
John Ireland
Department: Acting
Biography
John Benjamin Ireland was a Canadian-American actor and film director. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his performance in All the King's Men (1949), making him the first Vancouver-born actor to receive an Academy Award nomination. Ireland was a supporting actor in several famous Western films such as My Darling Clementine (1946), Red River (1948), Vengeance Valley (1951), and Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957). His other notable film roles were in 55 Days at Peking (1963), The Adventurers (1970), and Farewell, My Lovely (1975). Ireland also appeared in many television series, notably The Cheaters (1960–1962). He was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contribution to the TV industry.
Known For

Spartacus
1960

Red River
1948

My Darling Clementine
1946

Farewell, My Lovely
1975

The Fast and the Furious
1954

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
1957

Zenabel
1969

All the King's Men
1949

Party Girl
1958

The Gangster
1947

Wild in the Country
1961

Raw Deal
1948

Messenger of Death
1988

55 Days at Peking
1963

Terror Night
1989

Queen Bee
1955

I Saw What You Did
1965

Guyana: Crime of the Century
1979

Waxwork II: Lost in Time
1992

I Shot Jesse James
1949

The Shape of Things to Come
1979

Satan's Cheerleaders
1977

Repeat Performance
1947

Miami Golem
1985

The Scarf
1951

Mission to Glory: A True Story
1977

The House of Seven Corpses
1974

Vengeance Valley
1951

Railroaded!
1947

The Swiss Conspiracy
1976

I Love Trouble
1948

Behind Green Lights
1946

Cargo to Capetown
1950

Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat
1991

The Undercover Man
1949

The Good Die Young
1954

The Fall of the Roman Empire
1964

Tomorrow Never Comes
1978

A Matter of Cunning
1983

Welcome to Arrow Beach
1974

Villa Rides
1968

Run, Man, Run
1968

Mr. Soft Touch
1949

Open Secret
1948

Thunder Run
1985

When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
1979

The Girl on the Late, Late Show
1974

Treasure of the Amazon
1985

Day of the Nightmare
1965

Faces in the Dark
1960

Wam Bam Thank You Spaceman
1974

Incubus
1982

Gatling Gun
1968

The Adventurers
1970

Dead for a Dollar
1968

Carnal Circuit
1969

The Glass Cage
1955

Roughshod
1949

The Basketball Fix
1951

The Rangers
1974

The 49th Man
1953

The Steel Cage
1954

A Gun for One Hundred Graves
1968

The Doolins of Oklahoma
1949

A Taste of Death
1968

Go For Broke
1968

Security Risk
1954

Red Mountain
1951

Little Big Horn
1951

Blood River
1974

Challenge of McKenna
1970

It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog
1946

The Perfect Killer
1977

Return of a Stranger
1961

Arizona Bushwhackers
1968

The Ceremony
1963

Gunslinger
1956

Hannah Lee: An American Primitive
1953

No Time To Kill
1963

Stormy Crossing
1958

Martin's Day
1985

Anna Lucasta
1949

Hurricane Smith
1952

Fort Utah
1967

Marilyn: The Untold Story
1980

Merlin
1992

This Is Korea!
1951

The Walking Hills
1949

A Southern Yankee
1948

Dirty Heroes
1967

Wake Up and Dream
1946

The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
2002

On the Air Live with Captain Midnight
1979

Southwest Passage
1954

We Are No Angels
1975

Crossbar
1979

The Graveyard Story
1991

Sex Diary
1976

Ransom
1977

Vengeance for Vengeance
1968

Caxambu!
1967

Bloody Che Contra
1968

The Courage of Kavik, the Wolf Dog
1980

Combat Squad
1953

Tourist
1980

The Return of Jesse James
1950

No Place to Land
1958

The Millionaire
1978

Delta Fox
1979

Brushfire
1962

Salon Kitty
1976

3-D Rarities
2015

The Phantom of Hollywood
1974

Bonanza: The Next Generation
1988

Somewhere in the Night
1946

The War Devils
1969

A Walk in the Sun
1945

The Bushwhackers
1951

Hate for Hate
1967

Perry Mason: The Case of the Lady in the Lake
1988

Love and the Midnight Auto Supply
1977

Bordello
1981

Joan of Arc
1948

Northeast of Seoul
1974

The Big Parade of Comedy
1964

Escape to the Sun
1972

Seasons in the Sun
1986

Hell's Horizon
1955

One on Top of the Other
1969

Hammer Down
1992

Without Incident
1957

A Sound of Different Drummers
1957

Planet of the Apes
1974

Murder, She Wrote
1984

Magnum, P.I.
1980

Hardcastle and McCormick
1983

Burke's Law
1963

Kraft Suspense Theatre
1963

Little House on the Prairie
1974

Airwolf
1984

Hawaii Five-O
1968

Hart to Hart
1979

Gunsmoke
1955

General Electric Theater
1953

Mission: Impossible
1966

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955

Khan!
1975

Run for Your Life
1965

Daniel Boone
1964

Police Story
1973

Switch
1975

Thriller
1960

Lux Video Theatre
1950

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951

The Hitchhiker
1983

Climax!
1954

The Philco Television Playhouse
1948

Riverboat
1959

The Whistler
1954

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956

The Cheaters
1960

The Man Who Never Was
1966

Ghost Story
1972

Cassie & Co.
1982

J.J. Starbuck
1987

Gunsmoke
1955

Quincy, M.E.
1976

Lux Video Theatre
1950

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951

Burke's Law
1963

The Littlest Hobo
1979

The Name of the Game
1968

Bonanza
1959

Airwolf
1984

Quincy, M.E.
1976

War of the Worlds
1988

Quincy, M.E.
1976

Branded
1965

Branded
1965

The Virginian
1962

Rawhide
1959

Rawhide
1959

Studio 57
1954

Rawhide
1959

Rawhide
1959

Armchair Theatre
1956

Suspicion
1957

Trauma Center
1983

Snoops
1989

Christine Cromwell
1989

$weepstake$
1979