Jack W. Johnston
Acting
Biography
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Born: October 2, 1876
Place of Birth: Kilkee, County Clare, Ireland
Known For
The Lost Weekend
Longtime alcoholic Don Birnam has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst... but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother and girlfriend, he begins a four-day bender that just might be his last – one way or another.
The Woman in the Window
A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.
The Lady Eve
It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Charles' fortune. Matters complicate when Jean starts falling for her mark. When Charles suspects Jean is a gold digger, he dumps her. Jean, fixated on revenge and still pining for the millionaire, devises a plan to get back in Charles' life. With love and payback on her mind, she re-introduces herself to Charles, this time as an aristocrat named Lady Eve Sidwich.
The More the Merrier
It's World War II and there is a severe housing shortage everywhere - especially in Washington, D.C. where Connie Milligan rents an apartment. Believing it to be her patriotic duty, Connie offers to sublet half of her apartment, fully expecting a suitable female tenent. What she gets instead is mischievous, middle-aged Benjamin Dingle. Dingle talks her into subletting to him and then promptly sublets half of his half to young, irreverent Joe Carter - creating a situation tailor-made for comedy and romance.
Lady on a Train
While watching from her train window, Nikki Collins witnesses a murder in a nearby building. When she alerts the police, they think she has read one too many mystery novels. She then enlists a popular mystery writer to help her solve the crime on her own, but her sleuthing attracts the attentions of suitors and killers.
Union Pacific
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his hands full fighting Barrows' agent, gambler Sid Campeau; Campeau's partner Dick Allen is Jeff's war buddy and rival suitor for engineer's daughter Molly Monahan. Who will survive the effort to push the railroad through at any cost?
Lydia
Lydia MacMillan, a wealthy woman who has never married, invites several men her own age to her home to reminisce about the times when they were young and courted her. In memory, each romance seemed splendid and destined for happiness, but in each case, Lydia realizes, the truth was less romantic, and ill-starred.
Miracles for Sale
A maker of illusions for magicians protects an ingenue likely to be murdered.
Arise, My Love
A dashing pilot and a vivacious reporter have romantic and dramatic adventures in Europe as World War II begins.
The Locket
A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.
Filmography
as Man (uncredited)
as Nightclub Guest (uncredited)
as Juror (uncredited)
as Man at Club (uncredited)
as Customer (uncredited)
as Night Club Guest (uncredited)
as Juryman (uncredited)
as Ball Guest
as Lawyer (uncredited)
as Man at Maxim's (Uncredited)
as Magic Show Audience Volunteer
as Man (uncredited)
as Relative at Wedding (uncredited)
as Barlow
as District Attorney
as District Attorney
as The Colonel
as Sheldon Truesdell
as Tim Dean (as F.W. Johnston)
as Joe Cooley
as Trapper
as Captain of the Guards
as Buddy
as Col. Cresap
as Peterson
as William Brennon
as Dan Vaughan
as (as Jack Johnstone)
as Stanley Adams
as Mr. Curtis
as Henry Dillman
as Harry White
as U.S. Minister to Belgium
as Horace Colt
as Boris Litofsky
as Edward Marsh (as J.W. Johnson)
as Lynch
as Robert Amory
as Frederic Harmon (as J.W. Johnston)
as Henry Norman (as J.W. Johnston)
as Thomas Carter
as Sam Rogers
as Rudolph
as Markam the Man
as Kearney, Government Agent
as Clayton Craig (as J.W. Johnston)
as Steve
as Lieutenant Sandridge