John Ireland
Gender: Male
Born: 30th January 1914
Died: 21st March 1992
Nationality: United States of America, Canada
TV programs: The Cheaters, Rawhide
Movies: Railroaded!, Raw Deal, Farewell, My Lovely, 55 Days at Peking, The Fast and the Furious, Queen Bee, I Shot Jesse James, All the King's Men, Perversion Story, Bloody Che Contra, Terror Night, Open Secret, The Basketball Fix, Bloody Movie, The Good Die Young, I Saw What You Did, Vengeance Valley, A Walk in the Sun, Fort Utah, The Swiss Conspiracy, Gunslinger, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, The Incubus, A Southern Yankee, Roughshod, Guyana: Crime of the Century, Spartacus, Tomorrow Never Comes, The Father Kino Story, Wild in the Country, Messenger of Death, Red River, Treasure of the Amazon, The Fall of the Roman Empire, Bonanza: The Next Generation, My Darling Clementine, Run Man Run, Gatling Gun, Kavik the Wolf Dog, Satan's Cheerleaders, The Ceremony, The House of Seven Corpses, Salon Kitty, Big Bad John, The Fall of the Roman Empire: Deluxe Edition, Faces in the Dark
John Benjamin Ireland (January 30, 1914 – March 21, 1992) was an actor and film director.
Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, he was raised in New York City from the age of 18. He started out in minor stage roles on Broadway. A tall, lean former Canadian professional swimmer who once performed in a water carnival, he appeared on Broadway and toured in Shakespeare in the late 1930s and early 40s before entering film in the mid-40s.
He made his screen debut as Pvt. Windy, the thoughtful letter-writing GI, in the 1945 war film A Walk in the Sun. This was followed by Wake Up and Dream in 1946. A supporting actor in several notable Westerns including John Ford's My Darling Clementine (1946) and Howard Hawks' 1948 film Red River (the scene between Ireland and Montgomery Clift, where they compare guns and take each other's measure by "walking" a can across the ground with their pistol shots, is a film classic. And a lead in small noirs like Railroaded (1947), Ireland was nominated for an Oscar as Best Supporting Actor for his forceful performance as Jack Burden, the hard-boiled newspaper reporter who evolves from devotee to cynical denouncer of demagogue Willie Stark (Broderick
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