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John Maxwell (March 11, 1918 Spokane, Washington – July 18, 1982) was an American film and television actor who appeared in over 100 films of the 1940s and 1950s. Many times the actor appeared in films uncredited. Occasionally he played larger roles in films, such as in The Prowler. He was born in Spokane, Washington. His television guest appearances included The Lone Ranger, Lassie, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, The Rifleman and Bonanza.
Maxwell also starred as Pappy Sawyer in Disneyland's television miniseries The Nine Lives of Elfego Baca.
Most Popular John Maxwell Trailers
Total trailers found: 67
28 May 1943
A district attorney sets out to vindicate his son who's been accused of murdering a nightclub singer.
06 June 1942
A radio reporter begins to suspect that a commentator at his station may be using her position to broadcast shipping information to enemy spies.
23 January 1942
A police reporter solves a murder case in Chicago, then moves on to St. Louis-but not voluntarily, since he has been kidnapped by the minions of the Windy City gang leader against whom he is scheduled to testify.
08 May 1952
Los Angeles is paralysed with terror when a lovesick murderer takes to the streets with a pair of gas
13 January 1942
A crooked gambler poses as a descendant of a noble Spanish family has successfully secured court validation of a counterfeit land grant, and proceeds to drive out ranchers already settled on the land with high taxes, road tolls and violent tactics.
22 June 1944
Former Hopalong Cassidy sidekick Russell Hayden retains his nickname of Lucky in this average entry in his short-lived starring series for Columbia.
13 November 1942
Little Delft, Michigan follows the customs of old-world Holland and is known for its Tulip Festival. The owner of the hotel insists that his seven daughters marry in order, from eldest to youngest.
24 June 1949
An arson investigator goes undercover to break up a ring that sets fires in order to collect the insurance.
05 December 1941
A struggling lawyer is named as special prosecutor in a racketeering case.
11 June 1958
In San Francisco, a psychopathic gangster and his mentor retrieve heroin packages carried by unsuspecting travelers.
01 September 1951
An eccentric Civil War widow is accused of being insane.
12 March 1942
The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being suspected communists.
08 May 1942
Gangsters, nightclubs and the Roaring '20s.
29 April 1943
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to the US as an advocate of socialism.
31 January 1942
The Western hero takes on a ruthless land baron whose henchmen killed his best friend.
01 May 1942
Conniving Broadway starlet Mida King has plenty of enemies, so when she's found murdered at Grand Central Station, Inspector Gunther calls together a slew of suspects for questioning.
16 September 1950
A young woman living in Manhattan pretends to be the mother of an infant in order to get a seat on the subway.
01 September 1942
The coming of the railroad to the West triggers an Indian war.
22 November 1951
Eric Wainwright, a busy impresario, is besieged by hordes of wannabe concert stars, eager for their big break.
23 April 1942
A detective investigates the mysterious death of a young actress.
03 April 1953
The residents of a small town are excited when a flaming meteor lands in the hills, until they discover it is the first of many transport devices from Mars bringing an army of invaders invincible to any man-made weapon, even the atomic bomb.
01 July 1960
While investigating a diamond heist, disgruntled cop Harper falls for Holly, the top suspect's main squeeze.
30 May 1957
Lawman Wyatt Earp and outlaw Doc Holliday form an unlikely alliance which culminates in their participation in the legendary Gunfight at the O.
15 November 1951
Two smart marketing people resurrect some old films starring cowboy Smoky Callaway and put them on television.
01 October 1956
Jim Trask, former sheriff of Abilene, returns to the town after fighting for the Confederacy to find everyone thought he was dead.
24 August 1956
A trio of thieves make their getaway by kidnapping a young hot-rodder, and take over a mountain cabin for a hideout after overpowering its occupants.
27 April 1956
A newly promoted police sergeant discovers his girlfriend my be involved with a gang of car thieves.
22 September 1957
Framed by her stepmother for manslaughter, a convict turns to a parole racket.
20 November 1953
With the help of Pocahontas, Captain John Smith overcomes the treachery of some of his men and resentment of the local Native Americans to establish the colony of Jamestown.
16 July 1943
Japanese master spy Daka operates a covert espionage-sabotage organization located in Gotham City's now-deserted Little Tokyo, which turns American scientists into pliable zombies.
17 December 1948
Bob Hope stars in this laugh-packed wild west spoof co-starring Jane Russell as a sexy Calamity Jane, Hope is a meek frontier dentist, "Painless" Peter Potter, who finds himself gunslinging alongside the fearless Calamity as she fights off outlaws and Indians.
12 May 1950
Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar "Doc" Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emmerich, a crooked lawyer, gathers a small group of veteran criminals together in the Midwest for a big jewel heist.
03 December 1953
San Francisco businessman Harry Graham and his wife and business partner, Eve, are in the process of adopting a child.
01 December 1954
The lives and romances of three sisters in a musical family; the youngest daughter's life is complicated by the subsequent arrival of a charming composer and a cynical music arranger.
26 May 1954
On the outskirts of town, the hard-nosed Vienna owns a saloon frequented by the undesirables of the region, including Dancin' Kid and his gang.
14 March 1956
Jim Slater's father (whom he never knew) died in the Apache ambush at Gila Valley, and Jim is searching for the one survivor, who supposedly went for help but disappeared with a lot of gold.
16 November 1951
A scrupulously honest lawyer discovers that the client he's gotten off was really guilty.
20 September 1951
An ambitious coal miner is talked into becoming a boxer by his gambler brother.
15 March 1944
As a woman walks the "last mile" to her execution she remembers back to the incidents that got her framed for murder.
24 October 1941
Story of test pilots at a school that trains new flyers.
25 May 1951
Los Angeles, California. A cop who, unhappy with his job, blames others for his work problems, is assigned to investigate the case of a prowler who stalks the home of a married woman.
15 October 1942
Hayden enters the lawless prairie in which criminals have had free reign to manipulate the innocent settlers.
08 June 1951
Berkeley university professor adjusts (using alcohol) to tragic fire deaths of wife & son.
17 November 1949
A woman's attempted murder of her uncaring husband results in everyday quarrels in the lives of Adam and Amanda, a pair of happily married lawyers who end up on opposite sides of the case in court.
14 November 1942
As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the boxing world.
01 October 1941
Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things right.
06 June 1958
An innocent nightclub singer becomes mixed up in illegal drug dealings shortly after witnessing her husband's death and the murder of a couple of narcotics agents.
03 November 1950
A deranged killer escapes from a mental institution. Intent on locating the psychiatrist whose testimony sent him to the asylum, he holds the patrons of a bar hostage.
18 November 1944
A man who has been framed on a murder charge is placed in the custody of a crooked U.S. marshal, who is secretly running a murderous claim-jumping gang.
13 May 1950
Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob.
18 August 1950
A Native American Civil War hero returns home to fight for his people.
23 June 1950
When a young woman's skeletal remains turn up on a Massachusetts beach, Barnstable cop Peter Moralas teams with Boston police and uses forensics, with the help of a Harvard professor, to determine the woman's identity, how she died, and who killed her.
09 July 1956
A Ha-Ha-Haunted House Has Got 'Em! ...and it's every ghost for himself!
25 December 1941
Incompetent door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesmen become enlisted without their knowledge.
01 January 1953
In 1904, Doc Tilbee, medicine show huckster and champion tall-tale teller, gives a ride to a young boy escaped from an orphanage, where bad conditions (the result of political graft) are being investigated by new appointee Zerelda Wing, who doesn't know that her fiancée is one of the politicians responsible.
23 March 1950
A struggling young father-to-be gives in to temptation and impulsively steals an envelope of money from the office of a corrupt attorney.
24 February 1951
After years of investigation, Assistant District Attorney Martin Ferguson has managed to build a solid case against an elusive gangster whose top lieutenant is about to testify.
19 July 1941
Story concerns railroad tycoon J.B. Matthews (Jed Prouty) taking over a rival line, being sent on an R&R vacation by his doctor, falling off his private train-car and landing in a hobo jungle occupied by Faylen and Hall, and being cured of all his ills, while reporter Jimmy Dugan (Frank Albertson) poses as a doctor in order to get an exclusive story about the railroad takeover.
08 February 1956
An insurance detective encounters numerous surprises when he is assigned to investigate a meticulously-planned train robbery in Arizona.
20 September 1941
A reporter is constantly in trouble for jumping to conclusions.
