John Litel
John Litel (December 30, 1892 – February 3, 1972) was an American film actor. During World War I, Litel enlisted in the French Army and was twice decorated for bravery. Back in the U.S. after the war, Litel enrolled in the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and began his stage career. In 1929, he started appearing in films. Part of the "Warner Bros. Stock Company" beginning in the 1930s, he appeared in dozens of Warner Bros. films. He often played supporting roles such as hard-nosed cops, district attorneys, etc. He appeared in over 200 films, including They Drive by Night (1940), Knute Rockne, All American (1940), They Died with Their Boots On (1941), Scaramouche (1952), and his final film role in Nevada Smith (1966).
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- Born:
- Dec 30, 1892 In Albany, Wisconsin, USA
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 167
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Finders Keepers 1929-12-27
- Latest Project:
- Movie Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage 1983-02-25
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1983-02-25 |
| Movie | Nevada Smith | Doctor | 1966-06-10 |
| Movie | The Sons of Katie Elder | Minister | 1965-06-23 |
| Series | Vacation Playhouse | Unknown | 1963-07-22 |
| Movie | The Gun Hawk | Drunk - Madden's father | 1963-08-28 |
| Movie | Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea | Vice Admiral B.J. Crawford | 1961-07-12 |
| Series | Hazel | Unknown | 1961-09-28 |
| Movie | Pocketful of Miracles | Police Inspector McCrary | 1961-12-18 |
| Series | Hawaiian Eye | Unknown | 1959-10-07 |
| Series | Wanted: Dead or Alive | Unknown | 1958-09-06 |
| Movie | Houseboat | Mr. William Farnsworth | 1958-11-19 |
| Series | Bronco | Unknown | 1958-09-23 |
| Movie | The Hired Gun | Mace Beldon | 1957-09-20 |
| Series | Have Gun, Will Travel | Unknown | 1957-09-14 |
| Series | Perry Mason | Unknown | 1957-09-21 |
| Series | Trackdown | Unknown | 1957-10-04 |
| Series | Zorro | Unknown | 1957-10-10 |
| Movie | Decision at Sundown | Charles Summerton | 1957-11-10 |
| Movie | The Wild Dakotas | Morgan Wheeler | 1956-02-28 |
| Movie | Runaway Daughters | George Barton | 1956-01-20 |
| Movie | Comanche | Gen. Nelson A. Miles | 1956-03-01 |
| Movie | Double Jeopardy | Emmett Devery | 1955-06-23 |
| Movie | The Kentuckian | Pleasant Tuesday Babson | 1955-07-22 |
| Series | The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp | Unknown | 1955-09-06 |
| Movie | Texas Lady | Meade Moore (wigwam owner) | 1955-11-23 |
| Movie | Sitting Bull | Wilford Howell | 1954-10-06 |
| Movie | Jack Slade | Judge Davidson | 1953-11-08 |
| Series | City Detective | Unknown | 1953-01-01 |
| Series | General Electric Theater | Unknown | 1953-02-01 |
| Movie | Scaramouche | Dr. Dubuque | 1952-05-08 |
| Series | Cavalcade of America | Unknown | 1952-10-01 |
| Series | My Hero (US) | 1952-11-08 | |
| Movie | Montana Belle | Matt Towner | 1952-11-11 |
| Movie | The Groom Wore Spurs | Uncle George | 1951-03-13 |
| Movie | Cuban Fireball | Pomeroy Sr. | 1951-03-05 |
| Movie | The Texas Rangers | John B. Jones | 1951-06-03 |
| Movie | Take Care of My Little Girl | John Erickson (uncredited) | 1951-07-06 |
| Movie | Flight To Mars | Dr. Lane | 1951-11-11 |
| Series | I Love Lucy | Unknown | 1951-10-15 |
| Movie | Little Egypt | Shuster | 1951-10-01 |
| Movie | The Fuller Brush Girl | Mr. Watkins | 1950-09-15 |
| Movie | Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye | Police Chief Sam Tolgate | 1950-08-19 |
| Series | Lux Video Theatre | Unknown | 1950-10-02 |
| Movie | Rusty Saves a Life | Hugh Mitchell | 1949-02-03 |
| Movie | The Gal Who Took the West | Colonel Logan | 1949-09-01 |
| Movie | Outpost in Morocco | Colonel Pascal | 1949-05-02 |
| Movie | Rusty's Birthday | Hugh Mitchell | 1949-11-03 |
| Movie | Mary Ryan, Detective | Capt. Billings | 1949-11-03 |
| Movie | I, Jane Doe | Horton | 1948-05-25 |
| Movie | My Dog Rusty | Hugh Mitchell | 1948-04-08 |
| Movie | Key Largo | Dispatcher (uncredited) | 1948-07-16 |
| Movie | Smart Woman | Clark | 1948-04-30 |
| Movie | Pitfall | District Attorney | 1948-08-11 |
| Movie | Rusty Leads the Way | Hugh Mitchell | 1948-10-21 |
| Movie | The Valiant Hombre | Lon Lansdell | 1948-12-15 |
| Movie | Easy Come, Easy Go | Tom Clancy | 1947-03-07 |
| Movie | Lighthouse | Hank Armitage | 1947-01-10 |
| Movie | The Beginning or the End | K.T. Keller | 1947-02-19 |
| Movie | The Guilty | Alex Tremholt | 1947-03-22 |
| Movie | Heaven Only Knows | Reverend Wainwright | 1947-09-12 |
| Movie | Cass Timberlane | Webb Wargate | 1947-11-06 |
| Movie | Christmas Eve | Joe Bland, FBI Agent | 1947-10-31 |
| Movie | The Madonna's Secret | Lt. Roberts | 1946-02-16 |
| Movie | Night in Paradise | Archon | 1946-05-03 |
| Movie | Smooth as Silk | Stephen Elliott | 1946-02-01 |
| Movie | Sister Kenny | Medical Director | 1946-10-10 |
| Movie | She Wrote the Book | Dean Fowler | 1946-05-31 |
| Movie | Swell Guy | Arthur Tyler | 1946-12-05 |
| Movie | Okay for Sound | 1946-09-07 | |
| Movie | The Crime Doctor's Warning | Inspector Dawes | 1945-09-27 |
| Movie | Salome, Where She Danced | General Lee | 1945-04-17 |
| Movie | The Crimson Canary | Roger Quinn | 1945-11-09 |
| Movie | Brewster's Millions | Swearengen Jones | 1945-04-07 |
| Movie | The Daltons Ride Again | Mitchael J. 'Mike' Bohannon | 1945-11-23 |
| Movie | San Antonio | Charlie Bell | 1945-12-29 |
| Movie | Northwest Trail | Sergeant Means | 1945-11-30 |
| Movie | Henry Aldrich Plays Cupid | Mr. Aldrich | 1944-04-01 |
| Movie | Henry Aldrich, Boy Scout | Sam Aldrich | 1944-01-13 |
| Movie | Henry Aldrich's Little Secret | Mr. Samuel J. Aldrich | 1944-06-10 |
| Movie | My Buddy | Father Jim Donnelly | 1944-10-12 |
| Movie | Faces in the Fog | Dr. Mason | 1944-11-30 |
| Movie | Murder in the Blue Room | Frank Baldrich | 1944-10-27 |
| Movie | Crime Doctor | Emilio Caspari, the mystery man | 1943-06-22 |
| Movie | Henry Aldrich Gets Glamour | Sam Aldrich | 1943-04-30 |
| Movie | Murder in Times Square | Dr. Blaine | 1943-04-01 |
| Movie | Henry Aldrich Swings It | Mr. Aldrich | 1943-06-23 |
| Movie | Henry Aldrich Haunts a House | Sam Aldrich | 1943-11-10 |
| Movie | Where Are Your Children? | Judge Edmonds | 1943-11-26 |
| Movie | Submarine Base | James Xavier 'Jim' Taggart | 1943-07-20 |
| Movie | So Proudly We Hail | Dr. Harrison | 1943-09-09 |
| Movie | The Mystery of Marie Roget | Henri Beauvais | 1942-04-23 |
| Movie | Kid Glove Killer | Matty | 1942-04-17 |
| Movie | Don Winslow of the Navy | Spencer Merlin | 1942-01-06 |
| Movie | A Desperate Chance for Ellery Queen | Norman Hadley | 1942-05-07 |
| Movie | Soldiers in White | Charles Anthony | 1942-02-07 |
| Movie | Sealed Lips | Mike Rofano / Fred Morton | 1942-01-02 |
| Movie | Madame Spy | Peter Rolf | 1942-12-11 |
| Movie | Henry and Dizzy | Sam Aldrich | 1942-06-05 |
| Movie | Invisible Agent | John Gardiner | 1942-08-07 |
| Movie | Henry Aldrich, Editor | Sam Aldrich | 1942-09-01 |
| Movie | For the Common Defense! | Subprefect Santiago Castillo | 1942-06-20 |
| Movie | Men of Texas | Colonel Colbert Scott | 1942-07-03 |
| Movie | The Trial of Mary Dugan | Mr. West | 1941-02-14 |
| Movie | Father's Son | William Emory | 1941-02-12 |
| Movie | The Big Boss | Bob Dugan | 1941-04-28 |
| Movie | The Great Mr. Nobody | John Wade | 1941-02-15 |
| Movie | They Died with Their Boots On | Gen. Phil Sheridan | 1941-11-20 |
| Movie | Henry Aldrich for President | Sam Aldrich | 1941-10-17 |
| Movie | Thieves Fall Out | Tim Gordon | 1941-05-03 |
| Movie | An Angel from Texas | Quigley | 1940-04-27 |
| Movie | Men Without Souls | Reverend Thomas Storm | 1940-05-20 |
| Movie | It All Came True | Mr. Roberts | 1940-04-06 |
| Movie | Flight Angels | Dr. Barclay | 1940-05-18 |
| Movie | Castle on the Hudson | Prison Chaplain | 1940-02-17 |
| Movie | Murder in the Air | Saxby | 1940-06-01 |
| Movie | The Fighting 69th | Captain Mangan | 1940-01-27 |
| Movie | Virginia City | Marshall | 1940-03-23 |
| Movie | Santa Fe Trail | Martin | 1940-12-20 |
| Movie | Father Is A Prince | Dr. Mark Stone | 1940-11-18 |
| Movie | Gambling on the High Seas | U.S. District Attorney Homer Sears | 1940-06-22 |
| Movie | March On, Marines | Colonel Myers | 1940-12-14 |
| Movie | Knute Rockne All American | Committee Chairman | 1940-10-05 |
| Movie | Lady with Red Hair | Charles Bryant | 1940-11-30 |
| Movie | Money and the Woman | Jerremy Helm | 1940-08-17 |
| Movie | The Man Who Talked Too Much | District Attorney Dickson | 1940-07-16 |
| Movie | They Drive by Night | Harry McNamara | 1940-07-26 |
| Movie | You Can't Get Away with Murder | Attorney Carey | 1939-03-23 |
| Movie | On Trial | Robert Strickland | 1939-04-01 |
| Movie | Secret Service of the Air | Chief Agent Tom Saxby | 1939-03-04 |
| Movie | Wings of the Navy | Commander Clark | 1939-02-11 |
| Movie | Dodge City | Matt Cole | 1939-04-08 |
| Movie | Nancy Drew... Reporter | Carson Drew | 1939-02-18 |
| Movie | A Child Is Born | Dr. Brett | 1939-12-07 |
| Movie | On Dress Parade | Col. Michael Riker | 1939-11-18 |
| Movie | Nancy Drew... Trouble Shooter | Carson Drew | 1939-06-17 |
| Movie | Dust Be My Destiny | Prosecutor | 1939-09-16 |
| Movie | The Return of Doctor X | Dr. Flegg | 1939-11-23 |
| Movie | Old Glory | Patrick Henry (voice) (uncredited) | 1939-07-01 |
| Movie | Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase | Carson Drew | 1939-09-09 |
| Movie | Little Miss Thoroughbred | Nelson "Nails" Morgan | 1938-06-04 |
| Movie | Over the Wall | Father Neil Connor | 1938-04-02 |
| Movie | A Slight Case of Murder | Mr. Post, banker | 1938-02-26 |
| Movie | My Bill | John C. Rudlin | 1938-07-08 |
| Movie | Gold Is Where You Find It | Ralph Ferris | 1938-02-12 |
| Movie | Love, Honor and Behave | Jim Blake | 1938-03-12 |
| Movie | Jezebel | Jean La Cour | 1938-03-26 |
| Movie | Breakdowns of 1938 | Inspector Lane (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1938-12-31 |
| Movie | The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse | Mr. Monroe, Prosecuting Attorney | 1938-07-20 |
| Movie | The Declaration of Independence | Thomas Jefferson | 1938-11-26 |
| Movie | Comet Over Broadway | Bill Appleton | 1938-12-03 |
| Movie | Nancy Drew… Detective | Carson Drew | 1938-11-19 |
| Movie | Broadway Musketeers | Stan Dowling | 1938-10-08 |
| Movie | Valley of the Giants | Hendricks | 1938-09-17 |
| Movie | Marked Woman | Gordon | 1937-04-10 |
| Movie | Black Legion | Tommy Smith | 1937-01-30 |
| Movie | Slim | Wyatt Ranstead | 1937-06-24 |
| Movie | Midnight Court | Victor Shanley | 1937-03-06 |
| Movie | Back in Circulation | Dr. Eugene Forde | 1937-08-27 |
| Movie | Missing Witnesses | Inspector Lane | 1937-12-11 |
| Movie | Alcatraz Island | 'Gat' Brady | 1937-10-13 |
| Movie | The Life of Emile Zola | Charpentier | 1937-09-09 |
| Movie | Fugitive in the Sky | Mike Phelan | 1936-11-28 |
| Movie | Give Me Liberty | Patrick Henry | 1936-12-19 |
| Movie | Wayward | Robert 'Bob' Daniels | 1932-02-19 |
| Movie | On the Border | Dave (as John B. Litel) | 1930-03-14 |
| Movie | Finders Keepers | (as John B. Litel) | 1929-12-27 |
| Movie | Always Faithful | Wayne | 1929-12-29 |