John DallFilmography

Born:: New York City, NY
Occupation:: Actor
Birth name:: John Jenner Thompson
Biography:: Sensitive, soulful-eyed actor John Dall was trained at the Theodore Irvine School of the Theater and the Pasadena Playhouse. On the strength of his leading role in the original 1944 Broadway production of Dear Ruth, Dall was brought to Hollywood. In 1946, he earned an Oscar nomination for his...Read More

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Perry Mason: The Case of the Laughing Lady

Synopsis: Moving to a new Sunday-night timeslot opposite Bonanza for its ninth and final season, Perry Mason gets the ball rolling as Perry (Raymond Burr) is requested by a judge (Dan Tobin) to handle the defense of Carla Chaney (Jean Hale) a destitute young woman with a really nasty attitude. Charged with Read More

1965
Perry Mason: The Case of the Reluctant Model

Synopsis: Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) takes the case of self-made millionaire Otto Olney (John Larkin), who wants to sue art critic Colin Durant (John Larkin) for allegedly spreading rumors that the rare Gauguin painting recently purchased by Olney is a forgery. But Durant insists that he had never cast Read More

1963
Perry Mason: The Case of the Lonely Eloper

Synopsis: Poised to receive a huge inheritance on her 21st birthday, mixed-up Merle Telford (Jana Taylor) plans to free herself from her domineering Aunt Olivia (Jorja Curtwright) and elope with boyfriend Danny Pierce (Jack Ging). Correctly sizing up Danny as a fortune hunter--indeed, he intends to swipe Read More

1962
Perry Mason: The Case of the Weary Watchdog

Synopsis: Janet Brent (Mala Powers), a close friend of Perry Mason's secretary Della Street (Barbara Hale), is being blackmailed by Edward Franklin (John Dall), an employee of Janet's husband Alton (Wesley Addy). Franklin has in his possession some faked photos that could ruin the Brents' marriage and Read More

1962
Atlantis, the Lost Continent

Actors: Anthony Hall, Joyce Taylor, Frank de Kova, John Dall, Jay Novello

Synopsis: Director George Pal is noted as a special effects maestro, both in films for children that feature his "puppetoons" and in sci-fi spectacles like the War of the Worlds. So it is no surprise that this sci-fi yarn about the fabled sunken continent of Atlantis should excel in the special effects Read More

1961
Spartacus

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov

Synopsis: Spartacus (Kirk Douglas) is a rebellious slave purchased by Lentulus Batiatus (Peter Ustinov), owner of a school for gladiators. For the entertainment of corrupt Roman senator Marcus Licinius Crassus (Laurence Olivier), Batiatus' gladiators are to stage a fight to the death. On the night before Read More

1960
The Man Who Cheated Himself

Actors: Lee J. Cobb, John Dall, Jane Wyatt, Lisa Howard, Alan Wells

Synopsis: Lee J. Cobb stars as Ed Cullen, a San Francisco police lieutenant, embroiled in a clandestine romance with married socialite Lois Frazer (Jane Wyatt). When Lois kills her husband Howard (Harlan Warde), the flustered Cullen vows to cover for her. He arranges the evidence to suggest that Howard was Read More

1950
Gun Crazy

Actors: Peggy Cummins, John Dall, Berry Kroeger, Morris Carnovsky, Anabel Shaw

Synopsis: The definitive Joseph H. Lewis-directed melodrama, Gun Crazy is the "Bonnie and Clyde" story retooled for the disillusioned postwar generation. John Dall plays a timorous, emotionally disturbed World War II veteran who has had a lifelong fixation with guns. He meets a kindred spirit in carnival Read More

1949
Rope

Actors: James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger, Cedric Hardwicke, Constance Collier

Synopsis: Rope, Alfred Hitchcock's first color film, was adapted from Patrick Hamilton's stage play Rope's End by no less than Hume Cronyn. Loosely inspired by the Leopold-Loeb case, the plot concerns two implicitly homosexual college chums, played by Farley Granger and John Dall. Their heads filled with Read More

1948
Another Part of the Forest

Actors: Fredric March, Dan Duryea, Edmond O'Brien, Ann Blyth, Florence Eldridge

Synopsis: Another Part Of The Forest begins some twenty years before the events of Lillian Hellman's play and movie The Little Foxes and shows how that film's Hubbard family became the ruthless, greedy lot they were. It's fifteen years after the Civil War, and the Hubbards dominate their small Southern town Read More

1948
Something in the Wind

Actors: Deanna Durbin, Donald O'Connor, John Dall, Charles Winninger, Helena Carter

Synopsis: Deanna Durbin stars in the musical shaggy dog story Something in the Wind. When the wealthy uncle of the Read family dies, he leaves instructions in his will to bequeath a set amount of money to his mistress, one Mary Collins. The family assumes it to be a pretty young female radio personality Read More

1947
The Corn Is Green

Actors: Bette Davis, Nigel Bruce, John Dall, Joan Lorring, Rhys Williams, Mildred Dunnock, Rosalind Ivan

Synopsis: In this 1945 filmization of Emlyn Williams' semi-autobiographical 1938 play The Corn is Green, Bette Davis steps into the role originated on Broadway by Ethel Barrymore. Davis plays Miss Moffat, a turn-of-the-century schoolteacher in a Welsh mining town. She has opened her own school in hopes of Read More

1945

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John DallFilmography

Perry Mason: The Case of the Laughing Lady

Perry Mason: The Case of the Reluctant Model

Perry Mason: The Case of the Lonely Eloper

Perry Mason: The Case of the Weary Watchdog

Atlantis, the Lost Continent

Spartacus

The Man Who Cheated Himself

Gun Crazy

Rope

Another Part of the Forest

Something in the Wind

The Corn Is Green

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