John Loder

Acting · 0.7 popularity

Age

128

Movies

Born: January 2, 1898 – December 26, 1988
From: London, England, UK

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. John Loder (3 January 1898 — 26 December 1988) was a British-American actor. He was born William John Muir Lowe in London. His father was General W. H. M. Lowe, the British officer to whom Patrick Pearse, the leader of the Irish 1916 Rising in Dublin, surrendered. Both General Lowe and his son were present at the surrender of Pearse. He was educated at Eton and the Royal Military College and followed his father into the army, commissioned into 15th Hussars as a second lieutenant on 17 March 1915, and then serving in the Gallipoli Campaign and at one point being imprisoned by the Germans. Upon being released, he stayed in Germany to run a pickle factory and also began to develop an interest in acting, appearing in bit-parts in a few German films. He left Germany to briefly return to England and then headed to Hollywood to try his luck in the new medium, Talkies. He appeared in The Doctor's Secret, which was Paramount's first talking picture—though his very English persona didn't win America over at this time and he returned to England where he co-starred in plush musicals and intrigue such as Love Life and Laughter and Sabotage. He was the male romantic interest in the 1937 original film version of King Solomon's Mines. When World War II started he returned to America where he seamlessly coasted into a career in 'B' movie roles usually playing upper crust characters with occasional appearances on Broadway. He occasionally did play roles, though supporting ones, in major 'A' films such as How Green Was My Valley, in which he was at the same time one of Roddy McDowall's brothers and Donald Crisp's sons. In 1947 he became an American citizen, his last screen appearance was in 1971. In 1959 he became a naturalised citizen of the United Kingdom as he has been of "uncertain nationality". Description above from the Wikipedia article John Loder, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

90 films

How Green Was My Valley

19417.3

Now, Voyager

19427.4

Sabotage

19376.7

Passage to Marseille

19446.6

Woman and the Hunter

19578.0

The Man Who Changed His Mind

19366.1

Gentleman Jim

19427.2

The Story of Esther Costello

19577.0

La bataille

1934

Gideon's Day

19586.4

Owd Bob

19385.6

The Private Life of Henry VIII

19336.4

Love, Live & Laugh

19299.0

Katia

19388.5

The Wife of Monte Cristo

19466.4

Dishonored Lady

19475.8

The Brighton Strangler

19456.3

Old Acquaintance

19437.1

Love, Life and Laughter

19347.0

King Solomon's Mines

19375.4

Eagle Squadron

19427.0

The Gorilla Man

19435.8

Adventure in Diamonds

19406.0

Are You There?

19307.0

Non-Stop New York

19376.7

Java Head

19346.8

A Daughter Of Destiny

19286.4

Jealousy

19455.7

One More Tomorrow

19465.8

The Unholy Night

19295.7

It Happened in Paris

19356.2

You Made Me Love You

19337.1

Abroad with Two Yanks

19446.7

The Racketeer

19295.1

The Fighting Guardsman

19458.5

The Mysterious Doctor

19435.9

Under Secret Orders

19379.0

Confirm or Deny

19414.8

The Hairy Ape

19446.3

A Game of Death

19456.5

The Battle

19344.3

Threats

19405.9

The Second Floor Mystery

19308.0

The Firechasers

19717.7

The Secret Man

19586.5

Murder on the Waterfront

19437.0

The First Born

19284.3

Scotland Yard

19417.0

Tin Pan Alley

19405.4

The Case of Lena Smith

19296.0

Seas Beneath

19315.3

Small Hotel

19577.0

Wedding Rehearsal

19325.5

The Silent Battle

19399.0

Lilies of the Field

19304.3

The Doctor's Secret

19297.0

The Man Hunter

19308.0

Black Waters

19298.0

Peace on the Rhine

19388.5

Diamond Frontier

19409.0

On the Loose

19316.8

Doctor Syn

19376.8

One Night In Lisbon

19417.0

Whom the Gods Love: The Original Story of Mozart and His Wife

19365.8

One Night at Susie's

19305.8

The Silent Passenger

19355.8

Adventure in Iraq

19436.0

My Song Goes Round the World

19345.0

Rich People

19298.0

Money for Speed

193310.0

Queen of Hearts

19367.0

Rolling in Money

193410.0

Murder Will Out

1939

Sunset Pass

19298.0

Guilty Melody

19368.0

Ourselves Alone

19367.5

Her Private Affair

19294.1

18 Minutes

19359.5

Meet Maxwell Archer

19408.0

Sing As We Go

19345.8

Lorna Doone

19346.5

Sweethearts and Wives

193010.0

Anything to Declare?

19386.0

Money Means Nothing

19328.0

Woman Who Came Back

19455.9

Josette of New Orleans

1958

Fair Game

19287.0

Die weiße Spinne

19278.0

Casanovas Erbe

19288.0

Allá donde el viento brama

1963