John Burton

John Burton

Born: April 6, 1904
Died: September 29, 1987
in London, England, UK
John Burton was an English-born actor who appeared in American films from 1923 to 1953.

Movies for John Burton...

Let's Ask Nostradamus
Title: Let's Ask Nostradamus
Character: Nostradamus
Released: June 6, 1953
Type: Movie
Nostradamus writes a letter to his young son, and his prophecies are compared to events of the French Revolution.
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Nostradamus Says So!
Title: Nostradamus Says So!
Character: Nostradamus
Released: January 3, 1953
Type: Movie
The life of the French seer and some of his selected quatrains are reviewed.
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The Day the Earth Stood Still
Title: The Day the Earth Stood Still
Character: British Radio Announcer
Released: September 28, 1951
Type: Movie
An alien and a robot land on Earth after World War II and tell mankind to be peaceful or face destruction.
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David and Bathsheba
Title: David and Bathsheba
Character: Priest (uncredited)
Released: August 10, 1951
Type: Movie
King David enters into an adulterous affair with the beautiful Bathsheba, which has tragic consequences for his family and Israel.
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The House on Telegraph Hill
Title: The House on Telegraph Hill
Character: Mr. Whitmore
Released: May 12, 1951
Type: Movie
Concentration camp survivor Victoria Kowelska finds herself involved in mystery, greed, and murder when she assumes the identity of a dead friend in order to gain passage to America.
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My Blue Heaven
Title: My Blue Heaven
Character: Lawyer (uncredited)
Released: September 15, 1950
Type: Movie
Radio star Kitty Moran, long married to partner Jack, finds she's pregnant, but miscarries. For a change, the couple turn their act into a series on early TV and try to adopt a baby. Finally they acquiring a girl in a somewhat back alley manner.
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Three Came Home
Title: Three Came Home
Character: Elderly Resident (uncredited)
Released: February 20, 1950
Type: Movie
Borneo, 1941, during World War II. When the Japanese occupy the island, American writer Agnes Newton Keith is separated from her husband and imprisoned with her son in a prison camp run by the enigmatic Colonel Suga.
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Everybody Does It
Title: Everybody Does It
Character: Mr. Murray (uncredited)
Released: October 24, 1949
Type: Movie
Leonard Borland loves his monied wife, but with his wrecking business looking shaky he treasures her all the more. So when she decides to try again to become an opera singer he indulges her. While organising a concert for her he meets glamorous Cecil Carver. She in turn discovers Leonard has a splendid voice, and encourages him to use it for reasons very much her own.
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The Fan
Title: The Fan
Character: Hoskins (uncredited)
Released: April 1, 1949
Type: Movie
Lord Windermere appears to all – including his young wife Margaret – to be the perfect husband. The couple's happy marriage is placed at risk when he starts paying visits to a mysterious beautiful newcomer, Mrs. Erylnne, who is determined to make her entry into London's high society. Worse, the secret gets back to Margaret that Windermere has been giving Mrs. Erylnne large sums of money.
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Captain from Castile
Title: Captain from Castile
Character: DeLora (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1947
Type: Movie
Spain, 1518: young caballero Pedro De Vargas offends his sadistic neighbor De Silva, who just happens to be an officer of the Inquisition. Forced to flee, Pedro, friend Juan Garcia, and adoring servant girl Catana join Cortez' first expedition to Mexico. Arriving in the rich new land, Cortez decides to switch from exploration to conquest...with only 500 men. Embroiled in continuous adventures and a romantic interlude, Pedro almost forgets he has a deadly enemy...
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Dark Delusion
Title: Dark Delusion
Character: Minister (uncredited)
Released: June 24, 1947
Type: Movie
Spoiled socialite Cynthia Grace is suffering from a blood clot. Not unexpectedly, Tommy Coalt falls in love with Cynthia, much to her parents' dismay. Soon he's drawing up plans to marry the girl and setting up private practice in a smaller town.
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Black Beauty
Title: Black Beauty
Character: Dr. White
Released: August 29, 1946
Type: Movie
Based on Anna Sewell's novel. In rural England of the 1880's, widower Squire Wendon is rearing his young daughter Anne. Her father has forbidden her to be present when their mare, "Duchess," gives birth. Anne sneaks out to the stable, however, and is discovered by her father who forbids her ever to ride Duchess again. Despite this punishment, he gives Anne Duchess's colt because it is her birthday, and she names him "Black Beauty."
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Three Strangers
Title: Three Strangers
Character: Narrator
Released: January 28, 1946
Type: Movie
On the eve of the Chinese New Year, three strangers, Crystal Shackleford, married to a wealthy philanderer; Jerome Artbutny, an outwardly respectable judge; and Johnny West, a seedy sneak thief, make a pact before a small statue of the Chinese goddess of Destiny. The threesome agree to purchase a sweepstakes ticket and share whatever winnings might accrue.
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The Woman in Green
Title: The Woman in Green
Character: Waring the Mesmerist (uncredited)
Released: June 15, 1945
Type: Movie
Sherlock Holmes investigates when young women around London turn up murdered, each with a finger severed. Scotland Yard suspects a madman, but Holmes believes the killings to be part of a diabolical plot.
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Enter Arsène Lupin
Title: Enter Arsène Lupin
Character: Radio Commentator (uncredited)
Released: November 24, 1944
Type: Movie
A rich but naive young woman is in possession of some priceless jewels. She herself doesn't know it, but a gang of jewel thieves does.
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The Very Thought of You
Title: The Very Thought of You
Character: Wounded Soldier (uncredited)
Released: October 20, 1944
Type: Movie
Army sergeants Dave and "Fixit" spend a three-day pass in Pasadena, where they meet Janet and Cora, two young women who work in a parachute factory.
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The Spider Woman
Title: The Spider Woman
Character: Radio Announcer (uncredited)
Released: December 24, 1943
Type: Movie
Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of so-called "pajama suicides". He knows the female villain behind them is as cunning as Moriarty and as venomous as a spider. Based on "The Sign of Four" and the short stories "The Dying Detective", "The Final Problem", "The Speckled Band" and "The Adventure of the Devil's Foot".
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Two Tickets to London
Title: Two Tickets to London
Character: Royce (uncredited)
Released: June 14, 1943
Type: Movie
Accused of helping an enemy submarine, a man escapes and joins a beautiful girl in trying to find the real traitors.
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Sherlock Holmes in Washington
Title: Sherlock Holmes in Washington
Character: Army Inspector (uncredited)
Released: March 24, 1943
Type: Movie
In World War II, a British secret agent carrying a vitally important document is kidnapped en route to Washington. The British government calls on Sherlock Holmes to recover it.
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Assignment in Brittany
Title: Assignment in Brittany
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
Released: March 11, 1943
Type: Movie
A French Resistance fighter discovers he's a dead ringer for a Nazi official.
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Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
Title: Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
Character: RAF Officer (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1942
Type: Movie
In the midst of World War II, Sherlock Holmes rescues the Swiss inventor of a new bomb-sight from the Gestapo and brings him to England, where he shortly falls into the clutches of Professor Moriarty.
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Journey for Margaret
Title: Journey for Margaret
Character: Surgeon (uncredited)
Released: December 17, 1942
Type: Movie
An American newspaperman and his wife, end up in London after several retreats in the opening days of WWII. After a shrapnel wound and loss of her baby she returns to America. War weary, he is forced to do a story about war orphans, where he meets Margaret.
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Random Harvest
Title: Random Harvest
Character: Pearson (uncredited)
Released: December 17, 1942
Type: Movie
An amnesiac World War I vet falls in love with a music hall star, only to suffer an accident which restores his original memories but erases his post-War life.
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White Cargo
Title: White Cargo
Character: Jim Benson (uncredited)
Released: December 12, 1942
Type: Movie
In Africa early in World War II, a British rubber plantation executive reminisces about his arrival in the Congo in 1910. He tells the story of a love-hate triangle involving Harry Witzel, an in-country station superintendent who'd seen it all, Langford, a new manager sent from England for a four-year stint, and Tondelayo, a siren of great beauty who desires silk and baubles. Witzel is gruff and seasoned, certain that Langford won't be able to cut it. Langford responds with determination and anger, attracted to Tondelayo because of her beauty, her wiles, and to get at Witzel. Manipulation, jealousy, revenge, and responsibility play out as alliances within the triangle shift.
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The Black Swan
Title: The Black Swan
Character: Captain Blaine (uncredited)
Released: December 4, 1942
Type: Movie
When notorious pirate Henry Morgan is made governor of Jamaica, he enlists the help of some of his former partners in ridding the Caribbean of buccaneers. When one of them apparently abducts the previous governor's pretty daughter and joins up with the rebels, things are set for a fight.
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Invisible Agent
Title: Invisible Agent
Character: R.A.F. Flier (uncredited)
Released: August 7, 1942
Type: Movie
The Invisible Man's grandson uses his secret formula to spy on Nazi Germany in this comedy-thriller.
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Pierre of the Plains
Title: Pierre of the Plains
Character: Prosecutor (uncredited)
Released: July 29, 1942
Type: Movie
A French-Canadian trapper's adventures jeopardize his romance with an innkeeper.
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Mrs. Miniver
Title: Mrs. Miniver
Character: Halliday (uncredited)
Released: July 3, 1942
Type: Movie
Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charming granddaughter of the local nobility as represented by Lady Beldon. Then the war comes and Vin joins the RAF.
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Eagle Squadron
Title: Eagle Squadron
Character: Wing Commander
Released: June 16, 1942
Type: Movie
An American joins the British Royal Air Force just before Pearl Harbor is attacked, and falls in love with a beautiful English girl.
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Further Prophecies of Nostradamus
Title: Further Prophecies of Nostradamus
Character: Michel de Nostradamus (uncredited)
Released: May 9, 1942
Type: Movie
This short film applies the prophecies of Nostradamus to events of World War II.
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A Yank in the R.A.F.
Title: A Yank in the R.A.F.
Character: Captain (uncredited)
Released: September 26, 1941
Type: Movie
An American pilot impulsively joins His Majesty's Royal Air Force in Britain in an attempt to impress his ex-girlfriend.
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Rage in Heaven
Title: Rage in Heaven
Character: Court Clerk (uncredited)
Released: March 7, 1941
Type: Movie
A jealous man frames his wife's suspected lover for murder.
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Whispers
Title: Whispers
Character: Anthony Hubbard (uncredited)
Released: February 8, 1941
Type: Movie
In this John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short we see how gossip can be used to spread propaganda or to ruin a person's reputation.
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More About Nostradamus
Title: More About Nostradamus
Character: Michel de Nostradamus (uncredited)
Released: January 18, 1941
Type: Movie
This short film portrays Nostradamus as having predicted the horrors of WWI and Hitler's rise to power, as well as the eventual triumph of "the daughter of the English Isles" against these forces. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Short Subject, One-Reel.
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Dark Streets of Cairo
Title: Dark Streets of Cairo
Character: Official (uncredited)
Released: December 1, 1940
Type: Movie
A rapid series of murders occurs when a professor disrupts a tranquil Egyptian tomb by removing some precious jewels.
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Foreign Correspondent
Title: Foreign Correspondent
Character: English Announcer
Released: August 16, 1940
Type: Movie
American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an assassination and stumbles on a spy ring, he seeks help from a beautiful politician’s daughter and an urbane English journalist to uncover the truth.
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Phantom Raiders
Title: Phantom Raiders
Character: Steve Donnigan of Scotland Yard (uncredited)
Released: June 7, 1940
Type: Movie
In this second Carter mystery, a mysterious rash of cargo ships sinking in Panama leads insurers Llewellyns of London to hire vacationer Nick Carter and his eccentric associate Bartholomew to investigate. Nick recognizes influential nightclub owner Al Taurez as a shady operator, but getting the goods on him depends on slick diversions involving the heavyweight champ of the Pacific Tuna Fleet, a Panamanian bombshell armed with American slang, a young couple in love and a whole raft of crooks and cutthroats.
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The Earl of Chicago
Title: The Earl of Chicago
Character: Clerk (uncredited)
Released: January 5, 1940
Type: Movie
A behind the times Chicago bootlegger goes to England with his lawyer to claim his estate as the Earl of Gorley.
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Rulers of the Sea
Title: Rulers of the Sea
Character: Seaman (uncredited)
Released: November 8, 1939
Type: Movie
The struggle of a man to build a steam ship to take him across the Atlantic in spite of all setbacks, and his win against a crack sailing boat in the early 19th century.
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The Sun Never Sets
Title: The Sun Never Sets
Character: Simon Randolph
Released: May 31, 1939
Type: Movie
The Randolph family have a tradition of working in the British colonial service. Clive comes home from a mission in the Gold Coast of Africa accompanied by his wife Helen. He discovers his younger brother John, is not keen on following in his footsteps. John is then persuaded to try colonial service by his grandfather. He is accompanied by Clive who has been sent to investigate the source of a series of radio broadcasts that are sewing unrest throughout the world. These may be linked to Hugo Zurof, a man plotting to rule the world.
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Storm Over Bengal
Title: Storm Over Bengal
Character: Sir Austin Carter
Released: November 14, 1938
Type: Movie
This being a Republic picture, it should come as no surprise that Storm Over Bengal was filmed in its entirety in the San Fernando Valley. Within its concise 65 minutes, the film manages to accommodate a Bengal Lancers main plot, a romantic subplot, the obligatory coward who makes good, intrigue aplenty from a villainous Indian potentate, and an outsized climactic battle between the rebels and the British forces. Patric Knowles, previously one of the leads in the British-India epic Charge of the Light Brigade, heads the cast. Worth noting is the presence in the cast of Richard Cromwell as secondary romantic lead Neil Allison and Douglass Dumbrille as the despicable Khan. Three years earlier, Cromwell had been tortured by Dumbrille's minions in Lives of a Bengal Lancer, and he undergoes much the same treatment here-"just to make him feel at home" observed film historian Roger Dooley.
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Nostradamus
Title: Nostradamus
Character: Nostradamus (uncredited)
Released: September 24, 1938
Type: Movie
A look at various predictions Nostradamus made, such as the American and French Revolutions.
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Marie Antoinette
Title: Marie Antoinette
Character: Lafayette (uncredited)
Released: August 26, 1938
Type: Movie
The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the rival countries. The opulent Marie indulges in various whims and flirtations. When Louis XV passes and Louis XVI ascends the French throne, his queen's extravagant lifestyle earns the hatred of the French people, who despise her Austrian heritage.
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Bravest of the Brave
Title: Bravest of the Brave
Character: Marshal Michel Ney (uncredited)
Released: August 6, 1938
Type: Movie
This short film looks at the life of Michel Ney, who fought at Napoleon's side and was made a Marshall of France.
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Lord Jeff
Title: Lord Jeff
Character: John Cartwright
Released: June 17, 1938
Type: Movie
Spoiled child Geoffrey Bramer teams up with a pair of small time crooks to pose as an aristocrat and steal jewelry from exclusive shops. During a a caper, Geoffrey is caught and is sentenced to a reformatory where young men are trained to be sailors. He is befriended by model in-mate Terry O'Mulvaney but soon starts to get them both in trouble.
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Kidnapped
Title: Kidnapped
Character: Lieutenant Stone
Released: May 27, 1938
Type: Movie
Robert Louis Stevenson's hero David Balfour joins rebel Alan Breck Stewart in 18th-century Scotland.
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The King Without a Crown
Title: The King Without a Crown
Character: Inquiring French Nobleman Hudson (uncredited)
Released: October 9, 1937
Type: Movie
This short explores the possibility that Louis XVII, son of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, escaped death during the French Revolution and was raised by Indians in America.
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Lancer Spy
Title: Lancer Spy
Character: Lieutenant (uncredited)
Released: October 8, 1937
Type: Movie
An Englishman impersonates an imprisoned German officer and "returns" to Germany to become a national hero. A female German spy is assigned to check him out but falls in love with him.
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Slave Ship
Title: Slave Ship
Character: Officer
Released: June 16, 1937
Type: Movie
Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced against his will to again transport human cargo.
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Lost Horizon
Title: Lost Horizon
Character: Wynant (uncredited)
Released: March 3, 1937
Type: Movie
British diplomat Robert Conway and a small group of civilians crash land in the Himalayas, and are rescued by the people of the mysterious, Eden-like valley of Shangri-la. Protected by the mountains from the world outside, where the clouds of World War II are gathering, Shangri-la provides a seductive escape for the world-weary Conway.
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Beloved Enemy
Title: Beloved Enemy
Character: Hall
Released: December 25, 1936
Type: Movie
In 1921, British Lord Athleigh arrives in Dublin with his daughter, Helen, to engage in peace talks. As wanted Irish rebel leader Dennis Riordan is not recognized in public, he is able to move about freely and saves the Athleighs from an assassination attempt by a radical faction. Dennis and Helen meet again and, unaware of his position, Helen falls in love with him. Later when Dennis admits his identity, Helen must make a fateful decision.
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Lloyd's of London
Title: Lloyd's of London
Character: Lord Nelson
Released: November 25, 1936
Type: Movie
Norfolk, England, 1770. The nephew of an innkeeper and the son of a reverend maintain a very close friendship until, after living a great adventure, they must separate their paths. The former will head his footsteps to London and bound his destiny to Lloyd's, a thriving insurance company; the latter will eventually become one of the greatest heroes in the history of the British Empire.
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The Flames of Wrath
Title: The Flames of Wrath
Character: William Jackson
Released: January 1, 1923
Type: Movie
After P. C. Gordon is murdered and robbed of a diamond ring that he bought as a birthday present for his wife, one of the thieves, C. Dates, is apprehended. A woman prosecuting attorney makes a compelling case against him, and he is given a ten-year penitentiary sentence.