John Larch
Highest Rated: 100% Seven Men From Now (1956)
Lowest Rated: 31% The Amityville Horror (1979)
Birthday: Oct 4, 1914
Birthplace: Salem, Massachusetts, USA
John Larch got his start acting with a lead role in the sci-fi radio show "Captain Starr of Space," which he performed from 1953 to 1954. He had his first television role in 1953 on the drama "I Led 3 Lives," which told the story of a man who infiltrated the communist party for the FBI and had the dubious distinction of being a favorite of teenage Lee Harvey Oswald, John F. Kennedy's accused assassin. The year of Larch's debut was a busy one, with cameo appearances in multiple episodes of the crime program "Dragnet" and the historical drama "You Are There," as well as an episode of the long-running anthology series "Hallmark Hall of Fame." Larch went on to become a specialist of Westerns and action pictures, appearing in many of them, such as "Miracle of the White Stallions" in 1963, playing General George S. Patton Jr., and 1969's "The Wrecking Crew," which starred Dean Martin. Through his friendship with actor and director Clint Eastwood, he was cast in several of Eastwood's pictures, such as the 1971 thriller "Play Misty for Me" and the seminal cop drama "Dirty Harry," in which he played the chief of police.
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John Larch
Filmography
Movies
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31% |
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The Amityville Horror | Father Nuncio (Character) | - | 1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Collision Course | Gen. Omar Bradley (Character) | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Future Cop | Forman (Character) | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Too Many Suspects | District Attorney (Character) | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Desperate Miles | Dr. Bryson (Character) | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Winter Kill | Dr. Bill Hammond (Character) | - | 1974 |
60% |
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Bad Ronald | Sgt. Lynch (Character) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet |
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Framed | Bundy (Character) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Chadwick Family | Fargo (Character) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Candidate for Murder | Herb Talley (Character) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet |
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Santee | Banner (Character) | - | 1973 |
85% |
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Play Misty for Me | Sgt. McCallum (Character) | - | 1971 |
89% |
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Dirty Harry | Police Chief (Character) | - | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Magic Carpet | Mr. Tracy (Character) | - | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Women in Chains | Barney (Character) | - | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ladies of Crime | Unknown (Character) | - | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The City | Holland Yermo (Character) | - | 1971 |
No Score Yet |
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The Great Bank Robbery | Sheriff of Friendly (Character) | - | 1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hail, Hero! | Mr. Conklin (Character) | - | 1969 |
No Score Yet |
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The Wrecking Crew | MacDonald (Character) | - | 1968 |
83% |
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Hell to Eternity | Capt. Schwabe (Character) | - | 1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Saga of Hemp Brown | Jed Givens (Character) | - | 1958 |
No Score Yet |
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Gun for a Coward | Stringer (Character) | - | 1957 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Quantez | Heller (Character) | - | 1957 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Careless Years | Sam Vernon (Character) | - | 1957 |
No Score Yet |
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Man in the Shadow | Ed Yates (Character) | - | 1957 |
100% |
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Seven Men From Now | Payte Bodeen (Character) | - | 1956 |
No Score Yet |
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Man From Del Rio | Bill Dawson (Character) | - | 1956 |
60% |
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The Killer Is Loose | Otto Flanders (Character) | - | 1956 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bitter Creek | Hired Gunman (Character) | - | 1954 |
TV
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Dukes of Hazzard | Adam Venable (Guest Star) | 1981 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Little House on the Prairie | Arthur Mahoney (Guest Star) | 1980 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Six Million Dollar Man | Arthur Vale (Guest Star) | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Charlie's Angels | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bronk | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Police Woman | Lester Hummel (Guest Star) | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Streets of San Francisco | Jack O'Moore (Guest Star) | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cannon | Sgt. Nelson (Guest Star) | 1972-1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Police Story | Maury (Character) | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Alias Smith and Jones | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hawaii Five-0 | Joseph Trinian (Guest Star) | 1968 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Felony Squad | Bill Ehlers (Guest Star) | 1966 1968 |
100% | No Score Yet | The Man From U.N.C.L.E. | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1967 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Fugitive | Sheriff Ben Corby (Guest Star) | 1964 1967 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ben Casey | Walter Thurman (Guest Star) | 1962-1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dr. Kildare | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rawhide | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Untouchables | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1961-1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Law and Mr. Jones | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wagon Train | Jason Rance (Guest Star) | 1958-1960 1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Route 66 | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1960 1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Laramie | Matt Grundy (Guest Star) | 1960 1962 |
No Score Yet | 87% | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Sgt. Shaw (Character) | 1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cain's Hundred | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tales of Wells Fargo | Johnny (Guest Star) | 1959 1961 |
92% | 96% | The Twilight Zone | Sheriff Koch (Character) | 1959 1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bus Stop | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gunsmoke | Serpa (Guest Star) | 1955 1957 1959-1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Marshal Dillon | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1957 1959-1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Zane Grey Theatre | Unknown (Character) | 1957 1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Rifleman | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Deputy | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Have Gun -- Will Travel | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1958 1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Johnny Ringo | Mills Walker (Guest Star) | 1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Law of the Plainsman | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bonanza | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bat Masterson | Garrickson (Guest Star) | 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Restless Gun | Sheriff Riker (Guest Star) | 1957-1958 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Climax! | Unknown (Character) | 1957 |