John McGuire

Acting

John McGuire

Born — Died

1910-10-22 — 1980-09-30

Known for

Acting

Credits

49 titles

John McGuire was born on October 22, 1910. He was an actor, known for Stranger on the Third Floor (1940), Sands of Iwo Jima (1949) and Invisible Ghost (1941). He died on September 30, 1980 in Dublin, Ireland.

Known for

Film credits

1950s · 10 titles

Sands of Iwo Jima poster
6.4

Haunted by personal demons, Marine Sgt. John Stryker is hated and feared by his men, who see him as a cold-hearted sadist. But when their boots hit the beaches, they begin to understand the reason for Stryker's rigid form of discipline.

Sands of Iwo Jima

1950

The Racket poster
6.3

The big national crime syndicate has moved into town, partnering up with local crime boss Nick Scanlon. McQuigg, the only honest police captain on the force, and his loyal patrolman, Johnson, take on the violent Nick.

The Racket

1951

Where the Sidewalk Ends poster
7.2

A police detective's violent nature keeps him from being a good cop.

Where the Sidewalk Ends

1950

Rock Island Trail poster
6.3

A greedy businessman tries to block the building of a new railroad in his area.

Rock Island Trail

1950

You're in the Navy Now poster
5.5

When Lt. John Harkness is assigned as the new skipper of a submarine chaser equipped with an experimental steam engine, he hopes that the U.S.S. Teakettle's veterans will afford him enough help to accomplish the ship's goals. Unfortunately, he finds the crew and its officers share his novice status or only have experience in diesel engines.

You're in the Navy Now

1951

The Sea Hornet poster
6.0

"The Sea Hornet" was a merchant ship sunk, supposedly by a torpedo, less than a mile off the California Coast during World War Two. Six years later when his buddy is killed, attempting to blow up the sunken ship, on the orders of Suntan Radford and Tony Sullivan, deep-sea diver "Gunner" McNeil has his suspicions aroused... especially since Suntan is the daughter of the ship's captain that died when the ship sunk, and Sullivan was a crew member. Plus the fact the ship had over a million dollars in cash on board. During the course of his investigation, he becomes romantically involved with Ginger Sullivan

The Sea Hornet

1951

When Willie Comes Marching Home poster
6.9

When Willie leaves home to join the war effort he is all ready to become a hero, but he is only frustrated when his posting ends up to be in his home town, and he is recruited into training, keeping him from the action. However, when he finds himself accidently behind enemy lines he unexpectedly becomes a hero after all.

When Willie Comes Marching Home

1950

The First Legion poster
7.4

A Catholic priest fights against his colleagues' immediate acceptance of an ambiguous “miracle”.

The First Legion

1951

The Tanks Are Coming poster
8.2

An American tank crew fights its way into Germany in World War II.

The Tanks Are Coming

1951

Federal Agent at Large poster
5.8

A crime ring is smuggling gold from Mexico across the border in the US. The Customs Service sends an agent to Mexico to try to infiltrate the ring and stop the smuggling.

Federal Agent at Large

1950

1940s · 26 titles

White Heat poster
7.7

A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. After the heist, events take a crazy turn.

White Heat

1949

Shadow of a Doubt poster
7.5

In sleepy Santa Rosa, restless young Charlie’s world brightens when her sophisticated Uncle Charlie arrives for a long visit. But as his behavior grows increasingly strange, she begins to suspect that her beloved uncle may be hiding a terrible secret—and that danger has quietly entered her home.

Shadow of a Doubt

1943

Dead of Night poster
7.2

An architect, visiting an English country house, realizes the other guests are familiar from his recurring nightmare. When they share their tales of the supernatural, he is filled with a growing dread.

Dead of Night

1945

The Magnificent Ambersons poster
7.3

The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.

The Magnificent Ambersons

1942

He Walked by Night poster
6.7

Roy Martin aka Roy Morgan is a burglar and former war-time Radio & Electronics Engineer who listens in to radio police calls, allowing him to stay one step ahead of the cops.

He Walked by Night

1949

Stranger on the Third Floor poster
6.5

Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has sentenced the wrong man to death.

Stranger on the Third Floor

1940

Flamingo Road poster
7.0

A stranded carnival dancer takes on a corrupt political boss when she marries into small-town society.

Flamingo Road

1949

Border Incident poster
6.9

The story concerns two agents, one Mexican (PJF) and one American, who are tasked to stop the smuggling of Mexican migrant workers across the border to California. The two agents go undercover, one as a poor migrant.

Border Incident

1949

Bells of San Angelo poster
4.5

Gridley is mining silver from an old Mexican mine and bringing it into the USA thru a passage into his worthless mine. Border guard Rogers suspects Gridley and finally finds the secret entrance to the Mexican mine. He sends Lee Madison for help only to have her captured by Gridley. Trigger brings help that takes care of Gridley's men and now Roy has to rescue Madison.

Bells of San Angelo

1947

The Lady Takes a Sailor poster
5.7

Jennifer Smith heads a "Consumer Reports"-type company and her reputation for honesty is her greatest asset. While out boating one day she encounters a secret prototype submarine piloted by Bill Craig. Trying to explain her absence after her boat sinks becomes very difficult as Bill and his cohorts attempt to discredit her story.

The Lady Takes a Sailor

1949

My Favorite Spy poster
5.7

The Army takes a bandleader (Kay Kyser) away from his bride (Ellen Drew) and sends him on a spy mission with a woman (Jane Wyman).

My Favorite Spy

1942

The Navy Comes Through poster
6.0

A U.S. Navy crew aboard a merchant marine ship battle Nazis.

The Navy Comes Through

1942

Mexican Spitfire Sees a Ghost poster
4.8

Carmelita and Uncle Matt find themselves in a haunted house, but the "ghosts" are actually enemy agents who are trying to frighten away visitors in order to develop a nitroglycerin bomb.

Mexican Spitfire Sees a Ghost

1942

Women Without Names poster
4.7

Joyce and Fred MacNeil's honeymoon comes to an abrupt and unsatisfying halt when Fred is accused of murder. Railroaded into prison through the efforts of politically ambitious assistant DA Marlin, Fred awaits his doom on Death Row, while Joyce works overtime on the outside to clear her husband's name

Women Without Names

1940

Invisible Ghost poster
5.3

The town's leading citizen becomes a homicidal maniac after his wife deserts him.

Invisible Ghost

1941

Highways by Night poster
7.3

A young millionaire (Richard Carlson) joins the real world and meets a maid (Jane Randolph) and mobsters.

Highways by Night

1942

Fighter Squadron poster
6.1

During World War II, an insubordinate fighter pilot finds the shoe on the other foot when he's promoted.

Fighter Squadron

1948

No artwork available
8.0

Joe Mason suffers from amnesia and is often in trouble. Catherine Foster befriends him and they marry. After a jolt jogs his memory, he remembers that he is the son of a rich businessman from Chicago, but he can't remember anything recent.

Street of Memories

1940

The Strawberry Roan poster
6.5

Young Joe is paralyzed as he is bucked by a wild horse, a strawberry roan. Angered, his father, Walt, tries to shoot the horse but is stopped by his foreman, Gene Autry. The roan escapes and Autry, told to leave the ranch by Walt, finds and trains the horse, now named Champ, in hopes that by returning it to Joe it will provide him with the will to overcome his disability.

The Strawberry Roan

1948

Mexican Spitfire at Sea poster
4.7

An advertising executive and his temperamental wife sail to Hawaii in search of business. The fifth entry (of eight) in the "Mexican Spitfire" comedy series.

Mexican Spitfire at Sea

1942

Highway 13 poster
5.8

Hank Wilson is a driver for a truck for a big transportation company which is in financial straits. He is in love with Doris Lacy, a waitress at the truck-stop where the company has its truck fleet serviced. Frequent accidents near the place leads the company to hire a private detective to investigate, and when the detective is murdered Hank is arrested as a suspect. The insurance company that covers the fleet has him released and he is sent back to work with instructions to investigate the accidents on his own. The trail leads to the uncle of Doris, and one of the part-owners of the company.

Highway 13

1948

Sea Raiders poster
6.5

A bunch of waterfront youths pursue the Sea Raiders, a gang of saboteurs.

Sea Raiders

1941

Powder Town poster
4.4

Director Rowland V. Lee's wacky 1942 comedy, about an absent-minded scientist working on a secret formula at an explosives plant, stars Edmond O'Brien, Victor McLaglen, Dorothy Lovett, June Havoc, Eddie Foy Jr., Marion Martin and Mary Gordon.

Powder Town

1942

Sky Liner poster
4.8

Travellers board a flight, unaware that other passengers might be spies and counterspies, complete with secret documents, poison and elaborate plans to engage in international espionage!

Sky Liner

1949

Ever Since Eden poster
NR

A history of the tomato. Begins with the discovery of the plant by Cortes when he conquered Montezuma.

Ever Since Eden

1942

No artwork available
10.0

Errol is a character actor who wears various makeups, costumes, and disguises when he goes home. His neighbors mistakenly suspect his glamorous young wife is playing around with strange men.

Wedded Blitz

1942

1930s · 13 titles

The Prisoner of Shark Island poster
6.8

After healing the leg of the murderer John Wilkes Booth — responsible for the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln — Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, considered part of the atrocious conspiracy, is sentenced to life imprisonment and sent to the sinister Shark Island Prison.

The Prisoner of Shark Island

1936

Charlie Chan at the Circus poster
6.4

While visiting the circus with his family, Charlie is recruited by the big top's co-owner to investigate threatening letters that he's received.

Charlie Chan at the Circus

1936

Steamboat Round the Bend poster
7.5

A Louisiana con man enters his steamboat into a winner-take-all race with a rival while trying to find a witness to free his nephew, about to be hanged for murder.

Steamboat Round the Bend

1935

End of the Trail poster
8.7

In this western, a Spanish-American war veteran cannot find gainful employment. In desperation, he becomes a cattle rustler until he can get back on his feet. Just as he is ready to go straight, his girlfriend's younger brother is shot.

End of the Trail

1936

Human Cargo poster
7.5

Bonnie Brewster and "Packy" Campbell, rival reporters on competing newspapers, team up to put an end to a smuggling gang that brings illegal aliens to the United States, and then makes further victims of them by extortion payments. They go to Vancouver, Canada and board a ship carrying aliens. But the gang recognizes them as reporters and gang-henchmen Tony Scula (Ralf Harolde) and Ira Conklin take them off the ship. But Campbell recognizes Scula as the gunman who killed Carmen Zoro.

Human Cargo

1936

Fugitives for a Night poster
7.2

A faded star is suspected of killing a studio executive.

Fugitives for a Night

1938

This Is the Life poster
6.5

A popular child star, exploited and overworked by her greedy guardians, decides enough is enough--and takes it on the lam.

This Is the Life

1935

Outlaw Rule poster
9.0

A rancher, frustrated with constant cattle rustling and the inability of the local sheriff to stop it, is accused of murder when the sheriff is found dead.

Outlaw Rule

1935

Wanted: Jane Turner poster
6.0

Investigators set out to capture a gang of thieves transporting stolen cash through the U.S. mail.

Wanted: Jane Turner

1936

Guns for Hire poster
NR

Gunfighter gets hired at sheep ranch to help fight the cattleman and his gang. In the gang is the man who raised the gunfighter and taught him how to shoot. They both hope they will not have to face each other when the showdown comes.

Guns for Hire

1932

Your Uncle Dudley poster
5.5

A paint store owner turns his attention to civic affairs while his business falls apart.

Your Uncle Dudley

1935

Love in September poster
9.0

The story of a kindly old lady, her involvement with midget race cars and their drivers.

Love in September

1936

Contented Calves poster
NR

An add campaign for stockings embarrasses the girls.

Contented Calves

1934