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John McIntire
Catalogued films 80Actor 80
John Herrick McIntire (June 27, 1907 – January 30, 1991) was an American character actor who appeared in 65 theatrical films and many television series. McIntire is well known for having replaced Ward Bond, upon Bond's sudden death in November 1960, as the star of NBC's Wagon Train. He played Christopher Hale, the leader of the wagon train (and successor to Bond's character, Seth Adams) from early 1961 to the series' end in 1965. He also replaced Charles Bickford, upon Bickford's death in 1967, as ranch owner Clay Grainger (brother of Bickford's character) on NBC's The Virginian for four seasons.
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Dream Breakers
Turner & Hooch
As Summers Die
The Cowboy and the Ballerina
Cloak & Dagger
Honkytonk Man
All the Way Home
The Fox and the Hound
American Dream
Mrs. R's Daughter
The Jordan Chance
Lassie: The New Beginning
Crisis in Sun Valley
The Rescuers
The New Daughters of Joshua Cabe
Rooster Cogburn
The Healers
Herbie Rides Again
Linda
Powderkeg
Longstreet
Rough Night in Jericho
Summer and Smoke
Two Rode Together
Flaming Star
Seven Ways from Sundown
Elmer Gantry
Psycho
Who Was That Lady?
The Gunfight at Dodge City
The Light in the Forest
Strange Witness
Sing Boy Sing
The Mark of the Hawk
The Tin Star
Away All Boats
Backlash
World in My Corner
I've Lived Before
The Kentuckian
The Phenix City Story
Stranger on Horseback
The Scarlet Coat
The Spoilers
The Yellow Mountain
Four Guns to the Border
Apache
The Far Country
War Arrow
A Lion Is in the Streets
The President's Lady
The Mississippi Gambler
The Lawless Breed
Horizons West
The World in His Arms
Sally and Saint Anne
Glory Alley
Westward the Women
The Raging Tide
That's My Boy
You're in the Navy Now
Under the Gun
Walk Softly, Stranger
Saddle Tramp
Winchester '73
Shadow on the Wall
The Asphalt Jungle
Francis
Ambush
No Sad Songs for Me
Top o' the Morning
Scene of the Crime
Johnny Stool Pigeon
Down to the Sea in Ships
Red Canyon
An Act of Murder
The Street with No Name
River Lady
Black Bart
Call Northside 777