John McIntire

"For the fictional character, see Trapper John McIntyre. For the Scottish radiologist, see John Macintyre."

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John McIntire (June 27, 1907 – January 30, 1991) was an American character actor.

The craggy-faced film actor was born in Spokane, Washington and raised in Montana, growing up with ranchers and cowboys which would eventually inspire his performances in dozens of westerns later in life. The USC graduate began his acting career in radio and on stage.

McIntire began his long movie career at the age of forty in 1947, often playing roles as police chiefs, judges and sometimes crazy coots. His films include the film noir classic "The Asphalt Jungle" (1950) and his last film playing a crazy dog owner in "Turner & Hooch" (1989). He also played movie villains in westerns, some of which are considered the best films of the genre; "Winchester '73" (1950), "The Far Country" (1955), both with Jimmy Stewart, and "The Tin Star" (1957) in which he was not a villain but a country doctor. On television, he appeared in "The Naked City" (his character was killed off) and played the wagon master on "Wagon Train" in 1961, and replaced actor Lee J. Cobb on "The Virginian" in 1967.

McIntire married fellow actor Jeanette Nolan, in 1935, and they had two children together, one of whom was the actor Tim McIntire who starred in the 1978 film "American Hot Wax". He also played the brief but memorable role of Sheriff Al Chambers in Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" (1960), in which Nolan read some of Mother's lines and also did some voice-over screaming. McIntire worked more closely with Jeanette Nolan in Disney's 1977 "The Rescuers", where he had voiced the cat Rufus and she, the muskrat Ellie Mae. Four years later, the couple worked on another Disney film, "The Fox and the Hound", with McIntire as the voice of Mr. Digger, a badger, and Nolan as the voice of Widow Tweed.

Death

John McIntire died from emphysema and lung cancer in Pasadena, California in 1991. He was 83 years old.

Partial filmography

*"The Hucksters" (1947) (uncredited)
*"Call Northside 777" (1948)
*"Black Bart" (1948)
*"The Street with No Name" (1948)
*"Command Decision" (1948)
*"Down to the Sea in Ships" (1949)
*"Francis" (1950)
*"Shadow on the Wall" (1950)
*"The Asphalt Jungle" (1950)
*"Winchester '73" (1950)
*"Walk Softly, Stranger" (1950)
*"The Raging Tide" (1951)
*"You're in the Navy Now" (1951)
*"That's My Boy" (1951)
*"Westward the Women" (1951)
*"The World in His Arms" (1952)
*"The President's Lady" (1953)
*"A Lion Is in the Streets" (1953)
*"Apache" (1954)
*"The Far Country" (1955)
*"The Scarlet Coat" (1955)
*"The Kentuckian" (1955)
*"The Phenix City Story" (1955)
*"Backlash" (1956)
*"The Tin Star" (1957)
*"Who Was That Lady?" (1960)
*"Psycho" (1960)
*"Elmer Gantry" (1960)
*"Flaming Star" (1960), with Elvis Presley
*"Two Rode Together" (1961)
*"Summer and Smoke" (1961)
*"Herbie Rides Again" (1974)
*"Rooster Cogburn" (1975)
*"The Rescuers" (1977) (voice)
*"The Fox and the Hound" (1981) (voice)
*"Honkytonk Man" (1982)
*"Cloak & Dagger" (1984), with wife Jeanette Nolan
*"Turner & Hooch" (1989)"Rough night in Jericho" 1967

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SHORT DESCRIPTION= Actor
DATE OF BIRTH= June 27, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH= Spokane, Washington
DATE OF DEATH= 1991-1-10
PLACE OF DEATH= Pasadena, California