
John Larch
Born October 4, 1914 · Salem, Massachusetts, USA
John Larch (October 4, 1914 - October 16, 2005) was an American film and television actor. After his lead role in the radio serial Captain Starr of Space (1953–54), John Larch entered films in 1954. He usually appeared in westerns (How The West Was Won) and action films, including Miracle of the White Stallions as General George S. Patton Jr. (1963), Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur as General Omar Bradley (1976), replacing James Gregory as Mac in the Matt Helm movie The Wrecking Crew (1969) starring Dean Martin, Sharon Tate and Elke Sommer. Larch, an old friend of Clint Eastwood, appeared in Eastwood films, including Dirty Harry (1971) and Play Misty for Me (1971). He also appeared on a number of television programs, including Naked City (three episodes), Route 66 (three episodes), The Fugitive (two episodes), The Invaders, The Restless Gun (four episodes), Gunsmoke (seven episodes), The Virginian (four episodes), Bonanza, Hawaii Five-0, Mission Impossible (two episodes), The Troubleshooters, Bus Stop, Laramie, The Law and Mr. Jones, and possibly most famously as Bill Mumy's father in The Twilight Zone episode "It's a Good Life" in 1961. He also appeared in two other The Twilight Zone episodes, playing a psychiatrist in "Perchance to Dream" and the sheriff in "Dust". Description above from the Wikipedia article John Larch, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Notable Appearances
Movies

Dirty Harry

How the West Was Won

Airplane II: The Sequel

The Amityville Horror

Play Misty for Me

Written on the Wind

The Wrecking Crew

Man from Del Rio

7 Men from Now

From Hell to Texas

5 Against the House

The Saga of Hemp Brown

Miracle of the White Stallions

Gun for a Coward

Cannon for Cordoba

The Great Bank Robbery

The Phenix City Story

A Fire in the Sky

Ellery Queen: Too Many Suspects

Man in the Shadow

The Killer Is Loose

The Naked Street

Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur

This Is My Love

Quantez

Bad Ronald

Hell to Eternity

Winter Kill

Tight Spot

Behind the High Wall

Stampede at Bitter Creek

Illegal

Santee

Framed

Hail, Hero!

Magic Carpet

Moby Dick

The City

Bitter Creek

Future Cop

The McConnell Story

Women in Chains

Seven Angry Men

Move

The Careless Years

The Chadwick Family

The Desperate Miles

Pages of Death
TV Shows

Quincy, M.E.

The Fugitive

Wagon Train

Mission: Impossible

Have Gun, Will Travel

Dynasty

Little House on the Prairie

Dr. Kildare

Climax!

The F.B.I.

The Twilight Zone

The Rifleman

The Six Million Dollar Man

Four Star Playhouse

The Virginian

Cannon

The Untouchables

Simon & Simon

Charlie's Angels

Naked City

Daniel Boone

Ben Casey

Dragnet

Route 66

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

Police Woman

Wanted: Dead or Alive

Rawhide

Gunsmoke

The Invaders

Bat Masterson

Switch

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

The Streets of San Francisco

Adventures in Paradise

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

Vega$

Police Story

Judd, for the Defense

The Texan

Felony Squad

Alias Smith and Jones

Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law

Laramie

The Millionaire

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

Arrest and Trial

Studio 57
More TV Shows

Black Saddle

Public Defender

Outlaws

Telephone Time

Yancy Derringer

Law of the Plainsman

Cain's Hundred

Stoney Burke

You Are There

Johnny Ringo

The New Breed

Bronk

The Dick Powell Show

Tightrope

Bus Stop

Nanny and the Professor

The Lone Wolf

The Restless Gun

The Wonderful World of Disney

Letter to Loretta

The Walter Winchell File

I Led Three Lives

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Space Patrol

Wichita Town

Hawkins

Lucan

Jefferson Drum

The Troubleshooters

Big Shamus, Little Shamus

Big Hawaii

Kingston: Confidential

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

The Feather And Father Gang




