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John Dehner

Highest Rated: 95% Man of the West (1958)

Lowest Rated: 38% Creator (1985)

Birthday: Nov 23, 1915

Birthplace: Staten Island, New York, USA

John Dehner began his career as an animation assistant at Walt Disney Studios, worked as an Army publicist during WWII and, as a Los Angeles radio news reporter, editor and announcer, netted his station a Peabody Award for his coverage of the first UN conference in San Francisco in the late 1940s. Dehner started acting in films in the mid-1940s, eventually appearing in over 100 features, mostly westerns or action films. As sheriff Pat Garrett, he proved a notable foil to Paul Newman's Billy the Kid in Arthur Penn's "The Left-Handed Gun" (1958).

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Highest-Rated Movies

95% 76% Man of the West
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89% 75% Christmas in Connecticut
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83% 54% The Left Handed Gun
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83% 78% State Fair
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82% 68% Slaughterhouse Five
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79% 59% Jagged Edge
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71% 61% Carousel
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70% 67% The Boys From Brazil
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70% 44% Apache
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62% 61% Support Your Local Gunfighter
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Filmography

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Help Wanted: Kids 67% 1986 Cyrus Actor Jagged Edge 79% 59% 1985 Judge Carrigan Actor Creator 38% 75% 1985 Paul Actor Bare Essence 1982 Hadden Marshall Actor California Gold Rush 1981 Captain John Sutter Actor Young Maverick 1980 Marshal Edge Troy Actor Nothing Personal 50% 1980 Senator Actor The Boys From Brazil 70% 67% 1978 Henry Wheelock Actor Fun With Dick and Jane 57% 51% 1977 Jane's Father Actor Danger in Paradise 1977 Barrett Fears Actor Mountain Man 1977 Actor Guardian of the Wilderness 1977 John Muir Actor The Killer Inside Me 40% 25% 1976 Bob Maples Actor The New Daughters of Joshua Cabe 1976 Warden Mannering Actor The Big Rip-Off 1975 C.J. Bishop Actor Honky-Tonk 1974 Brazos Actor The Day of the Dolphin 44% 42% 1973 Wallingford Actor Slaughterhouse Five 82% 68% 1972 Prof. Rumfoord Actor Support Your Local Gunfighter 62% 61% 1971 Colonel Ames Actor Dirty Dingus Magee 56% 1970 Brig. Gen. George Actor The Cheyenne Social Club 67% 1970 Clay Carroll Actor House on the Hill 1970 Dr. John Bedford Actor Quarantined 1970 Dr. John Bedford Actor The Mystery of Edward Sims 1968 Jason Gore Actor Something for a Lonely Man 1968 Sam Ball Actor
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