John Lupton
Also Known As: John Rollin Lupton
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. John Rollin Lupton (August 23, 1928 - November 3, 1993) was an American film and television actor. Upon graduation from New York's American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Lupton secured immediate stage work. Then he was signed as a contract player at MGM in Hollywood. Lupton was lanky and handsome like James Stewart or Henry Fonda, but never achieved similar fame. In the 1954-1955 television season, Lupton appeared in several episodes as a college student in the CBS sitcom, The Halls of Ivy. In 1957, he was cast in the ABC western series, Broken Arrow, which ran for two seasons. In feature films he is primarily remembered for his role as "Sister Mary" in Battle Cry and Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter. Lupton also co-starred in 1956 with Fess Parker in Disney's The Great Locomotive Chase. He guest starred on several television series, including ABC's 1961-1962 crime drama Target: The Corruptors! with Stephen McNally and NBC's Daniel Boone. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Lupton, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Highland Park, Illinois, United States
Birthday: August 23, 1928
Deathday: November 03, 1993
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Gender: Male
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Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter
Overview: Dr. Frankenstein's Granddaughter Maria, and her brother assistant Rudolph, moved to the old west because the lightning storms there are more frequent and intense, which allows them to work on the experiments of their grandfather. But the experiments are failing and Rudolph's been secretly killing the corpses afterwards. Meanwhile, the Lopez family leaves the town because of the evil going on there
Genres: Crime Horror Science Fiction Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-04-09
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The Greatest Story Ever Told
Overview: From his birth in Bethlehem to his death and eventual resurrection, the life of Jesus Christ is given the all-star treatment in this epic retelling. Major aspects of Christ's life are touched upon, including the execution of all the newborn males in Egypt by King Herod; Christ's baptism by John the Baptist; and the betrayal by Judas after the Last Supper that eventually leads to Christ's crucifixion and miraculous return.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-04-09
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Doctors' Private Lives
Overview: Two heart surgeons clash over personal issues and medical ethics in a big-city hospital.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-03-20
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Julius Caesar
Overview: The assassination of the would be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic consequences for the idealist and the republic.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-06-04
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Dragonfly Squadron
Overview: A Korean War film with a secondary plot of the training of South Korean pilots, to fly fighters in air defense, by American Air Force instructors,led by Major Brady, a famed and skilled-but-grounded pilot, assigned to the Kongku base.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-03-21
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Man with the Gun
Overview: A stranger comes to town looking for his estranged wife. He finds her running the local girls. He also finds a town and sheriff afraid of their own shadow, scared of a landowner they never see who rules through his rowdy sidekicks. The stranger is a town tamer by trade, and he accepts a $500 commission to sort things out.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-11-05
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The Great Locomotive Chase
Overview: During the Civil War, a Union spy, Andrews, is asked to lead a band of Union soldiers into the South so that they could destroy the railway system. However, things don't go as planned when the conductor of the train that they stole is on to them and is doing everything he can to stop them. Based on a true story.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Family War Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-06-08
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The Slams
Overview: Rival prison factions surround a Los Angeles convict who has $1.5 million stashed on the outside.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-09-26
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The Man in the Net
Overview: An artist living in a quiet Connecticut town is the main suspect in the disappearance of his shrew wife. Things turn ugly when the townsfolk attempt to take the law into their own hands.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-06-10
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The Judge and Jake Wyler
Overview: A retired lady judge runs a private detective agency with a charming ex-con as her leg man and various parolees helping in the day-to-day operation.
Genres: Mystery Crime Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-12-02
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All the Brothers Were Valiant
Overview: In the South Pacific islands, two brothers, one good and one bad, fight over the same girl and over a bag of pearls.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-11-13
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The Band Wagon
Overview: A Broadway artiste turns a faded film star's comeback vehicle into an artsy flop.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-07
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Drango
Overview: A few months after the end of the civil war, Major Drango is sent as military governor in a southern small town, whose citizens he must face the obstility.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-01-01
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The Rebel Set
Overview: Three beatniks are brought together to rob an armored car, only to face betrayal from amongst their ranks.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-06-28
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Gun Fever
Overview: Luke Ram seeks revenge against the white renegade who lead a Sioux raiding party against his father's stagecoach way station, killing all the inhabitants except himself. He's joined by his mining partner, young Sam Weller, not realizing that they man they seek is Weller's father, in whose gang Sam rode as a young man.
Genres: Western Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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Three Came to Kill
Overview: Assassins take a flight controller's family hostage to force him into revealing the aircraft carrying their quarry.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-03-01
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The Astronaut
Overview: An elaborate deception emerges when an American astronaut is lost on a mission to Mars. Space agency officials fearful of losing public support and government funding decide to cover up the accident by employing an exact double for the lost astronaut. The ruse begins to unravel when the wife of the lost astronaut realizes she is living with a different man. Although angered by the deception, the woman has fallen in love with the replacement and plans to keep the secret. They both have a change of heart and decide to reveal the secret when they discover a new Mars mission is underway.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-08
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The Clown and the Kid
Overview: The Clown and the Kid is a 1961 film. When Moko the Clown (Don Keefer) passes away, his newly orphaned son Shawn (Michael McGreevey) takes up with mysterious wanderer Peter (John Lupton), and the two strangers become close friends and partners until a closely guarded secret rips them apart.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-27
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Glory
Overview: A lovesick girl and her grandfather groom their filly for the Kentucky Derby.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-01-11
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Diane
Overview: Asked by Francis I to tutor his son, Diane de Poitiers becomes the future King Henry II's mistress in 1500s France.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-01-12
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Prisoner of War
Overview: American soldiers, captured by North Korean's, are periodically brainwashed into giving up their capitalist ways to join the communist movement.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-05-04
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Scandal at Scourie
Overview: After their orphanage burns down, a group of children are being transported west by train to Manitoba. All of them are available for adoption and at a stop at Scourie, Ontario little Patsy meets Victoria McChesney. Victoria and her husband Patrick have no children and she immediately decides to adopt the girl. The only condition imposed on them is that as Patsy has been baptized a Roman Catholic the Protestant McChesneys agree to raise her as a Catholic. Patsy is a well-behaved little girl whose only real problem is a school bully, also one of the orphans, who spreads stories that she set their orphanage on fire.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-17
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Blood and Steel
Overview: Native girl helps US Seabees free her villagers from Japanese troops.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-12-04
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Escape from Fort Bravo
Overview: A Southern belle frees a Rebel officer and his men from a Union captain's Arizona fort.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-12-04
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Trouble in High Timber Country
Overview: A proud patriarch battles union organizers and a powerful conglomerate threatening the family-owned lumber and mining operation which he runs with his three sons, his daughter and his nephew in this pilot film to "The Yeagers" TV series that actually ended months before it aired.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-06-27
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The Whiz Kid and the Carnival Caper
Overview: Daffy Fernald loses her brother's toy rocket when it flies into a storm drain. She knows Alvin will be upset if he finds out, so she climbs into the dark tunnel to search for it. She spots a stranger, Ernie Nelson, and sees that he's carying a gun. She races home and tells Alvin, but the would-be inventor refuses to believe her.
Genres: Family Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-01-11
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Sidney Shorr: A Girl's Best Friend
Overview: A lonely, gay, middle-aged artist shares his Manhattan brownstone with a young lady in a platonic relationship, and when she becomes pregnant by a married man, he decides to raise her child as his own.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-05
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Hit Man
Overview: Bernie Casey portrays Tyrone and Pamela Grier plays a sultry skin-flick star in this first Americanized remake of the iconic Michael Caine action film Get Carter. From Watts to the West Side, from porno parlors to a high-rise, from motel dives to a crime kingpin’s sprawling pleasure dome, from corner hangouts to a wildlife preserve, Tyrone covers a lot of real estate, busts a lot of heads.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-12-20
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Rogue's March
Overview: After being unjustly accused of spying, a British officer tries to redeem himself in India.
Genres: Drama War Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-02-13
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The Story of Three Loves
Overview: Passengers on an ocean liner recall their greatest loves.
Genres: Drama Romance Fantasy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-03-26
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The Secret of Lost Valley
Overview: While on a family outing, a boy, Adam, gets lost in the forest and discovers a wild boy there. Communicating by sign language, they become friends. When the wild boy is captured by scientists, Adam helps him escape.
Genres: Adventure Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-04-27
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The Phantom of Hollywood
Overview: The internationally famous Worldwide Studios has hit hard times and is forced to sell its Hollywood backlot to property developers. The trouble is someone keeps killing off the site surveyors. The studio chiefs then learn of the legend of a masked man who lives on the lot and is sworn to protect it from harm.
Genres: Horror Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-02-12
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Miracle on Ice
Overview: The story of the 1980 United States Olympic hockey players, a group of amateurs from around the country who were whipped into a cohesive unit by controversial coach Herb Brooks to win a gold medal at Lake Placid during the winter games.
Genres: Action Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-03-01
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Battle Cry
Overview: The dramatic story of US Marines in training, in combat, and in love, during World War II. The story centers on a major who guides the raw recruits from their training to combat.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-02-02
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The World's Greatest Athlete
Overview: Stuck with a feeble sports department, college coach Sam Archer (John Amos) faces the ax unless he can reverse the school's athletic fortunes. An African vacation with his assistant (Tim Conway) answers Archer's prayers when he spots the athletically gifted Nanu (Jan-Michael Vincent). Sam counts on Nanu's remarkable abilities to put the team back on the winning track. This upbeat farce boasts an impressive cast of comedians.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-02-14
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Red River
Overview: Remake of the 1948 John Wayne feature about a man who rebels against his tyrannical guardian during a crucial cattle drive.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-04-10
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The Day of the Wolves
Overview: A group of six thieves selected from different areas are sent a letter that promises them a minimum of $50,000 and includes a plane ticket. The letter instructs them to grow a beard. After being given a blindfolded ride from the airport, they arrive at a ghost town and meet with the boss (Number #1, Jan Murray). All of the "Wolves" are assigned a number, wear identical overalls and instructed never to take off the gloves that they are given. They are only to address eachother by their numbers; in that way, if one is caught, he can't rat-out the others. Number #1 reveals to them that they will take over a town, and clean it out. Using the ghost town for training, they develop their tactics to fleece the town.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-11-01
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Shadow in the Sky
Overview: Burt, a Marine suffering from Battle Fatigue, is deathly afraid of rain and confined to an asylum, but showing improvement. He wants to live with his sister's family, but they have young children.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-07-18
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The Devil's Bedroom
Overview: Misunderstanding and small town prejudice lead to the tragic persecution of an ordinary local man who is a "loner".
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-09-01
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All My Darling Daughters
Overview: A judge has to deal with his four daughters, his four future sons-in-law and four weddings all on the same day.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-11-22
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The Young Runaways
Overview: Heartless parents C.L. Doyle and his wife take two of their older children, Rosebud & Joseph T. Doyle, on a family vacation to Alaska, but dump their younger ones, Freddy & Margaret Jean, in a Los Angeles foster home. Infuriated by this, Rosebud talks Joseph T. into running away with her so that they can break their younger siblings out of the system, which sparks a manhunt, and an outburst of sympathy among kids everywhere.
Genres: Adventure Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-05-28
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Taming Sutton’s Gal
Overview: John Lupton portrays a vacationing city-boy who takes a room in a remote hunting lodge. He soon finds himself in a lick of hillbilly trouble when he catches the eye of a moonshiner's meretricious wife. Low budget "white lightnin'" dramedy released to scant notice in 1957.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-09-15
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Airport 1975
Overview: When an in-flight collision incapacitates the pilots of an airplane bound for Los Angeles, stewardess Nancy Pryor is forced to take over the controls. From the ground, her boyfriend Alan Murdock, a retired test pilot, tries to talk her through piloting and landing the 747 aircraft. Worse yet, the anxious passengers — among which are a noisy nun and a cranky man — are aggravating the already tense atmosphere.
Genres: Drama Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-10-18
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Private Parts
Overview: In the sleaziest corner of Los Angeles, the King Edward Hotel has a new arrival in the form of Cheryl, a runaway teen. She's hoping to put her life back together but somewhere in the musty halls of the King Edward lurks another guest — who just loves to chop people apart!
Genres: Comedy Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-09-01
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Behind the Scenes with Fess Parker
Overview: Fess Parker heads to the set of The Great Locomotive Chase in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Genres: TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-05-30
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