John Agar

Actor

About

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Birth Place

Chicago, Illinois

Born

January 31, 1921

Died

April 07, 2002

Filmography

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John Carpenter Presents Body Bags (1993)

Invasion of Privacy (1992)

The Perfect Bride (1991)

Miracle Mile (1988)

Perfect Victims (1988)

Photos & Videos

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Adventure In Baltimore (1949) -- (Movie Clip) My Anatomy Is Terrible

Adventure In Baltimore (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Making Flutter Eyes

Family & Companions

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Shirley Temple

Wife

Actor, ambassador. Married in 1946; divorced in 1949.

Loretta Barnett Combes

Wife

Former model.

Biography

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

John Carpenter Presents Body Bags (1993)

Invasion of Privacy (1992)

The Perfect Bride (1991)

Miracle Mile (1988)

Perfect Victims (1988)

How's Your Love Life? (1977)

King Kong (1976)

Big Jake (1971)

The Undefeated (1969)

The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967)

Women of the Prehistoric Planet (1966)

Johnny Reno (1966)

Zontar, The Thing From Venus (1966)

Young Fury (1965)

Law of the Lawless (1964)

Stage to Thunder Rock (1964)

Dan Carrouthers

The Young and the Brave (1963)

Intelligence officer

Cavalry Command (1963)

Sergeant Norcutt

Of Love and Desire (1963)

Hand of Death (1962)

Journey to the Seventh Planet (1961)

Invisible Invaders (1959)

Major Bruce Jay

Frontier Gun (1958)

Jet Attack (1958)

Capt. Tom Arnett

Attack of the Puppet People (1958)

Daughter of Dr. Jekyll (1957)

George Hastings

Ride a Violent Mile (1957)

Joe Butterfly (1957)

Sergeant Dick Mason

The Brain from Planet Arous (1957)

The Mole People (1956)

Dr. Roger Bentley

Star in the Dust (1956)

Sheriff Bill Jordan

Flesh and the Spur (1956)

Luke Random/Matthew Random

The Lonesome Trail (1955)

Hold Back Tomorrow (1955)

Tarantula (1955)

Dr. Matt Hastings

Revenge of the Creature (1955)

Prof. Clete Ferguson

The Rocket Man (1954)

The Golden Mistress (1954)

Shield for Murder (1954)

Sgt. Mark Brewster

Man of Conflict (1953)

Woman of the North Country (1952)

The Magic Carpet (1951)

Ramoth, also known as The Scarlet Falcon

Along the Great Divide (1951)

Breakthrough (1950)

Lt. Joe Mallory

The Woman on Pier 13 (1950)

Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)

Pfc. Peter Conway

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)

Lt. Clint Cohill

Adventure in Baltimore (1949)

Fort Apache (1948)

Lt. Michael Shannon O'Rourke

Cast (Special)

Crossed Sabers: A History of the U.S. Horse Cavalry (1993)

Host ("Crossed Sabers")

Life Events

1948

Film acting debut in "Fort Apache"

Photo Collections

Attack of the Puppet People - Lobby Cards

Attack of the Puppet People - Lobby Cards

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon - Movie Posters

Here are a few original-release American movie posters for She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949), starring John Wayne.

Tarantula - Lobby Cards

Here are several Lobby Cards from Universal's Tarantula (1955). Lobby Cards were 11" x 14" posters that came in sets of 8. As the name implies, they were most often displayed in movie theater lobbies, to advertise current or coming attractions.

Fort Apache - Publicity Stills

Here are a number of publicity stills from Fort Apache (1948). Publicity stills were specially-posed photos, usually taken off the set, for purposes of publicity or reference for promotional artwork.

Videos

Adventure In Baltimore (1949) -- (Movie Clip) My Anatomy Is Terrible Opening with 20-year-old Shirley Temple, now a young married mom, loaned out with her husband John Agar by David Selznick to RKO, with a narrated gag and encounters with Regina Wallace her teacher and Robert Young her minister father, in Adventure In Baltimore, 1949.

Adventure In Baltimore (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Making Flutter Eyes In the church where her father is pastor and her mother (Josephine Hutchinson) directs the choir, aspiring artist Dinah (Shirley Temple), expelled from boarding school for her progressive views, observes her childhood sweetheart Tom (John Agar, Temple’s husband) with his new gal (Carol Brannan), in Adventure In Baltimore, 1949.

Tarantula (1955) -- (Movie Clip) Some Of These Big Brains Sheriff Andrews (Nestor Paiva) has persuaded M.D. Matt Hastings (John Agar) he needs to see a body found in the Arizona desert, soon identified by Prof. Deemer (Leo G. Carroll), early in Tarantula, 1955.

Tarantula (1955) -- (Movie Clip) Graduate Work In Biology Just introducing themselves after she's hitched a ride from town, Arizona doctor Matt (John Agar) has news for grad student "Steve" (Mara Corday), neither knowing of the weird work her new employer Deemer (Leo G. Carroll) is up to, in Tarantula, 1955.

She Wore A Yellow Ribbon (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Picknicking? Lt. Pennell (Harry Carey Jr.) and Miss Dandridge (Joanne Dru) are thwarted in their picnic plans first by Lt. Cohill (John Agar) then by Captain Brittles (John Wayne) in a famous scene from John Ford's She Wore A Yellow Ribbon, 1949.

Attack Of The Puppet People (1958) -- (Movie Clip) Amazing Colossal Man Terrific audacity by director Bert I. Gordon, with his 1957 AIP feature The Amazing Colossal Man, not only playing at the drive-in but drawing comments from characters, John Agar as salesman Bob, June Kenny as Sally the secretary, in AIP's Attack Of The Puppet People, 1958.

Fort Apache (1948) -- (Movie Clip) Who And What Are You? En route to her father's new post, Philadelphia (Shirley Temple) meets disrobed Michael (John Agar, his first scene), who offends Colonel Thursday (Henry Fonda), before the escort (Pedro Armendariz, Victor McLaglen, Jack Pennick, Dick Foran) arrives, early in John Ford's Fort Apache, 1948.

Invisible Invaders (1959) -- (Movie Clip) The Walking Dead Were Everywhere Otherwise invisible spacemen are attacking Earth by taking over the bodies of the dead, so Major Jay (John Agar) is bringing scientist Penner (Philip Tonge) to help fight back (with daughter Jean Byron, friend Robert Hutton) when they meet a nervous farmer (Hal Torey), in Invisible Invaders, 1959.

Bait (1954) -- (Movie Clip) What A Pair Of Eyes John Agar as Brighton and producer-director Hugo Haas as Marko are tentative partners setting out to re-locate the latter’s gold mine, visiting supplier Foley (Emmett Lynn) and his employee Peggy (Cleo Moore) who, as events transpire, will become the topic of the title, in Bait, 1954.

Bait (1954) -- (Movie Clip) Mountains Of Glittering Gold At the supply shop, increasingly disrobed Peggy (Cleo Moore) assailed (by George Keymas) and rescued (by producer-director Hugo Haas, as Marko), with her boss (Emmett Lynn) before rejoining his gold-crazed partner (John Agar) at the mine, Cedric Hardwicke the devil’s voice, in Bait, 1954.

Attack Of The Puppet People (1958) -- (Movie Clip) It's Only A Doll Secretary Sally (June Kenny), convinced that her boss Franz (John Hoyt) is abducting people and turning them into dolls, has persuaded a detective (Jack Kosslyn) to inquire, her boyfriend (John Agar) appearing inanimate, trouble ensuing, in Attack Of The Puppet People, 1958.

Fort Apache (1948) -- (Movie Clip) New Commanding Officer Thursday (Henry Fonda), with daughter Philadelphia (Shirley Temple) arrives unexpected, greeted by the Collingwoods (Anna Lee, George O'Brien) and York (John Wayne), as Michael (John Agar) joins his parents (Ward Bond, Irene Rich), big events in John Ford's Fort Apache, 1948.

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon - (Original Trailer) An aging Cavalry officer (John Wayne) tries to pervent an Indian war in the last days before his retirement in She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949).

Companions

Shirley Temple

Wife

Actor, ambassador. Married in 1946; divorced in 1949.

Loretta Barnett Combes

Wife

Former model.

Bibliography

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