commandment

Portrays the conversion to Christianity of a young Zealot, Joel, and the Roman soldier Longinus through the teachings of Jesus in his Parable of the Good Samaritan.
4.2

Year:

1939

The Arkansas Traveler

The Arkansas Traveler

The Arkansas Traveler, an itinerant printer, returns to a small town to help save The Daily Record, a newspaper started by Mr. Allen, an old friend who is now deceased.
6.0

Year:

1938

I Am the Law

I Am the Law

With the aid of his former law students, a professor-turned-prosecutor battles corruption and organized crime.
6.6

Year:

1938

Port of Seven Seas

Port of Seven Seas

In the French port of Marseille, a young woman named Madelon is in love with a young sailor, Marius. Discovering she is pregnant after Marius sets out to sea for several years, she marries another man to prevent the child being born out of wedlock.
0.0

Year:

1938

Beg, Borrow or Steal

Beg, Borrow or Steal

We find con-man Ingraham Steward living by his wits by steering wealthy Paris visitors to sellers of fake paintings and other assorted dodges. He and his wife, Agatha, have been separated for 15 years, but he promises to give their daughter, Joyce, a lavish wedding at his "château" in France. The fact that he doesn't have a château in France is just a minor trifle. He induces the caretaker, Bill Cherau, of a large country estate to allow it to be used for the wedding. The wedding party arrives and Bill falls madly in love with Joyce and she with him, but a gal has gotta do what a gal has gotta do, and her intended marriage to stuffed-shirt Horace Miller stays on the books. But Steward has a change of heart and he tells one and all that he and his friends, Von Gersdorff, Lefevre, Iznamof, Clifton Summitt and Sasch, are all frauds and crooks. Horace and his family stalk out, which is just fine with Joyce as her true love, the caretaker, is waiting on the grounds.
4.5

Year:

1937

Danger Patrol

Danger Patrol

An explosives carrier at an oil field falls in love with a colleague's daughter.
5.3

Year:

1937

Double Wedding

Double Wedding

A bohemian free spirit helps meek Waldo win back his fiancée and falls in love with her over-controlling sister in the process.
6.5

Year:

1937

Madame X

Madame X

An alcoholic woman was charged and tried for murder and a young defense attorney, unaware that she is his mother, takes the assignment to defend her in court.
6.2

Year:

1937

Border Cafe

Border Cafe

The spoiled, hard-partying son of a senator runs away from home after being reprimanded by his father, finds himself down-on-his luck in a tiny western town, and is rehabilitated through the friendship and wisdom of a kind and patient rancher.
6.3

Year:

1937

The Man Who Found Himself

The Man Who Found Himself

Young Jim Stanton is a conscientious surgeon, but spends too many off-duty hours pursuing his passion for aviation to suit his stuffy father. When it is discovered that a passenger killed in a plane that Jim crashes was a married woman, the resulting scandal prompts the hospital to put Jim on probation. His pride wounded, Jim takes to the open road and enjoys the simpler life of a vagabond. In Los Angeles--where he is arrested for vagrancy and put to work on a road crew--Jim runs into old pal Dick Miller, who gets him a job as a mechanic for Roberts Aviation. But maintaining his anonymity becomes more difficult, particularly when a pretty nurse, Doris King, decides to make Jim's redemption her personal crusade.
7.0

Year:

1937

We Who Are About to Die

We Who Are About to Die

John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sentenced to death for murders they committed. A suspicious detective thinks he is innocent and works to save his life.
6.8

Year:

1937

M'Liss

M'Liss

The third film version of the Bret Harte tale, starring Anne Shirley as a miner's daughter in a small town who falls for a handsome young schoolteacher.
5.0

Year:

1936

Break of Hearts

Break of Hearts

Constance, a poor but aspiring composer, meets the great conductor, Franz, through their old music teacher. They fall in love, despite Constance knowing about Franz's weakness for pretty women.
5.5

Year:

1935

Les Misérables

Les Misérables

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
7.2

Year:

1935

Laddie

Laddie

A romance between two young lovers is complicated by their prohibitive parents. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.
0.0

Year:

1935

The Little Minister

The Little Minister

The stoic, proper Rev. Gavin Dishart, newly assigned to a church in the small Scottish village of Thrums, finds himself unexpectedly falling for one of his parishioners, the hot-blooded Gypsy girl Babbie. A village-wide scandal soon erupts over the minister's relationship with this feisty, passionate young woman, who holds a secret about the village's nobleman, Lord Milford Rintoul, and his role in an increasingly fractious labor dispute.
5.9

Year:

1934

Hat, Coat and Glove

Hat, Coat and Glove

A prominent New York attorney defends his estranged wife's lover, who's been charged with the murder of a model in Greenwich Village.
5.5

Year:

1934

Another Language

Another Language

A newlywed discovers that she and her husband's snobby family speak different languages.
6.3

Year:

1933