James McCallion

Acting

James McCallion

Born 1918-09-27 · Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Acting credits

North by Northwest poster
8.0

Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.

North by Northwest

1959

Coogan's Bluff poster
6.3

Coogan, an Arizona deputy sheriff goes to New York to pick up a prisoner. While escorting the prisoner to the airport, he escapes and Coogan heads into the city to recapture him.

Coogan's Bluff

1968

Kiss Me Deadly poster
7.2

One evening, Hammer gives a ride to Christina, an attractive hitchhiker on a lonely country road, who has escaped from the nearby lunatic asylum. Thugs waylay them and force his car to crash. When Hammer returns to semi-consciousness, he hears Christina being tortured until she dies. Hammer, both for vengeance and in hopes that "something big" is behind it all, decides to pursue the case.

Kiss Me Deadly

1955

Vera Cruz poster
6.7

After the American Civil War, mercenaries travel to Mexico to fight in their revolution for money. The former soldier and gentleman Benjamin Trane meets the gunman and killer Joe Erin and his men, and together they are hired by the Emperor Maximillian and the Marquis Henri de Labordere to escort the Countess Marie Duvarre to the harbor of Vera Cruz.

Vera Cruz

1954

Skin Game poster
6.6

Quincy Drew and Jason O’Rourke, a pair of friends and con men—the former white, the latter a Northern-born free Black man— travel from town to town in the pre–Civil War American West. In their scam, Quincy sells Jason into slavery, frees him, and the two move on to the next town of suckers . . . until a con gone wrong leads Jason into real danger.

Skin Game

1971

The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! poster
6.5

When a Soviet submarine gets stuck on a sandbar off the coast of a New England island, its commander orders his second-in-command, Lieutenant Rozanov, to get them moving again before there is an international incident. Rozanov seeks assistance from the island locals, including the police chief and a vacationing television writer, while trying to allay their fears of a Communist invasion by claiming he and his crew are Norwegian sailors.

The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!

1966

The Big Combo poster
7.0

Police Lt. Leonard Diamond vies to bring a clever, well connected, and sadistic gangster to justice all the while obsessing over the gangster's girlfriend.

The Big Combo

1955

Illegal poster
6.5

A hugely successful DA goes into private practice after sending a man to the chair -- only to find out later he was innocent. Now the drunken attorney only seems to represent criminals and low lifes.

Illegal

1955

Strange Bedfellows poster
6.0

After a hasty wedding, Carter and Toni find that they disagree on everything. They separate and seven years later, on the eve before their divorce, meet again and spend the night together. Reality sets in when morning comes and they begin arguing again. Once again, divorce proceedings are on — until Carter finds out that an important promotion hinges on whether he's married.

Strange Bedfellows

1965

The Prisoner of Second Avenue poster
6.7

Mel Edison has just lost his job after many years and now has to cope with being unemployed at middle age during an intense NYC heat wave.

The Prisoner of Second Avenue

1975

PT 109 poster
6.1

Dramatization of President John F. Kennedy's war time experiences during which he captained a PT boat, took it to battle and had it sunk by a Japanese destroyer. He and the survivors had to make their way to an island, find food and shelter and signal the Navy for rescue.

PT 109

1963

Boy Slaves poster
6.8

Social drama of Depression-era homeless children who turn to crime and are sentenced by a judge to a rehabilitation "labor camp".

Boy Slaves

1939

Cotter poster
4.5

A rodeo rider is killed because Cotter is too drunk to distract the raging bull.

Cotter

1973

How Do I Love Thee? poster
4.2

A professor recalls his atheistic father, his devoted mother and his father's blousy mistress.

How Do I Love Thee?

1970

Gunfight in Abilene poster
6.5

Fighting in the Civil War a man accidently kills his friend. Returning to Abilene after the war he finds his former sweetheart about to marry the brother of the man he killed. To pay his debt he not only refuses to win her back but takes the job of Sheriff, a job he doesn't want, when the brother asks him. Still haunted by the killing he refuses to carry a gun. But there is trouble between the ranchers and the farmers and when he finds the brother murdered he straps on a gun and heads after the killer.

Gunfight in Abilene

1967

The Strange and Deadly Occurrence poster
5.9

A family moves into a new home in an isolated area, and soon realizes that someone--or something--doesn't want them there.

The Strange and Deadly Occurrence

1974

Who Is the Black Dahlia? poster
6.7

In 1947 Los Angeles, a police detective tries to solve the shocking and grisly murder of 22-year-old aspiring actress Elizabeth Short.

Who Is the Black Dahlia?

1975

Pride of the Blue Grass poster
6.7

A young man is determined to turn his beloved racehorse, which is blind, into a champion.

Pride of the Blue Grass

1939

The Man Who Dared poster
7.0

An elderly grandfather proves to be heroic when he takes a stand against local city corruption.

The Man Who Dared

1939

Code of the Streets poster
7.7

Frankie Thomas plays Bob Lewis, leader of a gang consisting of Sailor, Murph, Monk, Trouble and Yap. The son of disgraced police officer Lt. Lewis, Bob vows to clear his dad's name, and also to prove that accused murderer Tommy Shay is innocent.

Code of the Streets

1939

Letters from Three Lovers poster
7.5

Three letters, whose delivery has been delayed by a year, change the lives of the people to whom they were addressed.

Letters from Three Lovers

1973

Playgirl poster
4.3

If you remember Shelley Winters from "The Poseidon Adventure" or "Bloody Mama," you might tend to forget what a knockout she was early in her career. This film will give you the chance to see her as a sexy nightclub singer teaching her just-in-from-the-sticks friend Colleen Miller the ropes in New York City. When Winters finds out that her married boyfriend Barry Sullivan has fallen for Miller, the recriminations...and bullets...start to fly!

Playgirl

1954

The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County poster
6.8

A simple-minded blacksmith named Charley, well loved by the townsfolk, saves for a year to send off for a mail-order bride.

The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County

1970

Snowshoes: A Comedy of People and Horses poster
NR

Some racetrack Johnnies are talking between races when one wonders if you can hynotize a horse into thinking it's a champion. The idea sets in motion a series of hilarious events.

Snowshoes: A Comedy of People and Horses

1957