
John Payne
John Payne was an American stage, screen, and television actor. He is best remembered as a singer in 20th Century Fox musical films and for his roles in Miracle on 34th Street (1947) and the television series The Restless Gun (1957-1959).
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 0.119 |
Birthday | 1912-05-28 |
Place of Birth | Roanoke, Virginia, USA |
Also Known As | John Howard Payne, |

1952

Kansas City Confidential
7.1/135
An ex-convict sets out to uncover who framed him for an armored car robbery.
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Kansas City Confidential

1947

Miracle on 34th Street
7.4/765
Kris Kringle, seemingly the embodiment of Santa Claus, is asked to portray the jolly old fellow at Macy's following his performance in the Thanksgivin...
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Miracle on 34th Street

1943

Hello, Frisco, Hello
6.2/30
In turn-of-the-century San Francisco, an ambitious vaudevillian takes his quartet from a honky tonk to the big time, while spurning the love of his tr...
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Hello, Frisco, Hello

1956

Slightly Scarlet
6.1/30
Kleptomaniac Dorothy Lyons is paroled from prison into the custody of her sister June, secretary to "reform" politician Frank Jansen. Ben Grace, assoc...
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Slightly Scarlet

1948

Larceny
5.7/13
Rick Mason is the no-good lowdown rat who tries to capitalize on postwar patriotism and grief. He finagles a war widow into giving up her savings for...
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Larceny

1954

Silver Lode
6.1/59
Dan Ballard, a respected citizen in the western town of Silver Lode, has his wedding interrupted by four men led by Ned McCarty, an old acquaintance w...
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Silver Lode

1953

99 River Street
6.8/72
A former boxer turned taxi driver earns the scorn of his nagging wife and gets mixed up with jewel thieves.
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99 River Street

1955

Tennessee's Partner
6.5/20
A tough, womanizing high-stakes gambler known only as Tennessee has an uneasy relationship with Duchess, madam of a thinly-disguised bordello, and no...
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Tennessee's Partner

1953

The Vanquished
4.6/12
A man returns to his home -- a post Civil-War village -- and finds the law is in the hands of a few scrupulous people.
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The Vanquished

1949

The Crooked Way
6.4/31
A war veteran suffering from amnesia, returns to Los Angeles from a San Francisco veterans hospital hoping to learn who he is and discovers his crimin...
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The Crooked Way

1942

Footlight Serenade
0/0
Conceited World Champion boxer Tommy Lundy decides to test his popularity in a Broadway show. Tommy always has an eye for the ladies and he starts pay...
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Footlight Serenade

1942

Springtime in the Rockies
6.7/12
Broadway partners Vicky Lane and Dan Christy have a tiff over Christy's womanizing. Jealous Vicky takes up with her old flame and former dance partner...
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Springtime in the Rockies

1941

Sun Valley Serenade
6.9/24
When Phil Corey's band arrives at the Idaho ski resort its pianist Ted Scott is smitten with a Norwegian refugee he has sponsored, Karen Benson. When...
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Sun Valley Serenade

1956

The Boss
5.5/11
A crusading politician falls prey to the temptations of power.
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The Boss

1951

Crosswinds
5.9/7
A sailor gets his boat stolen from him after he's set up for a crime.
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Crosswinds

1955

Hell's Island
5.4/11
Down-on-his-luck Mike Cormack is hired to fly to a Caribbean island to retrieve a missing ruby. On the island, possibly involved with the ruby's disap...
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Hell's Island

1941

Week-End in Havana
6.6/9
A ship company employee, Jay Williams, is sent to Florida where one of the company cruise ships is stuck on a reef off of the coast. He obtains waiver...
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Week-End in Havana

1940

Star Dust
4.7/3
When Hollywood film studios reject her because she's too young, an Arkansas woman sets out to build a career as an actress on her own.
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Star Dust

1946

The Razor's Edge
6.9/90
An adventurous young man goes off to find himself and loses his socialite fiancée in the process. But when he returns 10 years later, she will stop at...
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The Razor's Edge

1941

Remember the Day
6.6/5
Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation to Da...
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Remember the Day

1957

Hidden Fear
5/7
A U.S. lawman busts Copenhagen counterfeiters to help his sister, falsely accused of murder.
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Hidden Fear

1955

Santa Fe Passage
5.8/15
A disgraced Indian scout and his partner are hired to escort a wagonload of guns through Indian territory.
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Santa Fe Passage

1942

To the Shores of Tripoli
5.1/14
Chronicle of a spoiled rich boy who joins the Marines with an off-handed attitude and finally becomes a battle-wise soldier.
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To the Shores of Tripoli

1956

Rebel in Town
7/6
Ex-Confederate Bedloe Mason and his four sons ride into a small Western town with robbery in mind. Hearing a suspicious "click," Wes Mason whirls and...
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Rebel in Town

1945

The Dolly Sisters
5.5/8
Two sisters from Hungary become famous entertainers in the early 1900s. Fictionalized biography with lots of songs.
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The Dolly Sisters

1939

Wings of the Navy
6/5
Jerry tries to out compete his older brother Cass, a lieutenant Naval aviator. Cass is both tough on and protective of his brother, but Jerry can give...
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Wings of the Navy

1956

Hold Back The Night
6.3/3
A Marine officer (John Payne) goes through Korea with the bottle of Scotch that his wife (Mona Freeman) gave him in the last war.
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Hold Back The Night

1968

They Ran for Their Lives
5/1
A man with a dog helps a young woman being chased by hoodlums in the desert.
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They Ran for Their Lives

1938

College Swing
6.8/6
Gracie Alden tries to graduate from college to get an inheritance.
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College Swing

1940

The Great Profile
6.3/3
An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John Barrymore, Mary Beth Hughes, Anne Baxter, John Payne, Lionel...
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The Great Profile

1948

The Saxon Charm
4.3/3
In order to get his way, New York producer Matt Saxon manipulates and controls everyone around him but his latest protégé, novelist Eric Busch, finall...
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The Saxon Charm

1953

Raiders of the Seven Seas
5.7/6
After staging a mutiny and commandeering his own ship, famed pirate Barbarossa (John Payne) takes hostage a spirited Spanish noblewoman named Alida (D...
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Raiders of the Seven Seas

1952

Caribbean
5.8/5
Francis Barclay, a former member of the British Admiralty, who was captured in the early 1700s, and sold into slavery, by Andrew McAllister, and force...
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Caribbean

1955

The Road to Denver
6/4
The Mayhew brothers flee from one Texas town to another as older brother Bill repeatedly attempts to keep younger brother Sam out of jail. Bill finall...
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The Road to Denver

1938

Garden of the Moon
5.8/4
Don Vincente is determined to make a success of himself and his band. He gets his break by performing at the Garden of the Moon, which is broadcast ov...
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Garden of the Moon

1951

Passage West
6.2/4
In 1863, having escaped from a rock-quarry prison in Salt Lake, six inmates led by convicted murderer Pete Black take over a small wagon train headed...
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Passage West

1936

Hats Off
5/2
The first musical comedy from the Grand National assembly line, Hats Off stars John Payne and Mae Clarke as rival press agents Jimmy Maxwell and Jo Al...
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Hats Off

1949

El Paso
5.7/14
Ex-confederate officer Clay Fletcher jumps at the chance to reunite with his once lady-friend, Susan Jeffers, when his father, Judge Fletcher, sends h...
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El Paso

1954

Rails Into Laramie
6.3/11
A federal agent arrives in Laramie to try to find out who is behind the efforts to stop the construction of a new railroad track.
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Rails Into Laramie

1940

Maryland
6.2/2
A woman tormented by the hunting death of her husband forbids her son to have anything to do with horses. But when he falls for the daughter of his fa...
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Maryland

1950

The Eagle and the Hawk
5.4/7
Texas Ranger Todd Crayden is assigned a suicide mission South of the Border, to smuggle a government agent into Mexico...
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The Eagle and the Hawk

1940

Tear Gas Squad
4.8/6
A brash night club singer becomes a cop to impress a woman.
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Tear Gas Squad

1939

Indianapolis Speedway
5/7
A champion auto racer who unhappily learns his kid brother wants to enter the same profession rather than finish school.
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Indianapolis Speedway

1946

Wake Up and Dream
6.5/3
Aided by her eccentric friends, a young woman goes looking for her missing brother.
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Wake Up and Dream

1946

Sentimental Journey
6.4/4
An actress becomes taken with Hitty, a young orphan prone to dreaming. Julie soon finds out that she is ill and has only a short time to live. She dec...
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Sentimental Journey

1950

Tripoli
5.6/8
In 1805, the United States battles the pirates of Tripoli as the Marines fight to raise the American flag.
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Tripoli

1960

Suspect
6.5/10
A government team researching cures for plague find their results put on the Official Secrets list. One of their number is so incensed by this that he...
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Suspect

1952

The Blazing Forest
6/1
Estranged brothers (John Payne, Richard Arlen) find themselves on the same lumberjack crew hired by a feisty widow to clear the timber from her Nevada...
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The Blazing Forest

1941

The Great American Broadcast
5.4/5
After WWI two men go into radio. Failure leads the wife of one to borrow money from another; she goes on, after separation, to stardom. A coast-to-coa...
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The Great American Broadcast

1939

The Royal Rodeo
2.5/2
A young monarch, bored with responsibility and craving excitement, invites a traveling rodeo show to perform at his palace.
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The Royal Rodeo

1950

Captain China
5/4
The title character, played by John Payne, is a ship's captain whose embittered behavior after losing his lady love seemingly leads to tragedy. Accuse...
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Captain China

1939

Kid Nightingale
5.5/3
A waiter becomes a singing prizefighter.
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Kid Nightingale

1940

King of the Lumberjacks
3/5
Outdoor drama about a newly-hired lumberjack discovering that his former girlfriend is now his new boss's wife.
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King of the Lumberjacks

1957

Bailout at 43,000
4.6/5
An Air Force major feels a volatile mixture of relief and anger when he is excused from performing a dangerous test in a new aircraft.
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Bailout at 43,000

1937

Love on Toast
5.5/3
The plot concerns a female press agent who must select a "Mr. Manhattan" and "Miss Brooklyn" for an ad campaign mounted by a soup company. The Mr. Man...
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Love on Toast

1940

Tin Pan Alley
5/7
Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to England, and Katy joins her after the boys give a new s...
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Tin Pan Alley

1937

Fair Warning
6/2
In California's Death Valley a chemistry whiz-kid helps a sheriff track the man who murdered a wealthy mine owner who had been staying at a fancy wint...
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Fair Warning

1936

Dodsworth
7.1/129
A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life.
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Dodsworth

1942

Iceland
5.7/3
Marine James Murfin, is unaware of Icelandic customs. When he flirts with Katina her Icelandic family take his actions as a proposal of marriage to Ka...
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Iceland

1944

Take It or Leave It
4/1
A young husband becomes a game-show participant in the hopes of winning the cash to pay his pregnant wife's doctor.
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Take It or Leave It

1946

Movieland Magic
0/0
Released as part of a series of WB shorts under the collective title of "Technicolor Specials" (WB production number 2003) this short most likely hold...
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Movieland Magic

1944

B-29 Flight Engineer
0/0
This government documentary short film depicts and explains proper procedures for functioning as a flight engineer on the B-29 bomber. Lieutenant Ande...
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