John Alvin - Turner Classic Movies

Filmography

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Return to Green Acres (1990)

Passions (1984)

Somewhere In Time (1980)

The Legend of Lizzie Borden (1975)

Sweet, Sweet Rachel (1971)

Irma La Douce (1963)

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Destination Tokyo (1943) -- (Movie Clip) Join Us In Holding Our Breath

Fighting Sullivans, The (1944) -- (Movie Clip) One At a Time!

Biography

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

Return to Green Acres (1990)

Passions (1984)

Somewhere In Time (1980)

The Legend of Lizzie Borden (1975)

Sweet, Sweet Rachel (1971)

Irma La Douce (1963)

The Couch (1962)

City of Shadows (1955)

The McConnell Story (1955)

Fighter pilot escort

A Bullet for Joey (1955)

Kentucky Rifle (1955)

The Shanghai Story (1954)

Deep in My Heart (1954)

Naked Alibi (1954)

Lucky Me (1954)

April in Paris (1953)

Torpedo Alley (1953)

Dream Wife (1953)

Washington Story (1952)

Close to My Heart (1951)

Come Fill the Cup (1951)

Travis Ashbourne, III

Missing Women (1951)

Havana Rose (1951)

Goodbye, My Fancy (1951)

The Unknown Man (1951)

Three Guys Named Mike (1951)

Flight dispatcher Brown

Dial 1119 (1950)

Television director

Lonely Hearts Bandits (1950)

Pretty Baby (1950)

This Side of the Law (1950)

Highway 301 (1950)

The Breaking Point (1950)

Bright Leaf (1950)

The Fountainhead (1949)

Young intellectual

The Story of Seabiscuit (1949)

The Babe Ruth Story (1948)

Romance on the High Seas (1948)

The Bold Frontiersman (1948)

Two Guys from Texas (1948)

Shanghai Chest (1948)

Victor Armstrong

Train to Alcatraz (1948)

Open Secret (1948)

Dark Passage (1947)

Under Colorado Skies (1947)

The Beast with Five Fingers (1947)

Donald Arlington

Love and Learn (1947)

Deep Valley (1947)

Cheyenne (1947)

One More Tomorrow (1946)

Shadow of a Woman (1946)

Three Strangers (1946)

Night and Day (1946)

Roughly Speaking (1945)

Objective, Burma! (1945)

San Antonio (1945)

The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945)

Destination Tokyo (1944)

The Sullivans (1944)

Madison "Matt" Abel Sullivan

The Very Thought of You (1944)

Northern Pursuit (1943)

Life Events

Videos

Destination Tokyo (1943) -- (Movie Clip) Join Us In Holding Our Breath The climax of a lengthy suspense sequence, Cary Grant as the steely Captain Cassidy guides the U.S.S. Copperfin into Tokyo Bay, through a mine-field, in the draught of a Japanese cruiser, keeping silent, John Ridgely, Warner Anderson, John Alvin among the crew, in DestinationTokyo, 1943.

Fighting Sullivans, The (1944) -- (Movie Clip) One At a Time! Waterloo, Iowa, December 8, 1941, and all five brothers (James Cardwell, John Campbell, George Offerman Jr., John Alvin, Edward Ryan) sign up with Commander Robinson (Ward Bond) in The Fighting Sullivans, 1944.

Fighting Sullivans, The (1944) -- (Movie Clip) Where's George? This battle sequence from Guadalcanal turns out to be critical as the brothers (James Cardwell, John Campbell, John Alvin, George Offerman Jr., Edward Ryan) stick together aboard the U.S.S. Juneau in The Fighting Sullivans, 1944.

Fighting Sullivans, The (1944) -- (Movie Clip) Hop On His Fast One! Breakfast in, Waterloo, Iowa, 1939 as George, Frank, Joe, Matt and Al Sullivan (James Cardwell, John Campbell, George Offerman Jr., John Alvin and Edward Ryan) report to Mom (Selena Royle) in The Fighting Sullivans, 1944.

Beast With Five Fingers, The (1947) -- (Movie Clip) I Couldn't Be Mistaken Lawyer Duprex (David Hoffman) is messing with the will of dead pianist "Ingram," when a hand wearing his ring visits, then nurse Julie (Andrea King), would-be heir Arlington (Charles Dingle) and weird secretary Hilary (Peter Lorre) are awakened by music, in The Beast With Five Fingers, 1947.

Very Thought Of You, The (1944) -- (Movie Clip) The Japs Obliged Him On-leave soldier Dave (Dennis Morgan), invited home by friendly stranger Janet (Eleanor Parker), observes home-front mendacity, as 4-F brother Cal (John Alvin) bites married sister Molly (Andrea King), the parents (Henry Travers, Beulah Bondi) also at odds, in The Very Thought Of You, 1944.

Objective, Burma! -- (Movie Clip) Burmese Dancing Girls Errol Flynn as American army captain Nelson, laying out the mission for his paratroopers (Tony Caruso, Richard Erdman, George Tynes et al) and meeting crusty reporter Williams (Henry Hull), early in Raoul Walsh's Objective, Burma!, 1945.

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