8.0
8.0
My Dog Rusty
1948
as Hugh Mitchell
John Litel
Also known as: John Beach Litel
Acting
Born:December 30, 1892
Died:February 3, 1972(aged 79)
Birthplace:Albany, Wisconsin, USA
Nationality:United States
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CommunityBiography
John Litel was an American stage, screen, and television actor. From 1919 to 1936 he performed in several plays on Broadway. In 1929 he began appearing in films and was in over 200 movies throughout his career. Litel often played supporting roles such as hard-nosed cops and district attorneys. He appeared in many television series. John Litel's acting career concluded in 1967.
Filmography (165 movies)
7.5
7.5
Key Largo
1948
as Dispatcher (uncredited)
7.3
7.3
Pocketful of Miracles
1961
as Police Inspector McCrary
7.1
7.1
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
1938
as Mr. Monroe, Prosecuting Attorney
7.0
7.0
The Sons of Katie Elder
1965
as Minister
7.0
7.0
Jezebel
1938
as Jean La Cour
7.0
7.0
Scaramouche
1952
as Dr. Dubuque
7.0
7.0
Rusty Saves a Life
1949
as Hugh Mitchell
6.9
6.9
They Drive by Night
1940
as Harry McNamara
6.9
6.9
Gold Is Where You Find It
1938
as Ralph Ferris
6.9
6.9
Dodge City
1939
as Matt Cole
6.8
6.8
Pitfall
1948
as District Attorney
6.8
6.8
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
1950
as Police Chief Sam Tolgate
6.8
6.8
Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase
1939
as Carson Drew
6.8
6.8
Castle on the Hudson
1940
as Prison Chaplain
6.7
6.7
Brewster's Millions
1945
as Swearengen Jones
6.7
6.7
Sister Kenny
1946
as Medical Director
6.7
6.7
The Life of Emile Zola
1937
as Charpentier
6.6
6.6
They Died with Their Boots On
1941
as Gen. Phil Sheridan
6.6
6.6
Black Legion
1937
as Tommy Smith
6.5
6.5
Marked Woman
1937
as Gordon
6.5
6.5
Lady with Red Hair
1940
as Charles Bryant
6.5
6.5
On Dress Parade
1939
as Col. Michael Riker
6.5
6.5
A Child Is Born
1939
as Dr. Brett
6.4
6.4
Houseboat
1958
as Mr. William Farnsworth
6.4
6.4
Jack Slade
1953
as Judge Davidson
6.3
6.3
Nancy Drew… Detective
1938
as Carson Drew
6.3
6.3
Slim
1937
as Wyatt Ranstead
6.3
6.3
The Declaration of Independence
1938
as Thomas Jefferson
6.3
6.3
Give Me Liberty
1936
as Patrick Henry
6.3
6.3
Decision at Sundown
1957
as Charles Summerton
6.3
6.3
A Slight Case of Murder
1938
as Post
6.2
6.2
My Bill
1938
as John C. Rudlin
6.2
6.2
Crime Doctor
1943
as Emilio Caspari, the mystery man
6.2
6.2
Kid Glove Killer
1942
as Matty
6.2
6.2
Woman in Hiding
1950
as John Chandler
6.2
6.2
Dust Be My Destiny
1939
as Prosecutor
6.1
6.1
The Beginning or the End
1947
as K.T. Keller
6.1
6.1
I, Jane Doe
1948
as Horton
6.1
6.1
Knute Rockne All American
1940
as Committee Chairman
6.1
6.1
Virginia City
1940
as Marshall
6.0
6.0
Wayward
1932
as Robert 'Bob' Daniels
6.0
6.0
Wings of the Navy
1939
as Commander Clark
6.0
6.0
Henry Aldrich, Editor
1942
as Sam Aldrich
6.0
6.0
The Man Who Talked Too Much
1940
as District Attorney Dickson
6.0
6.0
Men Without Souls
1940
as Reverend Thomas Storm
6.0
6.0
The Crimson Canary
1945
as Roger Quinn
6.0
6.0
Nancy Drew... Trouble Shooter
1939
as Carson Drew
6.0
6.0
Nancy Drew... Reporter
1939
as Carson Drew
6.0
6.0
Heaven Only Knows
1947
as Reverend Wainwright
6.0
6.0
Rusty Leads the Way
1948
as Hugh Mitchell
6.0
6.0
The Fuller Brush Girl
1950
as Mr. Watkins
6.0
6.0
Valley of the Giants
1938
as Hendricks
6.0
6.0
Fugitive in the Sky
1936
as Mike Phelan
6.0
6.0
Henry Aldrich Gets Glamour
1943
as Sam Aldrich
6.0
6.0
Madame Spy
1942
as Peter Rolf
6.0
6.0
She Wrote the Book
1946
as Dean Fowler
6.0
6.0
Soldiers in White
1942
as Charles Anthony
6.0
6.0
Mississippi Gambler
1942
as Jim Hadley aka Francis Carvel
6.0
6.0
The Bill of Rights
1939
as Patrick Henry
6.0
6.0
The Return of Rusty
1946
as Hugh Mitchell
5.9
5.9
The Return of Doctor X
1939
as Dr. Flegg
5.9
5.9
The Madonna's Secret
1946
as Lt. Roberts
5.9
5.9
Montana Belle
1952
as Matt Towner
5.9
5.9
San Antonio
1945
as Charlie Bell
5.8
5.8
The Big Boss
1941
as Bob Dugan
5.8
5.8
Sealed Lips
1942
as Mike Rofano / Fred Morton
5.8
5.8
Secret Service of the Air
1939
as Chief Agent Tom Saxby
5.8
5.8
Invisible Agent
1942
as John Gardiner
5.8
5.8
It All Came True
1940
as Mr. Roberts
5.7
5.7
The Texas Rangers
1951
as John B. Jones
5.7
5.7
The Man Without a Country
1937
as Lt. Philip Nolan
5.7
5.7
A Desperate Chance for Ellery Queen
1942
as Norman Hadley
5.7
5.7
Santa Fe Trail
1940
as Martin
5.6
5.6
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
1961
as Vice Admiral B.J. Crawford
5.6
5.6
You Can't Get Away with Murder
1939
as Attorney Carey
5.6
5.6
The Kentuckian
1955
as Pleasant Tuesday Babson
5.6
5.6
The Gal Who Took the West
1949
as Colonel Logan
5.5
5.5
The Mystery of Marie Roget
1942
as Henri Beauvais
5.5
5.5
Thieves Fall Out
1941
as Tim Gordon
5.5
5.5
On Trial
1939
as Robert Strickland
5.5
5.5
The Crime Doctor's Warning
1945
as Inspector Dawes
5.5
5.5
So Proudly We Hail
1943
as Dr. Harrison
5.5
5.5
The Hired Gun
1957
as Mace Beldon
5.5
5.5
The Fighting 69th
1940
as Captain Mangan
5.5
5.5
Missing Witnesses
1937
as Inspector Lane
5.5
5.5
Cass Timberlane
1947
as Webb Wargate
5.4
5.4
The Guilty
1947
as Alex Tremholt
5.4
5.4
Texas Lady
1955
as Meade Moore (wigwam owner)
5.3
5.3
Back in Circulation
1937
as Dr. Eugene Forde
5.3
5.3
The Great Mr. Nobody
1941
as John Wade
5.3
5.3
Two Dollar Bettor
1951
as John Hewitt
5.2
5.2
Sitting Bull
1954
as Wilford Howell
5.1
5.1
Flight to Mars
1951
as Dr. Lane
5.1
5.1
Mary Ryan, Detective
1949
as Capt. Billings
5.1
5.1
Christmas Eve
1947
as Joe Bland, FBI Agent
5.0
5.0
Father Is A Prince
1940
as Dr. Mark Stone
5.0
5.0
Comanche
1956
as Gen. Nelson A. Miles
5.0
5.0
Jet Job
1952
as Sam Bentley
5.0
5.0
Comet Over Broadway
1938
as Bill Appleton
5.0
5.0
The Boss of Big Town
1942
as Michael Lynn
5.0
5.0
Smart Woman
1948
as Clark
5.0
5.0
Murder in the Blue Room
1944
as Frank Baldrich
5.0
5.0
Take Care of My Little Girl
1951
as John Erickson (uncredited)
5.0
5.0
Gambling on the High Seas
1940
as U.S. District Attorney Homer Sears
5.0
5.0
Double Jeopardy
1955
as Emmett Devery
5.0
5.0
Northwest Trail
1945
as Sergeant Means
5.0
5.0
Over the Wall
1938
as Father Neil Connor
5.0
5.0
The Sundowners
1950
as John Gall
5.0
5.0
The Trial of Mary Dugan
1941
as Mr. West
4.9
4.9
Old Glory
1939
as Patrick Henry (voice) (uncredited)
4.9
4.9
Alcatraz Island
1937
as 'Gat' Brady
4.8
4.8
Smooth as Silk
1946
as Stephen Elliott
4.8
4.8
Submarine Base
1943
as James Xavier 'Jim' Taggart
4.8
4.8
Outpost in Morocco
1949
as Colonel Pascal
4.8
4.8
An Angel from Texas
1940
as Quigley
4.8
4.8
March On, America!
1942
as Patrick Henry (archive footage) (uncredited)
4.7
4.7
For the Common Defense!
1942
as Subprefect Santiago Castillo
4.6
4.6
Murder in the Air
1940
as Saxby
4.5
4.5
Father's Son
1941
as William Emory
4.4
4.4
The Groom Wore Spurs
1951
as Uncle George
4.4
4.4
The Gun Hawk
1963
as Drunk - Madden's father
4.4
4.4
Midnight Court
1937
as Victor Shanley
4.3
4.3
Murder in Times Square
1943
as Dr. Blaine
4.0
4.0
Where Are Your Children?
1943
as Judge Edmonds
4.0
4.0
Rusty's Birthday
1949
as Hugh Mitchell
4.0
4.0
Henry Aldrich for President
1941
as Sam Aldrich
4.0
4.0
Little Miss Thoroughbred
1938
as Nelson "Nails" Morgan
4.0
4.0
Cuban Fireball
1951
as Pomeroy Sr.
4.0
4.0
Night in Paradise
1946
as Archon
3.8
3.8
Lighthouse
1947
as Hank Armitage
3.7
3.7
Salome, Where She Danced
1945
as General Lee
3.5
3.5
Broadway Musketeers
1938
as Stan Dowling
3.5
3.5
Money and the Woman
1940
as Jerremy Helm
3.5
3.5
Flight Angels
1940
as Dr. Barclay
3.3
3.3
Runaway Daughters
1956
as George Barton
3.0
3.0
Love, Honor and Behave
1938
as Jim Blake
3.0
3.0
Faces in the Fog
1944
as Dr. Mason
3.0
3.0
The Daltons Ride Again
1945
as Mitchael J. 'Mike' Bohannon
2.0
2.0
March On, Marines
1940
as Colonel Myers
1.0
1.0
Shamrock Hill
1949
as Ralph Judson
Henry Aldrich Plays Cupid
1944
as Mr. Aldrich
Henry Aldrich, Boy Scout
1944
as Sam Aldrich
On the Border
1930
as Dave (as John B. Litel)
Henry and Dizzy
1942
as Sam Aldrich
Henry Aldrich Haunts a House
1943
as Sam Aldrich
Rendezvous in Space
1964
as Priest
Swell Guy
1946
as Arthur Tyler
Henry Aldrich Swings It
1943
as Mr. Aldrich
Finders Keepers
1929
as (as John B. Litel)
Always Faithful
1929
as Wayne
Don Winslow of the Navy
1942
as Spencer Merlin
The Sleeping Porch
1929
The Wild Dakotas
1956
as Morgan Wheeler
Easy Come, Easy Go
1947
as Tom Clancy
The Enchanted Forest
1945
as Ed Henderson
One Hour To Live
1939
as Rudolph Spain
Don't Believe It
1930
as Dick
The Valiant Hombre
1948
as Lon Lansdell
Men of Texas
1942
as Colonel Colbert Scott
Little Egypt
1951
as Shuster
Oh Darling!
1930
Henry Aldrich's Little Secret
1944
as Mr. Samuel J. Aldrich
Triple Threat
1948
My Buddy
1944
as Jim Donnelly
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