
Acting
John Bromfield
Born 1922-06-11 · South Bend, Indiana, USA
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. John Bromfield (né Farron Bromfield) (June 11, 1922 - September 19, 2005) was an American film and television actor. Bromfield was born in South Bend, Indiana. He played football and was a boxing champion in college. He served in the United States Navy. In 1948, he twice harpooned a whale in the documentary film Harpoon. In 1948, he was cast as a detective in the film Sorry, Wrong Number, starring Burt Lancaster and Barbara Stanwyck for Columbia Pictures. In 1953, Bromfield appeared with Esther Williams in the film Easy to Love set in bathing suit attire in Cypress Gardens, Florida. In the middle 1950s, he appeared in westerns, such as NBC's Frontier anthology series in the role of a sheriff in the episode "The Hanging at Thunder Butte Creek". He also starred in horror films, including the 1955 3D production, Revenge of the Creature, one of the Creature from the Black Lagoon sequels. In 1956, Bromfield was cast as law enforcement officer Frank Morgan in the syndicated western-themed crime drama series, Sheriff of Cochise, later retitled by studio boss Desi Arnaz, Sr., as U.S. Marshal. The real sheriff of Cochise County at the time, Jack Howard, visited the set when the program began and made Bromfield an honorary deputy. Bromfield once told the Los Angeles Times: "About 40 million see 'Sheriff of Cochise' or 'U.S. Marshal' every week. I'd have to do about twenty-five pictures, major pictures, over a span of eight or nine years for enough people to see me in the theater who see me in one week on 'U.S. Marshal'. ... The show is seen all over the world. Television is a fabulous medium." The series was actually created by his co-star Stan Jones (1914–1963), who appeared in twenty-four segments as Deputy Harry Olson. Sheriff of Cochise featured numerous young actors who later became well-known in the industry: Mike Connors, Gavin MacLeod, David Janssen, Michael Landon, Stacy Keach, Charles Bronson, Jack Lord, Doug McClure, Ross Martin, and Martin Milner. In 1960, Bromfield retired from acting to produce sports shows and work as a commercial fisherman off Newport Beach, California. Bromfield was divorced from actresses Corinne Calvet (1925–2001) and Larri Thomas (born 1933). He died at the age of eighty-three of renal failure in Palm Desert, California, having been survived by his third wife of forty-three years, Mary Bromfield. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Bromfield, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Acting credits
7.1A New Mexico cattle man and his strong-willed daughter clash over land and love.
The Furies
1950
5.6In a tributary of the Amazon, a monster – half-man, half-fish – is captured and placed in a reservoir in a Florida national park to be observed by scientists.
Revenge of the Creature
1955
6.8Leona Stevenson is confined to bed and uses her telephone to keep in contact with the outside world. One day she overhears a murder plot on the telephone and is desperate to find out who is the intended victim.
Sorry, Wrong Number
1948
5.8Story of a South African diamond mine watched over by a sadistic policeman tasked with looking out for smugglers.
Rope of Sand
1949
7.0A tale of feuding and revenge among whalers in Alaska in the late 19th century.
Harpoon
1948
5.8Story of a salesman lured into the "hot car" racket.
Hot Cars
1956
6.2Two men vie for the heart of a Cypress Gardens swimming star.
Easy to Love
1953
5.6Mystery writer Mickey Spillane tries to help Clyde Beatty deal with a plot to sabotage his circus.
Ring of Fear
1954
6.1Audie Murphy comes into his own as a Western star in this story. Wrongly accused by crooked railroad officials of aiding a train heist by his old friends the Daltons, he joins their gang and becomes an active participant in other robberies. Betrayed by a fellow gang member, Murphy becomes a fugitive in the end. Seeking refuge at the ranch of a reformed gang member, he hopes to flee with the man's daughter to South America, but he's captured in the end and led off to jail. The girl promises to wait.
The Cimarron Kid
1952
NRSome of TV and film's popular western actors reunite in this tribute special hosted by Glenn Ford.
When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
1979
4.0Three deep sea divers get involved in murder while searching for a lost treasure.
Manfish
1956
4.6A rock hard commander trains Navy Carrier Pilots during the Second World War
Flat Top
1952
6.9Two sisters fall in love with the same man. After the wedding, the new husband realizes he may have married the wrong sister.
Paid in Full
1950
5.2A young woman hires a frontier scout to help her discover if her brother died in an Indian attack on a remote fort.
Quincannon, Frontier Scout
1956
5.9Down-and-out artist Joe Manning wakes up from a night of drunken revelry in a jail cell, where he's being held on suspicion for the murder of a nightclub singer.
Crime Against Joe
1956
5.1When a scheming fortune hunter finds his rich wife is not going to die as expected, he and his lover make other plans to get her millions.
The Big Bluff
1955
3.8Rock and Dr. Andrea travel up the Amazon to find out why the plantation workers have left their work in panic, allegedly because of attacks from Curucu, a monster who is said to live up the river where no white man has ever been before...
Curucu, Beast of the Amazon
1956
6.5A deputy marshal arrives in the small western town of Fairweather to investigate the death of a beautiful gambler known as "The Princess".
Frontier Gambler
1956
4.3Following the death of a wealthy man, his three daughters squabble about who should be the principal heiress.
Three Bad Sisters
1956
NRDetective Morgan and the Japanese police cooperate to unveil the truth of the mysterious death of Morgan’s friend in Arizona.
Officer Morgan and a Man of Mystery
1961
5.5During the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln sends an emissary with a peace treaty to the Sioux Indians. He also sends a gift of $130,000 in gold. This attracts the attention of Brock Marsh, the secret leader of a Confederate spy ring, who wants to keep the treaty from being signed and to also get his hands on the gold. Ruth Lawrence and Mike Daugherty work together against the machinations of Marsh
The Black Dakotas
1954
7.0The Bowery Boys are enrolled in a fancy college by a pair of rich snobs who think they can turn the Boys into classy guys. Sach becomes a football star, and is kidnapped by gangsters to keep him out of the big game.
Hold That Line
1952