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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
January 31, 1914
Died
March 21, 1992
Place of Birth
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Also Known As
- John Ireland Jr
- John Benjamin Ireland
John Ireland
0.9 Popularity
Biography
John Benjamin Ireland was a Canadian-American actor and film director. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his performance in All the King's Men (1949), making him the first Vancouver-born actor to receive an Academy Award nomination. Ireland was a supporting actor in several famous Western films such as My Darling Clementine (1946), Red River (1948), Vengeance Valley (1951), and Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957). His other notable film roles were in 55 Days at Peking (1963), The Adventurers (1970), and Farewell, My Lovely (1975). Ireland also appeared in many television series, notably The Cheaters (1960–1962). He was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contribution to the TV industry.
Known For
6.0
(archive footage)
3-D Rarities
2015
5.8
Bob Ford (archive footage)
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
2002
5.0
King Arthur
Waxwork II: Lost in Time
1992
5.5
Merlin
1992
10.0
Lt. Bates
Hammer Down
1992
6.0
Jefferson
Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat
1991
2.3
Dr. McGregor
The Graveyard Story
1991
7.3
Christine Cromwell
1989
4.3
Lance Hayward
Terror Night
1989
5.0
Gabriel Franken
Snoops
1989
Credits
3-D Rarities
as (archive footage)
2015
6.0
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
as Bob Ford (archive footage)
2002
5.8
Waxwork II: Lost in Time
as King Arthur
1992
5.0
Merlin
1992
5.5
Hammer Down
as Lt. Bates
1992
10.0
Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat
as Jefferson
1991
6.0
The Graveyard Story
as Dr. McGregor
1991
2.3
Christine Cromwell
1989
7.3
Terror Night
as Lance Hayward
1989
4.3
Snoops
as Gabriel Franken
1989
5.0
War of the Worlds
as Harv
1988
6.2
Messenger of Death
as Zenas Beecham
1988
6.0
Perry Mason: The Case of the Lady in the Lake
as Walter
1988
6.8
Bonanza: The Next Generation
as Capt. Aaron Cartwright
1988
7.5
J.J. Starbuck
as Charles Capstone
1987
5.0
Seasons in the Sun
as Keith Slattery
1986
0.0
Miami Golem
as Anderson
1985
4.8
Thunder Run
as George Adams
1985
4.1
Treasure of the Amazon
as Priest
1985
4.3
Martin's Day
as Brewer
1985
6.2
Murder, She Wrote
as Sheriff Hainer
1984
7.5
Airwolf
as Hardesty
1984
7.6
Airwolf
as Carl Barron
1984
7.6
The Hitchhiker
as Jack Guttman
1983
6.1
Trauma Center
1983
5.0
Hardcastle and McCormick
as Bucky Miller
1983
6.4
A Matter of Cunning
as John Markham
1983
3.7
Incubus
as Hank Walden
1982
5.6
Cassie & Co.
as Lyman Shackelford
1982
4.5
Bordello
as Judge
1981
4.1
Magnum, P.I.
as Wyndom Jackson
1980
7.3
Marilyn: The Untold Story
as John Huston
1980
6.8
Tourist
as Joe Vigil, Sr.
1980
8.0
The Courage of Kavik, the Wolf Dog
as George Hunter
1980
5.2
Delta Fox
as Lucas Johnson
1979
2.0
The Littlest Hobo
as Pa
1979
7.3
Hart to Hart
as Zeke BaIllinger
1979
6.9
Guyana: Crime of the Century
as Dave Cole
1979
4.8
Crossbar
as Miles Kornylo
1979
5.0
On the Air Live with Captain Midnight
as Agent Pierson
1979
0.0
When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
as Self
1979
0.0
The Shape of Things to Come
as Senator Smedley
1979
3.9
🎬
$weepstake$
1979
0.0
The Millionaire
as Marshall Wayburn
1978
0.0
Tomorrow Never Comes
as Captain
1978
5.4
The Perfect Killer
as Benny
1977
3.0
Love and the Midnight Auto Supply
as Tony Santore
1977
2.7
Ransom
as Chief Haliburton
1977
6.4
Satan's Cheerleaders
as Sheriff B.L.Z. Bubb
1977
4.3
Mission to Glory: A True Story
as Father Mora
1977
5.0
Quincy, M.E.
as Attorney John Packard
1976
7.5
Quincy, M.E.
as Jerry Driskill
1976
7.5
Quincy, M.E.
as Sheriff Ned Evers
1976
7.5
Sex Diary
as Milton
1976
5.2
Salon Kitty
as Cliff
1976
5.5
The Swiss Conspiracy
as Dwight McGowan
1976
4.6
We Are No Angels
as Mr. Shark
1975
6.0
Switch
as Verne Deamer
1975
6.7
Farewell, My Lovely
as Nulty
1975
6.6
🎬
Khan!
1975
5.0
Wam Bam Thank You Spaceman
1974
2.4
The Rangers
as Carson
1974
0.0
Planet of the Apes
as Brun
1974
6.9
Little House on the Prairie
1974
7.9
Blood River
as Abel Webster
1974
2.0
Welcome to Arrow Beach
as Sheriff Duke Bingham
1974
4.6
Northeast of Seoul
as Flanaghan
1974
0.0
The Girl on the Late, Late Show
as Bruno Walters
1974
5.2
The Phantom of Hollywood
as Lt. Gifford
1974
5.1
The House of Seven Corpses
as Eric Hartman
1974
4.6
Police Story
1973
6.9
Escape to the Sun
as Jacob Kagan
1972
4.0
Ghost Story
as Arthur Mundy
1972
7.1
The Adventurers
as Mr.James Hadley
1970
4.2
Challenge of McKenna
as Jones/Jonas MacKenna
1970
4.7
The War Devils
1969
6.0
Zenabel
as Don Alonso Imolne
1969
3.4
One on Top of the Other
as Inspector Wald
1969
6.4
Carnal Circuit
as Richard Salinger
1969
2.8
Gatling Gun
as Tarpas
1968
4.6
Hawaii Five-O
as Phil Coleman
1968
7.1
The Name of the Game
as Mel Wexler
1968
6.8
Vengeance for Vengeance
as Maj. Bower
1968
9.0
A Taste of Death
as Dan El/Ralph
1968
6.0
Run, Man, Run
as Santillana
1968
6.4
A Gun for One Hundred Graves
as Douglas
1968
6.1
Dead for a Dollar
as Der Colonel
1968
7.0
Villa Rides
as Client in Barber Shop (uncredited)
1968
6.2
Go For Broke
as Owl/Gufo/le Hibou
1968
5.8
Arizona Bushwhackers
as Dan Shelby
1968
3.6
Bloody Che Contra
as Stuart
1968
7.8
Dirty Heroes
as Captain O’Connor
1967
5.2
Fort Utah
as Tom Horn
1967
3.6
Hate for Hate
as James Cooper
1967
5.0
🎬
Caxambu!
as Vince Neff
1967
6.4
Mission: Impossible
as Andrew Metzger
1966
7.6
The Man Who Never Was
1966
0.0
Day of the Nightmare
as Sgt. Dave Harmon
1965
4.8
Run for Your Life
as Dr. Mason
1965
7.2
I Saw What You Did
as Steve Marak
1965
6.2
Branded
as Cattle Rancher Renger
1965
6.6
Branded
as Ted Evers
1965
6.6
Daniel Boone
as Hiram Manville
1964
7.0
The Big Parade of Comedy
as Captain Calbern in 'A Southern Yankee' (arch. foot.) (uncred.)
1964
6.3
The Fall of the Roman Empire
as Ballomar
1964
6.5
The Ceremony
as Prison Warden
1963
5.2
Kraft Suspense Theatre
as William 'Scotty' Scott
1963
5.3
Burke's Law
as Orrin Lashwell
1963
6.0
Burke's Law
as Bullock
1963
6.0
55 Days at Peking
as Sgt. Harry
1963
7.0
No Time To Kill
as Johnny Greco
1963
5.5
The Virginian
as Kinroy
1962
6.4
Brushfire
as Jeff Saygure
1962
0.0
Wild in the Country
as Phil Macy
1961
6.2
Return of a Stranger
as Ray Reed
1961
4.9
The Cheaters
as John Hunter
1960
0.0
Faces in the Dark
as Max Hammond
1960
6.2
Spartacus
as Crixus
1960
7.5
Thriller
as Eddie Wilson
1960
6.6
Riverboat
as Chris Slade
1959
6.2
Bonanza
as Marshal Will Rimbau
1959
7.5
Rawhide
as Winch
1959
7.2
Rawhide
as Dr. Joseph Merritt
1959
7.2
Rawhide
as Frank Trask
1959
7.2
Rawhide
as Jed Colby
1959
7.2
Party Girl
as Louis Canetto
1958
6.8
No Place to Land
as Jonas Bailey
1958
2.3
Stormy Crossing
as Griff Parker
1958
4.8
A Sound of Different Drummers
as Ben Hammond
1957
0.0
Suspicion
1957
5.9
Without Incident
as Sgt. Turley
1957
0.0
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
as Johnny Ringo
1957
7.0
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Marshal Harry Phillips
1956
6.0
Armchair Theatre
as Monroe Stahr
1956
5.8
Gunslinger
as Cane Miro
1956
4.1
Hell's Horizon
as Capt. John Merrill
1955
5.0
Queen Bee
as Judson Prentiss
1955
6.3
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Captain McCabe
1955
7.8
Gunsmoke
as Jed Coombs
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Parker
1955
6.6
The Glass Cage
as Pel Pelham
1955
5.5
The Steel Cage
as Al, a Ringleader, segment "The Hostages"
1954
0.0
The Fast and the Furious
as Frank Webster
1954
4.9
Climax!
as Greg
1954
3.3
Studio 57
1954
0.0
Security Risk
as Ralph Payne
1954
5.5
🎬
The Whistler
1954
0.0
Southwest Passage
as Clint McDonald
1954
5.4
The Good Die Young
as Eddie Blaine
1954
6.3
Combat Squad
as Sgt. Ken 'Fletch' Fletcher
1953
5.0
Hannah Lee: An American Primitive
as Marshal Sam Rochelle
1953
4.0
The 49th Man
as Investigator John Williams
1953
0.0
General Electric Theater
as Abe Lincoln
1953
6.4
Hurricane Smith
as Hurricane Smith
1952
6.2
The Bushwhackers
as Jefferson Waring
1951
5.1
Red Mountain
as Gen. William Quantrill
1951
6.4
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
7.2
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Jim Regan
1951
7.2
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Billy Bob Jackson
1951
7.2
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Pete Bronson
1951
7.2
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Andrew Evans
1951
7.2
This Is Korea!
as Narrator
1951
5.7
The Basketball Fix
as Pete Ferreday
1951
5.7
Little Big Horn
as Lt. John Haywood
1951
6.2
The Scarf
as John Howard Barrington
1951
5.6
Vengeance Valley
as Hub Fasken
1951
5.2
🎬
Lux Video Theatre
as Milt Shanks
1950
6.3
🎬
Lux Video Theatre
as Marty
1950
6.3
The Return of Jesse James
as Johnny Callum
1950
5.0
Cargo to Capetown
as Steve Conway
1950
5.9
All the King's Men
as Jack Burden
1949
7.0
Mr. Soft Touch
as Henry 'Early' Byrd
1949
6.8
Anna Lucasta
as Danny Johnson
1949
3.5
The Doolins of Oklahoma
as Bitter Creek
1949
6.8
Roughshod
as Lednov
1949
5.3
The Undercover Man
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1949
6.1
The Walking Hills
as Frazee
1949
6.0
I Shot Jesse James
as Bob Ford
1949
6.3
Joan of Arc
as Jean de la Boussac (St. Sevére), Captain
1948
6.1
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
6.3
Red River
as Cherry Valance
1948
7.3
A Southern Yankee
as Capt. Jed Calbern
1948
5.2
Raw Deal
as Fantail
1948
6.7
Open Secret
as Paul Lester
1948
6.5
I Love Trouble
as Reno
1948
6.3
The Gangster
as Karty
1947
5.1
Railroaded!
as Duke Martin
1947
6.6
Repeat Performance
as Narrator (Voice)
1947
6.0
Wake Up and Dream
as Howard Williams
1946
6.5
My Darling Clementine
as Billy Clanton
1946
7.4
It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog
as Benny Smith
1946
5.6
Somewhere in the Night
as Thug (voice) (uncredited)
1946
6.7
Behind Green Lights
as Det. Oppenheimer
1946
5.5
A Walk in the Sun
as Pfc. Windy Craven
1945
5.8