John Burton
Birthday: 1904-04-06
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Biography: John Burton was an English-born actor who appeared in American films from 1923 to 1953.
Movies
Rulers of the Sea
The struggle of a man to build a steam ship to take him across the Atlantic in spite of all setbacks...
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Invisible Agent
The Invisible Man's grandson uses his secret formula to spy on Nazi Germany....
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Captain from Castile
Spain, 1518: young caballero Pedro De Vargas offends his sadistic neighbor De Silva, who just happen...
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Lancer Spy
An Englishman impersonates an imprisoned German officer and "returns" to Germany to become a nationa...
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A Yank in the R.A.F.
An American pilot impulsively joins His Majesty's Royal Air Force in Britain in an attempt to impres...
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Journey for Margaret
An American newspaperman and his wife, end up in London after several retreats in the opening days ...
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Pierre of the Plains
A French-Canadian trapper's adventures jeopardize his romance with an innkeeper....
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The Very Thought of You
Army sergeants Dave and "Fixit" spend a three-day pass in Pasadena, where they meet Janet and Cora, ...
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Three Strangers
On the eve of the Chinese New Year, three strangers, Crystal Shackleford, married to a wealthy phila...
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White Cargo
In Africa early in World War II, a British rubber plantation executive reminisces about his arrival ...
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Dark Delusion
Spoiled socialite Cynthia Grace is suffering from a blood clot. Not unexpectedly, Tommy Coalt falls ...
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Two Tickets to London
Accused of helping an enemy submarine, a man escapes and joins a beautiful girl in trying to find th...
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The Fan
Lord Windermere appears to all – including his young wife Margaret – to be the perfect husband. The ...
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Assignment in Brittany
A French Resistance fighter discovers he's a dead ringer for a Nazi official....
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Enter Arsène Lupin
A rich but naive young woman is in possession of some priceless jewels. She herself doesn't know it,...
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Everybody Does It
Leonard Borland loves his monied wife, but with his wrecking business looking shaky he treasures her...
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The Day the Earth Stood Still
An alien and a robot land on Earth after World War II and tell mankind to be peaceful or face destru...
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David and Bathsheba
King David enters into an adulterous affair with the beautiful Bathsheba, which has tragic consequen...
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My Blue Heaven
Radio star Kitty Moran, long married to partner Jack, finds she's pregnant, but miscarries. For a ch...
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Three Came Home
Borneo, 1941, during World War II. When the Japanese occupy the island, American writer Agnes Newton...
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The Flames of Wrath
After P. C. Gordon is murdered and robbed of a diamond ring that he bought as a birthday present for...
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Dark Streets of Cairo
A rapid series of murders occurs when a professor disrupts a tranquil Egyptian tomb by removing some...
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The Earl of Chicago
A behind the times Chicago bootlegger goes to England with his lawyer to claim his estate as the Ear...
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The House on Telegraph Hill
Concentration camp survivor Victoria Kowelska finds herself involved in mystery, greed, and murder w...
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Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
In the midst of World War II, Sherlock Holmes rescues the Swiss inventor of a new bomb-sight from th...
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Marie Antoinette
The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, ...
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Kidnapped
Robert Louis Stevenson's hero David Balfour joins rebel Alan Breck Stewart in 18th-century Scotland...
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Random Harvest
Wandered away from his asylum, an amnesiac World War I veteran falls in love with a music hall star ...
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Storm Over Bengal
This being a Republic picture, it should come as no surprise that Storm Over Bengal was filmed in it...
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The Woman in Green
Sherlock Holmes investigates when young women around London turn up murdered, each with a finger sev...
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Lloyd's of London
Norfolk, England, 1770. The nephew of an innkeeper and the son of a reverend maintain a very close f...
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Nostradamus Says So!
The life of the French seer and some of his selected quatrains are reviewed....
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Lord Jeff
Spoiled child Geoffrey Bramer teams up with a pair of small time crooks to pose as an aristocrat and...
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Lost Horizon
British diplomat Robert Conway and a small group of civilians crash-land in the Himalayas, where the...
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Beloved Enemy
In 1921, British Lord Athleigh arrives in Dublin with his daughter, Helen, to engage in peace talks....
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Black Beauty
Based on Anna Sewell's novel. In rural England of the 1880's, widower Squire Wendon is rearing his ...
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Mrs. Miniver
Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxf...
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Foreign Correspondent
American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the i...
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Phantom Raiders
In this second Carter mystery, a mysterious rash of cargo ships sinking in Panama leads insurers Lle...
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The Sun Never Sets
The Randolph family have a tradition of working in the British colonial service. Clive comes home fr...
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The King Without a Crown
This short explores the possibility that Louis XVII, son of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, esc...
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Sherlock Holmes in Washington
In World War II, a British secret agent carrying a vitally important document is kidnapped en route ...
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Slave Ship
Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced again...
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Eagle Squadron
An American joins the British Royal Air Force just before Pearl Harbor is attacked, and falls in lov...
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Whispers
In this John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short we see how gossip can be used to spread propaganda or to...
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Nostradamus
A look at various predictions Nostradamus made, such as the American and French Revolutions....
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More About Nostradamus
This short film portrays Nostradamus as having predicted the horrors of WWI and Hitler's rise to pow...
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Further Prophecies of Nostradamus
This short film applies the prophecies of Nostradamus to events of World War II....
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Let's Ask Nostradamus
Nostradamus writes a letter to his young son, and his prophecies are compared to events of the Frenc...
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The Spider Woman
Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of so-called "pajama suicides". He knows the female villain be...
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Bravest of the Brave
This short film looks at the life of Michel Ney, who fought at Napoleon's side and was made a Marsha...
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The Black Swan
When notorious pirate Henry Morgan is made governor of Jamaica, he enlists the help of some of his f...
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