
John Larch
John Larch (October 4, 1914 - October 16, 2005) was an American film and television actor.
After his lead role in the radio serial Captain Starr of Space (1953–54), John Larch entered films in 1954. He usually appeared in westerns (How The West Was Won) and action films, including Miracle of the White Stallions as General George S. Patton Jr. (1963), Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur as General Omar Bradley (1976), replacing James Gregory as Mac in the Matt Helm movie The Wrecking Crew (1969) starring Dean Martin, Sharon Tate and Elke Sommer. Larch, an old friend of Clint Eastwood, appeared in Eastwood films, including Dirty Harry (1971) and Play Misty for Me (1971).
He also appeared on a number of television programs, including Naked City (three episodes), Route 66 (three episodes), The Fugitive (two episodes), The Invaders, The Restless Gun (four episodes), Gunsmoke (seven episodes), The Virginian (four episodes), Bonanza, Hawaii Five-0, Mission Impossible (two episodes), The Troubleshooters, Bus Stop, Laramie, The Law and Mr. Jones, and possibly most famously as Bill Mumy's father in The Twilight Zone episode "It's a Good Life" in 1961. He also appeared in two other The Twilight Zone episodes, playing a psychiatrist in "Perchance to Dream" and the sheriff in "Dust".
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 0.109 |
Birthday | 1914-10-04 |
Place of Birth | Salem, Massachusetts, USA |
Also Known As | Harold Aronin, Harry Larch, جان لارچ, |

1956

7 Men from Now
6.83/112
A former sheriff relentlessly pursuing the 7 men who murdered his wife in Arizona crosses paths with a couple heading to California.
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7 Men from Now

1955

The Phenix City Story
6.6/58
A crime-busting lawyer and his initially reluctant attorney father take on the forces that run gambling and prostitution in their small Southern town.
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The Phenix City Story

1971

Play Misty for Me
6.6/510
A brief fling between a male disc jockey and an obsessed female fan takes a frightening, and perhaps even deadly turn when another woman enters the pi...
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Play Misty for Me

1975

Framed
6.6/16
Joe Don Baker plays a gambler who is framed for a crime he did not commit. A corrupt legal system leads him into a plea bargain and four years behind...
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Framed

1956

Behind the High Wall
5.1/11
A group prison breakout goes from bad to worse when the desperate warden tries to steal the gang's dough.
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Behind the High Wall

1962

How the West Was Won
6.994/443
The epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to the end of the century, as seen through the eyes of one...
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How the West Was Won

1956

Written on the Wind
6.9/229
Mitch Wayne is a geologist working for the Hadleys, an oil-rich Texas family. While the patriarch, Jasper, works hard to establish the family business...
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1956

Man from Del Rio
6/21
Mexican gunfighter Dave Robles outdraws the town's outlaw-turned-sheriff and is invited to fill the dead man's shoes. But a tin star doesn't bring aut...
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Man from Del Rio

1974

Bad Ronald
6.3/53
When awkward teen Ronald Wilby accidentally kills a young girl whose sister rejected his affections, his overbearing mother decides to hide him from t...
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1963

Miracle of the White Stallions
5.8/19
In WWII Austria, Col. Alois Podhajsky must protect his beloved Lipizzaner stallions and make sure that they are surrendered into the right hands. But...
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1973

Santee
5.3/10
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1970

Cannon for Cordoba
5.6/21
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1955

The McConnell Story
6.3/3
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1976

Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur
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U.S. President Harry S Truman and his commander in the Korean War, General Douglas MacArthur, disagree on war strategy. Their conflict comes to a head...
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1955

Seven Angry Men
5.2/5
Rise, fall and execution of John Brown, fanatic abolitionist.
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1957

Quantez
5.5/7
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Quantez

1956

Johnny Moccasin
0/0
Johnny Moccasin a white teenage boy is raised by an Indian tribe after his parents are killed in a wagon train massacre.
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1970

Move
4.6/5
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1957

The Careless Years
3.5/2
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The Careless Years

1958

The Saga of Hemp Brown
5.6/5
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The Saga of Hemp Brown

1958

From Hell to Texas
5.9/31
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From Hell to Texas

1955

Illegal
6.4/40
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...
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Illegal

1974

Winter Kill
7.4/5
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Winter Kill

1975

The Desperate Miles
0/0
A disabled Vietnam vet sets out to prove that disabled people don't have to be helpless by starting a 180-mile trip in a wheelchair. On the way he fin...
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The Desperate Miles

1972

Women in Chains
7/4
A parole officer goes undercover to investigate prison brutality but is trapped when the only person on the outside who knows why she's there is kille...
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Women in Chains

1971

The City
1/1
The trials and tribulations of the first Hispanic mayor of a major Southwestern city.
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1979

The Amityville Horror
6.3/934
George Lutz, his wife Kathy, and their three children have just moved into a beautiful, and improbably cheap, Victorian mansion nestled in the sleepy...
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The Amityville Horror

1955

Tight Spot
6.3/31
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Tight Spot

1975

Ellery Queen: Too Many Suspects
0/0
When a famous fashion designer is found murdered, Inspector Richard Queen of the NYPD is baffled by her dying clue, prompting him to bring in his son,...
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Ellery Queen: Too Many Suspects

1972

Magic Carpet
0/0
A young student living in Rome gets a job as a tour guide and falls in love with a young stowaway who is being sought by the police.
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Magic Carpet

1955

5 Against the House
6/39
Former war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.
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5 Against the House

1956

The Killer Is Loose
6.6/54
A savings-and-loan bank is robbed; later, a police wiretap identifies bank teller Leon Poole as the inside man. In capturing him, detective Sam Wagner...
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The Killer Is Loose

1957

Man in the Shadow
6.8/44
In a modern cow town, the powerful ranch owner’s henchmen kill a ranch hand, prompting the sheriff to investigate despite facing strong opposition. He...
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Man in the Shadow

1971

Dirty Harry
7.4/2508
When a madman dubbed 'Scorpio' terrorizes San Francisco, hard-nosed cop, Harry Callahan – famous for his take-no-prisoners approach to law enforcement...
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Dirty Harry

1976

Future Cop
5/1
A veteran street cop is assigned a new partner. The partner is not exactly what he seems to be, though--he is an experimental android who has been pro...
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Future Cop

1982

Airplane II: The Sequel
6.1/1126
A faulty computer causes a passenger space shuttle to head straight for the sun, and man-with-a-past Ted Striker must save the day and get the shuttle...
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Airplane II: The Sequel

1954

Bitter Creek
6.3/3
"Wild" Bill Elliott is a cowboy who goes in search of the man who killed his brother, and finds himself in the small town of Bitter Creek.
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Bitter Creek

1956

Gun for a Coward
5.5/11
A young cowboy, whose dedication to the principles of peace and reason has earned him a reputation for cowardice, overcomes his psychological aversion...
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Gun for a Coward

1969

Hail, Hero!
6/1
Carl Dixon decides to quit school and enlist in the Army, even though he's already run afoul of the law as a Vietnam protestor. It is our hero's inten...
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Hail, Hero!

1954

This Is My Love
8.5/1
A single woman tries to keep her sister from another man by framing her for her husband's murder.
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1960

Hell to Eternity
6.6/16
Based on the story about Guy Gabaldon, a Los Angeles Hispanic boy raised in the 1930s by a Japanese-American foster family. After Pearl Harbor, his fo...
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Hell to Eternity

1968

The Wrecking Crew
5.6/57
When Count Contini attempts to destroy the world's economy by masterminding the theft of $1 billion in U.S. gold, ICE chief MacDonald summons secret a...
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The Wrecking Crew

1974

The Chadwick Family
6/1
A father finds himself taking care of a family that, in addition to his son and three daughters, also consists of two sons-in-law and his youngest dau...
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1978

A Fire in the Sky
5.5/10
Astronomers discover a comet that they believe will crash into Phoenix, Arizona. They attempt to warn officials, but without 100% certainty, the gover...
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A Fire in the Sky

1962

Pages of Death
5/2
A campy, over-the-top educational short that tells the story of a young man who becomes deranged from reading pornographic magazines.
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Pages of Death

1954

Moby Dick
0/0
The demented, ruthless Captain Ahab pursues the white whale which took off his leg years before.
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Moby Dick

1969

The Great Bank Robbery
6.3/10
A motley group of phony church leaders attempts to rob a bank controlled by brothers in 1880's Texas.
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