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John Litel

John Litel was an American stage, screen, and television actor. From 1919 to 1936 he performed in several plays on Broadway. In 1929 he began appearing in films and was in over 200 movies throughout his career. Litel often played supporting roles such as hard-nosed cops and district attorneys. He appeared in many television series. John Litel's acting career concluded in 1967.

Known For: Acting

Born: Albany, Wisconsin, USA, 1892-12-30

Died: 1972-02-03

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1929	The Sleeping Porch		0
2	1929	Finders Keepers	(as John B. Litel)	0
3	1929	Always Faithful	Wayne	0
4	1930	Don't Believe It	Dick	0
5	1930	Oh Darling!		0
6	1930	On the Border	Dave (as John B. Litel)	0
7	1932	Wayward	Robert 'Bob' Daniels	60
8	1936	Fugitive in the Sky	Mike Phelan	60
9	1936	Give Me Liberty	Patrick Henry	63
10	1937	Black Legion	Tommy Smith	66
11	1937	Midnight Court	Victor Shanley	48
12	1937	Marked Woman	Gordon	65
13	1937	Slim	Wyatt Ranstead	63
14	1937	Back in Circulation	Dr. Eugene Forde	53
15	1937	The Life of Emile Zola	Charpentier	66
16	1937	Alcatraz Island	'Gat' Brady	49
17	1937	The Man Without a Country	Lt. Philip Nolan	57
18	1937	Missing Witnesses	Inspector Lane	55
19	1938	Gold Is Where You Find It	Ralph Ferris	69
20	1938	A Slight Case of Murder	Mr. Post, banker	62
21	1938	Love, Honor and Behave	Jim Blake	35
22	1938	Jezebel	Jean La Cour	70
23	1938	Over the Wall	Father Neil Connor	50
24	1938	Little Miss Thoroughbred	Nelson "Nails" Morgan	40
25	1938	My Bill	John C. Rudlin	62
26	1938	The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse	Mr. Monroe, Prosecuting Attorney	72
27	1938	Valley of the Giants	Hendricks	60
28	1938	Broadway Musketeers	Stan Dowling	43
29	1938	Nancy Drew… Detective	Carson Drew	63
30	1938	The Declaration of Independence	Thomas Jefferson	65
31	1938	Comet Over Broadway	Bill Appleton	50
32	1938	Breakdowns of 1938	Inspector Lane (archive footage) (uncredited)	50
33	1939	Wings of the Navy	Commander Clark	60
34	1939	Nancy Drew... Reporter	Carson Drew	60
35	1939	Secret Service of the Air	Chief Agent Tom Saxby	58
36	1939	You Can't Get Away with Murder	Attorney Carey	56
37	1939	On Trial	Robert Strickland	55
38	1939	Dodge City	Matt Cole	69
39	1939	Nancy Drew... Trouble Shooter	Carson Drew	60
40	1939	Old Glory	Patrick Henry (voice) (uncredited)	49
41	1939	The Bill of Rights	Patrick Henry	60
42	1939	Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase	Carson Drew	68
43	1939	Dust Be My Destiny	Prosecutor	62
44	1939	One Hour To Live	Rudolph Spain	0
45	1939	On Dress Parade	Col. Michael Riker	65
46	1939	The Return of Doctor X	Dr. Flegg	59
47	1939	A Child Is Born	Dr. Brett	65
48	1940	The Fighting 69th	Captain Mangan	54
49	1940	Castle on the Hudson	Prison Chaplain	68
50	1940	Virginia City	Marshall	61
51	1940	It All Came True	Mr. Roberts	58
52	1940	An Angel from Texas	Quigley	48
53	1940	Flight Angels	Dr. Barclay	43
54	1940	Men Without Souls	Reverend Thomas Storm	60
55	1940	Murder in the Air	Saxby	46
56	1940	Gambling on the High Seas	U.S. District Attorney Homer Sears	47
57	1940	The Man Who Talked Too Much	District Attorney Dickson	60
58	1940	They Drive by Night	Harry McNamara	69
59	1940	Money and the Woman	Jerremy Helm	43
60	1940	Knute Rockne All American	Committee Chairman	61
61	1940	Father Is A Prince	Dr. Mark Stone	50
62	1940	Lady with Red Hair	Charles Bryant	65
63	1940	March On, Marines	Colonel Myers	25
64	1940	Santa Fe Trail	Martin	57
65	1941	Father's Son	William Emory	45
66	1941	The Trial of Mary Dugan	Mr. West	50
67	1941	The Great Mr. Nobody	John Wade	53
68	1941	The Big Boss	Bob Dugan	58
69	1941	Thieves Fall Out	Tim Gordon	55
70	1941	Henry Aldrich for President	Sam Aldrich	40
71	1941	They Died with Their Boots On	Gen. Phil Sheridan	66
72	1942	Sealed Lips	Mike Rofano / Fred Morton	58
73	1942	Don Winslow of the Navy	Spencer Merlin	0
74	1942	Soldiers in White	Charles Anthony	60
75	1942	Kid Glove Killer	Matty	62
76	1942	Mississippi Gambler	Jim Hadley aka Francis Carvel	60
77	1942	The Mystery of Marie Roget	Henri Beauvais	55
78	1942	A Desperate Chance for Ellery Queen	Norman Hadley	57
79	1942	Henry and Dizzy	Sam Aldrich	0
80	1942	For the Common Defense!	Subprefect Santiago Castillo	47
81	1942	March On, America!	Patrick Henry (archive footage) (uncredited)	47
82	1942	Men of Texas	Colonel Colbert Scott	0
83	1942	Invisible Agent	John Gardiner	58
84	1942	Henry Aldrich, Editor	Sam Aldrich	60
85	1942	The Boss of Big Town	Michael Lynn	50
86	1942	Madame Spy	Peter Rolf	60
87	1943	Murder in Times Square	Dr. Blaine	46
88	1943	Henry Aldrich Gets Glamour	Sam Aldrich	60
89	1943	Crime Doctor	Emilio Caspari, the mystery man	62
90	1943	Henry Aldrich Swings It	Mr. Aldrich	0
91	1943	Submarine Base	James Xavier 'Jim' Taggart	42
92	1943	So Proudly We Hail	Dr. Harrison	55
93	1943	Henry Aldrich Haunts a House	Sam Aldrich	0
94	1943	Where Are Your Children?	Judge Edmonds	40
95	1944	Henry Aldrich, Boy Scout	Sam Aldrich	0
96	1944	Henry Aldrich Plays Cupid	Mr. Aldrich	0
97	1944	Henry Aldrich's Little Secret	Mr. Samuel J. Aldrich	0
98	1944	My Buddy	Father Jim Donnelly	0
99	1944	Murder in the Blue Room	Frank Baldrich	50
100	1944	Faces in the Fog	Dr. Mason	30
101	1945	Brewster's Millions	Swearengen Jones	66
102	1945	Salome, Where She Danced	General Lee	37
103	1945	The Crime Doctor's Warning	Inspector Dawes	55
104	1945	The Crimson Canary	Roger Quinn	60
105	1945	The Daltons Ride Again	Mitchael J. 'Mike' Bohannon	30
106	1945	Northwest Trail	Sergeant Means	50
107	1945	The Enchanted Forest	Ed Henderson	0
108	1945	San Antonio	Charlie Bell	57
109	1946	Smooth as Silk	Stephen Elliott	49
110	1946	The Madonna's Secret	Lt. Roberts	59
111	1946	Night in Paradise	Archon	40
112	1946	She Wrote the Book	Dean Fowler	60
113	1946	The Return of Rusty	Hugh Mitchell	60
114	1946	Okay for Sound		50
115	1946	Sister Kenny	Medical Director	65
116	1946	Swell Guy	Arthur Tyler	0
117	1947	Lighthouse	Hank Armitage	45
118	1947	The Beginning or the End	K.T. Keller	65
119	1947	Easy Come, Easy Go	Tom Clancy	0
120	1947	The Guilty	Alex Tremholt	53
121	1947	Heaven Only Knows	Reverend Wainwright	60
122	1947	Christmas Eve	Joe Bland, FBI Agent	53
123	1947	Cass Timberlane	Webb Wargate	59
124	1948	My Dog Rusty	Hugh Mitchell	80
125	1948	Smart Woman	Clark	55
126	1948	I, Jane Doe	Horton	61
127	1948	Key Largo	Dispatcher (uncredited)	75
128	1948	Pitfall	District Attorney	69
129	1948	Triple Threat		0
130	1948	Rusty Leads the Way	Hugh Mitchell	60
131	1948	The Valiant Hombre	Lon Lansdell	0
132	1949	Shamrock Hill	Ralph Judson	10
133	1949	Rusty Saves a Life	Hugh Mitchell	70
134	1949	Outpost in Morocco	Colonel Pascal	48
135	1949	The Gal Who Took the West	Colonel Logan	56
136	1949	Mary Ryan, Detective	Capt. Billings	55
137	1949	Rusty's Birthday	Hugh Mitchell	40
138	1950	Woman in Hiding	John Chandler	62
139	1950	The Sundowners	John Gall	54
140	1950	Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye	Police Chief Sam Tolgate	68
141	1950	The Fuller Brush Girl	Mr. Watkins	60
142	1951	Cuban Fireball	Pomeroy Sr.	45
143	1951	The Groom Wore Spurs	Uncle George	44
144	1951	The Texas Rangers	John B. Jones	57
145	1951	Take Care of My Little Girl	John Erickson (uncredited)	50
146	1951	Two Dollar Bettor	John Hewitt	53
147	1951	Little Egypt	Shuster	0
148	1951	Flight to Mars	Dr. Lane	53
149	1952	Jet Job	Sam Bentley	50
150	1952	Scaramouche	Dr. Dubuque	71
151	1952	Montana Belle	Matt Towner	59
152	1953	Jack Slade	Judge Davidson	64
153	1954	Sitting Bull	Wilford Howell	52
154	1955	Double Jeopardy	Emmett Devery	54
155	1955	The Kentuckian	Pleasant Tuesday Babson	57
156	1955	Texas Lady	Meade Moore (wigwam owner)	54
157	1956	Runaway Daughters	George Barton	39
158	1956	The Wild Dakotas	Morgan Wheeler	0
159	1956	Comanche	Gen. Nelson A. Miles	50
160	1957	The Hired Gun	Mace Beldon	55
161	1957	Decision at Sundown	Charles Summerton	63
162	1958	Houseboat	Mr. William Farnsworth	64
163	1961	Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea	Vice Admiral B.J. Crawford	57
164	1961	Pocketful of Miracles	Police Inspector McCrary	73
165	1961	Lover Come Back	Williams, Ad Council Board Member (uncredited)	70
166	1963	The Gun Hawk	Drunk - Madden's father	42
167	1964	Rendezvous in Space	Priest	0
168	1965	The Sons of Katie Elder	Minister	70
169	1966	Nevada Smith	Doctor	68
170	1983	Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)	65

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1950	Lux Video Theatre	Dr. Robbins	63
2	1951	I Love Lucy	Harvey Cromwell	79
3	1952	Four Star Playhouse	Van Alten	63
4	1952	Four Star Playhouse	Mayor	63
5	1952	Cavalcade of America	Dr. Silkworth	35
6	1952	My Hero		0
7	1953	General Electric Theater	Phillip Saunders	63
8	1953	General Electric Theater	Frank Hobbs	63
9	1953	City Detective		70
10	1954	Climax!	Judge Sam Crowley	33
11	1955	The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp		68
12	1955	Cheyenne		58
13	1956	Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre	Sheriff Martin Calder	55
14	1957	Have Gun, Will Travel		74
15	1957	Sugarfoot	Hank Tatum	48
16	1957	Sugarfoot	Archie Crenshaw	48
17	1957	Perry Mason	Judge	77
18	1957	Maverick	Ellsworth Greeley	68
19	1957	Maverick	Judge Somervell	68
20	1957	Maverick	Judge Joshua Thayer	68
21	1957	Trackdown	Judge Henry	64
22	1957	Zorro	The Governor	75
23	1958	Wanted: Dead or Alive	Judge George Healy	69
24	1958	Wanted: Dead or Alive	Asa Morgan	69
25	1958	Wanted: Dead or Alive	Clint Davis	69
26	1958	Bronco		52
27	1958	77 Sunset Strip		67
28	1958	77 Sunset Strip	Colonel Richard Gaunt	67
29	1958	77 Sunset Strip	Distinguished Visitor	67
30	1959	Rawhide	Jim Rye	72
31	1959	Rawhide	James Whitcomb	72
32	1959	Bonanza	Judge Jeremy Clarence Billington	75
33	1959	Bonanza	Mayor George Goshen	75
34	1959	Lock-Up		62
35	1959	Hawaiian Eye		52
36	1960	Stagecoach West	Dan Murchison	60
37	1960	Route 66		63
38	1961	Hazel		68
39	1962	The Virginian	Finley	65
40	1962	The Virginian	Wade Hammill	65
41	1963	Vacation Playhouse	Albert P. Leviathan	70
42	1965	Branded		64
43	1965	Branded	Gen. James Reed (archive footage) (uncredited)	64