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Known For
Acting
Birthday
November 23, 1915
Died
February 4, 1992
Place of Birth
Richmond [now Staten Island], New York City, New York, USA
Also Known As
- John Dehner Forkum
- Dehner Forkum
John Dehner
2.5 Popularity
Biography
From Wikipedia John Dehner (November 23, 1915 - February 4, 1992) was an American actor in radio, television, and films. Between 1941 and 1988, he appeared in over 260 films and television programs. Prior to acting, Dehner had worked as an animator at Walt Disney Studios, and later became a radio disc jockey. He was also a professional pianist.
Known For
7.5
Narrator (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
Walt Disney Treasures - The Complete Goofy
2002
7.8
War and Remembrance
1988
6.0
Cyrus
Help Wanted: Kids
1986
6.1
The Colbys
1985
6.3
Judge Carrigan
Jagged Edge
1985
6.1
Paul
Creator
1985
7.4
Henry Luce
The Right Stuff
1983
6.4
Hardcastle and McCormick
1983
5.0
Hadden Marshall
Bare Essence
1983
6.1
The Commissioner
Airplane II: The Sequel
1982
Credits
Walt Disney Treasures - The Complete Goofy
as Narrator (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
2002
7.5
War and Remembrance
1988
7.8
Help Wanted: Kids
as Cyrus
1986
6.0
The Colbys
1985
6.1
Jagged Edge
as Judge Carrigan
1985
6.3
Creator
as Paul
1985
6.1
The Right Stuff
as Henry Luce
1983
7.4
Hardcastle and McCormick
1983
6.4
Bare Essence
as Hadden Marshall
1983
5.0
Airplane II: The Sequel
as The Commissioner
1982
6.1
Bare Essence
as Hadden Marshall
1982
1.0
California Gold Rush
as Capt. John Sutter
1981
5.0
Enos
as Lt. Joseph Broggi
1980
7.0
Nothing Personal
as Senator
1980
5.3
🎬
Young Maverick - Dead Man's Hand
as Marshal Edge Troy
1979
0.0
Hart to Hart
1979
6.9
The Boys from Brazil
as Henry Wheelock
1978
6.7
The Lincoln Conspiracy
as Col. Lafayette C. Baker
1977
5.6
Big Hawaii
as Barrett Fears
1977
5.0
Danger in Paradise
as Barrett Fears
1977
0.0
Dead of Night
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1977
6.1
Fun with Dick and Jane
as Jane's Father
1977
6.5
How the West Was Won
as Bishop Benjamin
1977
6.9
Guardian of the Wilderness
as John Muir
1976
5.7
Quincy, M.E.
1976
7.5
The Killer Inside Me
as Bob Maples
1976
4.3
The New Daughters of Joshua Cabe
as Warden Mannering
1976
0.0
Ellery Queen
1975
7.4
Switch
as Mr. Simon
1975
6.7
Barbary Coast
1975
7.5
S.W.A.T.
1975
7.0
The Missiles of October
as Former Secretary of State Dean Acheson
1974
7.5
The Rockford Files
as Judge Lyman / Inspector DeMartonis
1974
7.6
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
1974
7.6
Movin' On
1974
6.4
Petrocelli
as Dr. Leo Stegner
1974
7.2
Honky Tonk
as Brazos
1974
0.0
The Day of the Dolphin
as Wallingford
1973
5.8
The Magician
as Simon Russell
1973
6.7
🎬
Temperatures Rising
as Charles Claver
1972
5.0
Slaughterhouse-Five
as Rumfoord
1972
6.5
Columbo
as Roland Pangborn
1971
8.1
Columbo
as Otis Swanson
1971
8.1
Support Your Local Gunfighter
as Colonel Ames
1971
6.6
Dirty Dingus Magee
as Brig. Gen. George
1970
4.3
The Immortal
1970
7.4
The Silent Force
as Judge Caldwell
1970
5.0
Quarantined
as Dr. John Bedford
1970
5.0
Tiger by the Tail
as Sheriff Chancey Jones
1970
5.0
Then Came Bronson
as Sid Casper
1969
4.8
Stiletto
as District Attorney Frank Simpson
1969
5.0
Something for a Lonely Man
as Sam Ball
1968
7.4
The Doris Day Show
as Cy Bennett
1968
5.8
The Doris Day Show
as Cyril Bennett
1968
5.8
The Outcasts
1968
5.3
Land of the Giants
as Lieutenant Grayson
1968
6.7
Hawaii Five-O
as Anthony Del Vecchi
1968
7.1
The Helicopter Spies
as Dr. Kharmusi
1968
4.8
Gallegher: The Mystery of Edward Sims
as Jason Gore
1968
10.0
Mannix
1967
6.7
The High Chaparral
as Captain Surtee
1967
6.6
The High Chaparral
as Gar Burnett
1967
6.6
Judd for the Defense
1967
7.5
The Flying Nun
1967
6.3
Ironside
1967
6.8
Winchester '73
as High-Spade Johnny Dean
1967
6.4
Captain Nice
1967
5.7
Mission: Impossible
as Dan Whelan
1966
7.6
Jericho
1966
6.5
Tarzan
1966
6.7
The Monroes
1966
5.7
🎬
Morning Star
1965
0.0
Get Smart
1965
7.9
Hogan's Heroes
as General von Platzen
1965
7.5
Hogan's Heroes
as Colonel Backscheider
1965
7.5
The Wild Wild West
as Torres
1965
7.6
The Wild Wild West
as John Maxwell Avery
1965
7.6
The Big Valley
as Daddy Cade
1965
6.1
F Troop
1965
6.2
Run for Your Life
as Eliot Ponas
1965
7.2
The Hallelujah Trail
as Narrator (uncredited)
1965
6.1
Branded
1965
6.6
Seven Second Love Affair
as Narration
1965
0.0
Youngblood Hawke
as Scotty Hawke
1964
6.1
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
as Dr. Parviz Kharmusi
1964
7.1
The Baileys of Balboa
as Commodore Cecil Wyntoon
1964
7.7
The Lucille Ball Comedy Hour
as Mr. Henderson
1964
7.5
The Great Adventure
as President Thomas Jefferson
1963
0.0
🎬
Glynis
1963
0.0
🎬
The Greatest Show on Earth
1963
5.0
Critic's Choice
as S.P. Champlain
1963
5.6
The Gallant Men
1962
6.0
The Chapman Report
as Geoffrey Harnish
1962
5.1
Combat!
as Gen. Armand Bouchard
1962
7.7
Stoney Burke
1962
5.7
The Beverly Hillbillies
1962
6.9
The Virginian
as Bleeck
1962
6.4
The Virginian
as Frank Sturgis
1962
6.4
The Virginian
as Morgan Starr
1962
6.4
The Virginian
as Marshall Eliazer Teague
1962
6.4
Aquamania
as Narrator (voice)
1961
6.5
The Litterbug
as Narrator (voice)
1961
6.6
The Canadians
as Frank Boone
1961
6.5
The Roaring 20's
1960
0.0
Surfside 6
1960
5.0
Surfside 6
as Francisco Hernandez
1960
5.0
Stagecoach West
1960
6.0
The Andy Griffith Show
as Colonel Harvey
1960
7.6
The Westerner
as 'Burgundy Smith'
1960
6.8
🎬
The Tom Ewell Show
1960
0.0
The Brothers Brannagan
as Frank Lucas
1960
0.0
Checkmate
as George Shay
1960
4.1
Vice Raid
1959
6.2
The Untouchables
as Huey Barker
1959
7.8
Startime
1959
6.0
Philip Marlowe
1959
5.0
Adventures in Paradise
as Paul Jordan
1959
5.7
The Rebel
as John Sims
1959
4.7
The Alaskans
1959
5.5
The Twilight Zone
as Jared Garrity
1959
8.5
The Twilight Zone
as Captain Allenby
1959
8.5
Law of the Plainsman
as Walter Shannon
1959
6.0
Wichita Town
1959
4.2
Laramie
1959
6.6
Bonanza
as Captain Pender
1959
7.5
Bonanza
as Jean Lafitte
1959
7.5
Cast a Long Shadow
as Chip Donahue
1959
6.4
The Killers of Mussolini
as Colonel Tedesco
1959
0.0
Black Saddle
as Park Forrest
1959
6.0
Black Saddle
as Aaron Robinson
1959
6.0
Rawhide
as Jubal Wade
1959
7.2
Rawhide
as Ben Kerran
1959
7.2
Rawhide
as Capt. Francis Cabot
1959
7.2
Rawhide
as Straw Coleman
1959
7.2
Rawhide
as Arvid Lacey
1959
7.2
Timbuktu
as Emir Bhaki aka The Lion of the Desert
1958
4.2
The Sign of Zorro
as Viceroy
1958
7.3
77 Sunset Strip
1958
6.7
77 Sunset Strip
as Roland Dumont
1958
6.7
77 Sunset Strip
as Robert McGill
1958
6.7
77 Sunset Strip
as John Dehner
1958
6.7
77 Sunset Strip
as Dr. Burke
1958
6.7
Bat Masterson
as Sheriff
1958
6.1
Bat Masterson
as Marshal Ben Holt
1958
6.1
Lawman
as Ben Wyatt
1958
5.6
Yancy Derringer
as Col. Tate
1958
6.0
Man of the West
as Claude Tobin
1958
6.6
Hong Kong Confidential
as Narrator (voice)
1958
5.1
The Rifleman
as Al Walker
1958
7.1
The Rifleman
as Wood Bartell
1958
7.1
The Rifleman
as Tom King
1958
7.1
The Texan
1958
5.5
Cimarron City
1958
5.0
The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen
1958
0.0
Bronco
1958
5.9
Wanted: Dead or Alive
as Abraham Saxon
1958
6.8
Wanted: Dead or Alive
as Grant Mandeville
1958
6.8
Wanted: Dead or Alive
as Sheriff Hayes
1958
6.8
Apache Territory
as Grant Kimbrough
1958
6.4
The Left Handed Gun
as Pat Garrett
1958
6.1
Zorro
1957
7.5
The Real McCoys
as Roger Brewster
1957
5.6
Alcoa Theatre
1957
6.5
The Girl in Black Stockings
as Sheriff Jess Holmes
1957
6.1
Maverick
1957
6.9
Maverick
as John Bates
1957
6.9
Maverick
as Big Ed Murphy
1957
6.9
Perry Mason
as Major Lewis
1957
7.7
Wagon Train
as Ned Rossiter
1957
6.6
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
7.3
The Truth About Mother Goose
as Narrator
1957
7.0
Trooper Hook
as Fred Sutliff
1957
6.8
The Iron Sheriff
as Roger Pollack
1957
6.0
Revolt at Fort Laramie
as Maj. Seth Bradner
1957
6.5
Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers
1956
5.0
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Dr. Jim Randolph
1956
6.0
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Colonel Overton
1956
6.0
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Marshal Tom Harvey
1956
6.0
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Jim Brayden
1956
6.0
Tension at Table Rock
as Hampton
1956
5.9
The Great Cat Family
as John Dehner
1956
0.0
The Fastest Gun Alive
as Taylor Swope
1956
6.9
A Day of Fury
as Preacher Jason
1956
5.5
Terror at Midnight
as Lew Hanlon
1956
4.7
Please Murder Me
as Dist. Atty. Ray Willis
1956
5.8
Carousel
as Mr. Bascombe
1956
5.2
Top Gun
as Tom Quentin
1955
6.3
Matinee Theater
1955
5.0
Frontier
as Yancy
1955
5.0
Cheyenne
as Nagel
1955
6.0
Duel on the Mississippi
as Jules Tulane
1955
6.7
Gunsmoke
as Cope Borden
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Nip Cullers
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Wayne Russell
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Nate Springer
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Tom Cassidy
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Rack
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Hardy Tate
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Luke
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Ben
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Caleb
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Paolo Scanzano
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Sam Wall
1955
6.6
The King's Thief
as Captain Herrick
1955
6.3
The Scarlet Coat
as Nathanael Greene
1955
6.4
Tall Man Riding
as Ames Luddington
1955
5.6
The Prodigal
as Joram
1955
4.0
The Man from Bitter Ridge
as Ranse Jackman
1955
5.8
The Millionaire
as Prof. Ridgely
1955
5.0
The Wonderful World of Disney
as Jason Gore
1954
7.8
🎬
The General's Boots
as Capt. Thomas Flynn
1954
0.0
Apache
as Weddle
1954
6.1
The Strauss Fantasy
as Announcer
1954
4.8
The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters
as Derek Gravesend
1954
5.2
Southwest Passage
as Matt Carroll
1954
5.4
The Steel Lady
as Sid Barlowe
1953
6.4
Vicki
as Police Capt. J. "Chief" Donald (uncredited)
1953
5.4
Fort Algiers
as Major Colle
1953
6.0
Gun Belt
as Matt Ringo
1953
6.3
Powder River
as Harvey Logan
1953
6.2
Man on a Tightrope
as The Chief
1953
6.5
Plymouth Adventure
as Gilbert Winslow
1952
5.7
🎬
Four Star Playhouse
as Charles Quine
1952
6.7
🎬
Four Star Playhouse
as Capt. Bowns
1952
6.7
🎬
Four Star Playhouse
as Gen. Hatfield
1952
6.7
Junction City
as Emmett Sanderson
1952
6.0
Lady in the Iron Mask
as Count de Fourrier
1952
0.0
California Conquest
as Fredo Brios
1952
4.4
Cripple Creek
as Emil Cabeau
1952
5.7
Desert Passage
as Bronson
1952
4.2
Scaramouche
as Doutreval
1952
7.0
The Green Glove
as Narrator (uncredited)
1952
6.2
Aladdin and His Lamp
as Prince Bokra
1952
0.0
Harem Girl
as Khalil
1952
5.0
🎬
Chevron Theatre
1952
10.0
Dangerous Assignment
1952
3.5
The Lady and the Rocket
as Mr. Hadley
1952
0.0
Ten Tall Men
as Jardine
1951
6.4
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Capt. Thomas Flynn
1951
7.2
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
7.2
Hot Lead
as Turk Thorne aka John H. Smith
1951
6.3
Corky of Gasoline Alley
as Jefferson Jay
1951
0.0
The Adventures of Kit Carson
1951
5.3
China Corsair
as Pedro
1951
5.5
The Texas Rangers
as Wes Hardin
1951
5.7
Lorna Doone
as Baron de Wichehalse
1951
4.4
When the Redskins Rode
as John Delmont
1951
4.7
Fort Savage Raiders
as Capt. Michael Craydon
1951
0.0
Al Jennings of Oklahoma
as Tom Marsden
1951
5.0
The Flying Missile
as Lieutenant Commander
1950
4.9
Counterspy Meets Scotland Yard
as Bob Reynolds
1950
5.5
Last of the Buccaneers
as Sgt. Belchue
1950
5.5
Three Secrets
as Gordon Crossley (uncredited)
1950
6.4
🎬
Lux Video Theatre
as Gilbert Simmone
1950
6.3
David Harding, Counterspy
as Frank Reynolds
1950
5.5
Captive Girl
as Hakim
1950
3.9
Rogues of Sherwood Forest
as Sir Baldric
1950
4.8
Destination Murder
as Frank Niles
1950
5.1
Texas Dynamo
as Stanton
1950
0.0
Dynamite Pass
as Anson Thurber
1950
5.9
Backfire
as Blake - Plainclothes Cop (uncredited)
1950
5.8
Horsemen of the Sierras
as Duke Webster
1949
0.0
Barbary Pirate
as Murad Reis
1949
6.0
Mary Ryan, Detective
as Belden
1949
5.1
Bandits of El Dorado
as Charles Bruton
1949
0.0
Kazan
as Henri Le Clerc
1949
0.0
🎬
The Secret Of St. Ives
as Couguelat
1949
6.0
Tulsa
as Oilman (uncredited)
1949
6.3
He Walked by Night
as Assistant Bureau Chief (uncredited)
1949
6.7
Blonde Savage
as Joe Comstock
1947
4.1
Bury Me Dead
as Reporter
1947
4.6
Golden Earrings
as SS Officer with Hoff (uncredited)
1947
5.9
Vigilantes of Boomtown
as Bob Fitzsimmons
1947
2.5
It's a Joke, Son!
as Reporter (uncredited)
1947
6.9
Out California Way
as Rod Mason
1946
6.0
Big Town
as Willard Erskine (uncredited)
1946
4.8
The Last Crooked Mile
as Jarvis, Gang Leader
1946
5.1
O.S.S.
as German Radar Captain (uncredited)
1946
6.4
The Catman of Paris
as Georges
1946
5.4
The Undercover Woman
as Walter Hughes
1946
1.7
Club Havana
as Jeffreys (uncredited)
1945
5.7
State Fair
as Hog Contest Announcer (uncredited)
1945
6.6
Christmas in Connecticut
as State Trooper #2 (uncredited)
1945
7.0
Twice Blessed
as Contest Announcer (uncredited)
1945
6.0
The Corn Is Green
as Miner in Bar (uncredited)
1945
7.2
Hollywood Canteen
as Norwegian Sailor (uncredited)
1944
7.3
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
as Lieutenant Commander (uncredited)
1944
6.6
The Reluctant Dragon
as Baby Weems Storyboard Artist (uncredited)
1941
6.6