John Justin
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. John Justin (24 November 1917 - 29 November 2002) was a British stage and film actor. John Justinian de Ledesma was born in London, England, the son of a well-off Argentine rancher. Though he grew up on his father's ranch, he was educated at Bryanston School, Dorset. He developed an interest in flying and became a qualified pilot at the age of 12, though he was not allowed to fly solo at the time because of his age. The acting bug bit him early. By the age of 16, he had joined the Plymouth Repertory. In 1937, he briefly trained with the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, but did not like it and soon joined the repertory company of John Gielgud. In 1938, he auditioned for and won the role for which he is perhaps best remembered, Ahmad in the 1940 version of The Thief of Bagdad, opposite Sabu. World War II broke out during the film's production. After completing the picture, Justin joined the Royal Air Force, serving as a test pilot and flying instructor. He also worked on two films, The Gentle Sex (1943) with Leslie Howard, and Journey Together (1944) with Edward G. Robinson. With the war's end, Justin returned to acting. He made more films, such as David Lean's The Sound Barrier (1952), Island in the Sun (1957) and Lisztomania (1975), but his strong preference was for the stage. He became a member of the Old Vic company in 1959. He made his Broadway debut in 1960 in the play Little Moon of Alban. Justin was married three times, first to dancer and choreographer Pola Nirenska. His second marriage, to actress Barbara Murray, lasted from 1952 to 1964; they had three daughters. From 1970 to his death in 2002, he was married to Alison McMurdo. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Justin licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Birthday: November 24, 1917
Deathday: November 29, 2002
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Melba
1953-08-07
Melba
Overview: Rural Australian Nellie Melba becomes an opera star in 1900s Europe and the United States.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-07
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The Thief of Bagdad
1940-02-19
The Thief of Bagdad
Overview: When Prince Ahmad is blinded and cast out of Bagdad by the nefarious Jaffar, he joins forces with the scrappy thief Abu to win back his royal place, as well as the heart of a beautiful princess.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-19
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Barcelona Kill
1973-02-22
Barcelona Kill
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-02-22
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Call Of The Blood
1948-02-12
Call Of The Blood
Overview: A young man's passions are stirred by a beautiful Sicilian after his physician-wife is called away on an emergency.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-12
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King of the Khyber Rifles
1953-12-23
King of the Khyber Rifles
Overview: Freshly arrived Sandhurst-trained Captain Alan King, better versed in Pashtun then any of the veterans and born locally as army brat, survives an attack on his escort to his Northwest Frontier province garrison near the Khyber pass because of Ahmed, a native Afridi deserter from the Muslim fanatic rebel Karram Khan's forces. As soon as his fellow officers learn his mother was a native Muslim which got his parents disowned even by their own families, he falls prey to stubborn prejudiced discrimination, Lieutenant Geoffrey Heath even moves out of their quarters, except from half-Irish Lt. Ben Baird.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-12-23
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Untamed
1955-03-01
Untamed
Overview: When the great potato famine hits Ireland, the diaspora begins as thousands emigrate. Among those leaving the Emerald Isle is Katie O'Neill and her husband, who decide that the promised land is South Africa and make their way there. Once there, they discover the hardships that are the reality of the homesteader experience.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-03-01
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Lisztomania
1975-10-10
Lisztomania
Overview: In the 19th century, Romantic composer/pianist Franz Liszt tries to end his hedonistic ways but keeps getting sucked back in by his seductive fellow composer Richard Wagner.
Genres: Music Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-10-10
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Safari
1956-06-20
Safari
Overview: Wealthy eccentric Sir Vincent Brampton and his fiancée Linda Latham hire Ken Duffield to lead them on a jungle hunt. Duffield is looking for the murderer of his son; he gets the killer and Linda.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-06-20
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The Sound Barrier
1952-10-10
The Sound Barrier
Overview: Fictionalized story of British aerospace engineers solving the problem of supersonic flight.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-10-10
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The Spider's Web
1960-11-01
The Spider's Web
Overview: Mystery film based on an Agatha Christie story.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-11-01
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Seagulls Over Sorrento
1954-07-13
Seagulls Over Sorrento
Overview: A Navy lieutenant is borrowed by the British to supervise torpedo experiments after one of their scientists is killed.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-07-13
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The Teckman Mystery
1954-10-27
The Teckman Mystery
Overview: A fiction writer begins working on a biography of a pilot who went down during the test flight of a new plane and finds himself soon involved in a series of murders.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-10-27
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The Angel with the Trumpet
1950-03-20
The Angel with the Trumpet
Overview: Sad tale of a woman who marries the man her family wishes her to wed, not Wooland, the man she truly loves. Years after her lover's suicide, Herlie joins him before the Gestapo can get to her because of her Jewish ancestry.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-03-20
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The Man Who Loved Redheads
1955-02-06
The Man Who Loved Redheads
Overview: Framed in flashback, The Man Who Loved Redheads is an anecdotal comedy about a man (John Justin) whose life is defined by his first romantic experience. That liaison occurred in Justin's youth, when the young man matures and enters the diplomatic world, he spends the rest of his career searching for his first love.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-02-06
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Savage Messiah
1972-06-27
Savage Messiah
Overview: In the Paris of the 1910s, brash young sculptor Henri Gaudier begins a creative partnership with an older writer, Sophie Brzeska. Though the couple is 20 years apart in age, Gaudier finds that his untamed work is complemented by the older woman's cultural refinement. He then moves to London with Brzeska, where he falls in with a group of avant-garde artists. There, Gaudier encounters yet another artistic muse in passionate suffragette Gosh Boyle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-06-27
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The Village
1953-04-24
The Village
Overview: The Village (German: Sie fanden eine Heimat) is a 1953 Swiss drama film directed by Leopold Lindtberg.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1953-04-24
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The Big Sleep
1978-03-13
The Big Sleep
Overview: Private eye Philip Marlowe investigates a case of blackmail involving the two wild daughters of a rich general, a pornographer and a gangster.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-03-13
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Candidate for Murder
1962-01-01
Candidate for Murder
Overview: Professional killer Kersten arrives in England and is hired by Donald Edwards to murder his wife Helene. But Helene's lover Robert Vaughan discovers the plot and he trails Kersten and Edwards to a country cottage.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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Visual Effects: The Thief of Bagdad
2008-05-27
Visual Effects: The Thief of Bagdad
Overview: Documentary about the technical achievements of the 1940 film classic The Thief of Bagdad.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-05-27
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La salamandre d'or
1962-12-31
La salamandre d'or
Overview: In 1525, on the evening of the Battle of Pavia, François 1er was taken prisoner by the armies of Charles-Quint, with the Constable de Bourbon on their side. His mother, regent of the kingdom, commissioned the king's loyal equerry, Antoine de Montpezat, to raise a ransom of two million ecus and send it to Madrid. Despite the treachery of Vandoeuvre, governor of Languedoc and supporter of the connétable de Bourbon, who has his eye on the French throne, Montpezat accomplishes his mission and is reunited with his fiancée, who had almost married the traitor Vandoeuvre.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-12-31
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The Gentle Sex
1943-05-23
The Gentle Sex
Overview: During the War seven women from very different backgrounds find themselves together in the Auxiliary Territorial Services. They are soon drilling, driving lorries, and manning ack-ack batteries.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-23
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Valentino
1977-09-07
Valentino
Overview: In 1926 the tragic and untimely death of a silent screen actor caused female moviegoers to riot in the streets and in some cases to commit suicide...
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-09-07
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Schalcken the Painter
1979-12-22
Schalcken the Painter
Overview: Can Schalcken save his love, Rose, from the clutches of a ghastly suitor before it is too late?
Genres: Drama Fantasy Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-22
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Guilty?
1956-04-10
Guilty?
Overview: Convinced that a wartime resistance heroine is innocent of a murder charge, Nap Rumbold, a solicitor / private detective travels to France searching for evidence to clear her name.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-04-10
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Man Wants to Live
1961-11-06
Man Wants to Live
Overview: Professor Chardin has just killed a man. Before calling the police to turn himself in, he burns some leaves and a notebook in the fireplace. Secret agents in the street with listening devices flee when the police arrive. The professor refuses to be defended by a lawyer and to explain himself, but his friend Professor Carter and his wife come to his support and he agrees to explain his crime of inventing the H-bomb, the secret of which was stolen from him by his collaborator Rossi at the very moment when he had given up his research, convinced by Albert Einstein's pacifist plea and other personal circumstances.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-11-06
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Journey Together
1945-10-01
Journey Together
Overview: Two Englishmen (Richard Attenborough, Jack Watling) train with the Royal Air Force, ending with a bombing raid on Berlin.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-01
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Island in the Sun
1957-06-12
Island in the Sun
Overview: A scandalous tale of politics, social inequality, interracial romance, and murder set on a fictitious British-owned Caribbean island.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-06-12
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