John Larch
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".
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 13.733 |
Birthday | 1914-10-04 |
Place of Birth | Salem, Massachusetts, USA |
Also Known As | Harold Aronin, Harry Larch, |
1956
7 Men from Now
6.843/105
A former sheriff relentlessly pursuing the 7 men who murdered his wife in Arizona crosses paths with a couple heading to California.
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7 Men from Now
1955
The Phenix City Story
6.6/58
A crime-busting lawyer and his initially reluctant attorney father take on the forces that run gambling and prostitution in their small Southern town.
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The Phenix City Story
1971
Play Misty for Me
6.552/478
A brief fling between a male disc jockey and an obsessed female fan takes a frightening, and perhaps even deadly turn when another woman enters the pi...
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Play Misty for Me
1975
Framed
6.8/14
Joe Don Baker plays a gambler who is framed for a crime he did not commit. A corrupt legal system leads him into a plea bargain and four years behind...
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Framed
1956
Behind the High Wall
5.2/10
A group prison breakout goes from bad to worse when the desperate warden tries to steal the gang's dough.
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Behind the High Wall
1956
Written on the Wind
6.902/215
Mitch Wayne is a geologist working for the Hadleys, an oil-rich Texas family. While the patriarch, Jasper, works hard to establish the family business...
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Written on the Wind
1956
Man from Del Rio
6/21
Mexican gunfighter Dave Robles outdraws the town's outlaw-turned-sheriff and is invited to fill the dead man's shoes. But a tin star doesn't bring aut...
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Man from Del Rio
1974
Bad Ronald
6.33/50
When awkward teen Ronald Wilby accidentally kills a young girl whose sister rejected his affections, his overbearing mother decides to hide him from t...
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Bad Ronald
1963
Miracle of the White Stallions
5.8/18
In WWII Austria, Col. Alois Podhajsky must protect his beloved Lipizzaner stallions and make sure that they are surrendered into the right hands. But...
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Miracle of the White Stallions
1973
Santee
5.3/10
Jody Deakes joins up with his father after many years, just to discover that his dad is part of an outlaw gang on the run from a relentless bounty hun...
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Santee
1970
Cannon for Cordoba
5.7/20
In 1912, during the Mexican Revolution, the border between Texas and Mexico is on flames due to savage raids by Mexican bandits who call themselves fr...
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Cannon for Cordoba
1957
Quantez
5.5/7
A gang of bank robbers with a posse in hot pursuit. Riding into the desert, they take refuge in Quantez, a small town they find deserted. Their horses...
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Quantez
1970
Move
4.6/5
A young playwright who writes porno novels to overcome a writer's block, lives the fantasies of one of his books, while trying to move with his wife f...
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Move
1957
The Careless Years
3.5/2
A high school girl from a wealthy family falls for a fellow student from a poor family. Both families disapprove, and, unable to stand the pressure, t...
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The Careless Years
1974
Winter Kill
7.4/5
Someone is shooting the residents of a mountain resort town. Sheriff McNeill (Andy Griffith) must figure out the connection that links the victims and...
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Winter Kill
1975
The Desperate Miles
0/0
A disabled Vietnam vet sets out to prove that disabled people don't have to be helpless by starting a 180-mile trip in a wheelchair. On the way he fin...
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The Desperate Miles
1972
Women in Chains
7/4
A parole officer goes undercover to investigate prison brutality but is trapped when the only person on the outside who knows why she's there is kille...
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Women in Chains
1979
The Amityville Horror
6.284/877
George Lutz, his wife Kathy, and their three children have just moved into a beautiful, and improbably cheap, Victorian mansion nestled in the sleepy...
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The Amityville Horror
1956
The Killer is Loose
6.6/53
A savings-and-loan bank is robbed; later, a police wiretap identifies bank teller Leon Poole as the inside man. In capturing him, detective Sam Wagner...
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The Killer is Loose
1971
Dirty Harry
7.458/2379
When a madman dubbed 'Scorpio' terrorizes San Francisco, hard-nosed cop, Harry Callahan – famous for his take-no-prisoners approach to law enforcement...
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Dirty Harry
1976
Future Cop
5/1
A veteran street cop is assigned a new partner. The partner is not exactly what he seems to be, though--he is an experimental android who has been pro...
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Future Cop
1958
The Saga of Hemp Brown
5.6/5
Ex-army sergeant Jed Givens and his gang rob an army payroll shipment led by Lt. Hemp Brown. Givens kills a civilian woman and all the soldiers, leavi...
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The Saga of Hemp Brown
1982
Airplane II: The Sequel
6.081/1062
A faulty computer causes a passenger space shuttle to head straight for the sun, and man-with-a-past Ted Striker must save the day and get the shuttle...
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Airplane II: The Sequel
1954
Bitter Creek
6.3/3
"Wild" Bill Elliott is a cowboy who goes in search of the man who killed his brother, and finds himself in the small town of Bitter Creek.
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Bitter Creek
1956
Gun for a Coward
5.6/12
A young cowboy, whose dedication to the principles of peace and reason has earned him a reputation for cowardice, overcomes his psychological aversion...
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Gun for a Coward
1969
Hail, Hero!
6/1
Carl Dixon decides to quit school and enlist in the Army, even though he's already run afoul of the law as a Vietnam protestor. It is our hero's inten...
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Hail, Hero!
1954
This Is My Love
8.5/1
A single woman tries to keep her sister from another man by framing her for her husband's murder.
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This Is My Love
1960
Hell to Eternity
6.5/14
Based on the story about Guy Gabaldon, a Los Angeles Hispanic boy raised in the 1930s by a Japanese-American foster family. After Pearl Harbor, his fo...
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Hell to Eternity
1968
The Wrecking Crew
5.5/53
When Count Contini attempts to destroy the world's economy by masterminding the theft of $1 billion in U.S. gold, ICE chief MacDonald summons secret a...
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The Wrecking Crew
1974
The Chadwick Family
6/1
A father finds himself taking care of a family that, in addition to his son and three daughters, also consists of two sons-in-law and his youngest dau...
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The Chadwick Family
1978
A Fire in the Sky
5.6/9
Astronomers discover a comet that they believe will crash into Phoenix, Arizona. They attempt to warn officials, but without 100% certainty, the gover...
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A Fire in the Sky
1962
Pages of Death
5/2
A campy, over-the-top educational short that tells the story of a young man who becomes deranged from reading pornographic magazines.
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Pages of Death
1954
Moby Dick
0/0
The demented, ruthless Captain Ahab pursues the white whale which took off his leg years before.
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Moby Dick
1969
The Great Bank Robbery
6.3/10
A motley group of phony church leaders attempts to rob a bank controlled by brothers in 1880's Texas.
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The Great Bank Robbery
1958
From Hell to Texas
5.9/31
The naive cowboy Tod Lohman accidentally kills the son of the powerful land baron Hunter Boyd. Tod runs for his life, pursued by the dead man's vengef...
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From Hell to Texas
1971
The City
1/1
The trials and tribulations of the first Hispanic mayor of a major Southwestern city.
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The City
1972
Magic Carpet
0/0
A young student living in Rome gets a job as a tour guide and falls in love with a young stowaway who is being sought by the police.
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Magic Carpet
1975
Ellery Queen: Too Many Suspects
0/0
When a famous fashion designer is found murdered, Inspector Richard Queen of the NYPD is baffled by her dying clue, prompting him to bring in his son,...
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Ellery Queen: Too Many Suspects
1957
Man in the Shadow
6.8/44
In effect, modern cow town Spurline is run by Virgil Renchler, owner of the Golden Empire Ranch. One night, two of Virgil's henchmen go a little too f...
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Man in the Shadow
1962
How the West Was Won
7.017/421
The epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to the end of the century, as seen through the eyes of one...
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How the West Was Won
1955
The McConnell Story
6.3/3
Joe McConnell was sure that he was meant to be a pilot, but was stuck as a restless army private. It seemed that his ambition was blocked at every ste...
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The McConnell Story
1955
Seven Angry Men
5.2/5
Rise, fall and execution of John Brown, fanatic abolitionist.
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Seven Angry Men
1976
Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur
0/0
U.S. President Harry S Truman and his commander in the Korean War, General Douglas MacArthur, disagree on war strategy. Their conflict comes to a head...
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Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur
1956
Johnny Moccasin
0/0
Johnny Moccasin a white teenage boy is raised by an Indian tribe after his parents are killed in a wagon train massacre.
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Johnny Moccasin
1955
Illegal
6.5/37
A hugely successful DA goes into private practice after sending a man to the chair -- only to find out later he was innocent. Now the drunken attorney...
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Illegal
1955
Tight Spot
6.3/29
A former model, serving time in prison, becomes a key witness in a trial against a notorious gangster. She is put under protective watch by the Distri...
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Tight Spot
1955
5 Against the House
5.9/38
Former war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.
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