John Payne
Birthday: 1912-05-28
Place of Birth: Roanoke, Virginia, USA
Biography: John Payne was an American stage, screen, and television actor. He is best remembered as a singer in 20th Century Fox musical films and for his roles in Miracle on 34th Street (1947) and the television series The Restless Gun (1957-1959).
Movies
Kansas City Confidential
An ex-convict sets out to uncover who framed him for an armored car robbery....
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Miracle on 34th Street
Kris Kringle, seemingly the embodiment of Santa Claus, is asked to portray the jolly old fellow at M...
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Hello, Frisco, Hello
In turn-of-the-century San Francisco, an ambitious vaudevillian takes his quartet from a honky tonk ...
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Slightly Scarlet
Kleptomaniac Dorothy Lyons is paroled from prison into the custody of her sister June, secretary to ...
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Larceny
Rick Mason is the no-good lowdown rat who tries to capitalize on postwar patriotism and grief. He fi...
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Silver Lode
Dan Ballard, a respected citizen in the western town of Silver Lode, has his wedding interrupted by ...
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99 River Street
A former boxer turned taxi driver earns the scorn of his nagging wife and gets mixed up with jewel t...
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Tennessee's Partner
A tough, womanizing high-stakes gambler known only as Tennessee has an uneasy relationship with Duch...
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The Vanquished
A man returns to his home -- a post Civil-War village -- and finds the law is in the hands of a few ...
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The Crooked Way
A war veteran suffering from amnesia, returns to Los Angeles from a San Francisco veterans hospital ...
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Footlight Serenade
Conceited World Champion boxer Tommy Lundy decides to test his popularity in a Broadway show. Tommy ...
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Springtime in the Rockies
Broadway partners Vicky Lane and Dan Christy have a tiff over Christy's womanizing. Jealous Vicky ta...
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Sun Valley Serenade
When Phil Corey's band arrives at the Idaho ski resort its pianist Ted Scott is smitten with a Norwe...
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Hell's Island
Down-on-his-luck Mike Cormack is hired to fly to a Caribbean island to retrieve a missing ruby. On t...
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Week-End in Havana
A ship company employee, Jay Williams, is sent to Florida where one of the company cruise ships is s...
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Star Dust
When Hollywood film studios reject her because she's too young, an Arkansas woman sets out to build ...
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The Razor's Edge
An adventurous young man goes off to find himself and loses his socialite fiancée in the process. Bu...
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Remember the Day
Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him ...
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Hidden Fear
A U.S. lawman busts Copenhagen counterfeiters to help his sister, falsely accused of murder....
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Santa Fe Passage
A disgraced Indian scout and his partner are hired to escort a wagonload of guns through Indian terr...
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To the Shores of Tripoli
Chronicle of a spoiled rich boy who joins the Marines with an off-handed attitude and finally become...
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Rebel in Town
Ex-Confederate Bedloe Mason and his four sons ride into a small Western town with robbery in mind. H...
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The Dolly Sisters
Two sisters from Hungary become famous entertainers in the early 1900s. Fictionalized biography with...
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Wings of the Navy
Jerry tries to out compete his older brother Cass, a lieutenant Naval aviator. Cass is both tough on...
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Hold Back The Night
A Marine officer goes through Korea with the bottle of Scotch that his wife gave him in the last war...
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They Ran for Their Lives
A man with a dog helps a young woman being chased by hoodlums in the desert....
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The Great Profile
An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John Barrymore,...
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The Saxon Charm
In order to get his way, New York producer Matt Saxon manipulates and controls everyone around him b...
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Raiders of the Seven Seas
After staging a mutiny and commandeering his own ship, famed pirate Barbarossa takes hostage a spiri...
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Caribbean
Francis Barclay, a former member of the British Admiralty, who was captured in the early 1700s, and ...
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The Road to Denver
The Mayhew brothers flee from one Texas town to another as older brother Bill repeatedly attempts to...
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Garden of the Moon
Don Vincente is determined to make a success of himself and his band. He gets his break by performin...
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Passage West
In 1863, having escaped from a rock-quarry prison in Salt Lake, six inmates led by convicted murdere...
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Hats Off
The first musical comedy from the Grand National assembly line, Hats Off stars John Payne and Mae Cl...
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El Paso
Ex-confederate officer Clay Fletcher jumps at the chance to reunite with his once lady-friend, Susan...
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Rails Into Laramie
A federal agent arrives in Laramie to try to find out who is behind the efforts to stop the construc...
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Maryland
A woman tormented by the hunting death of her husband forbids her son to have anything to do with ho...
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The Eagle and the Hawk
Texas Ranger Todd Crayden is assigned a suicide mission South of the Border, to smuggle a government...
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Indianapolis Speedway
A champion auto racer who unhappily learns his kid brother wants to enter the same profession rather...
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Wake Up and Dream
Aided by her eccentric friends, a young woman goes looking for her missing brother....
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Sentimental Journey
An actress becomes taken with Hitty, a young orphan prone to dreaming. Julie soon finds out that she...
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Tripoli
In 1805, the United States battles the pirates of Tripoli as the Marines fight to raise the American...
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Suspect
A government team researching cures for plague find their results put on the Official Secrets list. ...
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The Blazing Forest
Estranged brothers (John Payne, Richard Arlen) find themselves on the same lumberjack crew hired by ...
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The Great American Broadcast
After WWI two men go into radio. Failure leads the wife of one to borrow money from another; she goe...
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The Royal Rodeo
A young monarch, bored with responsibility and craving excitement, invites a traveling rodeo show to...
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Captain China
The title character, played by John Payne, is a ship's captain whose embittered behavior after losin...
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Kid Nightingale
A waiter who sings gets in a fight with rude customers and overpowers them. A boxing promoter sees t...
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King of the Lumberjacks
Outdoor drama about a newly-hired lumberjack discovering that his former girlfriend is now his new b...
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Bailout at 43,000
An Air Force major feels a volatile mixture of relief and anger when he is excused from performing a...
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Love on Toast
The plot concerns a female press agent who must select a "Mr. Manhattan" and "Miss Brooklyn" for an ...
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Tin Pan Alley
Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to Engla...
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Fair Warning
In California's Death Valley a chemistry whiz-kid helps a sheriff track the man who murdered a wealt...
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Dodsworth
A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that the...
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Iceland
Marine James Murfin, is unaware of Icelandic customs. When he flirts with Katina her Icelandic famil...
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Take It or Leave It
A young husband becomes a game-show participant in the hopes of winning the cash to pay his pregnant...
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Movieland Magic
Released as part of a series of WB shorts under the collective title of "Technicolor Specials" (WB p...
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B-29 Flight Engineer
This government documentary short film depicts and explains proper procedures for functioning as a f...
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