John Wilder

Writing

John Wilder

Born 1936-05-28 · Tacoma, Washington, USA

John Wilder is an American writer, actor, and director. He legally changed his name from John McGovern in 1958.

Acting credits

Singin' in the Rain poster
8.1

In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his paranoid screen partner struggle to make the difficult transition to talking pictures.

Singin' in the Rain

1952

Until They Sail poster
6.3

Four sisters in New Zealand fall for soldiers en route to the Pacific theater in WWII.

Until They Sail

1957

Night Unto Night poster
5.4

A bleak mansion sits ominously on a cliff above the sea somewhere on Florida's east coast. In its shadows, two people meet: a scientist haunted by incurable illness and a beautiful woman haunted by the voice of her dead husband.

Night Unto Night

1949

The Unguarded Moment poster
6.5

A high-school music teacher is the victim of a student who writes indecent notes and assaults women.

The Unguarded Moment

1956

Room for One More poster
6.6

Anne and "Poppy" Rose have three quirky kids. Anne has a generous heart and the belief in the innocence of children. To the unhappy surprise of her husband she takes in the orphan Jane, a problem child who already tried to kill herself once.

Room for One More

1952

Five Guns to Tombstone poster
6.1

Billy Wade is an ex-gunslinger who is approached by his outlaw brother Matt, not long out of prison, to help him with a big-time robbery. Matt forces Billy's participation with an offer he cannot refuse, unaware that Billy is actually working on the side of the law.

Five Guns to Tombstone

1961

Summer Love poster
5.5

A neighborhood rock band gets a job playing at a summer camp.

Summer Love

1958

When I Grow Up poster
7.3

Josh is a young boy who feels neglected and misunderstood at home. Preparing to run away, he chances across an old diary once kept by his grandfather. Leafing through the yellowed pages, Josh discovers that Grandpa went through many of the same childhood travails that he is enduring at that moment. Armed with a renewed understanding of and appreciation for his elders, Josh decides to stick around for a while and see how things develop.

When I Grow Up

1951

Hold Back the Night poster
6.4

A Marine officer goes through Korea with the bottle of Scotch that his wife gave him in the last war.

Hold Back the Night

1956

Imitation General poster
6.6

An officer poses as a general after the death of his commanding officer and inspires his troops to victory.

Imitation General

1958

Rock, Pretty Baby poster
6.0

A high school rock group enters a band contest.

Rock, Pretty Baby

1956

Tumbleweed Trail poster
9.0

Eddie Dean's assignment is to thwart the efforts of a crooked gambler, Brad Barton, to take over the property of his half-brother Bill Ryan. In order to secure the ranch, which is believed to hold large silver deposits, the scheming relative contracts to have Ryan killed. He then presents a forged will to the court naming himself as the sole heir. Shocked by the tide of events, Ryan's two rightful heirs, his grown daughter Robin and young son "Freckles" are determined to remain on their father's property. Eddie and his sidekick, Soapy Jones, arrive on the scene in time to enter the fight on the side of Robin and "Freckles."

Tumbleweed Trail

1946

Behind the camera