
Acting
John Garfield
Born — Died
1913-03-04 — 1952-05-21
Place of birth
Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Known for
Acting
Credits
50 titles
John Garfield (born Jacob Julius Garfinkle; March 4, 1913 – May 21, 1952) was an American actor who played brooding, rebellious, working-class characters. He grew up in poverty in Depression-era New York City. In the early 1930s, he became a member of the Group Theater. In 1937, he moved to Hollywood, eventually becoming one of Warner Bros.' stars. Called to testify before the U.S. Congressional House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC), he denied communist affiliation and refused to "name names", effectively ending his film career. Some have alleged that the stress of this incident led to his premature death at 39 from a heart attack. Garfield is acknowledged as a predecessor of such…
Known for
6.8The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
7.0A magazine writer poses as a Jew to expose anti-Semitism.
Gentleman's Agreement
1947
7.0A classical musician from a working class background is sidetracked by his love for a wealthy, neurotic socialite.
Humoresque
1947
6.4A con artist falls for the rich widow he's trying to fleece.
Nobody Lives Forever
1946
7.2Shipwrecked fugitives try to escape a brutal sea captain who's losing his mind.
The Sea Wolf
1941
6.8Marine hero Al Schmid is blinded in battle and returns home to be rehabilitated. He readjusts to his civilian life with the help of his soon to be wife.
Pride of the Marines
1945
Film credits
2000s · 2 titles
8.4This documentary looks at the life and career of John Garfield, whose career was cut short when he died at age 39. His difficult childhood in the rough neighborhoods of New York City provided the perfect background for the tough-guy roles he would play on both stage and screen.
The John Garfield Story
2003
6.0Mark Rappaport's look at the life and work of actor John Garfield.
John Garfield
2002
1990s · 2 titles
5.3A film scrapbook, images, phrases from our past, hiding their meanings behind veils. Let's lift those veils, one by one, to find how images, at one time seeming innocent, have revealed, after decades, to have homosexual overtones.
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
1997
10.0This compilation of film highlights features many of the biggest box office tough guys of the 1930s, '40s, and '50s—Bogart, Brando, Cagney and more!
Movie Tough Guys
1991
1980s · 2 titles
A study of the Group Theatre, a company that changed the face of American drama. The Group was founded in 1931 by Cheryl Crawford, Harold Clurman and Lee Strasberg, who were strongly influenced by the naturalistic acting of Konstantin Stanislavski’s Moscow Art Theatre.
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
1989
7.0Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival footage make up this star-studded voyeuristic look at the Golden age of Hollywood during the 30s, 40, and 50.
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983
1950s · 4 titles
6.6Lawyer Joe Morse wants to consolidate all the small-time numbers racket operators into one big powerful operation. But his elder brother Leo is one of these small-time operators who wants to stay that way, preferring not to deal with the gangsters who dominate the big-time.
Force of Evil
1950
7.0A fisherman with money problems hires out his boat to transport criminals.
The Breaking Point
1950
7.2A crook on the run hides out in an innocent girl's apartment.
He Ran All the Way
1951
6.4After defying a gangster in Italy, American jockey Danny Arnold flees race-fixing accusations and escapes to Paris with his son. There, he learns that his old friend has been murdered and finds work through British jockey George Gardner. Despite his son’s hopes, Danny compromises his integrity by winning money on a fixed race.
Under My Skin
1950
1940s · 28 titles
7.0A magazine writer poses as a Jew to expose anti-Semitism.
Gentleman's Agreement
1947
7.0A classical musician from a working class background is sidetracked by his love for a wealthy, neurotic socialite.
Humoresque
1947
6.4A con artist falls for the rich widow he's trying to fleece.
Nobody Lives Forever
1946
7.2Shipwrecked fugitives try to escape a brutal sea captain who's losing his mind.
The Sea Wolf
1941
6.8Marine hero Al Schmid is blinded in battle and returns home to be rehabilitated. He readjusts to his civilian life with the help of his soon to be wife.
Pride of the Marines
1945
7.1A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.
The Postman Always Rings Twice
1946
6.6Daisy Kenyon is a Manhattan commercial artist having an affair with an arrogant and overbearing but successful lawyer and family man named Dan O'Mara. Daisy meets a single man, a war veteran named Peter Lapham, and after a brief and hesitant courtship decides to marry him, although she is still in love with Dan.
Daisy Kenyon
1947
6.7Charley Davis, against the wishes of his mother, becomes a boxer. As he becomes more successful the fighter becomes surrounded by shady characters, including an unethical promoter named Roberts, who tempt the man with a number of vices. Charley finds himself faced with increasingly difficult choices.
Body and Soul
1947
7.2Passengers on an ocean liner can't recall how they got onboard or where they are going. Soon it becomes apparent that they all have something in common.
Between Two Worlds
1944
6.9During World War II, Captain Cassidy and his crew of submariners are ordered into Tokyo Bay on a secret mission. They are to gather information in advance of the planned bombing of Tokyo. Along the way, the crew learn about each other as they face the enemy and some of them lose their lives.
Destination Tokyo
1943
7.0A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.
Castle on the Hudson
1940
6.4A Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up fishermen decide to eliminate the gangster themselves rather than complain to the police.
Out of the Fog
1941
6.5The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack and is sent on to Manila to help with the defense of the Philippines.
Air Force
1943
5.8Danny, a poor northern Californian Mexican-American, inherits two houses from his grandfather and is quickly taken advantage of by his vagabond friends.
Tortilla Flat
1942
6.0Imprisoned during the Spanish Civil War, John "Kit" McKittrick is released when a New York City policeman pulls some strings. Upon returning to America, McKittrick hears that a friend has committed suicide, and he begins to smell a rat. During his investigation, McKittrick questions three beautiful women, one of whom has a tie to his refugee past. Pursued by Nazi operatives, McKittrick learns of the death of another friend, and begins to suspect the dark Dr. Skaas.
The Fallen Sparrow
1943
6.3China Valdes joins the Cuban underground after her brother is killed by the chief of the secret police, Ariete. She meets and falls in love with American expatriate Tony Fenner. Tony develops a plan to tunnel under the city's cemetery to a plot owned by a high official, assassinate him, and blow up the whole Cuban hierarchy at the ensuing state funeral. Together with a band of dedicated revolutionaries, they begin digging.
We Were Strangers
1949
7.3Two soldiers on leave spend three nights at a club offering free of charge food, dancing, and entertainment for servicemen on their way overseas. Club founders Bette Davis and John Garfield give talks on the history of the place.
Hollywood Canteen
1944
7.0A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.
Show-Business at War
1943
6.0Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1942.
Breakdowns of 1942
1942
6.2Two troublesome boys grow into very different men, one becoming a hoodlum and the other embracing college but both are in-love with the same girl.
East of the River
1940
7.0Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1941.
Breakdowns of 1941
1941
6.2An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort.
Thank Your Lucky Stars
1943
6.3A New York City doctor tries to rescue a young woman from Nazi agents.
Dangerously They Live
1941
6.9An inventor and his bride get testy in the city as they try to make ends meet.
Saturday's Children
1940
5.0New York Assistant District Attorney Howard Malloy launches an investigation into a series of murders related to a neo-fascist organisation.
Jigsaw
1949
6.7This short was released in connection with the 20th anniversary of Warner Brothers' first exhibition of the Vitaphone sound-on-film process on 6 August 1926. The film highlights Thomas A. Edison and Alexander Graham Bell's efforts that contributed to sound movies and acknowledges the work of Lee De Forest. Brief excerpts from the August 1926 exhibition follow. Clips are then shown from a number of Warner Brothers features, four from the 1920s, the remainder from 1946/47.
Okay for Sound
1946
6.7In the American oilfields, a fugitive from justice's destiny is intertwined with the fortunes and the misfortunes of a small oil company that hires him as a roughneck.
Flowing Gold
1940
6.5Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1944.
Breakdowns of 1944
1944
1930s · 9 titles
6.5The newly-named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carlota arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment favoring Benito Juárez and democracy.
Juarez
1939
6.3Nan Masters, a single mother living with her four marriageable daughters, plans to marry Sam Sloane, businessman. Out of the blue her first husband Jim returns after deserting the family 20 years earlier. The worldly wanderer Jim gets a cool family reception at first but his warm personality gradually wins the affections of his four daughters. In fact, youngest daughter Buff, who has her eye on a maverick of her own in Gabriel Lopez, is pleased when Jim grants his stamp of approval on her relationship. Buff plans to elope with Gabriel on her mother's wedding day, but 'unpredictable' is Gabriel's middle name.
Daughters Courageous
1939
6.3A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.
They Made Me a Criminal
1939
6.5Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman's daughter leads to a fight between them, leading to the older man's death due to a weak heart. Joe and Mabel go on the run as he thinks no-one would believe a nobody like him.
Dust Be My Destiny
1939
6.6Musician Adam Lemp and his four equally musical daughters, Emma, Ann, Kay, and Thea, live happily together. Each daughter has an upstanding young man for whom she cares. However, the arrival of a cynical, slovenly young composer named Mickey Borden turns the household upside-down, and romantic and tragic complications ensue.
Four Daughters
1938
5.5In this sequel to Four Daughters, Ann struggles to move on after the death of her husband as she falls in love with Felix, but on the day of her engagement discovers that she carries Mickey's child.
Four Wives
1939
5.5A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.
Blackwell's Island
1939
6.0In this musical short, a waitress at the Warner Bros. commissary gets her big break.
Swingtime in the Movies
1938
6.5Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1939.
Breakdowns of 1939
1939

