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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).
Most Popular John Agar Trailers
Total trailers found: 72
01 October 1987
A compilation of trailers for various horror and sci-fi films, narrated and hosted by Vincent Price.
18 October 1951
With the aid of a magic carpet, the true heir to an Arabian caliphate leads an uprising against the pretender oppressing his people.
01 November 1964
A group of young thugs rides into the town of Dawson and take it over. When the cowardly sheriff is unable to restore control, the parents of the leader must take action.
10 March 1962
A space expedition to Uranus is menaced by a giant brain that can make illusions come true.
21 May 1948
Owen Thursday sees his new posting to the desolate Fort Apache as a chance to claim the military honour which he believes is rightfully his.
01 June 1969
In Italy during World War II, an American headquarters is evacuated when German forces break through the front lines.
01 July 1955
Back from the Indian wars, a cowboy wages a single-handed war against a land baron and his henchmen. After his shooting hand is disabled, he masters the bow and arrow to take on the gang one arrow at a time!
29 October 1954
Ann Dexter, daughter of an itinerant Haiti waterfront character, Carl Dexter, brings a golden idol, which her father her stolen at a voodoo ceremony, to Bill Buchanan, who is known along the waterfront as a man eternally on a treasure hunt.
17 November 1950
Filmed with the full cooperation of the U.S. Army, Breakthrough is a lean, no-nonsense war film set during the 1944 invasion of the continent.
19 April 1949
Dinah Sheldon is a student at an exclusive girl's school who starts campaigning for women's rights. Her minister father and her boyfriend Tom Wade do not approve.
08 September 1976
An oil company expedition disturbs the peace of a giant ape and brings him back to New York to exploit him.
13 May 1964
A former gunfighter, now a circuit court judge, faces his father's killer in a small post-Civil War Kansas town.
02 June 1951
US marshal Len Merrick saves Tim Keith from lynching at the hands of the Roden clan, and hopes to get him to Santa Loma for trial.
01 January 1996
American Documentary, narrated by Christopher Lee
04 October 1969
After the Civil War, ex-Union Colonel John Henry Thomas and ex-Confederate Colonel James Langdon are leading two disparate groups of people through strife-torn Mexico.
30 June 1967
Chicago February 14th 1929. Al Capone finally establishes himself as the city's boss of organised crime.
05 July 1960
Raymie, an eight-year-old boy and an avid fisherman, dreams of catching a legendary giant barracuda known as Old Moe.
16 February 1990
A troubled young man is drawn to a mythical place called Midian where a variety of friendly monsters are hiding from humanity.
19 May 1989
After 30 years of searching, Harry has finally met the girl of his dreams. Unfortunately, before they even have a chance to go on their first date, Harry intercepts some chilling news: WWIII has begun and nuclear missiles will destroy Los Angeles in less than an hour!
31 October 1958
Small-town sheriff discovers that gun-fighting is the only way to clean up the town.
23 July 1970
Cattle baron John Chisum joins forces with Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett to fight the Lincoln County Land War in the New Mexico Territory of 1878.
24 November 1957
A cowboy stampedes a Rebel plot with a Union spy posing as a dance-hall girl.
01 January 1968
Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and government films of the 1950s and 1960s are intercut together to tell a single story of various creatures and societal ills attacking American cities.
26 May 1971
An aging Texas cattle man who has outlived his time swings into action when outlaws kidnap his grandson.
23 July 1952
In 1890 Minnesota Christine Powell is the scheming head of the Powell dynasty, the richest mining empire of the era.
15 June 1950
Communists blackmail a shipping executive into spying for them.
17 January 1955
In a tributary of the Amazon, a monster – half-man, half-fish – is captured and placed in a reservoir in a Florida national park to be observed by scientists.
08 August 1993
A horror anthology containing three stories: a female college student working a graveyard shift is terrorized by a serial killer; a hair transplant goes horribly wrong; and a baseball player loses an eye and gets a new one from a recently executed murderer.
01 September 1966
Preacher Sam Stone and his new beautiful wife Jill stand by the grave of Sheriff Billy Kelly, who died trying to bring law-and-order to Emporia, Wyoming.
22 October 1949
On the eve of retirement, Captain Nathan Brittles takes out a last patrol to stop an impending massive Indian attack.
01 November 1955
A condemned murderer, scheduled to hang in the morning, asks for the company of a woman in his final hours.
04 November 1953
Young man comes home to get ready to take over the family company, only to find that his father has been corrupted by power.
01 December 1956
A party of archaeologists discovers the remnants of a five millennia-old mutant Sumerian civilization living beneath a glacier atop a mountain in Mesopatamia.
09 March 1966
The townsfolk are set on lynching an accused killer held in the town lockup. But US Marshal Johnny Reno stands in their way.
01 August 1963
A drama of the Korean War. Four American Army POWs escape behind enemy lines and try to make their way back to their units in the South.
29 October 1955
A rogue scientist near a small desert town arouses the suspicion of the town's doctor when his lab assistant is found dead from a case of acromegaly, which took only four days to develop.
01 January 1950
Haunted by personal demons, Marine Sgt. John Stryker is hated and feared by his men, who see him as a cold-hearted sadist.
25 September 1956
A young man searches for his brother's killer with the help of a gunfighter, a native woman and a traveling medicine man.
13 June 1956
The sheriff of Gunlock is planning to hang Sam Hall, who shot three farmers found on cattle land, at sundown.
24 October 1961
A newspaperman covering the story of a "Eurasian beauty" visiting the US as a publicity stunt falls for her.
11 November 1964
An aging sheriff is put in the position of having to arrest the outlaw father and two sons with whom he was raised.
01 May 1978
A double amputee known as Mr. No Legs oversees a drug syndicate while cavorting around in his double shotgun-equipped wheelchair.
15 February 1958
A Soviet nurse helps a U.S. pilot, his buddies and a scientist escape from North Korea. American International Pictures originally distributed this film as a double feature with "Suicide Battalion".
01 November 1967
A government space experiment into the effects of cosmic rays on animal life goes horribly wrong, creating a mutant monster that terrorizes a rural community.
13 February 2021
A comprehensive story of Hollywood's horror and science fiction films of the 1950s, told by the people who made them.
01 February 1968
While searching for oil in the deadly swamplands of the Florida Everglades, members of a geological expedition meet an insane doctor who is working on an experiment to create a creature that is part man and part alligator.
15 May 1959
Aliens, contacting scientist Adam Penner, inform him that they have been on the moon for twenty thousand years, undetected due to their invisibility, and have now decided to annihilate humanity unless all the nations of earth surrender immediately.
01 December 1967
A misguided scientist enables an alien from Venus named Zontar to come to earth in order to "help solve man's problems".
22 April 2005
Using soundtracks and extensive footage from many old movies, this spoof/homage of 1950's science-fiction films brings back many favorite actors from these classic movies, some reprising their former roles, to help destroy a giant stop-motion monster that is threatening to destroy Los Angeles.
18 May 1997
A documentary looking at the life and career of film director Frank Capra. Hosted by Ron Howard.
15 July 1990
A psychic helps police solve murders by mentally linking with the murderer. Then she discovers a murderer with the same talent, who wants to share the fear of his victims with her!
27 August 1954
A crooked police detective masterminds a robbery then fights to keep the stolen money.
24 February 1998
A found footage experiment made using an excerpt from the film Taranula! (1955)
07 December 1992
When a mentally imbalanced prisoner gets out on parole, he tracks down the journalist who interviewed him while he was behind bars and persuades her to hire him as an assistant.
24 February 1954
A man looking for his fortune in a mine decides to tempt his partner with his much younger wife. The goal? To catch them "in the act" and kill him without consequence.
14 April 1966
A space ship crash lands on the third planet of a distant solar system, killing all hands except for a young boy named Tang.
01 April 1958
A deranged scientist creates a ray that can shrink people down to doll size.
22 August 2021
Documentary on the evolution of Giant Monsters in cinema from the original 1933 King Kong onward.
01 January 1959
Two astronauts are in charge of a giant space station. During an attempted rocket launch, a meteor smashes into the station, damaging it.
26 December 1957
An evil alien brain, bent on world domination, takes over the body of an atomic scientist, while a "good" alien brain inhabits the body of the scientist's dog and waits for an opportunity to defeat the evil brain.
