John Bromfield

John Bromfield

Born: June 11, 1922
Died: September 18, 2005
in South Bend, Indiana, USA
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John Bromfield (né Farron Bromfield) (June 11, 1922 - September 19, 2005) was an American film and television actor.

Bromfield was born in South Bend, Indiana. He played football and was a boxing champion in college. He served in the United States Navy. In 1948, he twice harpooned a whale in the documentary film Harpoon. In 1948, he was cast as a detective in the film Sorry, Wrong Number, starring Burt Lancaster and Barbara Stanwyck for Columbia Pictures. In 1953, Bromfield appeared with Esther Williams in the film Easy to Love set in bathing suit attire in Cypress Gardens, Florida. In the middle 1950s, he appeared in westerns, such as NBC's Frontier anthology series in the role of a sheriff in the episode "The Hanging at Thunder Butte Creek". He also starred in horror films, including the 1955 3D production, Revenge of the Creature, one of the Creature from the Black Lagoon sequels.

In 1956, Bromfield was cast as law enforcement officer Frank Morgan in the syndicated western-themed crime drama series, Sheriff of Cochise, later retitled by studio boss Desi Arnaz, Sr., as U.S. Marshal. The real sheriff of Cochise County at the time, Jack Howard, visited the set when the program began and made Bromfield an honorary deputy. Bromfield once told the Los Angeles Times: "About 40 million see 'Sheriff of Cochise' or 'U.S. Marshal' every week. I'd have to do about twenty-five pictures, major pictures, over a span of eight or nine years for enough people to see me in the theater who see me in one week on 'U.S. Marshal'. ... The show is seen all over the world. Television is a fabulous medium." The series was actually created by his co-star Stan Jones (1914–1963), who appeared in twenty-four segments as Deputy Harry Olson. Sheriff of Cochise featured numerous young actors who later became well-known in the industry: Mike Connors, Gavin MacLeod, David Janssen, Michael Landon, Stacy Keach, Charles Bronson, Jack Lord, Doug McClure, Ross Martin, and Martin Milner.

In 1960, Bromfield retired from acting to produce sports shows and work as a commercial fisherman off Newport Beach, California. Bromfield was divorced from actresses Corinne Calvet (1925–2001) and Larri Thomas (born 1933). He died at the age of eighty-three of renal failure in Palm Desert, California, having been survived by his third wife of forty-three years, Mary Bromfield.

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When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
Title: When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
Character: Self
Released: June 5, 1979
Type: Movie
Some of TV and film's popular western actors reunite in this tribute special hosted by Glenn Ford.
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Officer Morgan and a Man of Mystery
Title: Officer Morgan and a Man of Mystery
Character: Officer Morgan
Released: August 13, 1961
Type: Movie
Detective Morgan and the Japanese police cooperate to unveil the truth of the mysterious death of Morgan’s friend in Arizona.
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Title: U.S. Marshal
Released: October 11, 1958
Type: TV
United States Marshal (renamed from Sheriff of Cochise) is a crime drama set in Tuscon, Arizona about a U.S. Marshal fighting crime. After "U.S. Marshal" ended its run in 1960, both it and its predecessor series "The Sheriff of Cochise" were syndicated under the unified title "The Man from Cochise". This series was created when the title character of the 1956-58 TV series The Sheriff of Cochise (1956), a role also played by John Bromfield, accepted the position of U.S. Marshal based in Yuma, AZ.
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Curucu, Beast of the Amazon
Title: Curucu, Beast of the Amazon
Character: Rock Dean
Released: December 1, 1956
Type: Movie
Rock and Dr. Andrea travel up the Amazon to find out why the plantation workers have left their work in panic, allegedly because of attacks from Curucu, a monster who is said to live up the river where no white man has ever been before...
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Hot Cars
Title: Hot Cars
Character: Nick Dunn
Released: November 2, 1956
Type: Movie
Story of a salesman lured into the "hot car" racket.
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Title: U.S. Marshall
Character: Sheriff Frank Morgan
Released: September 21, 1956
Type: TV
While this sounds like a western, THE SHERIFF OF COCHISE was a contemporary police drama set in Cochise County, AZ. Sheriff Frank Morgan was eventually promoted to U.S. Marshall and given the entire state of Arizona to keep under control (the series title would subsequently change to U.S. MARSHAL and remain in syndication until 1960)
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Frontier Gambler
Title: Frontier Gambler
Character: Curt Darrow
Released: July 1, 1956
Type: Movie
A deputy marshal arrives in the small western town of Fairweather to investigate the death of a beautiful gambler known as "The Princess".
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Quincannon, Frontier Scout
Title: Quincannon, Frontier Scout
Character: Lt. Burke
Released: May 1, 1956
Type: Movie
A young woman hires a frontier scout to help her discover if her brother died in an Indian attack on a remote fort.
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Crime Against Joe
Title: Crime Against Joe
Character: Joe Manning
Released: March 21, 1956
Type: Movie
Down-and-out artist Joe Manning (John Bromfield) wakes up from a night of drunken revelry in a jail cell, where he's being held on suspicion for the murder of a nightclub singer.
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Manfish
Title: Manfish
Character: Brannigan
Released: February 1, 1956
Type: Movie
Three deep sea divers get involved in murder while searching for a lost treasure.
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Three Bad Sisters
Title: Three Bad Sisters
Character: Jim Norton
Released: January 1, 1956
Type: Movie
Following the death of a wealthy man, his three daughters squabble about who should be the principal heiress.
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Title: Frontier
Released: September 25, 1955
Type: TV
Frontier is an American Western anthology series that aired on NBC from September 1955, to September 1956. The series de-emphasizes gunplay and focuses on the hazards of the settlement of the American West. It was only the second anthology Western series in television history, having been preceded by Death Valley Days. Frontier aired premiered on September 25, 1955, and ran sporadically in its last five months. Walter Coy narrated the series and starred in occasional episodes, which are dramatizations based on actual events. The program was produced by Worthington Miner.
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The Big Bluff
Title: The Big Bluff
Character: Ricardo De Villa
Released: June 5, 1955
Type: Movie
When a scheming fortune hunter finds his rich wife is not going to die as expected, he and his lover make other plans to get her millions.
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Revenge of the Creature
Title: Revenge of the Creature
Character: Joe Hayes
Released: May 13, 1955
Type: Movie
In a tributary of the Amazon, a monster – half-man, half-fish – is captured and placed in a reservoir in a Florida national park to be observed by scientists.
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The Black Dakotas
Title: The Black Dakotas
Character: Mike Daugherty
Released: September 2, 1954
Type: Movie
During the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln sends an emissary with a peace treaty to the Sioux Indians. He also sends a gift of $130,000 in gold. This attracts the attention of Brock Marsh, the secret leader of a Confederate spy ring, who wants to keep the treaty from being signed and to also get his hands on the gold. Ruth Lawrence and Mike Daugherty work together against the machinations of Marsh
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Ring of Fear
Title: Ring of Fear
Character: Armand St. Denis
Released: July 23, 1954
Type: Movie
Mystery writer Mickey Spillane tries to help Clyde Beatty deal with a plot to sabotage his circus.
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Easy to Love
Title: Easy to Love
Character: Hank
Released: November 26, 1953
Type: Movie
Two men vie for the heart of a Cypress Gardens swimming star.
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Flat Top
Title: Flat Top
Character: Ens. Snakehips McKay
Released: October 26, 1952
Type: Movie
A rock hard commander trains Navy Carrier Pilots during the Second World War
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Hold That Line
Title: Hold That Line
Character: Biff Wallace
Released: March 23, 1952
Type: Movie
The Bowery Boys are enrolled in a fancy college by a pair of rich snobs who think they can turn the Boys into classy guys. Sach becomes a football star, and is kidnapped by gangsters to keep him out of the big game.
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Title: Racket Squad
Released: June 7, 1951
Type: TV
Racket Squad is an American TV crime drama series starring Reed Hadley as Captain John Braddock, a fictional detective working for the San Francisco, California Police Department. The show aired in syndication for a season before being picked up by CBS for three seasons. The series was filmed at Hal Roach Studios in Culver City, California, and was sponsored by cigarette manufacturer Philip Morris, hence there was a pack of the sponsor's brand on Braddock's desk at the beginning and end of the episode, as well as occasional scenes of him or other characters "lighting up".
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The Furies
Title: The Furies
Character: Clay Jeffords
Released: August 16, 1950
Type: Movie
A New Mexico cattle man and his strong-willed daughter clash over land and love.
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Paid in Full
Title: Paid in Full
Character: Dr. Clark
Released: February 15, 1950
Type: Movie
Two sisters fall in love with the same man. After the wedding, the new husband realizes he may have married the wrong sister.
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Rope of Sand
Title: Rope of Sand
Character: Thompson (guard)
Released: August 3, 1949
Type: Movie
Story of a South African diamond mine watched over by a sadistic policeman tasked with looking out for smugglers.
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Sorry, Wrong Number
Title: Sorry, Wrong Number
Character: Joe (Detective)
Released: September 24, 1948
Type: Movie
Leona Stevenson is confined to bed and uses her telephone to keep in contact with the outside world. One day she overhears a murder plot on the telephone and is desperate to find out who is the intended victim.