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Known For
Acting
Birthday
February 18, 1891
Died
June 1, 1944
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Also Known As
- John H. Dilson
John Dilson
0.3 Popularity
Biography
John Dilson (February 18, 1891 – June 1, 1944) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 250 films between 1934 and 1944.
Known For
3.7
Bascomb (uncredited)
The Ghost That Walks Alone
1944
5.0
Putnam
Beautiful But Broke
1944
0.0
Gun to Gun
1944
5.0
Colonel
Around the World
1943
6.2
Charles Clayton (uncredited)
Happy Land
1943
6.3
Elevator Operator (uncredited)
Princess O'Rourke
1943
5.0
Stevens
So's Your Uncle
1943
0.0
Mr. Dilson
All by Myself
1943
6.5
Coroner (uncredited)
The Leopard Man
1943
5.5
Green, Parole Board Member (uncredited)
Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case
1943
Credits
The Ghost That Walks Alone
as Bascomb (uncredited)
1944
3.7
Beautiful But Broke
as Putnam
1944
5.0
Gun to Gun
1944
0.0
Around the World
as Colonel
1943
5.0
Happy Land
as Charles Clayton (uncredited)
1943
6.2
Princess O'Rourke
as Elevator Operator (uncredited)
1943
6.3
So's Your Uncle
as Stevens
1943
5.0
All by Myself
as Mr. Dilson
1943
0.0
The Leopard Man
as Coroner (uncredited)
1943
6.5
Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case
as Green, Parole Board Member (uncredited)
1943
5.5
This Land Is Mine
as Mayor's Secretary
1943
7.2
Mission to Moscow
as American Senator (uncredited)
1943
5.3
She Has What It Takes
as Chamberlain Jones (as John H. Dilson)
1943
0.0
King of the Cowboys
as Bryson
1943
5.5
Slightly Dangerous
as 'Telegram' reporter (uncredited)
1943
6.1
Idaho
as Board Member
1943
5.7
The Great Gildersleeve
as Mayor Appleton
1942
6.1
Madame Spy
as Proprietor Martin
1942
6.0
A Night to Remember
as Medical Examiner (uncredited)
1942
6.6
Queen of Broadway
as Bickel
1942
5.0
For Me and My Gal
as Lou (uncredited)
1942
6.4
The Mayor of 44th Street
as Carter, the General Manager (as John H. Dilson)
1942
4.3
You Can't Escape Forever
as Pop (uncredited)
1942
5.4
Wildcat
as Gus Sloane
1942
3.5
Sabotage Squad
as Guthrie
1942
6.0
Ten Gentlemen from West Point
as Senator (uncredited)
1942
5.8
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp!
as Judge Smith
1942
3.5
Obliging Young Lady
as Uncle Joe (uncredited)
1942
5.0
Fly By Night
as Police Dr. Tracy
1942
6.4
Over My Dead Body
as Editor
1942
0.0
Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.
as Henry Weldon
1941
5.7
Johnny Eager
as Pawnbroker (uncredited)
1941
6.1
🎬
Unfinished Rainbows
as Prof. Jewett
1941
0.0
New York Town
as Doctor (uncredited)
1941
10.0
Jesse James at Bay
as Collins (uncredited)
1941
4.2
🎬
I'll Fix It
as Burger, the lawyer
1941
0.0
Two Latins from Manhattan
as Jerome Kittleman
1941
5.0
Sergeant York
as Reporter (uncredited)
1941
7.2
Doctors Don't Tell
1941
4.9
Manpower
as Jail Clerk (uncredited)
1941
6.7
The Deadly Game
as Harkness
1941
6.0
Whistling in the Dark
as Hugo in Show (uncredited)
1941
5.8
Highway West
as The Judge (uncredited)
1941
5.8
Father Steps Out
as Tom Oliver
1941
3.0
Sunset in Wyoming
as Phipps
1941
0.0
They Meet Again
as William Merrill Sr.
1941
5.0
Cyclone on Horseback
as Mr. Williams
1941
5.8
Naval Academy
as John Frazier
1941
0.0
1-2-3-Go!
as Mayor
1941
6.5
The Wagons Roll at Night
as Minister (uncredited)
1941
6.5
Citizen Kane
as Ward Heeler (uncredited)
1941
8.0
The Lady from Cheyenne
as Special Prosecutor Fitzpatrick
1941
4.6
Man-Made Monster
as Medical Examiner
1941
6.1
The Monster and the Girl
as Employment Agency Clerk (uncredited)
1941
5.7
Andy Hardy's Private Secretary
as Mr. Davis
1941
5.4
The Great Mr. Nobody
as Pawnbroker
1941
5.3
Across the Sierras
as Dan Woodworth
1941
2.2
The Face Behind the Mask
as Man at Dock Asking for a Light (uncredited)
1941
6.5
No, No, Nanette
as Desk Clerk
1940
6.0
Thundering Frontier
as Carter Filmore
1940
0.0
You, the People
as Mr. Sanders
1940
5.8
Phantom of Chinatown
as Charlie Frasier
1940
5.8
Girls Under 21
as Albert Carter, School Principal
1940
4.0
Gallant Sons
as Druggist (uncredited)
1940
7.2
Beyond the Sacramento
as Jason Perry
1940
0.0
Marked Men
as Dr. James Prentiss Harkness
1940
5.0
Glamour for Sale
as Wilson (uncredited)
1940
4.3
City for Conquest
as Mr. Cahn - Man Buying Newspaper (uncredited)
1940
6.8
King of the Royal Mounted
as Wall
1940
6.0
The Leather Pushers
1940
0.0
Public Deb No. 1
as Clerk
1940
4.4
The Great Profile
as Doctor Perkins
1940
6.3
The Golden Fleecing
as Cashier (uncredited)
1940
5.3
The Secret Seven
as Walter W. Carter
1940
0.0
I Love You Again
as Worker 'Trying It in Tile and Clay' (uncredited)
1940
7.2
Stage to Chino
as Jim Pierce - Postal Inspector (uncredited)
1940
5.4
My Love Came Back
as Accountant (uncredited)
1940
4.6
Millionaires in Prison
as Observer at Train Station (uncredited)
1940
6.0
Private Affairs
as Stock Buyer (uncredited)
1940
0.0
Hold That Woman!
as Bill Lannigan
1940
5.0
Adventures of Red Ryder
as Hale
1940
5.5
Edison, the Man
as Broker
1940
6.8
Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise
as Police Doctor at Hotel
1940
6.9
The Man with Nine Lives
as John Hawthorne
1940
6.2
Dark Command
as Town Leader
1940
6.3
The Grapes of Wrath
as Bookseller (uncredited)
1940
7.8
Drums of Fu Manchu
as Prof. Ezra Howard
1940
6.1
Women Without Names
as Sheriff
1940
4.1
Pioneers of the West
as Morgan
1940
0.0
The Big Premiere
as Theater Owner
1940
6.0
Five Little Peppers at Home
as Daniels
1940
6.3
Danger Ahead
as Thomas Hatch
1940
0.0
Brother Rat and a Baby
as Pawnbroker
1940
5.2
Legion of the Lawless
as Surveyor Dave Martin (uncredited)
1940
5.4
Music in My Heart
as City Editor (uncredited)
1940
6.2
Reno
as Mr. Jones - Casino Manager
1939
6.0
Drunk Driving
as Doctor (uncredited)
1939
5.4
Bad Little Angel
as Mr. Brown, Man in Jim's Office (uncredited)
1939
4.9
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
as Secretary (uncredited)
1939
7.8
Scandal Sheet
as Chris Durk
1939
0.0
Sabotage
as (uncredited)
1939
7.0
A Woman is the Judge
as Ramsey
1939
0.0
Here I Am a Stranger
as Professor
1939
7.0
Each Dawn I Die
as Parole Board Member (uncredited)
1939
6.8
In Name Only
as Head Train Steward (uncredited)
1939
7.0
The Man They Could Not Hang
as King - City Editor (uncredited)
1939
6.6
Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever
as Mr. Davis (uncredited)
1939
5.4
S.O.S Tidal Wave
as Appleby
1939
5.7
Racketeers of the Range
as Wiliam J. Benson
1939
6.6
It's a Wonderful World
as Doctor (uncredited)
1939
6.4
Ex-Champ
as Lawton
1939
6.0
Fixer Dugan
as Steve
1939
6.5
Weather Wizards
as California Meteorologist
1939
6.0
Trouble in Sundown
as Edward Simmons
1939
0.0
Money to Loan
as Clarence Z. Dodds, Hanley's Accountant
1939
6.7
Nancy Drew... Reporter
as Deputy Coroner (uncredited)
1939
6.0
Flying G-Men
as Dr. Alexander Craig
1939
6.0
Blackwell's Island
as Finlay (uncredited)
1939
5.0
North of Shanghai
as Editor
1939
0.0
They Made Me a Criminal
as Doctor (uncredited)
1939
6.1
Stand Up and Fight
as Auctioneer
1939
5.8
Kentucky
as Man at Race Track
1938
5.8
🎬
A Clean Sweep
as Bank Manager
1938
0.0
Gang Bullets
as Capt. Brown
1938
5.7
Tarnished Angel
as Mr. Greer
1938
5.0
Too Hot to Handle
as Film Developing Laboratory Foreman (uncredited)
1938
5.8
The Chaser
as Process Server
1938
6.0
Think It Over
1938
6.3
Racket Busters
as Mr. Robbins (uncredited)
1938
5.1
Women in Prison
as Henry Russell
1938
6.0
Who Killed Gail Preston?
as Mr. Curran
1938
6.0
Borrowing Trouble
as Clark
1937
6.0
The Shadow Strikes
as Bill Gordan
1937
4.4
Love Is on the Air
as Meeting Chairman
1937
5.0
Easy Living
as Nervous Hotel Registrant (uncredited)
1937
7.1
Midnight Taxi
as Doc Wilson
1937
5.0
Love Is News
as Clerk (uncredited)
1937
6.0
Dick Tracy
as Ellery Brewster [Chs. 1, 12]
1937
5.3
Great Guy
as City Editor (Uncredited)
1936
6.2
Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island
as E.G. Ellsworth
1936
7.4
The Public Pays
as Milk Company Executive Moore (uncredited)
1936
7.0
The President's Mystery
as Banker (uncredited)
1936
5.3
Wives Never Know
as Doctor (uncredited)
1936
0.0
And Sudden Death
as Judge
1936
0.0
Easy Money
as Lawyer Rusick
1936
4.4
Three of a Kind
as Doc Adams
1936
5.2
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
as Analyst Examining Gelatin Capsule (uncredited)
1936
6.2
The Drag-Net
as Arnold Crane
1936
4.7
The Country Doctor
as City Editor (uncredited)
1936
6.0
Hitch Hike To Heaven
as Charlie Reed
1936
0.0
We're Only Human
as Ballistics Expert
1935
6.5
The Calling of Dan Matthews
as City Editor Edison (uncredited)
1935
3.0
Happiness C.O.D.
as Snyder
1935
6.0
Twin Triplets
as J. Benton, City Editor
1935
0.0
The Girl Who Came Back
as Henchman Waddy
1935
5.7
Special Agent
as Gus (uncredited)
1935
6.2
Cheers of the Crowd
as Barney Booth (as John H. Dilson)
1935
5.5
Woman Wanted
as Juror Talking to Mike (uncredited)
1935
6.3
Every Night at Eight
as Huxley
1935
6.7
Death from a Distance
1935
4.8
The Westerner
as Senator Lockhart
1934
0.0
A Man's Game
as John T. Bradley
1934
0.0
I'll Tell the World
as Legendre
1934
0.0