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Known For
Acting
Birthday
January 2, 1898
Died
December 26, 1988
Place of Birth
London, England, UK
Also Known As
- William John Muir Lowe
John Loder
0.3 Popularity
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. John Loder (3 January 1898 — 26 December 1988) was a British-American actor. He was born William John Muir Lowe in London. His father was General W. H. M. Lowe, the British officer to whom Patrick Pearse, the leader of the Irish 1916 Rising in Dublin, surrendered. Both General Lowe and his son were present at the surrender of Pearse. He was educated at Eton and the Royal Military College and followed his father into the army, commissioned into 15th Hussars as a second lieutenant on 17 March 1915, and then serving in the Gallipoli Campaign and at one point being imprisoned by the Germans. Upon being released, he stayed in Germany to run a pickle factory and also began to develop an interest in acting, appearing in bit-parts in a few German films. He left Germany to briefly return to England and then headed to Hollywood to try his luck in the new medium, Talkies. He appeared in The Doctor's Secret, which was Paramount's first talking picture—though his very English persona didn't win America over at this time and he returned to England where he co-starred in plush musicals and intrigue such as Love Life and Laughter and Sabotage. He was the male romantic interest in the 1937 original film version of King Solomon's Mines. When World War II started he returned to America where he seamlessly coasted into a career in 'B' movie roles usually playing upper crust characters with occasional appearances on Broadway. He occasionally did play roles, though supporting ones, in major 'A' films such as How Green Was My Valley, in which he was at the same time one of Roddy McDowall's brothers and Donald Crisp's sons. In 1947 he became an American citizen, his last screen appearance was in 1971. In 1959 he became a naturalised citizen of the United Kingdom as he has been of "uncertain nationality". Description above from the Wikipedia article John Loder, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
7.2
Routledge
The Firechasers
1971
0.0
Allá donde el viento brama
1963
6.3
Major Anderson
The Secret Man
1958
6.4
Ponsford 'The Duke'
Gideon's Day
1958
0.0
The Colonel
Josette of New Orleans
1958
7.0
Paul Marchant
The Story of Esther Costello
1957
6.5
Mr. Finch
Small Hotel
1957
0.0
Mitchell Gifford
Woman and the Hunter
1957
4.4
The Count of Monte Cristo
1956
5.6
Preston Mitchell
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
Credits
The Firechasers
as Routledge
1971
7.2
Allá donde el viento brama
1963
0.0
The Secret Man
as Major Anderson
1958
6.3
Gideon's Day
as Ponsford 'The Duke'
1958
6.4
Josette of New Orleans
as The Colonel
1958
0.0
The Story of Esther Costello
as Paul Marchant
1957
7.0
Small Hotel
as Mr. Finch
1957
6.5
Woman and the Hunter
as Mitchell Gifford
1957
0.0
The Count of Monte Cristo
1956
4.4
Robert Montgomery Presents
as Preston Mitchell
1950
5.6
Dishonored Lady
as Felix Courtland
1947
5.7
One More Tomorrow
as Owen Arthur
1946
5.5
The Wife of Monte Cristo
as De Villefort, Prefect of Police
1946
5.8
Woman Who Came Back
as Dr. Matt Adams
1945
5.5
A Game of Death
as Don Rainsford
1945
6.2
Jealousy
as Dr. David Brent
1945
5.4
The Brighton Strangler
as Reginald Parker / Edward Grey
1945
5.9
The Fighting Guardsman
as Sir John Tanley
1945
7.0
Abroad with Two Yanks
as Aussie Sgt. Cyril North
1944
6.0
The Hairy Ape
as Tony Lazar
1944
5.6
Passage to Marseille
as Manning
1944
6.6
Old Acquaintance
as Preston Drake
1943
7.0
Adventure in Iraq
as George Torrence
1943
5.4
Murder on the Waterfront
as Holbrook
1943
5.0
The Mysterious Doctor
as Sir Henry Leland
1943
5.7
The Gorilla Man
as Captain Craig Killian
1943
5.0
Gentleman Jim
as Carlton De Witt
1942
7.1
Now, Voyager
as Elliot Livingston
1942
7.4
Eagle Squadron
as Paddy Carson
1942
5.5
Confirm or Deny
as Captain Lionel Channing
1941
3.8
How Green Was My Valley
as Ianto Morgan
1941
7.3
One Night In Lisbon
as Cmdr. Peter Walmsley
1941
0.0
Scotland Yard
as Sir John Lasher
1941
0.0
Tin Pan Alley
as Reggie Carstairs
1940
5.1
Diamond Frontier
as Dr. Charles Clayton
1940
0.0
Adventure in Diamonds
as Michael Barclay
1940
5.2
Meet Maxwell Archer
as Maxwell Archer
1940
0.0
Threats
as Dick Stone
1940
5.4
🎬
Murder Will Out
as Dr. Paul Raymond
1939
0.0
The Silent Battle
as Bordier
1939
0.0
Anything to Declare?
as Capt. Rufus Grant
1938
4.0
Peace on the Rhine
as Émile Scheffer
1938
7.0
Katia
as Tsar Alexandre II of Russia
1938
9.0
Owd Bob
as David Moore
1938
5.1
Under Secret Orders
as Lt. Peter Carr
1937
0.0
Non-Stop New York
as Inspector Jim Grant
1937
6.5
Doctor Syn
as Denis Cobtree
1937
6.6
King Solomon's Mines
as Sir Henry Curtis
1937
5.3
Sabotage
as Ted
1937
6.7
Queen of Hearts
as Derek Cooper
1936
0.0
The Man Who Changed His Mind
as Dick Haslewood
1936
6.1
🎬
Guilty Melody
as Richard Carter
1936
0.0
Ourselves Alone
as Captain Wiltshire
1936
5.0
Whom the Gods Love: The Original Story of Mozart and His Wife
as Prince Lobkowitz
1936
5.2
It Happened in Paris
as Paul
1935
5.9
The Silent Passenger
as John Ryder
1935
5.3
18 Minutes
as Trelawney
1935
10.0
Lorna Doone
as John Ridd
1934
5.8
My Song Goes Round the World
as Rico
1934
5.0
Sing As We Go
as Hugh Phillips
1934
5.7
🎬
Rolling in Money
as Lord Gawthorpe
1934
0.0
Java Head
as Gerrit Ammidon
1934
6.0
The Battle
as Fergan
1934
3.0
Love, Life and Laughter
as Prince Charles
1934
7.5
You Made Me Love You
as Harry Berne
1933
6.9
The Private Life of Henry VIII
as Peynell
1933
6.4
Money for Speed
as Mitch
1933
0.0
Wedding Rehearsal
as John Hopkins aka Bimbo
1932
4.6
🎬
Money Means Nothing
as Earl Egbert
1932
0.0
On the Loose
as Mr. Loder
1931
6.8
Seas Beneath
as Franz Shiller
1931
4.9
One Night at Susie's
as Hayes
1930
5.3
🎬
Sweethearts and Wives
as Sam Worthington
1930
0.0
The Man Hunter
as George Castle
1930
0.0
The Second Floor Mystery
as Fraser-Freer's Younger Brother
1930
0.0
Lilies of the Field
as Walter Harker
1930
2.7
🎬
Rich People
as Captain Danforth
1929
0.0
The Racketeer
as Jack Oakhurst
1929
4.9
Love, Live & Laugh
as Dr. Price
1929
0.0
Her Private Affair
as Carl Weild
1929
3.6
The Unholy Night
as Captain Dorchester
1929
5.3
Black Waters
as Charles
1929
0.0
Sunset Pass
as Ashleigh Preston
1929
0.0
The Doctor's Secret
as Hugh Paton
1929
0.0
The Case of Lena Smith
as (uncredited)
1929
5.2
The First Born
as Lord David Harborough
1928
3.7
🎬
Casanovas Erbe
1928
0.0
Fair Game
as Oberleutnant von Rohnstedt
1928
0.0
A Daughter Of Destiny
as Viscount
1928
6.2
Die weiße Spinne
1927
0.0