John McGiver
The son of Irish immigrants, John McGiver was a notable character actor who made over a hundred appearances in both film and television. He got his start working in commercials in the 1960s, and appeared in the first in a popular series of "Do you know me?" ads for American Express. A large man with a thick New York City accent, McGiver was a versatile actor who could play everything from a kindly salesman in "Breakfast at Tiffany's" to an ill-fated politician in the 1962 film version of "The Manchurian Candidate." His most notable role, however, came in 1969's Academy Award-winner for Best Picture, "Midnight Cowboy," in which he stood out as the fanatical religious nut, Mr. O'Daniel. His last major role came in 1971 as the recurring character Dr. Luther Quince on the NBC sitcom "The Jimmy Stewart Show," which lasted for a single season. McGiver lived with his wife, Ruth, and 10 children in West Fulton, New York, until his sudden death from a heart attack at the age of 61 in 1975.
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John McGiver
Filmography
Movies
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56% |
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The Apple Dumpling Gang | Leonard Sharpe (Character) | - | 1975 |
36% |
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Mame | Mr. Babcock (Character) | - | 1974 |
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Arnold | Governor (Character) | $23.6K | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tom Sawyer | Judge Thatcher (Character) | - | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Great Man's Whiskers | Andrew Hogan (Character) | - | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Feminist and the Fuzz | Warren Sorensen (Character) | - | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Front Page | Mayor (Character) | - | 1970 |
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The Littlest Angel | Angel of the Peace (Character) | - | 1969 |
89% |
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Midnight Cowboy | Mr. O'Daniel (Character) | $201.0K | 1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Pill Caper | Barton J. Reed (Character) | - | 1968 |
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The Spirit Is Willing | Uncle George (Character) | - | 1967 |
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Fitzwilly | Albert (Character) | - | 1967 |
67% |
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The Glass Bottom Boat | Ralph Goodwin (Character) | - | 1966 |
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Made in Paris | Roger Barclay (Character) | - | 1966 |
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Marriage on the Rocks | Shad Nathan (Character) | - | 1965 |
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A Global Affair | Mr. Snifter (Character) | - | 1964 |
63% |
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Man's Favorite Sport? | William Cadwalader (Character) | - | 1964 |
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Take Her, She's Mine | Hector G. Ivor (Character) | - | 1963 |
50% |
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Johnny Cool | Oscar B. "Oby" Hinds (Character) | - | 1963 |
57% |
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Who's Minding the Store? | Mr. John P. Tuttle (Character) | - | 1963 |
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Who's Got the Action? | Judge Fogel (Character) | - | 1962 |
71% |
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Period of Adjustment | Stewart P. McGill (Character) | - | 1962 |
80% |
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Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation | Mr. Martin Turner (Character) | - | 1962 |
97% |
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The Manchurian Candidate | Senator Thomas Jordan (Character) | $1.9M | 1962 |
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Bachelor in Paradise | Austin Palfrey (Character) | - | 1961 |
88% |
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Breakfast at Tiffany's | Tiffany's salesman (Character) | - | 1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Love in a Goldfish Bowl | Dr. Frowley (Character) | - | 1961 |
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The Gazebo | Sam Thorpe (Character) | - | 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Once Upon a Horse | Mr. Tharp (Character) | - | 1958 |
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I Married a Woman | Girard (Character) | - | 1958 |
81% |
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Love in the Afternoon | Monsieur X (Character) | - | 1957 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Man in the Raincoat | O'Brien (Character) | - | 1956 |
TV
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Alias Smith and Jones | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1971-1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Jimmy Stewart Show | Dr. Luther Quince (Character) | 1971-1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Virginian | John Timothy Driscoll (Guest Star) | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Name of the Game | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1971 |
No Score Yet | 45% | Bewitched | Bernard Bobbins (Guest Star) | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Doris Day Show | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1970 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | What's My Line? | Guest | 1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The High Chaparral | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1968 |
No Score Yet | 100% | The Wild, Wild West | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1967 |
90% | 73% | Gilligan's Island | Lord Beasley Waterford (Guest Star) | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Farmer's Daughter | Harry Marshall (Guest Star) | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gidget | Franklin Whiting (Guest Star) | 1966 |
100% | No Score Yet | The Man From U.N.C.L.E. | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Trials of O'Brien | Ben Gully (Guest Star) | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Dick Van Dyke Show | Ollie Wheelright (Guest Star) | 1965 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Fugitive | Jake Devlin (Guest Star) | 1964 |
92% | 96% | The Twilight Zone | Shannon (Character) | 1963-1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Beverly Hillbillies | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Lucy Show | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1962 1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mr. Novak | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bonanza | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cain's Hundred | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1961 |
No Score Yet | 87% | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Arthur Motherwell (Character) | 1958-1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Alcoa Hour | Mr. Bernhard (Character) | 1956 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The United States Steel Hour | Unknown (Character) | 1955 |