John Loder

Acting · 0.8 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

Passage to Marseille

19446.6

Sabotage

19376.7

Woman and the Hunter

19578.0

The Private Life of Henry VIII

19336.4

The Man Who Changed His Mind

19366.1

The Story of Esther Costello

19577.0

Gideon's Day

19586.4

Gentleman Jim

19427.2

La bataille

1934

Owd Bob

19385.6

Love, Live & Laugh

19299.0

Dishonored Lady

19475.8

Eagle Squadron

19427.0

Katia

19388.5

Adventure in Diamonds

19406.0

The Wife of Monte Cristo

19466.4

King Solomon's Mines

19375.4

Old Acquaintance

19437.1

The Brighton Strangler

19456.3

Love, Life and Laughter

19347.0

One Night In Lisbon

19417.0

The Fighting Guardsman

19458.5

A Daughter Of Destiny

19286.4

The Unholy Night

19295.7

Are You There?

19307.0

On the Loose

19316.8

The Mysterious Doctor

19435.9

A Game of Death

19456.5

Lilies of the Field

19304.3

Scotland Yard

19417.0

The Hairy Ape

19446.3

Tin Pan Alley

19405.4

Threats

19405.9

Murder on the Waterfront

19437.0

The Gorilla Man

19435.8

Jealousy

19455.7

Diamond Frontier

19409.0

Confirm or Deny

19414.8

Black Waters

19298.0

Seas Beneath

19315.3

The Firechasers

19717.7

Abroad with Two Yanks

19446.7

One More Tomorrow

19465.8

The Racketeer

19295.1

Small Hotel

19577.0

The Battle

19344.3

The Second Floor Mystery

19308.0

Java Head

19346.8

Non-Stop New York

19376.7

It Happened in Paris

19356.2

The First Born

19284.3

The Case of Lena Smith

19296.0

Woman Who Came Back

19455.9

The Silent Passenger

19355.8

Under Secret Orders

19379.0

The Doctor's Secret

19297.0

The Silent Battle

19399.0

Rich People

19298.0

Wedding Rehearsal

19325.5

Peace on the Rhine

19388.5

The Secret Man

19586.5

You Made Me Love You

19337.1

One Night at Susie's

19305.8

Anything to Declare?

19386.0

Rolling in Money

193410.0

Sunset Pass

19298.0

Adventure in Iraq

19436.0

Doctor Syn

19376.8

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

19365.8

My Song Goes Round the World

19345.0

Casanovas Erbe

19288.0

Queen of Hearts

19367.0

Sing As We Go

19345.8

Sweethearts and Wives

193010.0

The Man Hunter

19308.0

Guilty Melody

19368.0

Ourselves Alone

19367.5

Meet Maxwell Archer

19408.0

Murder Will Out

1939

Money Means Nothing

19328.0

Lorna Doone

19346.5

Money for Speed

193310.0

18 Minutes

19359.5

Fair Game

19287.0

Josette of New Orleans

1958

Allá donde el viento brama

1963

Her Private Affair

19294.1

Die weiße Spinne

19278.0