John Alexander
Acting
Biography
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Born: November 29, 1897
Place of Birth: Newport, Kentucky, USA
Known For
Arsenic and Old Lace
Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home to tell his two maiden aunts, he finds out his aunts' hobby - killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar!
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's alcoholism. We come to know these people well through big and little troubles: Aunt Sissy's scandalous succession of "husbands"; the removal of the one tree visible from their tenement; and young Francie's desire to transfer to a better school...if irresponsible Papa can get his act together.
Winchester '73
Lin McAdam rides into town on the trail of Dutch Henry Brown, only to find himself in a shooting competition against him. McAdam wins the prize, a one-in-a-thousand Winchester rifle, but Dutch steals it and leaves town. McAdam follows, intent on settling his old quarrel, while the rifle keeps changing hands and touching a number of lives.
Untamed Frontier
The Denbow family denies access across their land to homesteaders. To evade a murder charge, Glenn Denbow marries Jane, the only witness who's in love with him. But the woman favors the settlers...
The Doughgirls
Newlyweds Arthur and Vivian arrive to their honeymoon suite in Washington D.C., only to find it occupied. Arthur goes to meet Slade, his new boss, and when he returns, he finds three girls in his suite. He orders Vivian to get rid of them, but they are friends of Vivian's and as time goes by, it looks more like Grand Central Station than the quiet suite Arthur expected. As long as there's anyone else in the suite, Arthur will not stay and there will be no honeymoon.
Flowing Gold
In the American oilfields, a fugitive from justice's destiny is intertwined with the fortunes and the misfortunes of a small oil company that hires him as a roughneck.
Inner Sanctum
Mr. Skeffington
A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty.
Night Has a Thousand Eyes
When heiress Jean Courtland attempts suicide, her fiancée Elliott Carson probes her relationship with John Triton. In flashback, we see how stage mentalist Triton starts having terrifying flashes of true precognition. Now years later, he desperately tries to prevent tragedies in the Courtland family.
The Marrying Kind
Florence and Chet Keefer have had a troublesome marriage. Whilst in the middle of a divorce hearing the judge encourages them to remember the good times they have had hoping that the marriage can be saved.
Filmography
as Judd Forrest
as Sam Giller - Storekeeper
as Mr. Carey
as The General
as Chief of Police
as Max Wickersham
as Howard Shipley
as Mr. Perry
as Insp. Gordon
as Teddy Roosevelt
as Jack Riker
as Mr. Gilman
as Mr. Dave McComber
as Mr. Herbert Jones
as Dr. Roy Drover
as Attorney Ambridge
as Lew Dockstader
as First Trumpeter / Doremus
as Steve Edwards
as Warren Buckley
as 'Teddy Roosevelt' Brewster
as Jim Conderley
as Robert Todd Lincoln (uncredited)
as Ben Barnes
as Sheriff
as District attorney
as Arcade Manager (uncredited)
as Billy
as Sheriff
as Ragpicker (Uncredited)