John Dehner

Highest Rated: 100% The Reluctant Dragon (1941)

Lowest Rated: 38% Creator (1985)

Birthday: Nov 23, 1915

Birthplace: Not Available

Starting out as an assistant animator at the Walt Disney studios, John Dehner went on to work as a professional pianist, Army publicist, and radio journalist. From 1944 until the end of big-time radio in the early '60s, Dehner was one of the busiest and best performers on the airwaves. He guested on such series as Gunsmoke, Suspense, Escape, and Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, and starred as British news correspondent J.B. Kendall on Frontier Gentleman (1958) and as Paladin in the radio version of Have Gun Will Travel (1958-1960). On Broadway, he appeared in Bridal Crown and served as director of Alien Summer. In films from 1944, Dehner played character roles ranging from a mad scientist in The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters (1954) to Sheriff Pat Garrett in The Left-Handed Gun (1958) to publisher Henry Luce in The Right Stuff (1983). Though he played the occasional lead, Dehner's cocked-eyebrow imperiousness generally precluded any romantic entanglements; he once commented with pride that, in all his years as an actor, he never won nor kissed the heroine. As busy on TV as elsewhere, Dehner was seen regularly on such series as The Betty White Show (1954), The Westerner (1960), The Roaring '20s (1961), The Baileys of Balboa (1964), The Doris Day Show (1968), The Don Knotts Show (1969), Temperatures Rising (1973-1974), Big Hawaii (1977), Young Maverick (1979-1980), and Enos (1980-1981). He also essayed such TV-movie roles as Dean Acheson in The Missiles of October (1974). Working almost up to the end, John Dehner died of emphysema and diabetes at the age of 76.

Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

MOVIES

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	BOX OFFICE	YEAR
No Score Yet	Help Wanted: Kids	Cyrus	—	1986
81%	Jagged Edge	Judge Carrigan	—	1985
38%	Creator	Paul	—	1985
96%	The Right Stuff	Henry Luce	—	1983
42%	Airplane 2 - The Sequel	Commissioner	—	1982
No Score Yet	California Gold Rush	Capt. John Sutter	—	1981
No Score Yet	Nothing Personal	Senator	—	1980
69%	The Boys from Brazil	Henry Wheelock	—	1978
50%	Fun with Dick and Jane	Father	—	1977
No Score Yet	Guardian of the Wilderness	John Muir	—	1977
No Score Yet	The New Daughters of Joshua Cabe	Warden Mannering	—	1976
40%	The Killer Inside Me	Maples	—	1976
44%	The Day of the Dolphin	Wallingford	—	1973
82%	Slaughterhouse-Five	Rumford	—	1972
62%	Support Your Local Gunfighter	Col. Ames	—	1971
No Score Yet	Dirty Dingus Magee	General	—	1970
No Score Yet	The Cheyenne Social Club	Clay Carroll	—	1970
No Score Yet	Stiletto	D.A. Frank Simpson	—	1969
No Score Yet	Something for a Lonely Man	Actor	—	1968
No Score Yet	Tiger by the Tail	Sheriff Chancey Jones	—	1968
No Score Yet	Winchester '73	High Spade Johnny Dean	—	1967
40%	The Hallelujah Trail	Narrator	—	1965
No Score Yet	Youngblood Hawke	Scotty Hawke	—	1964
No Score Yet	Critic's Choice	S.P. Champlain	—	1963
No Score Yet	The Chapman Report	Geoffrey	—	1962
No Score Yet	The Canadians	Frank Boone	—	1961
No Score Yet	The Sign of Zorro	Viceroy	—	1960
94%	Man of the West	Claude	—	1958
No Score Yet	Apache Territory	Grant Kimbrough	—	1958
90%	The Left Handed Gun	Pat Garrett	—	1958
No Score Yet	The Girl in Black Stockings	Sheriff Jess Holmes	—	1957
No Score Yet	Revolt at Fort Laramie	Maj. Seth Bradner	—	1957
No Score Yet	The Iron Sheriff	Roger Pollock	—	1957
No Score Yet	Please Murder Me	Dist. Atty. Ray Willis	—	1957
No Score Yet	Trooper Hook	Actor	—	1957
No Score Yet	Tension at Table Rock	Hampton	—	1956
No Score Yet	The Fastest Gun Alive	Taylor Swope	—	1956
No Score Yet	A Day of Fury	Jason	—	1956
83%	Carousel	Mr. Bascombe	—	1956
No Score Yet	The King's Thief	Capt. Herrick	—	1955
No Score Yet	Tall Man Riding	Ames Luddington	—	1955
No Score Yet	The Prodigal	Joram	—	1955
No Score Yet	The Scarlet Coat	Gen. Nathanael Greene	—	1955
No Score Yet	Top Gun	Quentin	—	1955
70%	Apache	Weddle	—	1954
No Score Yet	The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters	Derek	—	1954
No Score Yet	Southwest Passage	Matt Carrol	—	1954
No Score Yet	The Cowboy Way	Narrator	—	1954
No Score Yet	Vicki	Chief	—	1953
No Score Yet	Gun Belt	Matt Ringo	—	1953
No Score Yet	Man on a Tightrope	The Chief	—	1953
No Score Yet	Fort Algiers	Maj. Colle	—	1953
No Score Yet	Plymouth Adventure	Gilbert Winslow	—	1952
No Score Yet	Cripple Creek	Emil Cabeau	—	1952
No Score Yet	Scaramouche	Doutreval	—	1952
No Score Yet	Ten Tall Men	Jardine	—	1951
No Score Yet	Hot Lead	Turk Thorne	—	1951
No Score Yet	The Texas Rangers	John Wesley Hardin	—	1951
No Score Yet	Al Jennings of Oklahoma	Tom Marsden	—	1951
No Score Yet	Rogues Of Sherwood Forest	Sir Baldric	—	1950
No Score Yet	Captive Girl	Hakim	—	1950
No Score Yet	Destination Murder	Frank Niles	—	1950
No Score Yet	Dynamite Pass	Thurber	—	1950
No Score Yet	David Harding, Counterspy	Frank Reynolds	—	1950
No Score Yet	Tulsa	Oilman	—	1949
No Score Yet	Barbary Pirate	Murad Reis	—	1949
No Score Yet	Let's Live a Little	Dempster	—	1948
75%	He Walked by Night	Asst. Chief	—	1948
No Score Yet	Dream Girl	Radio announcer	—	1948
No Score Yet	Blonde Savage	Joe Comstock	—	1947
No Score Yet	Golden Earrings	S.S. Man	—	1947
No Score Yet	Out California Way	Rod Mason	—	1946
No Score Yet	The Last Crooked Mile	Jarvis	—	1946
No Score Yet	O.S.S.	German Radar Captain	—	1946
No Score Yet	Vigilantes of Boomtown	Bob Fitzsimmons	—	1946
83%	State Fair	Announcer	—	1945
No Score Yet	The Corn Is Green	Welshman	—	1945
89%	Christmas in Connecticut	State Trooper	—	1945
No Score Yet	Lake Placid Serenade	Radio Announcer	—	1944
100%	The Reluctant Dragon	Animator	—	1941

TV

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	YEAR
No Score Yet	Hart to Hart 1979-1984	Actor	1981
No Score Yet	Quincy, M.E. 1976-1983	Dr. Shafer	1979
No Score Yet	The Rockford Files 1974-1980	Judge Lyman, alias Inspector DeMartonis	1977
No Score Yet	Columbo 1968-2003	Commodore Swanson	1974 1971
No Score Yet	Bonanza 1959-1973	`Jean Lafitte': Pender	1971 1964 1960
No Score Yet	Hogan's Heroes 1965-1971	Von Platzen Bakscheider	1970 1966 1965
No Score Yet	Get Smart 1965-1970	Kirby	1969
No Score Yet	The High Chaparral 1967-1971	Burnett Surtee	1969 1968
No Score Yet	The Wild Wild West 1965-1969	Actor	1969 1966 1965
No Score Yet	Ironside 1967-1975	Colonel	1968
No Score Yet	Mission: Impossible 1966-1973	Dan Whelan	1968
No Score Yet	The Beverly Hillbillies 1962-1971	Rex	1968
No Score Yet	Gunsmoke 1955-1975	Nate Russell Cassidy Scanzano Wall Caleb Marr Luke Cullers Ben Galt Hardy Tate	1968 1965 1964 1963 1962 1961 1958 1957 1956
No Score Yet	Rawhide 1959-1965	Jubal Wade Cabot Kerran Coleman Lacey	1964 1963 1962 1961 1960 1959
82%	The Twilight Zone 1959-1964	Jared Garrity Alan Richards Captain Allenby	1964 1961 1959
No Score Yet	The Andy Griffith Show 1960-1968	Col. Harvey	1963
No Score Yet	Maverick 1957-1962	Archie Walker John Bates Big Ed Murphy Luther Cannonbaugh	1962 1961 1960 1958
No Score Yet	Zorro 1957-1961	Viceroy	1959 1958
No Score Yet	Perry Mason 1957-1966	Maj. Lewis	1958 1957

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