John Close

John Close

Born: June 1, 1921
Died: December 21, 1963

Movies for John Close...

The Slime People
Title: The Slime People
Character: KTTV Reporter Vince Williams
Released: March 29, 1963
Type: Movie
After Los Angeles is invaded by an army of subterranean monsters, a small group of people must fight for survival in the deserted metropolis.
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Convicts 4
Title: Convicts 4
Character: Guard
Released: September 15, 1962
Type: Movie
After his death sentence is commuted to life in prison, John Resko is transferred from Sing-Sing to Dannemora where, with the help of a humane prison guard, he becomes a rehabilitated man and a successful painter.
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Title: The Twilight Zone
Character: Cop
Released: October 2, 1959
Type: TV
A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.
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Title: Men into Space
Character: Col. Ferretti
Released: September 30, 1959
Type: TV
Men Into Space is an American science-fiction television series broadcast from September 30, 1959 to September 7, 1960 by CBS which depicted future efforts by the United States Air Force to explore and develop outer space. The black-and-white filmed show starred William Lundigan as Col. Edward McCauley.
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Step Down to Terror
Title: Step Down to Terror
Character: Detective (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1958
Type: Movie
Pursued by detectives, Johnny Walters leaves the city to visit his family in a small California town. Among the household: his dead brother's luscious widow Helen, who soon is attracted to him. Ominous events and conflicting evidence leave Helen suspicious, but uncertain about her brother-in-law as tension builds...
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Run Silent, Run Deep
Title: Run Silent, Run Deep
Character: Co-ordinate Fixer at Bungo Straits (uncredited)
Released: March 27, 1958
Type: Movie
The captain of a submarine sunk by the Japanese during WWII is finally given a chance to skipper another sub after a year of working a desk job. His singleminded determination for revenge against the destroyer that sunk his previous vessel puts his new crew in unneccessary danger.
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Beginning of the End
Title: Beginning of the End
Character: Maj. Everett
Released: June 28, 1957
Type: Movie
An attractive reporter investigating the mysterious destruction of an Illinois town stumbles upon a secret government laboratory conducting radiation experiments on vegetables. The lead scientist is eager to help find out what happened. Together they discover that giant grasshoppers are behind the devastation. Worse yet, thousands of them are headed toward Chicago! Can they be stopped... or is this the BEGINNING OF THE END?
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The Monster That Challenged the World
Title: The Monster That Challenged the World
Character: Deputy Larry
Released: June 14, 1957
Type: Movie
Giants Mollusks are released from the earth by an earthquake and start killing people.
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Footsteps in the Night
Title: Footsteps in the Night
Character: Detective Mac McConnell (Uncredited)
Released: April 14, 1957
Type: Movie
Two detectives investigate the strangulation murder of a man whom everyone seemed to like.
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Chain of Evidence
Title: Chain of Evidence
Character: Lead State Trooper
Released: January 6, 1957
Type: Movie
A police lieutenant fights to prove a boy's innocence after he's accused of murder. The fourth of five Ben Schwab productions that starred Bill Elliott as a detective lieutenant in the L.A. Sheriff's department.
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World Without End
Title: World Without End
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: March 25, 1956
Type: Movie
Four astronauts returning from man's first mission to Mars enter a time warp and crash on a 26th Century Earth devastated by atomic war. At first unaware where they are, but finding the atmosphere safe to breathe, they start exploring and find themselves in a divided future where disfigured mutants living like cavemen inhabit the surface, while the normals live comfortably below the surface but are dying as a race from lack of natural water, air and sunlight.
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The Spoilers
Title: The Spoilers
Character: Deputy
Released: December 23, 1955
Type: Movie
In 1899 Alaska, miners have to protect themselves from a phony legal team trying to steal their gold claims.
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Sudden Danger
Title: Sudden Danger
Character: Det. Sgt. Mike Duncan
Released: December 14, 1955
Type: Movie
Detective Andy Doyle suspects that a suicide is actually a murder. He suspects the victim's son, Wallace who is blind and he pursues him until he gets to the truth.
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Rebel Without a Cause
Title: Rebel Without a Cause
Character: Police Officer (uncredited)
Released: October 27, 1955
Type: Movie
After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark is supposed to have a clean slate, although being the new kid in town brings its own problems. While searching for some stability, Stark forms a bond with a disturbed classmate, Plato, and falls for local girl Judy. However, Judy is the girlfriend of neighborhood tough, Buzz. When Buzz violently confronts Jim and challenges him to a drag race, the new kid's real troubles begin.
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Illegal
Title: Illegal
Character: Prison Switchboard Guard (uncredited)
Released: October 9, 1955
Type: Movie
A hugely successful DA goes into private practice after sending a man to the chair -- only to find out later he was innocent. Now the drunken attorney only seems to represent criminals and low lifes.
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Title: Highway Patrol
Character: 'Stash' Irwin
Released: October 3, 1955
Type: TV
Highway Patrol was a syndicated, fictional police action series produced from 1955 to 1959, concerning the activities of the highway patrol and their leader, Dan Matthews (who held no rank). Although filmed in and around the Los Angeles area, the state setting for the stories was never identified, and city and street names were fictionalized.
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Finger Man
Title: Finger Man
Character: 'Big' Walters
Released: June 15, 1955
Type: Movie
An ex-con is inspired to go undercover and "finger" the mob after finding out his sister is hooked on illegal drugs.
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Black Tuesday
Title: Black Tuesday
Character: Cop (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 1954
Type: Movie
Vicious gangster Vincent Canelli pulls off a daring prison escape just moments before going to the electric chair, taking with him Peter Manning – a bank robber and cop killer who was to die right after him. Taking several hostages along, they try to get their hands on the loot from Manning’s robbery to finance their escape from the country.
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Take the High Ground!
Title: Take the High Ground!
Character: Military Policeman (uncredited)
Released: October 30, 1953
Type: Movie
Sgt. Thorne Ryan, who once fought bravely in Korea, now serves as a hard-nosed drill instructor to new Army recruits at Fort Bliss, Texas. But is he really the man he is often described as? His fellow instructor, and friend helps him to face the ghosts of his past experiences in Korea. One night in a bar across the border in Juarez, Mexico, Sgt. Ryan meets a lady who begins to turn his life around. Will this be enough to help him deal with the past? Or will he continue to be so hard on his troops?
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The Big Heat
Title: The Big Heat
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
Released: October 14, 1953
Type: Movie
Tough cop Dave Bannion takes on a politically powerful crime syndicate. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment in 1997.
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Title: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Character: Olympic Team Coach (uncredited)
Released: July 14, 1953
Type: Movie
Lorelei Lee is a beautiful showgirl engaged to be married to the wealthy Gus Esmond, much to the disapproval of Gus' rich father, Esmond Sr., who thinks that Lorelei is just after his money. When Lorelei goes on a cruise accompanied only by her best friend, Dorothy Shaw, Esmond Sr. hires Ernie Malone, a private detective, to follow her and report any questionable behavior that would disqualify her from the marriage.
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Fangs of the Arctic
Title: Fangs of the Arctic
Character: Henchman Howell
Released: January 18, 1953
Type: Movie
Canadian Mounties Corporal Rod Webb and Constable Mike Kelly, along with Rod's dog Chinook, are sent to the Blackfoot Crossing country to find a killer.
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Title: Four Star Playhouse
Character: Lt. Johnson
Released: September 25, 1952
Type: TV
Four Star Playhouse is an American television anthology series that ran from 1952 to 1956, sponsored in its first bi-weekly season by The Singer Company; Bristol-Myers became an alternate sponsor when it became a weekly series in the fall of 1953. The original premise was that Charles Boyer, Ida Lupino, David Niven, and Dick Powell would take turns starring in episodes. However, several other performers took the lead from time to time, including Ronald Colman and Joan Fontaine. Blake Edwards was among the writers and directors who contributed to the series. Edwards created the recurring character of illegal gambling house operator Willie Dante for Dick Powell to play on this series. The character was later revamped and spun off in his own series starring Howard Duff, then-husband of Lupino. The pilot for Meet McGraw, starring Frank Lovejoy, aired here, as did another episode in which Lovejoy recreated his role of Chicago newspaper reporter Randy Stone, from the radio drama Nightbeat.
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You for Me
Title: You for Me
Character: Cop (uncredited)
Released: July 19, 1952
Type: Movie
A good-hearted nurse gets mixed up with a millionaire who could help her hospital.
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We're Not Married!
Title: We're Not Married!
Character: Major (uncredited)
Released: July 11, 1952
Type: Movie
A Justice of the Peace performed weddings a few days before his license was valid. A few years later five couples learn they have never been legally married.
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Red Skies of Montana
Title: Red Skies of Montana
Character: Lewisohn (uncredited)
Released: January 23, 1952
Type: Movie
When a large forest fire breaks out in the mountains of Montana, a squad of 'Smoke Jumpers', the paratroop-corps of fire-fighters in the U. S. Forest Service, is flown to the scene from their regional headquarters in Missoula, Montana. The Forest Rangers, under Cliff Mason, put out the blaze, but several of the fire-fighters are killed. Ed Miller, son of one of the dead rangers, thinks he died because Mason was a coward, and sets out to prove it.
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The Girl on the Bridge
Title: The Girl on the Bridge
Character: Harry Olson (as Johnny Close)
Released: December 1, 1951
Type: Movie
A young woman's suicide attempt is stopped by an old man passing by. The two fall in love -- but the relationship between the young girl and old man is threatened when a blackmailer from her past shows up.
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Submarine Command
Title: Submarine Command
Character: Frogman (as John V. Close)
Released: November 1, 1951
Type: Movie
Submarine commander Ken White is forced to suddenly submerge, leaving his captain and another crew member to die outside the sub during WW II. Subsequent years of meaningless navy ground assignments and the animosity of a former sailor, leave White (now a captain) feeling guilty and empty. His life spirals downward and his wife is about to leave him. Suddenly, he is forced into a dangerous rescue situation at the start of the Koren War.... reassigned to the same submarine where all of his problems began.
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Halls of Montezuma
Title: Halls of Montezuma
Character: Marine (uncredited)
Released: January 4, 1951
Type: Movie
Richard Widmark leads an all star cast of marine leathernecks including Jack Palance, Robert Wagner, Karl Malden, Richard Boone and Jack Webb into battle on a heavily fortified island. This action-packed story follows the squad as they pick their way through enemy-infested jungles on a time sensitive mission to find the source of the enemy rockets. As the mission progresses, the squad and leader overcome many challenges as they are transformed into an effective and efficient fighting unit.
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The Breaking Point
Title: The Breaking Point
Character: Deputy (uncredited)
Released: October 6, 1950
Type: Movie
A fisherman with money problems hires out his boat to transport criminals.
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Where the Sidewalk Ends
Title: Where the Sidewalk Ends
Character: Hanson (uncredited)
Released: July 7, 1950
Type: Movie
A police detective's violent nature keeps him from being a good cop.