JOHN ARCHER BIOGRAPHY & FILMOGRAPHY:
John Archer was born on may 8th, 1915 in Osceola, Nebraska with the birth name Ralph Bowman, born to Eunice M. (née Crawford) and Joseph E. Bowman. At the age of five, his family relocated to California and after graduating from Hollywood High School he went on to study at the University of Southern California.
His career in entertainment first began working on the other side of the industry studying cinematography at USC, however, he was unable to find employment in this filed so he changed his career direction to focus on acting.
Archer began with finding work as a stage actor appearing at the Ben Bard Playhouse. After gaining some more stage experience he appeared on Broadway in, "The Day Before Spring" and then found work as a film actor working with such studio's as Universal and Republic Pictures.
Archer was awarded a contract with RKO after entering a radio contest for aspiring actors. Some of his early film roles included appearances on, "Flaming Frontiers" (1938) starring Johnny Mack Brown, Eleanor Hansen, Ralph Bowman, Charles Middleton, John Rutherford and Charles Stevens, "Career" (1939) starring Anne Shirley, Leon Errol, Raymond Hatton, Samuel S. Hinds, Charles Drake, Rowena Cook and Edward Ellis, "Curtain Call" (1940) with Barbara Read, Alan Mowbray, Ralph Forbes, Frank Faylen and Helen Vinson and "Scattergood Baines" (1941) starring Guy Kibbee, Carol Hughes, Dink Trout, Emma Dunn and Willie Best.
As his career in the industry progressed he appeared on more prominent features such as, "Guadalcanal Diary" (1943) starring Preston Foster, Lloyd Nolan, William Bendix, Richard Conte, Anthony Quinn, Richard Jaeckel, Ralph Byrd, Minor Watson, Roy Roberts, Lionel Stander and Reed Hadley, "White Heat" (1949) film noir starring James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien, Margaret Wycherly, Wally Cassell, Ford Rainey, Fred Clark, Paul Guilfoyle and Steve Cochran, "The Big Trees" (1952) starring Kirk Douglas, Edgar Buchanan, Ellen Corby, Alan Hale Jr. and Patrice Wymore, "Sea Tiger" (1952) with Marguerite Chapman, Harry Lauter, Mara Corday and Lyle Talbot, "The Stars are Singing" (1953) starring Rosemary Clooney, Anna Maria Alberghetti and Lauritz Melchior, "Dragon's Gold" (1954) with Hillary Brooke, Philip Van Zandt and Noel Cravat, "No Man's Woman" (1955) co-starring Marie Windsor, Patric Knowles, Nancy Gates, Richard Crane, Louis Jean Heydt and Morris Ankrum, "Rock Around the Clock" (1956) a musical film co-starring Lisa Gaye, Johnny Johnston, Alix Talton and Henry Slate and featured Bill Haley and His Comets along with Alan Freed, The Platters, Tony Martinez and His Band, Freddie Bell and His Bellboys, "She Devil" (1957) with Mari Blanchard, Jack Kelly, Fay Baker and Albert Dekker, "City Of Fear" (1959) co-starring Vince Edwards and Lyle Talbot, "Blue Hawaii" (1961) starring Elvis Presley, Joan Blackman, Angela Lansbury, Howard McNear, Steve Brodie, Hilo Hattie and Roland Winters, "Apache Rifles" (1964) starring Audie Murphy, Michael Dante, Linda Lawson, Ken Lynch, Robert Brubaker and L. Q. Jones, "I Saw What You Did" (1965) starring Joan Crawford, Leif Erickson, Tom Hatten, Sara Lane and John Ireland and "How to Frame a Figg" (1971) starring Don Knotts, Joe Flynn, Yvonne Craig and Edward Andrews.
In addition to his many film roles he also made quite a name for himself as a television actor appearing on such series as, "The Bob Cummings Show", "Stories of the Century", "Sea Hunt", "The Twilight Zone", "Rescue 8", "The Frank Sinatra Show", "Suspense", "Private Secretary", "The Loretta Young Show", "Zane Grey Theatre", "The Ann Sothern Show", "Maverick", "Bonanza", "Mannix", "Surfside 6", "77 Sunset Strip", "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet", "The Man Dawson", "The Name of the Game", "Ironside", "Columbo", "Bat Masterson", "The Outsider", "Wagon Train" and "Lassie" among many others.
John Archer married twice throughout his lifetime, first to Marjorie Lord in 1941 and they had two children before their marriage ended in divorce in 1953. His second marriage was to Ann Leddy in 1956 and they also had two children together and remained married until he passed away on December 3rd, 1999 in Redmond, Washington after suffering from lung cancer.
Filmography
1996 Command & Conquer: Red Alert
1986 American Playhouse
1985 L'anniversaire de Georges
1976 Amelia Earhart
1974 Thursday's Game
1973 Columbo
1972 Class of '55
1971 How to Frame a Figg
1969-1971 Ironside
1970 Bracken's World
1970 The Name of the Game
1969 The Outsider
1969 Mannix
1962-1968 Bonanza
1961-1968 Lassie
1966-1967 Batman
1966 The Virginian
1957-1965 Perry Mason
1965 I Saw What You Did
1964 McHale's Navy
1964 Apache Rifles
1964 This Is the Life
1962-1964 Hazel
1964 Temple Houston
1961-1963 Wagon Train
1962-1963 Hawaiian Eye
1961-1962 77 Sunset Strip
1960-1962 Tales of Wells Fargo
1961-1962 Surfside 6
1961 Blue Hawaii
1961 Twilight Zone
1961 Maverick
1961 Coronado 9
1961 The Tall Man
1960 Men Into Space
1960 Sea Hunt
1960 Lock Up
1957-1960 Cheyenne
1960 Colt .45
1960 Riverboat
1960 The Man and the Challenge
1960 The Ann Sothern Show
1960 Philip Marlowe
1959 M Squad
1959 Laramie
1959 Border Patrol
1959 This Man Dawson
1959 Bat Masterson
1959 How to Marry a Millionaire
1959 Mike Hammer
1959 State Trooper
1959 Rescue 8
1959 City of Fear
1958 The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
1958 Broken Arrow
1957-1958 The Californians
1957-1958 The Bob Cummings Show
1958 The Frank Sinatra Show
1958 Zane Grey Theatre
1955-1957 Navy Log
1957 Decision at Sundown
1957 The Silent Service
1957 The George Sanders Mystery Theater
1957 Code 3
1957 She Devil
1957 Ten Thousand Bedrooms
1957 Affair in Reno
1956 The Gale Storm Show: Oh, Susanna!
1956 Emergency Hospital
1956 Private Secretary
1956 Screen Directors Playhouse
1955-1956 Science Fiction Theatre
1956 TV Reader's Digest
1956 Rock Around the Clock
1955 No Man's Woman
1955 Crossroads
1955 Jane Wyman Presents The Fireside Theatre
1955 Schlitz Playhouse
1955 Stories of the Century
1954-1955 The Loretta Young Show
1955 The Millionaire
1951-1954 Armstrong Circle Theatre
1954 Dragon's Gold
1954 Suspense
1954 Mayor of the Town
1953 America for Me
1953 The Stars Are Singing
1952 The Ford Television Theatre
1952 Sea Tiger
1952 Sound Off
1952 A Yank in Indo-China
1952 The Unexpected
1952 Rodeo
1952 The Big Trees
1951 My Favorite Spy
1951 Best of the Badmen
1951 Home Town Story
1951 Santa Fe
1951 The Bigelow Theatre
1950 High Lonesome
1950 The Great Jewel Robber
1950 Destination Moon
1950 Fireside Theatre
1950 The Silver Theatre
1949 White Heat
1949 Colorado Territory
1949 Your Show Time
1947 The Lost Moment
1944 Roger Touhy, Gangster
1944 The Eve of St. Mark
1943 No Exceptions
1943 Guadalcanal Diary
1943 Crash Dive
1943 Shantytown
1943 Sherlock Holmes in Washington
1943 The Purple V
1943 Hello Frisco, Hello
1942 Scattergood Survives a Murder
1942 Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
1942 Bowery at Midnight
1942 Police Bullets
1942 Hi, Neighbor
1941 Sucker List
1941 Mountain Moonlight
1941 Paper Bullets
1941 King of the Zombies
1941 The People vs. Dr. Kildare
1941 City of Missing Girls
1941 Scattergood Baines
1941 Cheers for Miss Bishop
1941 Always Tomorrow: The Portrait of an American Business
1940 Barnyard Follies
1940 Curtain Call
1939 Career
1938 Spring Madness
1938 Overland Stage Raiders
1938 Dick Tracy Returns
1938 Letter of Introduction
1938 Flaming Frontiers
