John Dehner

John Dehner Headshot

Actor

Birth Date: November 23, 1915

Death Date: February 4, 1992

Birth Place: Staten Island, New York

John Dehner began his career as an animation assistant at Walt Disney Studios, worked as an Army publicist during WWII and, as a Los Angeles radio news reporter, editor and announcer, netted his station a Peabody Award for his coverage of the first UN conference in San Francisco in the late 1940s. Dehner started acting in films in the mid-1940s, eventually appearing in over 100 features, mostly westerns or action films. As sheriff Pat Garrett, he proved a notable foil to Paul Newman's Billy the Kid in Arthur Penn's "The Left-Handed Gun" (1958).

Once voted "best radio voice" by "Radio Life Magazine," Dehner was a prolific radio performer during the 1950s, starring as J.B. Kendall, a Brit in the American West, on "Frontier Gentleman" and as Paladin on "Have Gun Will Travel." Throughout the 60s and 70s he made regular appearances on TV series including "The Westerner" (1960), "The Roaring Twenties" (1960-62), "The Don Knotts Show" (1970-71) "The Doris Day Show" (1971-73) and "Big Hawaii" (1977). Later roles included Secretary of State Dean Acheson in the miniseries "The Missiles of October" (1974); Admiral Ernest King in the miniseries "The Winds of War" (1983); Henry Luce in "The Right Stuff" (1983); and the judge in "Jagged Edge" (1985).

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War and Remembrance

Guest Star
Adm. Ernest King
Miniseries
1988

Help Wanted: Kids

Actor
Cyrus
Movie
1986

Jagged EdgeStream

Actor
Judge Carrigan
Movie
1985
81%

Creator

Actor
Paul
Movie
1985

Bare Essence

Actor
Hadden Marshall
Miniseries
1982

California Gold Rush

Actor
Captain John Sutter
Movie
1981

Enos

Actor
Lt. Jacob Broggi
Show
1980

Young Maverick

Actor
Marshal Edge Troy
Movie
1980

Nothing Personal

Actor
Senator
Movie
1980

Hart to HartStream

Guest Star
Series
1979

La Ruée vers l'or californien

Actor
Movie
1979

The Boys from BrazilStream

Actor
Henry Wheelock
Movie
1978
69%

Fun With Dick and Jane

Actor
Jane's Father
Movie
1977

Mountain Man

Actor
Movie
1977

Guardian of the Wilderness

Actor
John Muir
Movie
1977

Danger in Paradise

Actor
Barrett Fears
Movie
1977

The New Daughters of Joshua Cabe

Actor
Warden Mannering
Movie
1976

The Killer Inside Me

Actor
Bob Maples
Movie
1976

Barbary Coast

Guest Star
Series
1975

The Big Rip-Off

Actor
C.J. Bishop
Movie
1975

The Rockford FilesStream

Guest Star
Judge Lyman / Inspector DeMartonis
Series
1974

Kolchak: The Night StalkerStream

Guest Star
Series
1974
100%

Petrocelli

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Series
1974

Honky-Tonk

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Brazos
Movie
1974

The Day of the Dolphin

Actor
Wallingford
Movie
1973

Slaughterhouse Five

Actor
Prof. Rumfoord
Movie
1972

ColumboStream

Guest Star
Commodore Otis Swanson
Series
1971
84%

Support Your Local GunfighterStream

Actor
Colonel Ames
Movie
1971
62%

The Immortal

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Show
1970

The Cheyenne Social ClubStream

Actor
Clay Carroll
Movie
1970

House on the Hill

Actor
Dr. John Bedford
Movie
1970

Quarantined

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Dr. John Bedford
Movie
1970

Dirty Dingus MageeStream

Actor
Brig. Gen. George
Movie
1970

En quarantaine

Actor
Movie
1970

Love, American Style

Actor
Judge
Series
1969

The Doris Day ShowStream

Actor
Cyril Bennett
Series
1968

Something for a Lonely Man

Actor
Sam Ball
Movie
1968

The Mystery of Edward Sims

Actor
Jason Gore
Movie
1968

MannixStream

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Jim Claman
Series
1967

The High Chaparral

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Series
1967

The Flying NunStream

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Series
1967

Winchester '73

Actor
High-Spade Johnny Dean
Movie
1967

JerichoStream

Actor
Series
1966

Tarzan

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Crosby
Series
1966

Get SmartStream

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Series
1965

The Wild, Wild WestStream

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Series
1965

Hogan's HeroesStream

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Series
1965

The Big Valley

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Series
1965

F TroopStream

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Series
1965

A Man Called Shenandoah

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Series
1965

Branded-1965

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Series
1965

Seven Second Love Affair

Narrator
Show
1965

The Baileys of Balboa

Actor
Cecil Wyntoon
Show
1964

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.Stream

Guest Star
Series
1964
100%

Youngblood Hawke

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Scotty Hawke
Movie
1964

East Side West Side

Guest Star
Series
1963

Critic's Choice

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S.P. Champlain
Movie
1963

Combat!

Guest Star
Series
1962

The VirginianStream

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Bleeck
Series
1962

The Chapman ReportStream

Actor
Geoffrey Harnish
Movie
1962

The Great Cat Family

Actor
Movie
1961

Aquamania

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Narrator/Race announcer
Movie
1961

The Canadians

Actor
Frank Boone
Movie
1961

Stagecoach West

Guest Star
Series
1960

The Andy Griffith ShowStream

Guest Star
Colonel Harvey
Series
1960

Surfside 6

Guest Star
Series
1960

The WesternerStream

Actor
Series
1960

The Tom Ewell Show

Guest Star
Newton Pickering
Show
1960

The Sign of Zorro

Actor
Viceroy
Movie
1960

The Untouchables

Guest Star
Series
1959

Ford Startime

Actor
Show
1959

The RebelStream

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Series
1959

The Twilight ZoneStream

Actor
Alan Richards
Series
1959
92%

Law of the Plainsman

Guest Star
Show
1959

LaramieStream

Guest Star
Jack Slade
Series
1959

BonanzaStream

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Series
1959

The David Niven Show

Actor
Tom Edwards
Show
1959

RawhideStream

Guest Star
Series
1959

Timbuktu

Actor
Emir Bhaki , The Lion of the Desert
Movie
1959

Cast a Long Shadow

Actor
Chip Donohue
Movie
1959

77 Sunset Strip

Guest Star
Morton P. Franklin
Series
1958

Bat MastersonStream

Guest Star
Sheriff
Series
1958

The RiflemanStream

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Series
1958

Bronco

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Series
1958

The Left Handed GunStream

Actor
Pat Garrett
Movie
1958
85%

Apache TerritoryStream

Actor
Grant Kimbrough
Movie
1958

Man of the WestStream

Actor
Claude
Movie
1958
94%

ZorroStream

Guest Star
Series
1957

The Restless Gun

Guest Star
George Temple
Series
1957

Perry MasonStream

Guest Star
Major Lewis
Series
1957

Wagon TrainStream

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Series
1957

Tales of Wells FargoStream

Guest Star
Big Willy Crane
Series
1957

The Girl In the Black Stockings

Actor
Sheriff Jess Holmes
Movie
1957

Revolt at Fort LaramieStream

Actor
Maj. Seth Bradner
Movie
1957

The Iron Sheriff

Actor
Roger Pollack
Movie
1957

The Girl in Black Stockings

Actor
Sheriff Jess Holmes
Movie
1957

Zane Grey Theater

Actor
Series
1956

CarouselStream

Actor
Mr. Bascombe
Movie
1956
71%

Terror at Midnight

Actor
Lew Hanlon
Movie
1956

Tension at Table Rock

Actor
Hampton
Movie
1956

A Day of Fury

Actor
Preacher Jason
Movie
1956

The Fastest Gun AliveStream

Actor
Taylor Swope
Movie
1956

Cheyenne

Guest Star
Series
1955

GunsmokeStream

Guest Star
Luke Dutton
Series
1955

Marshal Dillon

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Show
1955

The Soldiers

Actor
Captain
Show
1955

Tall Man Riding

Actor
Ames Luddington
Movie
1955

The Man From Bitter Ridge

Actor
Ranse Jackman
Movie
1955

The King's Thief

Actor
Capt Herrick
Movie
1955

Top Gun

Actor
Tom Quentin
Movie
1955

Please Murder Me

Actor
Dist. Atty. Ray Willis
Movie
1955

The Prodigal

Actor
Joram
Movie
1955

The Scarlet CoatStream

Actor
Nathanael Greene
Movie
1955

Stories of the CenturyStream

Guest Star
Sheriff Henry Plummer
Series
1954

ApacheStream

Actor
Weddle
Movie
1954
64%

The Cowboy

Actor
Movie
1954

The Bowery Boys Meet the MonstersStream

Actor
Dr. Derek Gravesend
Movie
1954

Southwest Passage

Actor
Matt Carroll
Movie
1954

Powder River

Actor
.Harvey Logan
Movie
1953

Gun Belt

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Matt Ringo
Movie
1953

The Steel Lady

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Sid Barlowe
Movie
1953

Four Star PlayhouseStream

Actor
Series
1952

Dangerous Assignment

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Show
1952

Aladino y la Lámpara Maravillosa

Actor
Movie
1952

Scaramouche

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Doutreval of Dijon
Movie
1952

Fort Algiers

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Major Colle
Movie
1952

Cripple CreekStream

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Emil Cabeau
Movie
1952

California Conquest

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Fredo Brios
Movie
1952

Junction City

Actor
Emmett Sanderson
Movie
1952

Lady in the Iron Mask

Actor
Count de Fourrier
Movie
1952

The Adventures of Kit CarsonStream

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Series
1951

Ten Tall Men

Actor
Jardine
Movie
1951

Lorna Doone

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Baron de Wichehalse
Movie
1951

China Corsair

Actor
Pedro
Movie
1951

Hot Lead

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Turk Thorne
Movie
1951

Fort Savage Raiders

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Capt. Michael Craydon
Movie
1951

Counterspy Meets Scotland Yard

Actor
Robert Reynolds
Movie
1950

Last of the Buccaneers

Actor
Sgt. Belchue
Movie
1950

Rogues of Sherwood Forest

Actor
Sir Baldric (uncredited)
Movie
1950

Bandits of El Dorado

Actor
Charles Bruton
Movie
1949

Kazan

Actor
Henri Le Clerc
Movie
1949

Tulsa

Actor
Oilman
Movie
1949

Mary Ryan, Detective

Actor
Belden
Movie
1949

The Secret of St. Ives

Actor
Couguelat
Movie
1949

Vigilantes of Boomtown

Actor
Bob Fitzsimmons
Movie
1947

Blonde Savage

Actor
Joe Comstock
Movie
1947

She Went to the Races

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Winner's Announcer
Movie
1945

Christmas in ConnecticutStream

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State trooper #2 (uncredited)
Movie
1945
89%

State FairStream

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Hog Contest Announcer (uncredited)
Movie
1945
83%