John Litel
Acting • Born 1892-12-30 – Died 1972-02-03
Biography
John Litel was an American stage, screen, and television actor. From 1919 to 1936 he performed in several plays on Broadway. In 1929 he began appearing in films and was in over 200 movies throughout his career. Litel often played supporting roles such as hard-nosed cops and district attorneys. He appeared in many television series. John Litel's acting career concluded in 1967.
Filmography
213 credits
Pocketful of Miracles
Movie • 1961
Police Inspector McCrary
Houseboat
Movie • 1958
Mr. William Farnsworth
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Movie • 1961
Vice Admiral B.J. Crawford
Santa Fe Trail
Movie • 1940
Martin
Jezebel
Movie • 1938
Jean La Cour
The Return of Doctor X
Movie • 1939
Dr. Flegg
Triple Threat
Movie • 1948
Finders Keepers
Movie • 1929
(as John B. Litel)
Nevada Smith
Movie • 1966
Doctor
Nancy Drew... Reporter
Movie • 1939
Carson Drew
Pitfall
Movie • 1948
District Attorney
Castle on the Hudson
Movie • 1940
Prison Chaplain
Dust Be My Destiny
Movie • 1939
Prosecutor
Sealed Lips
Movie • 1942
Mike Rofano / Fred Morton
A Slight Case of Murder
Movie • 1938
Post
The Guilty
Movie • 1947
Alex Tremholt
Invisible Agent
Movie • 1942
John Gardiner
Double Jeopardy
Movie • 1955
Emmett Devery
The Madonna's Secret
Movie • 1946
Lt. Roberts
Black Legion
Movie • 1937
Tommy Smith
Flight to Mars
Movie • 1951
Dr. Lane
The Sundowners
Movie • 1950
John Gall
Woman in Hiding
Movie • 1950
John Chandler
Brewster's Millions
Movie • 1945
Swearengen Jones
Knute Rockne All American
Movie • 1940
Committee Chairman
The Sons of Katie Elder
Movie • 1965
Minister
It All Came True
Movie • 1940
Mr. Roberts
They Drive by Night
Movie • 1940
Harry McNamara
They Died with Their Boots On
Movie • 1941
Gen. Phil Sheridan
Decision at Sundown
Movie • 1957
Charles Summerton
The Kentuckian
Movie • 1955
Pleasant Tuesday Babson
I, Jane Doe
Movie • 1948
Horton
San Antonio
Movie • 1945
Charlie Bell
Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase
Movie • 1939
Carson Drew
Nancy Drew… Detective
Movie • 1938
Carson Drew
Nancy Drew... Trouble Shooter
Movie • 1939
Carson Drew
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
Movie • 1938
Mr. Monroe, Prosecuting Attorney
Dodge City
Movie • 1939
Matt Cole
Kid Glove Killer
Movie • 1942
Matty
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
Movie • 1950
Police Chief Sam Tolgate
The Boss of Big Town
Movie • 1942
Michael Lynn
A Desperate Chance for Ellery Queen
Movie • 1942
Norman Hadley
Sister Kenny
Movie • 1946
Medical Director
Two Dollar Bettor
Movie • 1951
John Hewitt
Crime Doctor
Movie • 1943
Emilio Caspari, the mystery man
The Crime Doctor's Warning
Movie • 1945
Inspector Dawes
The Beginning or the End
Movie • 1947
K.T. Keller
Rusty Saves a Life
Movie • 1949
Hugh Mitchell
Rusty Leads the Way
Movie • 1948
Hugh Mitchell
The Fuller Brush Girl
Movie • 1950
Mr. Watkins
Christmas Eve
Movie • 1947
Joe Bland, FBI Agent
Murder in the Air
Movie • 1940
Saxby
Submarine Base
Movie • 1943
James Xavier 'Jim' Taggart
You Can't Get Away with Murder
Movie • 1939
Attorney Carey
My Dog Rusty
Movie • 1948
Hugh Mitchell
Men of Texas
Movie • 1942
Colonel Colbert Scott
Montana Belle
Movie • 1952
Matt Towner
Heaven Only Knows
Movie • 1947
Reverend Wainwright
Sitting Bull
Movie • 1954
Wilford Howell
Old Glory
Movie • 1939
Patrick Henry (voice) (uncredited)
Lady with Red Hair
Movie • 1940
Charles Bryant
Flight Angels
Movie • 1940
Dr. Barclay
Lighthouse
Movie • 1947
Hank Armitage
Murder in Times Square
Movie • 1943
Dr. Blaine
Mary Ryan, Detective
Movie • 1949
Capt. Billings
The Gun Hawk
Movie • 1963
Drunk - Madden's father
Cass Timberlane
Movie • 1947
Webb Wargate
The Crimson Canary
Movie • 1945
Roger Quinn
So Proudly We Hail
Movie • 1943
Dr. Harrison
The Man Who Talked Too Much
Movie • 1940
District Attorney Dickson
Over the Wall
Movie • 1938
Father Neil Connor
Smooth as Silk
Movie • 1946
Stephen Elliott
The Big Boss
Movie • 1941
Bob Dugan
Father Is A Prince
Movie • 1940
Dr. Mark Stone
Murder in the Blue Room
Movie • 1944
Frank Baldrich
The Hired Gun
Movie • 1957
Mace Beldon
The Great Mr. Nobody
Movie • 1941
John Wade
Men Without Souls
Movie • 1940
Reverend Thomas Storm
Night in Paradise
Movie • 1946
Archon
The Wild Dakotas
Movie • 1956
Morgan Wheeler
Texas Lady
Movie • 1955
Meade Moore (wigwam owner)
Father's Son
Movie • 1941
William Emory
Secret Service of the Air
Movie • 1939
Chief Agent Tom Saxby
Missing Witnesses
Movie • 1937
Inspector Lane
Take Care of My Little Girl
Movie • 1951
John Erickson (uncredited)
Outpost in Morocco
Movie • 1949
Colonel Pascal
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Movie • 1983
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Gambling on the High Seas
Movie • 1940
U.S. District Attorney Homer Sears
Valley of the Giants
Movie • 1938
Hendricks
The Enchanted Forest
Movie • 1945
Ed Henderson
Midnight Court
Movie • 1937
Victor Shanley
On Dress Parade
Movie • 1939
Col. Michael Riker
On Trial
Movie • 1939
Robert Strickland
Gold Is Where You Find It
Movie • 1938
Ralph Ferris
Where Are Your Children?
Movie • 1943
Judge Edmonds
Jack Slade
Movie • 1953
Judge Davidson
Fugitive in the Sky
Movie • 1936
Mike Phelan
Rusty's Birthday
Movie • 1949
Hugh Mitchell
Money and the Woman
Movie • 1940
Jerremy Helm
Love, Honor and Behave
Movie • 1938
Jim Blake
Alcatraz Island
Movie • 1937
'Gat' Brady
Easy Come, Easy Go
Movie • 1947
Tom Clancy
The Mystery of Marie Roget
Movie • 1942
Henri Beauvais
Comet Over Broadway
Movie • 1938
Bill Appleton
Northwest Trail
Movie • 1945
Sergeant Means
Lover Come Back
Movie • 1961
Williams, Ad Council Board Member (uncredited)
Oh Darling!
Movie • 1930
The Texas Rangers
Movie • 1951
John B. Jones
Jet Job
Movie • 1952
Sam Bentley
A Child is Born
Movie • 1939
Dr. Brett
Shamrock Hill
Movie • 1949
Ralph Judson
Comanche
Movie • 1956
Gen. Nelson A. Miles
Little Egypt
Movie • 1951
Shuster
Back in Circulation
Movie • 1937
Dr. Eugene Forde
Scaramouche
Movie • 1952
Dr. Dubuque
The Fighting 69th
Movie • 1940
Captain Mangan
My Bill
Movie • 1938
John C. Rudlin
Little Miss Thoroughbred
Movie • 1938
Nelson "Nails" Morgan
Virginia City
Movie • 1940
Marshall
Henry Aldrich's Little Secret
Movie • 1944
Mr. Samuel J. Aldrich
Henry Aldrich Gets Glamour
Movie • 1943
Sam Aldrich
Henry Aldrich for President
Movie • 1941
Sam Aldrich
Henry Aldrich Swings It
Movie • 1943
Mr. Aldrich
Henry Aldrich Haunts a House
Movie • 1943
Sam Aldrich
Henry and Dizzy
Movie • 1942
Sam Aldrich
Henry Aldrich, Boy Scout
Movie • 1944
Sam Aldrich
Wings of the Navy
Movie • 1939
Commander Clark
Henry Aldrich Plays Cupid
Movie • 1944
Mr. Aldrich
Runaway Daughters
Movie • 1956
George Barton
March On, Marines
Movie • 1940
Colonel Myers
Faces in the Fog
Movie • 1944
Dr. Mason
Don't Believe It
Movie • 1930
Dick
The Trial of Mary Dugan
Movie • 1941
Mr. West
For the Common Defense!
Movie • 1942
Subprefect Santiago Castillo
My Buddy
Movie • 1944
Jim Donnelly
Don Winslow of the Navy
Movie • 1942
Spencer Merlin
Key Largo
Movie • 1948
Dispatcher (uncredited)
An Angel from Texas
Movie • 1940
Quigley
Henry Aldrich, Editor
Movie • 1942
Sam Aldrich
Cuban Fireball
Movie • 1951
Pomeroy Sr.
Slim
Movie • 1937
Wyatt Ranstead
Salome, Where She Danced
Movie • 1945
General Lee
Wayward
Movie • 1932
Robert 'Bob' Daniels
The Groom Wore Spurs
Movie • 1951
Chief of Police
Broadway Musketeers
Movie • 1938
Stan Dowling
Madame Spy
Movie • 1942
Peter Rolf
The Declaration of Independence
Movie • 1938
Thomas Jefferson
Give Me Liberty
Movie • 1936
Patrick Henry
The Life of Emile Zola
Movie • 1937
Charpentier
Swell Guy
Movie • 1946
Arthur Tyler
On the Border
Movie • 1930
Dave (as John B. Litel)
Thieves Fall Out
Movie • 1941
Tim Gordon
The Gal Who Took the West
Movie • 1949
Colonel Logan
The Daltons Ride Again
Movie • 1945
Mitchael J. 'Mike' Bohannon
The Valiant Hombre
Movie • 1948
Lon Lansdell
Always Faithful
Movie • 1929
Wayne
She Wrote the Book
Movie • 1946
Dean Fowler
Breakdowns of 1938
Movie • 1938
Inspector Lane (archive footage) (uncredited)
Soldiers in White
Movie • 1942
Charles Anthony
The Man Without a Country
Movie • 1937
Lt. Philip Nolan
Smart Woman
Movie • 1948
Clark
Mississippi Gambler
Movie • 1942
Jim Hadley aka Francis Carvel
Marked Woman
Movie • 1937
Gordon
The Bill of Rights
Movie • 1939
Patrick Henry
March On, America!
Movie • 1942
Patrick Henry (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Return of Rusty
Movie • 1946
Hugh Mitchell
The Sleeping Porch
Movie • 1929
Okay for Sound
Movie • 1946
One Hour To Live
Movie • 1939
Rudolph Spain
Rendezvous in Space
Movie • 1964
Priest
77 Sunset Strip
TV • 1958
Cheyenne
TV • 1955
Maverick
TV • 1957
Ellsworth Greeley
Route 66
TV • 1960
I Love Lucy
TV • 1951
Harvey Cromwell
Perry Mason
TV • 1957
Judge
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
Phillip Saunders
Hawaiian Eye
TV • 1959
Rawhide
TV • 1959
Jim Rye
Have Gun, Will Travel
TV • 1957
The Virginian
TV • 1962
Finley
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Dr. Robbins
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
TV • 1955
Climax!
TV • 1954
Judge Sam Crowley
Hazel
TV • 1961
Bronco
TV • 1958
Branded
TV • 1965
Lock-Up
TV • 1959
Wanted: Dead or Alive
TV • 1958
Judge George Healy
Sugarfoot
TV • 1957
Hank Tatum
My Hero
TV • 1952
Cavalcade of America
TV • 1952
Dr. Silkworth
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
TV • 1956
Sheriff Martin Calder
Vacation Playhouse
TV • 1963
Albert P. Leviathan
City Detective
TV • 1953
Zorro
TV • 1957
The Governor
Stagecoach West
TV • 1960
Dan Murchison
Maverick
TV • 1957
Judge Somervell
77 Sunset Strip
TV • 1958
Colonel Richard Gaunt
Rawhide
TV • 1959
James Whitcomb
Sugarfoot
TV • 1957
Archie Crenshaw
The Virginian
TV • 1962
Wade Hammill
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
Frank Hobbs
Four Star Playhouse
TV • 1952
Van Alten
Four Star Playhouse
TV • 1952
Mayor
Wanted: Dead or Alive
TV • 1958
Asa Morgan
Wanted: Dead or Alive
TV • 1958
Clint Davis
Branded
TV • 1965
Gen. James Reed (archive footage) (uncredited)
Bonanza
TV • 1959
Judge Jeremy Clarence Billington
Maverick
TV • 1957
Judge Joshua Thayer
77 Sunset Strip
TV • 1958
Distinguished Visitor
Bonanza
TV • 1959
Mayor George Goshen
Trackdown
TV • 1957
Judge Henry