Harlan Warde - Turner Classic Movies

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Back in the 50s and 60s, the Western was a staple of the American network TV landscape. As such, it was a boon to actors like Harlan Warde, who played the supporting role of John Hamilton on the 1958-62 ABC series "The Rifleman" and dropped in as Sheriff Brannan for season four of the 1962-1971 NBC offering "The Virginian." Warde also was able to squeeze in the odd appearance as a range ...

Filmography

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The Monster that Challenged the World (1957)

Dialogue Director

Down Three Dark Streets (1954)

Dialogue Director

Vice Squad (1953)

Dialogue Director

Corvette Summer (1978)

Ransom for a Dead Man (1971)

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Man Who Cheated Himself, The (1950) -- (Movie Clip) You're A Big Girl Now

Man Who Cheated Himself, The (1950) -- (Movie Clip) Don't Forget To Change Your Will

Biography

Back in the 50s and 60s, the Western was a staple of the American network TV landscape. As such, it was a boon to actors like Harlan Warde, who played the supporting role of John Hamilton on the 1958-62 ABC series "The Rifleman" and dropped in as Sheriff Brannan for season four of the 1962-1971 NBC offering "The Virginian." Warde also was able to squeeze in the odd appearance as a range of characters on "Bonanza," including those of a constable, prosecutor, district attorney, and solicitor. By the time the true run of the TV western was riding off into the sunset, so were the prospects of Warde as an actor, though age also had something to do with it. In the '70s, he did very little work, wrapping up his career in '79 with a guest appearance on "The Rockford Files" opposite James Garner, someone who was also no stranger to the TV Western.

Filmography

Director (Feature Film)

The Monster that Challenged the World (1957)

Dialogue Director

Down Three Dark Streets (1954)

Dialogue Director

Vice Squad (1953)

Dialogue Director

Cast (Feature Film)

Corvette Summer (1978)

Ransom for a Dead Man (1971)

Incident in an Alley (1962)

District Attorney

Cry for Happy (1961)

The Gazebo (1960)

The Buccaneer (1959)

Naval aide to Patterson

It Started with a Kiss (1959)

Air Force major

Hot Spell (1958)

Cry Terror! (1958)

The Decks Ran Red (1958)

The Monster that Challenged the World (1957)

Lt. Bob "Clem" Clemens

The Wings of Eagles (1957)

Executive officer

Sayonara (1957)

Last of the Bad Men (1957)

Bombers B-52 (1957)

Chicago Confidential (1957)

The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)

Beau James (1957)

A Cry in the Night (1956)

Ogilvie, police radio operator

Strategic Air Command (1955)

I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955)

The Scarlet Coat (1955)

Down Three Dark Streets (1954)

Hell and High Water (1954)

Television director

The Juggler (1953)

Donovan's Brain (1953)

Above and Beyond (1953)

Chaplain Downey

Vice Squad (1953)

Loan Shark (1952)

Operation Secret (1952)

Without Warning! (1952)

Boots Malone (1952)

Private investigator

Flat Top (1952)

Executive officer

The Sniper (1952)

The Man Who Cheated Himself (1951)

Her First Romance (1951)

Up Front (1951)

Criminal Lawyer (1951)

The Magnificent Yankee (1951)

Smuggler's Gold (1951)

George Brewster

The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

Three Guys Named Mike (1951)

Meteorologist Hawkins

Operation Pacific (1951)

Close to My Heart (1951)

The Flying Missile (1951)

Lieutenant commander

The Asphalt Jungle (1950)

No Sad Songs for Me (1950)

Customs Agent (1950)

When Willie Comes Marching Home (1950)

David Harding, Counterspy (1950)

Tokyo Joe (1949)

The Fountainhead (1949)

Johnny Allegro (1949)

Coast Guard officer

Homicide (1949)

Command Decision (1949)

Control officer

The Undercover Man (1949)

The Doctor and the Girl (1949)

State Department File 649 (1949)

It's a Great Feeling (1949)

Task Force (1949)

Prison Warden (1949)

Flaxy Martin (1949)

McClane, assistant district attorney

Tell It to the Judge (1949)

Pete's associate

The Countess of Monte Cristo (1948)

Wake of the Red Witch (1948)

Diver's assistant

To the Ends of the Earth (1948)

He Walked by Night (1948)

On an Island with You (1948)

Lieutenant commander

Lady at Midnight (1948)

Money Madness (1948)

Donald [Harper]

Night Wind (1948)

It Had to Be You (1947)

Buck Privates Come Home (1947)

I Wanted Wings (1941)

Montgomery, co-pilot

Cast (Special)

Strategic Air Command (1959)

Life Events

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Man Who Cheated Himself, The (1950) -- (Movie Clip) You're A Big Girl Now Money scenes, as San Francisco police detective Ed (Lee J. Cobb) arrives to calm down his wealthy married lover Lois (Jane Wyatt), who rightly suspects her husband (Harlan Warde), despite having left for the airport, is plotting to kill her, violence and quick thinking ensuing, in The Man Who Cheated Himself, 1951.

Man Who Cheated Himself, The (1950) -- (Movie Clip) Don't Forget To Change Your Will No fooling around in the opening, Harlan Warde as San Franciscan Howard looks to be plotting a crime, and we’re given reason to think it will involve his wife Lois (Jane Wyatt), who intrudes, Felix E. Feist directing, in Columbia’s The Man Who Cheated Himself, 1951, starring Lee J. Cobb, restored in 2018 by Eddie Muller’s Film Noir Foundation.

Athena (1954) -- (Movie Clip) The Girl Next Door Swiftly to business in MGM’s light comic musical for contract stars, first Vic Damone as TV star Johnny Nye, bobby-soxers packing the studio, with a Hugh Martin/Ralph Blane song introduced ten years earlier by Judy Garland, in Athena, 1954, also starring Jane Powell.

It Had To Be You (1947) -- (Movie Clip) A Day In June Director’s credit shared by Don Hartman and cinematographer Rudolph Matè, Ginger Rogers with expressions for three trips to the altar, Charles Evans officiating, Gerald Fielding, Myron Healy and Harlan Warde grooms, Percy Waram and Spring Byington parents, opening It Had To Be You, 1947.

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