John Larch

Known for ActingBorn 1914-10-04Died 2005-10-16Salem, Massachusetts, USA

John Larch (October 4, 1914 - October 16, 2005) was an American film and television actor. After his lead role in the radio serial Captain Starr of Space (1953–54), John Larch entered films in 1954. He usually appeared in westerns (How The West Was Won) and action films, including Miracle of the White Stallions as General George S. Patton Jr. (1963), Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur as General Omar Bradley (1976), replacing James Gregory as Mac in the Matt Helm movie The Wrecking Crew (1969) starring Dean Martin, Sharon Tate and Elke Sommer. Larch, an old friend of Clint Eastwood, appeared in Eastwood films, including Dirty Harry (1971) and Play Misty for Me (1971). He also appeared on a number of television programs, including Naked City (three episodes), Route 66 (three episodes), The Fugitive (two episodes), The Invaders, The Restless Gun (four episodes), Gunsmoke (seven episodes), The Virginian (four episodes), Bonanza, Hawaii Five-0, Mission Impossible (two episodes), The Troubleshooters, Bus Stop, Laramie, The Law and Mr. Jones, and possibly most famously as Bill Mumy's father in The Twilight Zone episode "It's a Good Life" in 1961. He also appeared in two other The Twilight Zone episodes, playing a psychiatrist in "Perchance to Dream" and the sheriff in "Dust". Description above from the Wikipedia article John Larch, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

Bus Stop

The Troubleshooters

The Critical List

Magic Carpet

Moby Dick

This Is My Love

Hallmark Hall of Fame

The Twilight Zone

Arrest and Trial

Lucan

Ellery Queen: Too Many Suspects

Little House on the Prairie

Studio 57

The Lone Wolf

The Untouchables

Hawkins

I Led Three Lives

The Wonderful World of Disney

Judd, for the Defense

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Convoy

The New Breed

Quincy, M.E.

Future Cop

Mission: Impossible

Dirty Harry

Bonanza

The Walter Winchell File

The Six Million Dollar Man

Winter Kill

The Fugitive

Law of the Plainsman

Have Gun, Will Travel

Hawaii Five-O

Rawhide

Big Shamus, Little Shamus

Kingston: Confidential

Vega$

The Desperate Miles

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

The Streets of San Francisco

Police Story

Women in Chains

Alias Smith and Jones

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

The Rifleman

Daniel Boone

How the West Was Won