Acting

Dan Sheridan

Born 1916-09-03 · Athlone, County Westmeath, Ireland

An actor on the big and small screen, Sheridan is probably best known for his roles in early westerns, with his best known work being Lawman on ABC.

Acting credits

The Left Handed Gun poster
6.0

When a crooked sheriff murders his employer, William "Billy the Kid" Bonney decides to avenge the death by killing the man responsible, throwing the lives of everyone around him into turmoil, and endangering the General Amnesty set up by Governor Wallace to bring peace to the New Mexico Territory.

The Left Handed Gun

1958

Confidential Agent poster
5.5

During the Spanish Civil War, an agent on a mission to purchase coal meets with murder and counterspies.

Confidential Agent

1945

Lonely are the Brave poster
7.4

A fiercely independent cowboy arranges to have himself locked up in jail in order to then escape with an old friend who has been sentenced to the penitentiary.

Lonely are the Brave

1962

Cry of the City poster
6.7

Petty crook and cop-killer Martin Rome, in bad shape from wounds in the hospital prison ward, still refuses to help slimy lawyer Niles clear his client by confessing to another crime. Police Lt. Candella must check Niles' allegation; a friend of the Rome family, he walks a tightrope between sentiment and cynicism. When Martin fears Candella will implicate his girlfriend Teena, he'll do anything to protect her. How many others will he drag down to disaster with him?

Cry of the City

1948

The Street with No Name poster
6.4

After two gang-related killings in "Center City," a suspect (who was framed) is arrested, released on bail...and murdered. Inspector Briggs of the FBI recruits a young agent, Gene Cordell, to go undercover in the shadowy Skid Row area (alias George Manly) as a potential victim of the same racket. Soon, Gene meets Alec Stiles, neurotic mastermind who's "building an organization along scientific lines." Stiles recruits Cordell, whose job becomes a lot more dangerous.

The Street with No Name

1948

I Want to Live! poster
7.0

Brazen perpetual offender Barbara Graham tries to go straight but she finds herself implicated in a murder and sent to death row.

I Want to Live!

1958

Day of the Outlaw poster
6.8

Blaise Starrett is a rancher at odds with homesteaders when outlaws hold up the small town. The outlaws are held in check only by their notorious leader, but he is diagnosed with a fatal wound and the town is a powder keg waiting to blow.

Day of the Outlaw

1959

Home from the Hill poster
6.9

The wealthiest man in a Texas town decides to teach his teenage son how to hunt to make a man out of him.

Home from the Hill

1960

The Great Impostor poster
6.9

Fictionalized account of Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr., who stole or created fictional identities and worked in a variety of occupations, most quite successfully.

The Great Impostor

1960

Ten Who Dared poster
6.0

The John Wesley Powell expedition of 1869 explores the dangerous Colorado River, withstands internal dissension, and finally discovers the Grand Canyon.

Ten Who Dared

1960

Cloak and Dagger poster
6.5

Italian partisans help a professor sent by the OSS to find an atomic scientist held by Nazis.

Cloak and Dagger

1946

King of the Wild Stallions poster
6.8

A wild stallion provides unexpected help to a widow and her young son in their efforts to keep their ranch.

King of the Wild Stallions

1959

Black Patch poster
5.9

A New Mexico Town Marshal, Clay Morgan, known as 'Black Patch' since he had lost an eye in the Civil War, takes his job seriously, especially after an old friend, Hank Danner, arrives in ...

Black Patch

1957

Bullwhip poster
4.9

In order to avoid the hangman's noose, a cowboy agrees to marry a beautiful but fiery redhead.

Bullwhip

1958

Thunder in the Valley poster
8.3

The popular Alfred Ollivant novel "Bob, Son of Battle" is the source for this drama about sheep dogs in the Scottish highlands, filmed in mountains in Utah’s Garfield County. Gwenn is a crusty shepherd whose struggling relationship with his son McCallister is complicated by a predatory animal that is attacking the flocks of local shepherds.

Thunder in the Valley

1947

Hell's Five Hours poster
6.3

The manager (Stephen McNally) of a rocket-fuel plant deals with a worker (Vic Morrow) threatening to blow himself up.

Hell's Five Hours

1958

Cole Younger, Gunfighter poster
6.6

An outlaw must decide whether to stick his neck out for an innocent man.

Cole Younger, Gunfighter

1958

The Young Captives poster
7.0

Two high-school teenagers on their way to Mexico to get married cross paths with a homicidal fugitive.

The Young Captives

1959

California Firebrand poster
5.5

Directed by Philip Ford in 1948. When cowboy Monte Hale (Monte Hale) returns home to investigate his uncle's murder, he's mistaken for a fierce outlaw and is hired by the town's corrupt mayor, Lance Dawson (Douglas Evans), as the new sheriff. But Monte secretly works to undermine Dawson's land-grabbing schemes. Monte defends the feisty owner (Lorna Gray) of a gold mine that Dawson covets, although she is suspicious of the cowpoke's loyalties and demands that he prove himself.

California Firebrand

1948

Return to Warbow poster
5.9

Three escaped prisoners return to the site of a robbery to find the stolen money that was never recovered. Western.

Return to Warbow

1958

Horsemen of the Sierras poster
7.0

When Robin Grant inherits a valuable range, certain evil interests try their best to kill off Robin and claim the land for themselves. US Marshall Steve Saunders comes to the boy's rescue.

Horsemen of the Sierras

1949