John McGiver

Highest Rated: 97% The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

Lowest Rated: 33% Mame (1974)

Birthday: Nov 5, 1913

Birthplace: New York City, New York

Portly, tight-jawed John McGiver had intended to become a professional actor upon graduating from Catholic University in Washington D.C., but he became an English teacher at New York's Christopher Columbus High School instead. One day in the mid-1950s, McGiver bumped into one of his old Catholic University classmates, who'd become an off-Broadway producer; the star of the producer's newest play had just walked out, and would McGiver be interested in taking his place? This little favor led to a 20-year career in TV and films for the balding, bookish McGiver. He was featured in such films as Love in the Afternoon (1957), Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), The Manchurian Candidate (1962) and Mame (1974). McGiver's funniest screen portrayal was the thick-eared landscaper in The Gazebo (1959), who insisted upon referring to the title object as a "GAZE-bow". In 1964, John McGiver starred as Walter Burnley, supervisor of a department store complaint department, on the weekly TV sitcom Many Happy Returns.

Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

MOVIES

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	BOX OFFICE	YEAR
No Score Yet	Adventures of Tom Sawyer	Actor	—	2011
56%	The Apple Dumpling Gang	Leonard Sharpe	—	1975
33%	Mame	Mr. Babcock	—	1974
71%	'Twas the Night Before Christmas	Actor	—	1974
No Score Yet	Arnold	Governor	—	1973
70%	Lawman	Mayor	—	1971
No Score Yet	The Littlest Angel	Actor	—	1969
87%	Midnight Cowboy	Mr. O'Daniel	—	1969
No Score Yet	Fitzwilly	Albert	—	1967
No Score Yet	The Spirit Is Willing	Uncle George	—	1967
57%	The Glass Bottom Boat	Goodwin	—	1966
No Score Yet	Made in Paris	Roger Barclay	—	1966
No Score Yet	Marriage on the Rocks	Shad Nathan	—	1965
No Score Yet	A Global Affair	Snifter	—	1964
64%	Man's Favorite Sport?	William Cadwalader	—	1964
40%	Who's Minding the Store?	Mr. Tuttle	—	1963
No Score Yet	Take Her, She's Mine	Hector G. Ivor	—	1963
40%	Johnny Cool	Oby Hinds	—	1963
No Score Yet	My Six Loves	Actor	—	1963
No Score Yet	Who's Got the Action?	Fogel	—	1963
71%	Period of Adjustment	Stewart P. McGill	—	1962
97%	The Manchurian Candidate	Sen. Thomas Jordon	—	1962
80%	Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation	Mr. Martin Turner	—	1962
No Score Yet	Bachelor in Paradise	Austin Palfrey	—	1961
89%	Breakfast at Tiffany's	Tiffany's Clerk	—	1961
No Score Yet	The Gazebo	Sam Thorpe	—	1959
No Score Yet	I Married a Woman	Girard	—	1958
85%	Love in the Afternoon	Monsieur X	—	1957
No Score Yet	Man in the Raincoat	Actor	—	1957

TV

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	YEAR
No Score Yet	Bewitched 1964-1972	Bobbins	1971
No Score Yet	The High Chaparral 1967-1971	Ebenezer Binns	1968
No Score Yet	The Wild Wild West 1965-1969	Calamander	1967
100%	The Man From U.N.C.L.E. 1964-1968	Mozart	1967 1966
90%	Gilligan's Island 1964-1967	Lord Beasley	1966
No Score Yet	I Dream of Jeannie 1965-1970	Wilfred	1966
No Score Yet	The Dick Van Dyke Show 1961-1966	Ollie	1965
No Score Yet	The Beverly Hillbillies 1962-1971	Justin Addison	1964
No Score Yet	The Fugitive 1963-1967	Devlin	1964
82%	The Twilight Zone 1959-1964	Shannon Roswell G. Flemington	1964 1963
No Score Yet	The Eleventh Hour 1962-1964	Gramps	1962
No Score Yet	Bonanza 1959-1973	Col. Bragg	1961 1959
No Score Yet	Alfred Hitchcock Presents 1955-1962	Arthur Motherwell Harold Goams	1959 1958

Quotes from John McGiver's Characters

Mr. O'Daniel:

Say, why about you and me get right down on our knees, right now. How's that strike you?

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John McGiver

Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

MOVIES

TV

Quotes from John McGiver's Characters