Jim Bannon
Also Known As: John Bannon
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jim Bannon (April 9, 1911 - July 28, 1984) was an actor in radio and Hollywood western films during the 1940s and 1950s. He is best remembered as the fourth cinema Red Ryder from 1949 - 1950. He appeared in numerous western television series, including the 1958 episode "Attack" of Richard Carlson's Mackenzie's Raiders. Bannon was also the first husband of American actor and comedian Bea Benaderet. Their son, Jack Bannon, was a regular on the CBS drama series, Lou Grant, starring Ed Asner. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jim Bannon, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.
Birthday: April 09, 1911
Deathday: July 28, 1984
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Gender: Male
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The Thirteenth Hour
Overview: In this drama, a trucker's business is nearly destroyed after he is wrongfully accused of killing a policeman with whom he recently quarreled.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-06
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Unknown World
Overview: With the cyclotram, an atomic-powered rock-boring vehicle, Dr. Jerimiah Morley leads an expedition into a subterranean world.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-26
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The Missing Juror
Overview: A newsman tracks down a phantom killer of murder-trial jurors.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-16
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Framed
Overview: Truck driver Mike Lambert is a down-and-out mining engineer searching for a job. When his rig breaks down in a small town, he happens upon a venomous seductress. When her boyfriend robs a bank, they intend to frame Lambert.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-05-25
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The Man from Colorado
Overview: Two friends return home after their discharge from the army after the Civil War. However, one of them has had deep-rooted psychological damage due to his experiences during the war, and as his behavior becomes more erratic--and violent--his friend desperately tries to find a way to help him.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-08-07
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Tonight and Every Night
Overview: An American girl falls for an RAF pilot while performing at a British music hall.
Genres: Music Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-09
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The Soul of a Monster
Overview: A man recovers on his death bed after his wife makes a mysterious pact with a strange woman. But is he really alive?
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-08-17
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Dangers of the Canadian Mounted
Overview: Crooks discover a Genghis Khan treasure ship on the Canada-Alaska border but the treasure is hidden somewhere on land. In their efforts to find the hidden treasure they resort to murder and sabotage to stop the construction of the Alcan highway which will bring homesteaders to the area. Sergeant Royal of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police battles through 12 episodes to find the crooks and to learn the identity of their mysterious leader known only as 'The Boss'.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-01-01
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The Devil's Mask
Overview: A San Francisco airplane bound for South America crashes, and among the scorched debris is found a shrunken native human head, neatly packaged. The perplexed police contact a local anthropology museum about this unclaimed piece of grisly baggage, where they intersect with Jack and Doc, two private eyes, called there to meet a mysterious woman who had a case for them and wanted to meet in private.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-23
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The Unknown
Overview: "The Unknown" was the final entry in Columbia’s I Love A Mystery series. A woman hires two detectives to keep her alive long enough to claim her inheritance.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-04
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I Love a Mystery
Overview: In San Francisco, detective partners Jack Packard and Doc Long are hired by socialite Jefferson Monk who believes someone is following him with the aim to kill him.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-25
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Johnny O'Clock
Overview: When an employee at an illegal gambling den dies suspiciously, her sister, Nancy, looks into the situation and falls for Johnny O'Clock, a suave partner in the underground casino. Selfish and non-committal by nature, Johnny slowly begins to return Nancy's affection and decides to run away with her, but conflict within his business threatens their plans. As Johnny tries to distance himself from the casino, his shady past comes back to haunt him.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-01-07
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A Gathering of Eagles
Overview: Rock Hudson plays an Air Force Colonel who has just been re-assigned as a cold war B-52 commander who must shape up his men to pass a grueling inspection that the previous commander had failed, and had been fired for. He is also recently married, and as a tough commanding officer doing whatever he has to do to shape his men up, his wife sees a side to him that she hadn't seen before.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-06-21
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The Corpse Came C.O.D.
Overview: Rival reporters (George Brent, Joan Blondell) investigate a Hollywood star (Adele Jergens) and the box she receives with a dead man inside.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-02
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The Texas Rangers
Overview: It's 1874 and the Texas Rangers have been reorganized. But Sam Bass has assembled a group of notorious outlaws into a gang the Rangers are unable to cope with. So the Ranger Major releases two men from prison who are familiar with the movements and locations used by Bass and his men and sends them out to find him.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-06-03
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The Fighting Redhead
Overview: Red Ryder gets a telegram from his old friend Dan O'Connor asking for help in his fight against Faro Savage and his gang of rustlers. A gun dropped by Faro during a rustling raid makes Red and Sheila O'Connor, Dan's daughter, think they have ample proof against Faro but they are stymied by the law. Buckskin Blodgett and the Duchess, Red's aunt, find the body of O'Connor who was killed when Faro's men sent the sheriff out on a ruse. Sheila, discovered while rifling Faros office for evidence, escapes but not before she is recognized. Faro kills one of his own henchmen and then frames Sheila for the murder. Red and Little Beaver set out to clear Sheila and to try to find evidence against Faro and his gang. Written by Les Adams
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-05
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Chicago Confidential
Overview: In the Windy City, the mob infiltrates a powerful union.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-08-30
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Jack Slade
Overview: A young boy witnesses his father murdered by bandits and grows into adulthood vowing revenge.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-11-08
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Miraculous Journey
Overview: The passengers and crew of an airplane are stranded in an unfamiliar jungle. Unknown to most of the survivors is a criminal among them who caused the crash.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-17
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Renegades
Overview: The daughter of a prominent citizen marries an outlaw's son.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-06-13
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Rodeo
Overview: Nancy Cartwright is determined to collect an $1,800 feed bill owed to her father Harry Cartwright by a rodeo association. Instead, she is talked into assuming management of the rodeo by Slim Martin and the other performers when they learn the promoter has run off with the cash receipts.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-03-09
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War Arrow
Overview: A thrilling Cavalry-versus-Indians adventure starring Jeff Chandler as an Army official recruiting Seminole allies, against his superior's wishes, to stop a planned Kiowa attack.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-12-26
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Daughter of the Jungle
Overview: An airplane carrying a pair of police officers escorting gangsters to prison crash-lands in the African jungle. They are rescued from an attack by savage natives by a white woman who appears out of nowhere, and it turns out she is a lost heiress who herself crash-landed in the jungle years before.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-08
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No Time at All
Overview: An airliner flying nonstop at night from Miami to New York fails to check in, then disappears from radar. We see how its disappearance affects people on the ground.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-02-13
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Canyon Raiders
Overview: Whip Wilson only gets to crack his trademark weapon once in this economic Western filmed in toto at the Iverson Movie Ranch in Chatsworth, CA. A government agent, Wilson arrives in the near ghost town of Tunis, where his friend is in trouble with a couple of horse thieves. The latter are also terrorizing a homesteader, Texas Milburn, and his wife, Ruth, and when the female sheriff Alice Long interferes, she finds herself taken hostage.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-07
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Trail to Laredo
Overview: Filmed at the Providencia Ranch (today's Forrest Lawn in Burbank, CA), this typical "Durango Kid" Western featured the Cass County Boys performing "Go West Young Lady" by Sammy Cahn and Saul Chaplin, in addition to series regular Smiley Burnette singing his own "It's My Turn" and "The Yodeler. This time, the Durango Kid (Charles Starrett) is chasing down a gang of outlaws shipping stolen gold in crates marked "ring bolts," ably assisted by Smiley, a treasury agent working undercover as a house painter. Virginia Maxey supplies female interest and little Tommy Ivo, in one of his six appearances in the Durango Kid series, also gets in the way of the action.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-08-11
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Roll, Thunder, Roll!
Overview: Jim Bannon is back as enduring cowboy hero Red Ryder in Eagle-Lion's Roll, Thunder, Roll. As ever, Ryder's cohorts are Little Beaver and the Duchess, here played by "Little Brown Jug" and Marin Sais. This time, Ryder tries to prove that a series of cattle raids and ranch fires were not the handiwork of masked Mexican do-gooder El Conejo.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-08-26
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Frontier Revenge
Overview: Marshals Lash and Fuzzy are sent to get the goods on Duce Rago. To join Rago's gang, Lash decides to pose as an outlaw by wearing the known belt buckle of a notorious outlaw.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-26
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Cowboy and the Prizefighter
Overview: Red Ryder KO's a fight racket with sidekick Little Beaver (Little Brown Jug) and a new friend.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-14
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Confederate Honey
Overview: Nett Cutler (Elmer Fudd) romances Crimson O'Hairoil in this send-up of Gone With the Wind (1939).
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-29
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Ride, Ryder, Ride!
Overview: Riding the plains with Little Beaver and Buckskin Blodgett, Red Ryder encounters bandits trying to hold up the stagecoach carrying Libby Brooks, owner of the Devil's Hole newspaper
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-02
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Sergeant Mike
Overview: A soldier becomes quite upset when he is transferred from the highly coveted machine-gun unit to the canine corps. He begins to change his opinion when he learns that his army dog Mike was a gift from an eight-year-old whose father was killed in the war. Now the soldier becomes committed to training Mike into the best army dog there ever was.
Genres: War Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-09
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The Great Jesse James Raid
Overview: The famed outlaw is talked into saddling up for one more bank robbery.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-07-17
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Nevada Badmen
Overview: The "badmen" of the title in this average western from Monogram are Waller, a greedy express agent and Banker Jensen, who conspire to separate Bob Bannon from the gold found on his property. Bob's brother Jim and his two pals Whip Wilson and Texas arrive too late to save Bob from the bad guys. Hoping to flush out the killer, Whip arranges to auction off the property.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-05-27
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Ridin' the Outlaw Trail
Overview: Charles Starrett plays lawman Steve Forsythe in Ridin' the Outlaw Trail. Somewhere along the line, of course, Steve is obliged to don the mask of The Durango Kid, mysterious righter of wrongs. The "wrongs" in this instance include the theft of $20,000 in gold, and the "kidnapping" of a blacksmith's forge! Jim Bannon, who only a few months earlier had played the heroic Red Ryder, provides the villainy in this fast-paced "Durango Kid" entry
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-02-23
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They Came to Cordura
Overview: An army major, himself guilty of cowardice, is asked to recommended soldiers for the Congressional Medal of Honor during the Mexican Border Incursion of 1916.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-06-01
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Out of the Depths
Overview: Told in flashback, Out of the Depths strives to explain why its four male protagonists are bobbing around the Pacific in a lifeboat. The story proper begins as Captain Faversham (Jim Bannon) and his crew embark upon a secret mission which takes them into Japanese waters. The plan is to prevent a kamikaze attack against the American invading forces. Compelling in itself, the plotline isn't improved by arbitrary doses of misfire pathos and comedy relief. One of the sailors is played by Ken Curtis, later to gain TV fame as Festus on Gunsmoke.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-12-27
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Lawless Cowboys
Overview: Monogram's Whip Wilson western series was in its final year of existence when Lawless Cowboys hit the screen. Set in the contemporary West, the film casts Wilson as a Texas Ranger on the trail of a crooked gambling ring.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-07
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Jiggs and Maggie Out West
Overview: Monogram's Bringing Up Father series, based on the popular comic strip by George McManus, hit a high point of sorts with 1950's Jiggs and Maggie Out West. Joe Yule Sr. (Mickey Rooney's father) and Rene Riano are perfectly cast as nouveau riche Jiggs and Maggie, who head thataway when Maggie inherits a goldmine. As usual, Maggie spends her time trying to climb the frontier social ladder, while down-to-earth Jiggs is more interested in finding a plate of corned beef and cabbage.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-04-23
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Sierra Passage
Overview: When young Johnny York witnesses the murder of his father, he joins a travelling variety troupe and trains up as a sharpshooter so he might one day get his revenge.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-31
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Stagecoach Driver
Overview: Jim Bannon and his partner own a stagecoach line. With the coming of the telegraph and the end of the Pony Express, two men plot to take over and get the new mail contract. When Jim's partner is murdered and Jim's name is written in the sand beside the body, Jim is arrested. At his trial Whip brings surprising evidence that clears Jim and the two plotters are soon arrested.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-07-15
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Wanted: Dead or Alive
Overview: Taggart and his men are breaking wanted outlaws out of jail and then killing them for the reward money. Marshal's Whip, Jim, and Texas have a plan to trap the gang. Whip poses as a wanted outlaw while Jim joins Taggart's gang and helps break him out. But there is trouble when gang member Mike, wanting a bigger cut, double-crosses everyone.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-02
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T-Men
Overview: Two U.S. Treasury ("T-men") agents go undercover in Detroit, and then Los Angeles, in an attempt to break a U.S. currency counterfeiting ring.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-15
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Phantom from Space
Overview: After a UFO sighting, a mysterious phantom in a bizarre outfit starts attacking people in San Fernando Valley.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-15
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I Married Adventure
Overview: A 1940 Columbia Picture feature film, "I Married Adventure" stars Osa Johnson and closely follows her 1940 best-selling book of the same name. Osa portrays herself in studio-produced scenes which bridge the transition between actual documentary footage segments as the film recounts the Johnson's nine world expeditions to Africa, Borneo, and the South Seas. Jim Bannon, a Hollywod stuntman who lent his voice to many western's including Red Ryder, Don Clark, and Albert Duffy narrate this adventure classic that compiles the very best images from the Johnsons' original feature films.
Genres: Documentary Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-24
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It's Murder
Overview: Documentary short film explaining the need for secrecy in the exchange of sensitive government information, so as to prevent sabotage or subversion of the American war effort.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-10-12
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The Gay Senorita
Overview: Romance with a lovely senorita convinces a contractor to abandon his plans to take over a Mexican housing district.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-08-08
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Man's Favorite Sport?
Overview: Roger Willoughby is a renowned fishing expert, who, unbeknownst to his friends, co-workers, or boss, has never cast a line in his life. One day, he crosses paths with Abigail Paige, a sweetly annoying girl who has just badgered his boss into signing Roger up for an annual fishing tournament.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-31
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Good Neighbor Sam
Overview: To help his divorced neighbor claim a substantial inheritance, a family man poses as her husband. The ruse spills over into his career in advertising, and his recent promotion relies on his wholesome and moral appearance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-07-22
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