Birthday
1914/01/31
Day of death
1992/03/21 (78 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Also know as
John Ireland Jr, John Benjamin Ireland
John Benjamin Ireland (January 30, 1914 – March 21, 1992) was a Canadian-American actor and film director. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his performance in All the King's Men (1949), making him the first Vancouver-born actor to receive an Academy Award nomination. Ireland was a supporting actor in several famous Western films such as My Darling Clementine (1946), Red River (1948), Vengeance Valley (1951), and Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957). His other notable film roles were in 5...Read more
(1960) Spartacus
as Crixus
(1946) My Darling Clementine
as Billy Clanton
(1948) Red River
as Cherry Valance
(1975) Farewell, My Lovely
as Nulty
(1954) The Fast and the Furious
as Frank Webster
(1957) Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
as Johnny Ringo
(1969) Zenabel
as Don Alonso Imolne
(1949) All the King's Men
as Jack Burden
(1958) Party Girl
as Louis Canetto
(1947) The Gangster
as Karty
(1961) Wild in the Country
as Phil Macy
(1948) Raw Deal
as Fantail
(1988) Messenger of Death
as Zenas Beecham
(1963) 55 Days at Peking
as Sgt. Harry
(1989) Terror Night
as Lance Hayward
(1965) I Saw What You Did
as Steve Marak
(1955) Queen Bee
as Judson Prentiss
(1979) Guyana: Crime of the Century
as Dave Cole
(1992) Waxwork II: Lost in Time
as King Arthur
(1949) I Shot Jesse James
as Bob Ford
(1979) The Shape of Things to Come
as Senator Smedley
(1977) Satan's Cheerleaders
as Sheriff B.L.Z. Bubb
(1947) Repeat Performance
as Narrator (Voice)
(1985) Miami Golem
as Anderson
(1951) The Scarf
as John Howard Barrington
(1977) Mission to Glory: A True Story
as Father Mora
(1974) The House of Seven Corpses
as Eric Hartman
(1951) Vengeance Valley
as Hub Fasken
(1947) Railroaded!
as Duke Martin
(1948) I Love Trouble
as Reno
(1976) The Swiss Conspiracy
as Dwight McGowan
(1946) Behind Green Lights
as Det. Oppenheimer
(1950) Cargo to Capetown
as Steve Conway
(1989) Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat
as Jefferson
(1949) The Undercover Man
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
(1954) The Good Die Young
as Eddie Blaine
(1964) The Fall of the Roman Empire
as Ballomar
(1978) Tomorrow Never Comes
as Captain
(1983) A Matter of Cunning
as John Markham
(1974) Welcome to Arrow Beach
as Sheriff Duke Bingham
(1968) Villa Rides
as Client in Barber Shop (uncredited)
(1968) Run, Man, Run
as Santillana
(1949) Mr. Soft Touch
as Henry 'Early' Byrd
(1948) Open Secret
as Paul Lester
(1985) Thunder Run
as George Adams
(1979) When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
as Self
(1974) The Girl on the Late, Late Show
as Bruno Walters
(1985) Treasure of the Amazon
as Priest
(1965) Day of the Nightmare
as Sgt. Dave Harmon
(1960) Faces in the Dark
as Max Hammond
(1974) Wam Bam Thank You Spaceman
as ---
(1982) Incubus
as Hank Walden
(1968) Gatling Gun
as Tarpas
(1970) The Adventurers
as Mr.James Hadley
(1968) Dead for a Dollar
as Der Colonel
(1969) Carnal Circuit
as Richard Salinger
(1955) The Glass Cage
as Pel Pelham
(1949) Roughshod
as Lednov
(1951) The Basketball Fix
as Pete Ferreday
(1974) The Rangers
as Carson
(1953) The 49th Man
as Investigator John Williams
(1954) The Steel Cage
as Al, a Ringleader, segment "The Hostages"
(1968) A Gun for One Hundred Graves
as Douglas
(1949) The Doolins of Oklahoma
as Bitter Creek
(1968) A Taste of Death
as Dan El/Ralph
(1968) Go For Broke
as Owl/Gufo/le Hibou
(1954) Security Risk
as Ralph Payne
(1951) Red Mountain
as Gen. William Quantrill
(1951) Little Big Horn
as Lt. John Haywood
(1974) Blood River
as Abel Webster
(1970) Challenge of McKenna
as Jones/Jonas MacKenna
(1946) It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog
as Benny Smith
(1977) The Perfect Killer
as Benny
(1961) Return of a Stranger
as Ray Reed
(1968) Arizona Bushwhackers
as Dan Shelby
(1963) The Ceremony
as Prison Warden
(1956) Gunslinger
as Cane Miro
(1953) Hannah Lee: An American Primitive
as Marshal Sam Rochelle
(1958) Stormy Crossing
as Griff Parker
(1963) No Time To Kill
as Johnny Greco
(1985) Martin's Day
as Brewer
(1949) Anna Lucasta
as Danny Johnson
(1952) Hurricane Smith
as Hurricane Smith
(1967) Fort Utah
as Tom Horn
(1980) Marilyn: The Untold Story
as John Huston
(1992) Merlin
as ---
(1951) This Is Korea!
as Narrator
(1949) The Walking Hills
as Frazee
(1948) A Southern Yankee
as Capt. Jed Calbern
(1967) Dirty Heroes
as Captain O’Connor
(1946) Wake Up and Dream
as Howard Williams
(2023) The Enigmatic Charlotte Rampling
as Self (archive footage)
(2002) The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
as Bob Ford (archive footage)
(1979) On the Air Live with Captain Midnight
as Agent Pierson
(1954) Southwest Passage
as Clint McDonald
(1975) We Are No Angels
as Mr. Shark
(1979) Crossbar
as Miles Kornylo
(1991) The Graveyard Story
as Dr. McGregor
(1975) Sex Diary
as Milton
(1977) The Ransom
as Chief Haliburton
(1968) Vengeance for Vengeance
as Maj. Bower
(1967) Caxambu!
as Vince Neff
(1968) Bloody Che Contra
as Stuart
(1980) The Courage of Kavik, the Wolf Dog
as George Hunter
(1953) Combat Squad
as Sgt. Ken 'Fletch' Fletcher
(1980) Tourist
as Joe Vigil, Sr.
(1950) The Return of Jesse James
as Johnny Callum
(1958) No Place to Land
as Jonas Bailey
(1978) The Millionaire
as Marshall Wayburn
(1979) Delta Fox
as Lucas Johnson
(1962) Brushfire
as Jeff Saygure
(1976) Salon Kitty
as Cliff
(2015) 3-D Rarities
as (archive footage)
(1974) The Phantom of Hollywood
as Lt. Gifford
(1988) Bonanza: The Next Generation
as Capt. Aaron Cartwright
(1946) Somewhere in the Night
as Thug (voice) (uncredited)
(1969) The War Devils
as ---
(1945) A Walk in the Sun
as Pfc. Windy Craven
(1951) The Bushwhackers
as Jefferson Waring
(1967) Hate for Hate
as James Cooper
(1988) Perry Mason: The Case of the Lady in the Lake
as Walter
(1977) Love and the Midnight Auto Supply
as Tony Santore
(1981) Bordello
as Judge
(1948) Joan of Arc
as Jean de la Boussac (St. Sevére), Captain
(1974) Northeast of Seoul
as Flanaghan
(1964) The Big Parade of Comedy
as Captain Calbern in 'A Southern Yankee' (arch. foot.) (uncred.)
(1972) Escape to the Sun
as Jacob Kagan
(1986) Seasons in the Sun
as Keith Slattery
(1955) Hell's Horizon
as Capt. John Merrill
(1969) One on Top of the Other
as Inspector Wald
(1992) Hammer Down
as Lt. Bates
(1974) Planet of the Apes
as ---
(1984) Murder, She Wrote
as Sheriff Hainer
(1980) Magnum, P.I.
as Wyndom Jackson
(1983) Hardcastle and McCormick
as Bucky Miller
(1963) Burke's Law
as Orrin Lashwell
(1963) Kraft Suspense Theatre
as William 'Scotty' Scott
(1974) Little House on the Prairie
as ---
(1984) Airwolf
as Hardesty
(1968) Hawaii Five-O
as Phil Coleman
(1979) Hart to Hart
as Zeke BaIllinger
(1955) Gunsmoke
as Jed Coombs
(1953) General Electric Theater
as Abe Lincoln
(1966) Mission: Impossible
as Andrew Metzger
(1955) Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Captain McCabe
(1975) Khan!
as ---
(1965) Run for Your Life
as Dr. Mason
(1964) Daniel Boone
as Hiram Manville
(1973) Police Story
as ---
(1975) Switch
as Verne Deamer
(1960) Thriller
as Eddie Wilson
(1950) Lux Video Theatre
as Milt Shanks
(1951) Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as ---
(1983) The Hitchhiker
as Jack Guttman
(1954) Climax!
as Greg
(1948) The Philco Television Playhouse
as ---
(1959) Riverboat
as Chris Slade
(1954) The Whistler
as ---
(1956) Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Marshal Harry Phillips
(1960) The Cheaters
as John Hunter
(1966) The Man Who Never Was
as ---
(1961) The Asphalt Jungle
as ---
(1972) Ghost Story
as Arthur Mundy
(1982) Cassie & Co.
as Lyman Shackelford
(1987) J.J. Starbuck
as Charles Capstone
(1955) Gunsmoke
as Parker
(1976) Quincy, M.E.
as Attorney John Packard
(1950) Lux Video Theatre
as Marty
(1951) Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Jim Regan
(1951) Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Billy Bob Jackson
(1951) Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Pete Bronson
(1951) Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Andrew Evans
(1963) Burke's Law
as Bullock
(1979) The Littlest Hobo
as Pa
(1968) The Name of the Game
as Mel Wexler
(1959) Bonanza
as Marshal Will Rimbau
(1984) Airwolf
as Carl Barron
(1976) Quincy, M.E.
as Jerry Driskill
(1988) War of the Worlds
as Harv
(1976) Quincy, M.E.
as Sheriff Ned Evers
(1965) Branded
as Cattle Rancher Renger
(1965) Branded
as Ted Evers
(1962) The Virginian
as Kinroy
(1959) Rawhide
as Winch
(1959) Rawhide
as Frank Trask
(1959) Rawhide
as Dr. Joseph Merritt
(1959) Rawhide
as Jed Colby
(1956) Armchair Theatre
as Monroe Stahr
(1954) Studio 57
as ---
(1957) Suspicion
as ---
(1983) Trauma Center
as ---
(1989) Snoops
as Gabriel Franken