Birthday
1931/11/15
Day of death
2013/02/02 (81 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
New York, New York, USA
Also know as
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John Grinham Kerr (November 15, 1931 – February 2, 2013), was an American actor and lawyer. He made his Broadway debut in 1953 in Mary Coyle Chase's Bernardine, a high-school comedy for which he won a Theatre World Award. In 1953-54, he received critical acclaim as a troubled prep school student in Robert Anderson's play Tea and Sympathy. In 1954, he won a Tony Award for his performance, and he starred in the film version in 1956. Kerr's first television acting role was in 1954 on NBC's Justice ...Read more
(1978) The Silent Partner
as Detective #3
(1961) The Pit and the Pendulum
as Francis Barnard
(1956) Tea and Sympathy
as Tom Robinson Lee
(1958) South Pacific
as Lt. Joseph Cable, USMC
(1955) The Cobweb
as Steven W. Holte
(1971) Yuma
as Capt. White
(1960) The Crowded Sky
as Mike Rule
(1973) Class of '44
as Hotel Bartender
(1956) Gaby
as Gregory Y. Wendell
(1960) Girl of the Night
as Larry Taylor
(1957) The Vintage
as Ernesto Barandero
(1999) Anthony Perkins: A Life in the Shadows
as Self
(1979) Search and Destroy
as MacPherson
(1973) Class of '44
as Ford Hotel Bartender (uncredited)
(1957) The Ninth Day
as ---
(1953) Horace Mann's Miracle
as student
(1955) The Quatermass Xperiment
as Photo Lab Technician (uncredited)
(1972) The Longest Night
as Agent Jones
(1973) Incident on a Dark Street
as Gallagher - Trenier's Lawyer
(1953) Rex Newman
as Howie Madden
(1974) Only God Knows
as Health Inspector
(1972) The Rookies
as ---
(1965) The F.B.I.
as SAC Gary Morgan
(1972) The Streets of San Francisco
as ---
(1971) Alias Smith and Jones
as ---
(1968) The Mod Squad
as ---
(1963) Arrest and Trial
as Assistant Deputy District Attorney Barry Pine
(1955) Gunsmoke
as Lute
(1948) Studio One
as ---
(1953) General Electric Theater
as Freddie
(1985) The Ray Bradbury Theater
as Don
(1951) Hallmark Hall of Fame
as ---
(1965) The Long, Hot Summer
as ---
(1961) Bus Stop
as ---
(1959) Rawhide
as ---
(1965) Run for Your Life
as Alex Ryder
(1973) Police Story
as ---
(1967) The High Chaparral
as Creed Hallock
(1962) The Virginian
as Oliver Smith
(1972) Search
as ---
(1950) Lux Video Theatre
as Tony
(1976) The New Avengers
as ---
(1954) Climax!
as Matt Sloane
(1953) The United States Steel Hour
as ---
(1964) Profiles in Courage
as Whitlock
(1948) The Philco Television Playhouse
as George Avery
(1973) Toma
as ---
(1959) Riverboat
as Jefferson Carruthers
(1949) Suspense
as Derek Howard
(1961) The Defenders
as Jonathan Winthrop
(1965) The F.B.I.
as Chicago Special Agent
(1965) The F.B.I.
as SAC William Converse
(1965) The F.B.I.
as S.A.C. Douglas Parker
(1965) The F.B.I.
as Clayton McGregor
(1968) Adam-12
as Father Joe
(1971) Columbo
as Roger Dutton
(1968) The Name of the Game
as Billy Keaton
(1968) The Name of the Game
as Stuart Clark
(1948) Studio One
as The Boy
(1954) The Wonderful World of Disney
as Martin Didler
(1951) Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Peter Standish
(1954) Climax!
as Danny Barron/Steve Barron
(1954) Climax!
as Poggi
(1949) Suspense
as ---
(1962) The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Glendon Baker