John Larch
Acting • Born 1914-10-04 – Died 2005-10-16
Biography
John Larch (October 4, 1914 - October 16, 2005) was an American film and television actor. After his lead role in the radio serial Captain Starr of Space (1953–54), John Larch entered films in 1954. He usually appeared in westerns (How The West Was Won) and action films, including Miracle of the White Stallions as General George S. Patton Jr. (1963), Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur as General Omar Bradley (1976), replacing James Gregory as Mac in the Matt Helm movie The Wrecking Crew (1969) starring Dean Martin, Sharon Tate and Elke Sommer. Larch, an old friend of Clint Eastwood, appeared in Eastwood films, including Dirty Harry (1971) and Play Misty for Me (1971). He also appeared on a number of television programs, including Naked City (three episodes), Route 66 (three episodes), The Fugitive (two episodes), The Invaders, The Restless Gun (four episodes), Gunsmoke (seven episodes), The Virginian (four episodes), Bonanza, Hawaii Five-0, Mission Impossible (two episodes), The Troubleshooters, Bus Stop, Laramie, The Law and Mr. Jones, and possibly most famously as Bill Mumy's father in The Twilight Zone episode "It's a Good Life" in 1961. He also appeared in two other The Twilight Zone episodes, playing a psychiatrist in "Perchance to Dream" and the sheriff in "Dust". Description above from the Wikipedia article John Larch, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
169 credits
7 Men from Now
Movie • 1956
Payte Bodeen
The Phenix City Story
Movie • 1955
Clem Wilson
Play Misty for Me
Movie • 1971
Sgt. McCallum
Framed
Movie • 1975
Bundy
Behind the High Wall
Movie • 1956
William Kiley
How the West Was Won
Movie • 1962
Grimes (uncredited)
Written on the Wind
Movie • 1956
Roy Carter
Man from Del Rio
Movie • 1956
Bill Dawson
Bad Ronald
Movie • 1974
Sgt. Lynch
Miracle of the White Stallions
Movie • 1963
General George S. Patton, Jr.
Santee
Movie • 1973
Banner
Cannon for Cordoba
Movie • 1970
Warner
The McConnell Story
Movie • 1955
Cy
Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur
Movie • 1976
Gen. Omar Bradley
Seven Angry Men
Movie • 1955
Sergeant
Quantez
Movie • 1957
Heller
Johnny Moccasin
Movie • 1956
Frank Hill
Move
Movie • 1970
Mounted Patrolman
The Careless Years
Movie • 1957
Sam Vernon
The Saga of Hemp Brown
Movie • 1958
Jed Givens
From Hell to Texas
Movie • 1958
Hal Carmody
Illegal
Movie • 1955
District Attorney's Man (uncredited)
Winter Kill
Movie • 1974
Dr. Bill Hammond
The Desperate Miles
Movie • 1975
Dr. Bryson
Women in Chains
Movie • 1972
Barney
The City
Movie • 1971
Holland Yermo
The Amityville Horror
Movie • 1979
Father Nuncio
Tight Spot
Movie • 1955
First Detective (uncredited)
Ellery Queen: Too Many Suspects
Movie • 1975
District Attorney
Magic Carpet
Movie • 1972
Mr. Tracy
5 Against the House
Movie • 1955
Police Detective (uncredited)
The Killer Is Loose
Movie • 1956
Otto Flanders
Man in the Shadow
Movie • 1957
Ed Yates
Dirty Harry
Movie • 1971
Chief
Future Cop
Movie • 1976
Commisioner Forman
Airplane II: The Sequel
Movie • 1982
Prosecuting Attorney
Bitter Creek
Movie • 1954
Hired Gunman
Gun for a Coward
Movie • 1956
Stringer
Hail, Hero!
Movie • 1969
Mr. Conklin
This Is My Love
Movie • 1954
Police Detective
Hell to Eternity
Movie • 1960
Capt. Schwabe
The Wrecking Crew
Movie • 1968
MacDonald
The Chadwick Family
Movie • 1974
Fargo
A Fire in the Sky
Movie • 1978
Johnson
Pages of Death
Movie • 1962
Councilman Halliday
Moby Dick
Movie • 1954
1st Sailor
The Great Bank Robbery
Movie • 1969
Sheriff of Friendly
The Naked Street
Movie • 1955
Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
Stampede at Bitter Creek
Movie • 1962
Frank Boyd
Cain's Hundred
TV • 1961
Benjamin Riker
Little House on the Prairie
TV • 1974
Arthur Mahoney
The F.B.I.
TV • 1965
Fred Wallace
Simon & Simon
TV • 1981
Deputy Sheriff John Burns
Hawaii Five-O
TV • 1968
Joseph Trinian
Quincy, M.E.
TV • 1976
Route 66
TV • 1960
The Twilight Zone
TV • 1959
Eliot Rathmann
The Twilight Zone
TV • 1959
Mr. Fremont
The Streets of San Francisco
TV • 1972
Alias Smith and Jones
TV • 1971
Hawkins
TV • 1973
Herb Talley
Dynasty
TV • 1981
Naked City
TV • 1958
John Clinton
Charlie's Angels
TV • 1976
Kamden
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Clay Young
Dragnet
TV • 1951
Arrest and Trial
TV • 1963
Jerry Miller
Mission: Impossible
TV • 1966
Premier Anton Rojek
Cannon
TV • 1971
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
The Twilight Zone
TV • 1959
Sheriff Koch
Ironside
TV • 1967
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1955
Sgt. Shaw
Dallas
TV • 1978
Wally Windham
Dallas
TV • 1978
Arlen Ward / Atticus Ward
Dallas
TV • 1978
Arlen Ward
Dallas
TV • 1978
Atticus Ward
Outlaws
TV • 1960
Bus Stop
TV • 1961
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
TV • 1958
Felony Squad
TV • 1966
Rawhide
TV • 1959
Lennie Dawson
Nanny and the Professor
TV • 1970
Vega$
TV • 1978
Police Story
TV • 1973
The Fugitive
TV • 1963
George Duncan
Daniel Boone
TV • 1964
Sam Hawken
I Led Three Lives
TV • 1953
Switch
TV • 1975
Stocker
The Millionaire
TV • 1955
Thomas J. 'Tom' Mead
The Virginian
TV • 1962
Sheriff Neil Brady
Kingston: Confidential
TV • 1977
Convoy
TV • 1965
Ben Foster
Lucan
TV • 1977
Yancy Derringer
TV • 1958
Wayland Farr
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV • 1951
Luke Powers
Climax!
TV • 1954
Cab Driver
Adventures in Paradise
TV • 1959
Nicholas
Judd for the Defense
TV • 1967
The Fugitive
TV • 1963
Sheriff Ben Corby
Black Saddle
TV • 1959
Ty Northrup
Wanted: Dead or Alive
TV • 1958
Howie Kale
The Rifleman
TV • 1958
Bat Masterson
TV • 1958
Garrickson
Ben Casey
TV • 1961
Laramie
TV • 1959
Law of the Plainsman
TV • 1959
Jasper Mullen
The New Breed
TV • 1961
John Clark
Wichita Town
TV • 1959
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
TV • 1956
Quine - Scout
Stoney Burke
TV • 1962
Johnny Ringo
TV • 1959
Mills Walker
Tightrope
TV • 1959
Jefferson Drum
TV • 1958
John Larkin
Dr. Kildare
TV • 1961
Dr. Victor Jonah
Telephone Time
TV • 1956
The Walter Winchell File
TV • 1957
The Restless Gun
TV • 1957
Sheriff Riker
Big Shamus, Little Shamus
TV • 1979
Big Hawaii
TV • 1977
The Feather And Father Gang
TV • 1977
Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
S / Sgt. Ernie Robbins
Public Defender
TV • 1954
Trusty
Bronk
TV • 1975
The Texan
TV • 1958
Les Torbit
Naked City
TV • 1958
Steve Werminski
Naked City
TV • 1958
George Paraskis
Wagon Train
TV • 1957
John Ramsey
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
TV • 1964
Dr. Killman
Rawhide
TV • 1959
Sam Garrett
The F.B.I.
TV • 1965
Jules Harmon
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Jim Cobbett
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Rance
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Zeno
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Dan
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Serpa
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Shanks
Have Gun, Will Travel
TV • 1957
McNagle
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
TV • 1956
Dr. Cole Gentry
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
TV • 1956
Magnus Kihlgren
Four Star Playhouse
TV • 1952
Harris
The Restless Gun
TV • 1957
Anse Newton
Hawaii Five-O
TV • 1968
Roger Maggers
Route 66
TV • 1960
Bill Morrison
The Six Million Dollar Man
TV • 1974
Arthur Vale
Route 66
TV • 1960
Sandy Mason
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
1st Sailor
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
A young tough
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Quintus
The Dick Powell Show
TV • 1961
Sam Baker
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
TV • 1971
George Patterson
The Untouchables
TV • 1959
Bryan 'Bull' Hanlon
The Wonderful World of Disney
TV • 1954
Frank Boyd
The Invaders
TV • 1967
Greg Lucather
Police Woman
TV • 1974
Lester Hummel
The Critical List
TV • 1978
Sprony
The Restless Gun
TV • 1957
Red-eye Kirk
The Virginian
TV • 1962
Sheriff
Studio 57
TV • 1954
Space Patrol
TV • 1950
Korwin
The Lone Wolf
TV • 1954
Lt. Cellars
Bonanza
TV • 1959
Blake McCall
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
TV • 1971
David Cameron
Have Gun, Will Travel
TV • 1957
Chaplain Robert April
The Troubleshooters
TV • 1959
McGuire
Mission: Impossible
TV • 1966
Larry Gault
The Partners
TV • 1971
Sheriff Luke Fender
I Led 3 Lives
TV • 1953
Terry
Wagon Train
TV • 1957
Jethro Creech