John Agar

Known for ActingBorn 1921-01-31Died 2002-04-07Chicago, Illinois, USA

John G. Agar (January 31, 1921 – April 7, 2002) was an American actor. He starred alongside John Wayne in the films Sands of Iwo Jima and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, but was later relegated to B movies, such as Tarantula, The Mole People, The Brain from Planet Arous, Flesh and the Spur, and Hand of Death. He also starred with Lucille Ball in the 1951 movie The Magic Carpet. Agar was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Lillian (née Rogers) and John Agar, Sr., a meat packer (see Agar Hams). He was educated at the Harvard School for Boys in Chicago and Lake Forest Academy in Lake Forest, Illinois and graduated from Trinity-Pawling Preparatory School in Pawling, New York, but did not attend college. He and his family moved from Chicago to Los Angeles in 1942, following his father’s death. During World War II he served in the Army Air Corps, and he was a sergeant at the time he left the army in 1946. He was Shirley Temple's first husband (1945–1950), and they worked together in Fort Apache. His marriage to Temple lasted five years and they had one daughter together, Linda Susan Agar, who was later known as Susan Black, taking the surname of her stepfather Charles Alden Black. Following his divorce from Temple, Agar was married in 1951 to model Loretta Barnett Combs (1922–2000). They remained married until her death in 2000. They had two sons, Martin Agar and John G. Agar III. Agar died on April 7, 2002 at Burbank, California of complications from emphysema. He was buried beside his wife at Riverside National Cemetery in Riverside, California. Agar made six movies with John Wayne: Fort Apache, Sands of Iwo Jima, Big Jake, Chisum, The Undefeated and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon. He also made two movies with Shirley Temple, Fort Apache and Adventure in Baltimore, also starring Robert Young. He is mentioned in the Frank Zappa song "The Radio is Broken" from the album The Man From Utopia (1983). Description above from the Wikipedia article John Agar, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

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Fall Girl

The Vampire Hunters Club

Divided We Fall

Delphi Bureau

The Twilight Zone

The Lonesome Trail

Perry Mason

Highway to Heaven

Along the Great Divide

A Century of Science Fiction

Rawhide

Miracle Mile

Police Story

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

The Name of the Game

Big Jake

Hondo

Breakthrough

Fort Apache

Frank Capra's American Dream

Charlie's Angels

Branded

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

Chisum

Family Affair

General Electric Theater

Waco

Frontier Gun

The Movie Orgy

Creepy Classics

Nightbreed

Shield for Murder

The Golden Mistress

Man of Conflict

Johnny Reno

Law of the Lawless

The Virginian

Letter to Loretta

Body Bags

Joe Butterfly

King Kong

Tarantula

Stage to Thunder Rock

The Undefeated

The Rocket Man

The St. Valentine's Day Massacre

The Young and the Brave

Sands of Iwo Jima