John Archer
Popularity:0.401
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1915-05-08
Place of Birth:Osceola, Nebraska, USA
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Also Known As:Ralph Bowman

Destination Moon (1950)
A team composed of an aerospace scientist, an ex-Air Force general, and an industrialist conceives an ambitious plan to land Americans on the moon....

Affair in Reno (1957)
The story of a PR man hired by a millionaire to go to Reno to prevent his daughter from marrying an opportunistic gambler.

Colorado Territory (1949)
After escaping from jail, outlaw Wes McQueen is convinced by his old partner in crime to do one last heist.

The Big Trees (1952)
In 1900, unscrupulous timber baron Jim Fallon plans to take advantage of a new law and make millions off California redwood. Much of the land he...

Guadalcanal Diary (1943)
Concentrating on the personal lives of those involved, a war correspondent takes us through the preparations, landing and initial campaign on...

Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943)
In World War II, a British secret agent carrying a vitally important document is kidnapped en route to Washington. The British government calls on...

Bowery at Midnight (1942)
A seemingly charitable soup kitchen operator (who moonlights as a criminology professor) uses his Bowery mission as a front for his criminal gang....

White Heat (1949)
A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. After...

City of Fear (1959)
An escaped convict gets a hold of some radioactive material after his escape. Authorities desperately try to find the man that unknowingly is...

Decision at Sundown (1957)
A man and his partner arrive at a small Western town to kill its most powerful man because the former blames him for his wife's death.

Blue Hawaii (1961)
Chad Gates has just been discharged from the Army, and is happy to be back in Hawaii with his surf-board, his beach buddies and his girlfriend.

Gangs Inc. (1941)
Circumstances force naive Rita Adams into serving an unjust prison term, but she emerges from it a cynical criminal who rises to power in the local...

No Man's Woman (1955)
A greedy, scheming woman is found murdered in her studio, and the police find that there is no shortage of suspects who wanted to see her dead--among...

The Lost Moment (1947)
In a long flashback, a New York publisher is in Venice pursuing the lost love letters of an early-19th-century poet, Jeffrey Ashton, who disappeared...

Crash Dive (1943)
A US Navy submarine, the USS Corsair, is operating in the North Atlantic, hunting German merchant raiders that are preying on Allied shipping. Its...

High Lonesome (1950)
When a sudden spurt of murders occurs in the Big Bend country, suspicion immediately falls on a young drifter who just moved to the area.

Sound Off (1952)
An obnoxious nightclub comedian at Ciro's is drafted into the U.S. Army during the Korean War. At his arrival at his basic training he meets a WAC...

My Favorite Spy (1951)
A burlesque comic doubles for a spy in Tangier and meets the spy's girlfriend, who is also a spy.

The Great Jewel Robber (1950)
Director Peter Godfrey's 1950 drama, inspired by true events, dramatizes the crime spree of the notorious jewel thief known as "The Hollywood...

Best of the Badmen (1951)
After the North defeats the South, Union Maj. Jeff Clanton heads to Missouri to provide the Confederacy's Quantrill's Raiders a chance to claim...

She Devil (1957)
Biochemists give fruit-fly serum to a dying woman, with side effects.

Roger Touhy, Gangster (1944)
Set during Prohibition, the movie centers on Touhy's rise from small time thug to the city's most powerful bootlegger whose empire is rivaled only by...

Santa Fe (1951)
After their service in the Civil War, four brothers go their separate ways, but later find themselves on opposite sides of a final showdown.

Scattergood Survives a Murder (1942)
Rural sage Scattergood Baines (Guy Kibbee) shows big-city newsman how to solve a mystery.

Curtain Call (1940)
Two theatrical producers plan to get even with a demanding actress by tricking her into starring in the worst play they can find.

Ten Thousand Bedrooms (1957)
In this musical-comedy, Dean Martin plays an American hotel mogul who becomes smitten with a young Italian woman (Anna Maria Alberghetti) when buying...

Thursday's Game (1974)
Harry Evers and Marvin Ellison have been playing poker Thursday nights with their friends for years. When a disagreement breaks up the game, they...

Barnyard Follies (1940)
A country orphanage puts on a show with some musicians to save their 4H club from being shut down by greedy politicians.

City of Missing Girls (1941)
A female reporter goes undercover to investigate the series of mysterious disappearances of young women, who were all linked to a local drama school.

The Eve of St. Mark (1944)
Quizz West is conscripted into the United States Army in late 1940. Prior to being shipped out first to San Francisco, then the Philippines, Quizz...

Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1942)
In the shanty town called the Cabbage Patch, Mrs. Wiggs scrabbles for survival with her brood of children and hopes for the return of her husband,...

Rodeo (1952)
Nancy Cartwright is determined to collect an $1,800 feed bill owed to her father Harry Cartwright by a rodeo association. Instead, she is talked into...

Police Bullets (1942)
A gangster running a protection racket gets information that he's about to be prosecuted on income-tax-evasion charges. He hires a man with a...

Amelia Earhart (1976)
Biography follows the life of famed woman pilot Amelia Earhart, including her marriage to a famous publisher and her disappearance during a flight in...

Career (1939)
Set in a tiny midwestern town, this sentimental drama centers on the rivalry between two life-long acquaintances whose early friendship falls apart...

Spring Madness (1938)
Harvard senior Sam Thatcher and his best friend and roommate, known as "The Lippencott", plan to go to Russia after graduation, a decision Sam has...

Mountain Moonlight (1941)
A cyclone destroys the Weaver family farm leaving only the old stone chimney. When the chimney is torn down for building supplies, found secreted...

Hi, Neighbor (1942)
A financially strapped college is transformed into a summer holiday resort with the help of music and radio stars.

Overland Stage Raiders (1938)
After gold shipments from a mining town have been hijacked, the three Mesquiteers buy a plane to fly the gold out. The owner of the shipping line...

Flaming Frontiers (1938)
Tom Grant has found a rich gold vein and Bart Eaton is after it. Tom's sister Mary heads for the gold fields and Eaton and his men follow. Eaton...

The Purple V (1943)
German expatriate Fritz Kortner plays the largest role, as an anti-Nazi schoolmaster who helps a downed American flyer (John Archer) reached Allied...

Shantytown (1943)
Liz lives with her mother and stepfather in a boarding house on the "wrong side of the tracks"

I Saw What You Did (1965)
Teenage friends Kit and Libby make prank phone calls for fun but then find themselves involved in a brutal double murder committed by one of their...

Cheers for Miss Bishop (1941)
Ella Bishop is an inhibited girl whose frustrations grow as she approaches womanhood. As a women, her ambitions to teach cause her to lose her only...

King of the Zombies (1941)
During World War II, a small plane somewhere over the Caribbean runs low on fuel and is blown off course by a storm. Guided by a faint radio signal,...

Sucker List (1941)
In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a man and his racketeer buddies devise a scheme to bilk those already seemingly desperate for money of...

Rock Around the Clock (1956)
A frustrated big-band promoter runs in to rock-and-rollers Bill Haley and the Comets at a small-town dance. He quickly becomes their manager and,...

The Stars Are Singing (1953)
After she enters the United States illegally, 15-year-old Polish singer Katri Walenska (Anna Maria Alberghetti) finds herself under the wing of...

Apache Rifles (1964)
A young cavalry officer is assigned the job of bringing in a band of Apaches who have been terrorizing the countryside.

Always Tomorrow: The Portrait of an American Business (1941)
Feature length promotional film presented by The Coca-Cola Company during World War II, focuses on a small town bottler as he looks back on his...

How to Frame a Figg (1971)
Don Knotts is Hollis Figg, the dumbest bookkeeper in town. When the city fathers buy a second-hand computer to cover up their financial shenanigans,...

Emergency Hospital (1956)
About the lives and loves of the staff of an emergency hospital as reflected in a single frenetic night of business-as-usual.

No Exceptions (1943)
Short subject intended to promote unified action and sacrifice by Americans on the home front during the war.

Scattergood Baines (1941)
Young Scattergood Baines arrives in the small New England town of Coldriver. Through some shrewd business maneuvering, he manages to open up a...

Sea Tiger (1952)
Murder ensues when owners and hired help contrive against each other to obtain diamonds and gold ingots secretly hidden on a derelict and abandoned...

Dragon's Gold (1954)
Murder and intrigue follow an insurance investigator Mack Rossiter (John Archer) after he is dispatched to China to investigate the disappearance of...

Hello, Frisco, Hello (1943)
In turn-of-the-century San Francisco, an ambitious vaudevillian takes his quartet from a honky tonk to the big time, while spurning the love of his...

77 Sunset Strip (1958)
Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this Warner Brothers drama. They work out of an office...

Cheyenne (1955)
Cheyenne Bodie was a big man, a former army scout who went west after the American Civil War and drifted from job to job, here a cowboy, there a...

Batman (1966)
Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually crime fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret...

Mannix (1967)
Mannix is an American television detective series that ran from 1967 through 1975 on CBS. Created by Richard Levinson and William Link and developed...

Surfside 6 (1960)
Surfside 6 was an ABC television series which aired from 1960 to 1962. The show centered on a Miami Beach detective agency set on a houseboat and...

Perry Mason (1957)
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.

Lassie (1954)
Lassie is the pet of Jeff Miller, an 11-year-old farm boy. The two become best friends and enjoy family adventures in the American countryside,...

The Twilight Zone (1959)
A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a...

Ironside (1967)
When an assassin's bullet confines him to a wheelchair for life ending his career as Chief of Detectives, Robert T. Ironside becomes a consultant to...

Sea Hunt (1958)
Sea Hunt is an American adventure television series that aired in syndication from 1958 to 1961 and was popular in syndication for decades...

The Tall Man (1960)
The Tall Man is a half-hour American western television series about Sheriff Pat Garrett and the gunfighter Billy the Kid that aired seventy-five...

87th Precinct (1961)
87th Precinct is an American crime drama starring Robert Lansing, Gena Rowlands, and Ron Harper, which aired on NBC on Monday evenings during the...

Philip Marlowe (1959)
Philip Marlowe is a 1959-1960 half-hour ABC crime series, featuring Philip Carey as Marlowe, the fictional detective originally created by Raymond...

The Millionaire (1955)
An anthology series that explored the ways sudden and unexpected wealth changed life for better or for worse. It told the stories of people who were...

The Virginian (1962)
The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth, the Grainger brothers, and Colonel Alan MacKenzie. It...

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (1951)
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was...

M Squad (1957)
Lt. Frank Ballinger is a no-nonsense plain clothes cop in the elite M Squad Division. The Squad's task is to root out organised crime and corruption...

Private Secretary (1953)
Private Secretary is an American sitcom that aired from February 1, 1953 to September 10, 1957 on CBS, alternating with The Jack Benny Program on...

Navy Log (1955)
Navy Log is an American drama anthology series that initially aired for one season on CBS. It relates the greatest survival war stories in the...

Lock-Up (1959)
Lock-Up is an American legal drama series that premiered in syndication in September 1959 and concluded in June 1961. The half-hour episodes had...

Bat Masterson (1958)
Bat Masterson is an American Western television series which showed a fictionalized account of the life of real-life marshal/gambler/dandy Bat...

Laramie (1959)
Laramie is an American Western television series that aired on NBC from 1959 to 1963. A Revue Studios production, the program originally starred John...

Riverboat (1959)
Riverboat is a 44-episode western television series starring Darren McGavin and Burt Reynolds broadcast on the NBC television network from September...

Suspense (1949)
An anthology series adapted from the radio program of the same name. Like the radio program, many scripts were adaptations of literary classics by...

State Trooper (1956)
State Trooper is an American crime drama set in the 1950s American West, starring Rod Cameron as Rod Blake, an officer of the Nevada Department of...

Coronado 9 (1960)
Dan Adams, former Naval Intelligence officer, works in San Diego as a private detective.

Letter to Loretta (1953)
Letter to Loretta is an American anthology drama series telecast on NBC from September 1953 to June 1961 for a total of 165 episodes. The filmed show...

The Outsider (1968)
The Outsider was the story of David Ross, a go-it-alone private investigator who's always where the action is. Darren McGavin played Ross, a man...

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre (1956)
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American Western anthology series which ran on CBS from 1956 to...

Maverick (1957)
The Maverick boys - Bret, Bart, Beau and Brent - are a clan of well-dressed dandies, gamblers who'd much rather make their money playing cards than...

Columbo (1971)
Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently underestimated by his suspects. Despite his unprepossessing...

The Virginian (1962)
The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth, the Grainger brothers, and Colonel Alan MacKenzie. It...

Letter to Loretta (1953)
Letter to Loretta is an American anthology drama series telecast on NBC from September 1953 to June 1961 for a total of 165 episodes. The filmed show...

Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II (1976)
Weekly series spun off from the miniseries.

Perry Mason (1957)
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.

Perry Mason (1957)
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.

Perry Mason (1957)
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.

Perry Mason (1957)
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.

Crossroads (1955)
An anthology series based on the activities of clergymen from different denominations.

Batman (1966)
Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually crime fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret...