John Larch

Acting

Born October 4, 1914, Salem, Massachusetts, USA

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.

Filmography

• 1982Airplane II: The Sequel — Prosecuting Attorney
• Dynasty
• Simon & Simon — Deputy Sheriff John Burns
• Big Shamus, Little Shamus
• 1979The Amityville Horror — Father Nuncio
• 1978A Fire in the Sky — Johnson
• Dallas — Atticus Ward, Wally Windham, Arlen Ward, Arlen Ward / Atticus Ward
• The Critical List — Sprony
• Vega$
• Big Hawaii
• Kingston: Confidential
• Lucan
• The Feather And Father Gang
• Charlie's Angels — Kamden
• 1976Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur — Gen. Omar Bradley
• 1976Future Cop — Commisioner Forman
• Quincy, M.E.
• Bronk
• 1975Ellery Queen: Too Many Suspects — District Attorney
• 1975Framed — Bundy
• Switch — Stocker
• 1975The Desperate Miles — Dr. Bryson
• 1974Bad Ronald — Sgt. Lynch
• Little House on the Prairie — Arthur Mahoney
• Police Woman — Lester Hummel
• 1974The Chadwick Family — Fargo
• The Six Million Dollar Man — Arthur Vale
• 1974Winter Kill — Dr. Bill Hammond
• Hawkins — Herb Talley
• Police Story
• 1973Santee — Banner
• 1972Magic Carpet — Mr. Tracy
• The Streets of San Francisco
• 1972Women in Chains — Barney
• Alias Smith and Jones
• Cannon
• 1971Dirty Harry — Chief
• Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law — George Patterson, David Cameron
• 1971Play Misty for Me — Sgt. McCallum
• 1971The City — Holland Yermo
• The Partners — Sheriff Luke Fender
• 1970Cannon for Cordoba — Warner
• 1970Move — Mounted Patrolman
• Nanny and the Professor
• 1969Hail, Hero! — Mr. Conklin
• Hawaii Five-O — Joseph Trinian, Roger Maggers
• 1969The Great Bank Robbery — Sheriff of Friendly
• 1968The Wrecking Crew — MacDonald
• Ironside
• Judd, for the Defense
• The Invaders — Greg Lucather
• Felony Squad
• Mission: Impossible — Premier Anton Rojek, Larry Gault
• Convoy — Ben Foster
• The F.B.I. — Fred Wallace, Jules Harmon
• Daniel Boone — Sam Hawken
• The Man from U.N.C.L.E. — Dr. Killman
• Arrest and Trial — Jerry Miller
• 1963Miracle of the White Stallions — General George S. Patton, Jr.
• The Fugitive — George Duncan, Sheriff Ben Corby
• 1962How the West Was Won — Grimes (uncredited)
• 1962Pages of Death — Councilman Halliday
• 1962Stampede at Bitter Creek — Frank Boyd
• Stoney Burke
• The Virginian — Sheriff Neil Brady
• Ben Casey
• Bus Stop
• Cain's Hundred — Benjamin Riker
• Dr. Kildare — Dr. Victor Jonah
• The Dick Powell Show — Sam Baker
• The New Breed — John Clark
• 1960Hell to Eternity — Capt. Schwabe
• Outlaws
• Route 66 — Bill Morrison, Sandy Mason
• Adventures in Paradise — Nicholas
• Black Saddle — Ty Northrup
• Bonanza — Blake McCall
• Johnny Ringo — Mills Walker
• Laramie
• Law of the Plainsman — Jasper Mullen
• Rawhide — Lennie Dawson, Sam Garrett
• The Troubleshooters — McGuire
• The Twilight Zone — Eliot Rathmann, Mr. Fremont, Sheriff Koch
• The Untouchables — Bryan 'Bull' Hanlon
• Tightrope
• Wichita Town
• Bat Masterson — Garrickson
• 1958From Hell to Texas — Hal Carmody
• Jefferson Drum — John Larkin
• Naked City — John Clinton, Steve Werminski, George Paraskis
• The Rifleman
• 1958The Saga of Hemp Brown — Jed Givens
• The Texan — Les Torbit
• Wanted: Dead or Alive — Howie Kale
• Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
• Yancy Derringer — Wayland Farr
• Have Gun, Will Travel — McNagle, Chaplain Robert April
• 1957Man in the Shadow — Ed Yates
• 1957Quantez — Heller
• 1957The Careless Years — Sam Vernon
• The Restless Gun — Sheriff Riker, Anse Newton, Red-eye Kirk
• The Walter Winchell File
• Wagon Train — John Ramsey, Jethro Creech
• 19567 Men from Now — Payte Bodeen
• 1956Behind the High Wall — William Kiley
• Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre — Quine - Scout, Dr. Cole Gentry, Magnus Kihlgren
• 1956Gun for a Coward — Stringer
• 1956Johnny Moccasin — Frank Hill
• 1956Man from Del Rio — Bill Dawson
• Telephone Time
• 1956The Killer Is Loose — Otto Flanders
• 1956Written on the Wind — Roy Carter
• 19555 Against the House — Police Detective (uncredited)
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents — Sgt. Shaw
• Gunsmoke — Clay Young, Jim Cobbett, Zeno, Dan, Rance, Serpa, Shanks
• 1955Illegal — District Attorney's Man (uncredited)
• 1955Seven Angry Men — Sergeant
• 1955The McConnell Story — Cy
• The Millionaire — Thomas J. 'Tom' Mead
• 1955The Naked Street — Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
• 1955The Phenix City Story — Clem Wilson
• 1955Tight Spot — First Detective (uncredited)
• 1954Bitter Creek — Hired Gunman
• Climax! — Cab Driver
• 1954Moby Dick — 1st Sailor
• Public Defender — Trusty
• Studio 57
• The Lone Wolf — Lt. Cellars
• The Wonderful World of Disney — Frank Boyd
• 1954This Is My Love — Police Detective
• I Led 3 Lives — Terry
• I Led Three Lives
• Letter to Loretta — S / Sgt. Ernie Robbins
• You Are There — Cimber, Col. Harrison, Miner 1
• Four Star Playhouse — Harris
• Dragnet
• Hallmark Hall of Fame — 1st Sailor, A young tough, Quintus
• Schlitz Playhouse of Stars — Luke Powers
• Space Patrol — Korwin