Cast: John Archer

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring John Archer. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


City of Missing Girls

1941 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction Elmer Clifton

Cast H.B. Warner · Astrid Allwyn · John Archer · Sarah Padden

Synopsis There's an epidemic of missing girls in the city. The new assistant district attorney has to figure out what's going on before he loses his job, especially with a nosy reporter making his life difficult.

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Scattergood Survives a Murder

1942 · Movie · 66 min. · United States

Direction Christy Cabanne

Cast Guy Kibbee · John Archer · Margaret Hayes · Wallace Ford

Synopsis Scattergood meets the new owner of the local newspaper, Dunker Gillson. One of Gillson's first tasks is to interview the wealthy but reclusive Quentin sisters, Lydia and Cynthia, who have stayed in their old musty house for years. The somewhat...

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Curtain Call

1940 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

Direction Frank Woodruff

Cast Alan Mowbray · Donald MacBride · Barbara Read · Helen Vinson

Synopsis A naive playwright sells her awful play, "The End of Everything," to two Broadway producers who want to get even with an ungrateful star.

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Sucker List (S)

1941 · Movie · 19 min. · United States

Direction Roy Rowland

Cast Lynne Carver · Noel Madison · John Archer · George Cleveland

Synopsis The subject of this Crime Does Not Pay series entry is fraudulent racetrack touts. One method they use is distributing phony tip sheets of yesterday's winners at a local track. They also "accidentally" call people who are deep in debt...

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The Great Jewel Robber

1950 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Peter Godfrey

Cast David Brian · Marjorie Reynolds · John Archer · Jacqueline deWit

Synopsis Escaping from a Canadian prison farm, master thief Gerard Dennis (David Brian) makes his way to Buffalo with Peggy Arthur (Perdita Chandler), who supplies him with money needed for forged papers. Dennis, Peggy and a crooked bartender in a Buffalo...

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Emergency Hospital

1956 · Movie · 62 min. · United States

Direction Lee Sholem

Cast Walter Reed · Margaret Lindsay · John Archer · Byron Palmer

Synopsis About the lives and loves of the staff of an emergency hospital as reflected in a single frenetic night of business-as-usual.

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Direction Andrew Marton · Tom Gries · Herman Hoffman · Richard Carlson

Cast George Nader · Raymond Bailey · Michael Keith · Joyce Meadows

Synopsis Dr. Glenn Barton is a scientist, explorer and all around adventurer which makes him perfect for the assignments the government sends him on. Whether it's testing space equipment or attempting rescues, his quick wits generally save the day.

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Ten Thousand Bedrooms

1957 · Movie · 114 min. · United States

Direction Richard Thorpe

Cast Dean Martin · Anna Maria Alberghetti · Eva Bartok · Dewey Martin

Synopsis In this musical-comedy, Dean Martin plays an American hotel mogul who becomes smitten with a young Italian woman (Anna Maria Alberghetti) when buying a hotel in Rome. To marry this gal, he has to get her three older sisters married...

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Direction Joseph D. Kucan

Cast Arthur Roberts · Barry Kramer · John Milford · Lynne Litteer

Synopsis In an alternative Earth, where Hitler was eliminated from history, you play either side of a new war of the Soviet Union vs. the Allies.

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The Outsider (TV Series)

1968 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Alexander Singer · Richard Benedict · Gene Levitt · Michael Ritchie

Cast Darren McGavin · Bill Quinn · James Edwards · Paul Hahn

Synopsis David Ross is a orphaned, ex-con, loner living in a world that loaths and makes a living as a private investgator in Los Angeles to tackle his financial problems and other people's problems as well.

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Your Show Time (TV Series)

1949 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Sobey Martin

Cast Arthur Shields · Leif Erickson · John Archer · Marc Daniels

Synopsis TV Series (1949). 1 seasons. 26 episodes. Filmed dramas of famous literary short stories by authors such as Guy de Maupassant, Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry James, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, etc. Hosted and narrated by Arthur Shields.

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High Lonesome

1950 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Alan Le May

Cast John Drew Barrymore · Chill Wills · John Archer · Lois Butler

Synopsis When a sudden spurt of murders occurs in the Big Bend country, suspicion immediately falls on a young drifter who just moved to the area.

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The People vs. Dr. Kildare

1941 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Harold S. Bucquet

Cast Lew Ayres · Lionel Barrymore · Laraine Day · Bonita Granville

Synopsis Kildare saves the life of an ice skater who was in an auto accident. But even though her broken leg has knit, she can't walk, and she tries to sue Kildare for malpractice, and Kildare's entire career and reputation now...

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Affair in Reno

1957 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction R.G. Springsteen

Cast John Lund · Doris Singleton · John Archer · Angela Greene

Synopsis Gloria Hall, an irresponsible heiress, is in Reno for her second divorce, and falls for Tony Lamarr, a fortune-hunting gambler and casino owner. J. B. Del Monte,her father in New York City, sends his public-relations man, Bill Carter, to buy...

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Sound Off

1952 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Richard Quine

Cast Mickey Rooney · Anne James · Sammy White · John Archer

Synopsis An obnoxious nightclub comedian at Ciro's is drafted into the U.S. Army during the Korean War. At his arrival at his basic training he meets a WAC Lieutenant and romantically pursues her. His activities irritate his drill sergeant and the...

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America for Me

1931 · Movie · 31 min. · United States

Direction Albert H. Kelley

Cast Ellen Drew · John Archer · Meg Randall · Robert Nichols

Synopsis A vacationing school teacher and her friend meet a cowboy on his way to a rodeo. The teacher and the cowboy fall in love while the travelogue camera takes in Texas, Colorado, New Mexico, Mardi Gras in New Orleans, San...

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Amelia Earhart (TV)

1976 · Movie · 150 min. · United States

Direction George Schaefer

Cast Susan Clark · John Forsythe · Stephen Macht · Susan Oliver

Synopsis Biography follows the life of famed woman pilot Amelia Earhart, including her marriage to a famous publisher and her disappearance during a flight in 1937.

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Rodeo

1952 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction William Beaudine

Cast Jane Nigh · John Archer · Wallace Ford · Gary Gray

Synopsis When the rodeo association owes her father a feed bill of $1,800, Nancy Cartwright goes to collect. To her shock, she discovers that not only has the association no funds, rodeo rider Slim Martin and others want Nancy to run...

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Navy Log (TV Series)

1955 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Samuel Gallu · Jean Yarbrough · Leslie Goodwins · Oscar Rudolph

Cast Robert Carson · Morgan Jones · Jack Larson · Robert Shayne

Synopsis Navy Log is an anthology series that relates the greatest survival war stories in the history of the United States Navy.

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