John Howard
Also Known As: John Richard Cox Jr., John Cox Jr., John Cox
Biography: John Howard (born John Richard Cox Jr.) was an American screen and television actor. He made his movie debut in a bit part in Paramount's One Hour Late (1934) before moving up the Hollywood ladder to featured parts and ultimately landing his own series, the Bulldog Drummond mysteries. Decades later, when offers of work began to slow down, Howard went into teaching.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Birthday: April 14, 1913
Deathday: February 19, 1995
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Philadelphia Story
Overview: When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-05
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Lost Horizon
Overview: British diplomat Robert Conway and a small group of civilians crash land in the Himalayas, and are rescued by the people of the mysterious, Eden-like valley of Shangri-la. Protected by the mountains from the world outside, where the clouds of World War II are gathering, Shangri-la provides a seductive escape for the world-weary Conway.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-03
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Radar Secret Service
Overview: A federal agent and his partner track uranium-ore hijackers with radar.
Genres: Romance Action Adventure Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-01-28
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The Undying Monster
Overview: A werewolf prowls around at night but only kills certain members of one family. It seems like just a coincidence, but the investigating Inspector soon finds out that this tradition has gone on for generations and tries to find a link between the werewolf and the family, leading to a frightening conclusion.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-27
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The Invisible Woman
Overview: Kitty Carroll, an attractive store model, volunteers to become a test subject for a machine that will make her invisible so that she can use her invisibility to exact revenge on her ex-boss.
Genres: Comedy Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-28
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Experiment Alcatraz
Overview: A doctor testing drugs on convicts gets mixed up in a murder investigation.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-21
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The Mad Doctor
Overview: A reporter sleuths the mystery behind an oft-married Viennese doctor whose wives met mysterious fates.
Genres: Crime Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-20
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Psycho Sisters
Overview: After her husband dies, a woman begins to have a nervous breakdown and is consoled by her younger sister. Soon, however, other members of the family begin to suspect the younger woman's motives.
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-12-25
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Destination Inner Space
Overview: A futuristic underwater sea-lab is having problems with a UFO that's parked between them and a nearby deep ocean trench. As they investigate, they attract the unwanted attention of a dangerous creature who puts the scientists and crew in danger.
Genres: Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-05-01
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The Fighting Kentuckian
Overview: John Breen (John Wayne), a Kentucky militiaman falls in love with French exile Fleurette De Marchand (Vera Ralston). He discovers a plot to steal the land that Fleurette's exiles plan to settle on and aims to foil it.
Genres: Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-09-15
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Arrest Bulldog Drummond
Overview: The invention of a machine that can cause remote explosions brings the attention of Scotland Yard and Bulldog Drummond.
Genres: Action Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-25
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Bulldog Drummond Comes Back
Overview: Drummond's girlfriend is kidnapped by his enemies and he along with his friend Nielsen, an inspector from Scotland Yard, follow the trail and try to rescue her from the kidnappers.
Genres: Action Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-24
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I, Jane Doe
Overview: While stationed in France during World War II, an American fighter pilot marries a French girl but leaves her behind when he returns to the U.S. The French woman follows him to America only to discover he’s already married to a successful lawyer.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-25
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The High and the Mighty
Overview: Dan Roman is a veteran pilot haunted by a tragic past. Now relegated to second-in-command cockpit assignments he finds himself on a routine Honolulu-to-San Francisco flight - one that takes a terrifying suspense-building turn when disaster strikes high above the Pacific Ocean at the point of no return.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-07-03
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Love from a Stranger
Overview: Cecily Harrington, struggling along on a small allowance, wins a fortune in a lottery. She decides to travel rather than marrying her fiance Nigel Lawrence. A stranger, Manuel Cortez, comes to rent her flat and she falls in love with him, and they are married. For their honeymoon, they go to an isolated English college where she, unlike the audience, doesn't realize she has married a fortune-hunting Bluebeard with a few murdered wives in his past. The question is will she be able to repent in leisure her decision to marry in haste.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-15
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Father Takes a Wife
Overview: A famous actress has to win over her ready-made family when she weds a shipping magnate.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-03
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Make Haste to Live
Overview: A single mother in New Mexico senses her own death in the hands of a mysterious stalker.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-03-25
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Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police
Overview: Captain Drummond and his girlfriend want to marry but a hidden treasure in the house in which they want to celebrate their marriage is complicating the situation involving a series of deaths and an elusive murderer.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-29
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Three Girls About Town
Overview: Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician's convention is leaving and the mortician's convention is arriving, and the sisters, with help from manager Wilburforce Puddle, try to hide it. Complicating matters, Hope's boyfriend, Tommy, is a newspaper reporter in the hotel covering some labor negotiations.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-23
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Submarine Raider
Overview: On December 6, 1941, Captain Yamanada of the Japanese aircraft carrier "Hiranamu", orders full steam ahead for Pearl Harbor. His ship encounters and sinks an American yacht and the single survivor, Sue Curry, is rescued by an American submarine, the "Sea Serpent", commanded by Commander Chris Warren. He hears her story and attempts to radio a warning to Pearl Harbor. Yamanada, hearing the signals, orders the airlines jammed, and then sends his son into the air to sink the sub. The attack fails, after the sub makes a crash dive, but they fail in their warning attempts. The next morning, December 7th, the men on the sub hear the story of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and devise a desperate plan to sink the Japanese carrier by letting the carrier know their position. The carrier comes in search of the submarine.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-04
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Bulldog Drummond's Bride
Overview: Hugh “Bulldog” Drummond is on the precipice of matrimony to his beloved Phyllis -- but a bank robbery and a daring escape is going to get in their way before they reach the altar.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-12
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Bulldog Drummond's Revenge
Overview: Captain Drummond is travelling to Switzerland to marry his girlfriend. However, when a cargo containing dangerous explosives goes missing from its place, Drummond is forced to delay his plans.
Genres: Mystery Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-16
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Bulldog Drummond in Africa
Overview: Drummond has to leave for Morocco on his wedding day with his fiancee and trusted friends to rescue his friend Nielsen who is kidnapped by an international criminal.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-05
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Sunday Night at the Trocadero
Overview: A series of vignettes with a loose plot. Featured are Frank Morgan, Groucho Marx, Frank McHugh, Robert Benchley and The Brian Sisters. Not bad, more interesting for the historical significance than for entertainment.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-02
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The Unknown Terror
Overview: A woman leads an expedition into a remote jungle to find her long-lost brother, but instead finds a mad scientist who has created a fungus monster that feeds on the local inhabitants.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-08-12
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Models Inc.
Overview: The wealthy owner of a modeling agency keeps a new student in the high life, unaware that she and a recently released convict share a criminal and personal history.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-19
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Bulldog Drummond's Peril
Overview: Drummond's wedding with Phyllis is interrupted when the inspector guarding their gifts is killed. He tries to trace the killers and uncovers the mystery of diamond counterfeiters.
Genres: Adventure Crime Mystery Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-18
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Green Hell
Overview: A group of adventurers head deep into South American jungle in search of an ancient Incan treasure.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-26
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A Tragedy at Midnight
Overview: The host of a whodunit radio show finds himself involved in his own mystery when he awakens to find a woman with a knife in her back in his bedroom.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-02-02
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The Man from Dakota
Overview: A frontier scout, a Boston officer and a Russian girl escape with a map past Confederates.
Genres: Drama History War Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-16
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Isle of Missing Men
Overview: A young woman receives an invitation from the Governor of an island prison to spend a week with him. She does so, but conceals the fact that her husband is being held as a convict on the island.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-18
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Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 5
Overview: Fifth film in the Hedda Hopper documentary series.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-01
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The Destructors
Overview: Foreign agents are after a substance called "laser rubies" that can power a killer laser beam. Government agents are dispatched to protect the rubies and eliminate the foreign agents.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-05-03
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The Texas Rangers Ride Again
Overview: With thousands of cattle being rustled from White Sage ranch the 1930's Texas Rangers are called in. They manage to get one of their agents into the gang by making them think he is the Pecos Kid on the lam.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-13
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Car 99
Overview: A story of the Michigan State Police and the strong sense of loyalty and duty it instills in its men. It follows the career of a newly-inducted rookie, Ross Martin, who has joined the force at the urging of his sweetheart, Mary Adams. Martin soon distinguishes himself by his bravery in the apprehension of criminals. But when the leader of a gang of bank robbers falls into his hands and then escapes, because of carelessness on Martin's part, he is suspended from the force.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-02
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13 Hours by Air
Overview: Womanizer and airline pilot Jack Gordon must fly the world's fastest airliner from New York to California while dealing with dangerous jewel thieves on the run from the law.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-30
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What a Life
Overview: Jackie Cooper stars in this first film in the wholesome "Henry Aldrich" series of teen comedies.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-05
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Touchdown, Army
Overview: Prep football star Jimmy Howal gets a reception far different from what he expected when he enters West Point.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-04
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Buck and the Preacher
Overview: A wagon master and a con-man preacher help freed slaves dogged by cheap-labor agents out West.
Genres: Action Comedy Western Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-03-17
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Prison Farm
Overview: Shirley Ross plays an innocent young girl convicted for complicity in a crime committed by her boy friend (Lloyd Nolan). The male crook is sentence to six months on a prison farm populated by both men and women (segregated, of course). Ross is also incarcerated, suffering the cruelties of the sadistic male and female guards (including J. Carroll Naish and future "Ma Kettle" Marjorie Main!)
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-17
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Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
Overview: Carrie Snyder is a prostitute, who is forced out of the fictional southern town of Crebillon, after forming a friendship with a young boy named Paul, whose dying mother is unable to protest against her son visiting such a woman. After Carrie has left town Paul runs away from his abusive father, and meets a girl named Lady who has run away from a burning trainwreck, not wanting to go back to the people she was with. Carrie comes back for Paul and ends up taking Paul and Lady to New York with her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-06
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The Man Who Returned to Life
Overview: An accused killer is granted a reprieve when his victim returns to town in the flesh after an eight-year absence.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-02-05
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Grand Jury Secrets
Overview: A newspaper reporter gets involved with shady stock promoters when he listens in on a jury room session.
Genres: Drama Mystery Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-23
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Hold 'Em Navy
Overview: Two football players fight over the same girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-04
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Disputed Passage
Overview: A doctor's medical studies are threatened by his infatuation with a Chinese girl. The girl returns to China, but complications ensue when she runs into him in Nanking during a Japanese bombing raid.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-25
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Annapolis Farewell
Overview: Commodore Fitzhugh, an old retired naval officer, lives at the Annapolis Naval Academy and, unhappy with the "modern" navy, likes to talk about his days in the "old" navy, especially about his part in the Battle of Manila Bay under Adm. Dewey during the Spanish-American War, when he commanded the USS Congress. That ship, now decommissioned and docked in Annapolis harbor, is--unknown to Fitzhugh--about to be towed out to sea to be used for target practice. When Fitzhugh finds this out, he sets out to either save his beloved vessel or "go down with his ship".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-23
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Soak the Rich
Overview: Tycoon Humphrey Craig is fearful that a "soak the rich" bill will pass in the United States Senate.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-17
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Millions in the Air
Overview: The daughter of a radio-program sponsor wants to get on the air too, but her father doesn't allow it, so she enters an amateur contest on his radio program under an assumed name.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-12
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Tight Shoes
Overview: A crook with big feet buys shoes that are too tight from a salesman, then decides to use the store as a front for illegal gambling.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-13
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Let Them Live
Overview: A young man goes up against a crooked town boss.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-25
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Easy to Take
Overview: To boost the ratings of a kiddie show, the host agrees to take guardianship of of a bratty boy who has a lovely older sister.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-06
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Moochie of Pop Warner Football
Overview: Moochie joins a Pop Warner Football team, but has troubles with the mayor’s son. When the two make amends, they help the team win and go to the Disneyland Bowl, and get to enjoy a visit to the park.
Genres: Family
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-11-20
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Hitting a New High
Overview: A Paris cabaret singer dreams of becoming a Metropolitan Opera singer. A press agent arranges her Manhattan debut by way of Africa.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-24
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Mountain Music
Overview: Mary Beamish, a folksy Ozark girl, yearns for the glitter of show business and for a man. She knows she is anything but gorgeous, but figures her enthusiasm offsets that small deficit.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-18
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Border Flight
Overview: Frances Farmer's second film is a typical B-programmer from the Paramount lot of 1936--up and coming stars (John Howard, Robert Cummings, Grant Withers, Farmer) in a concerning the Coast Guard and smugglers. The chief points of interest are the truly exceptional aerial sequences and Farmer's early performance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-29
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My Boys Are Good Boys
Overview: Teenagers at a correctional facility devise a plan to rob an armored van.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Penitentiary
Overview: The story of a D.A. who becomes a prison warden and winds up overseeing the sentence of a man he prosecuted.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-05
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