Biography
John Howard (born John Richard Cox Jr.) was an American screen and television actor. He made his movie debut in a bit part in Paramount's One Hour Late (1934) before moving up the Hollywood ladder to featured parts and ultimately landing his own series, the Bulldog Drummond mysteries. Decades later, when offers of work began to slow down, Howard went into teaching.
Known For
Complete Filmography

My Boys Are Good Boys
1978
as Grocery Store Owner
Teenagers at a correctional facility devise a plan to rob an armored van.

Psycho Sisters
1974
as Dr. Thomas
After her husband dies, a woman begins to have a nervous breakdown and is consoled by her younger sister. Soon, however, other members of the family b...

Buck and the Preacher
1972
as George
A wagon master and a con-man preacher help freed slaves dogged by cheap-labor agents out West.

The Destructors
1968
as Ernest Bushnell
Foreign agents are after a substance called "laser rubies" that can power a killer laser beam. Government agents are dispatched to protect the rubies ...

Destination Inner Space
1966
as Dr. James
A futuristic underwater sea-lab is having problems with a UFO that's parked between them and a nearby deep ocean trench. As they investigate, they att...

Moochie of Pop Warner Football
1960
as Mayor Wood
Moochie joins a Pop Warner Football team, but has troubles with the mayor’s son. When the two make amends, they help the team win and go to the Disney...

The Unknown Terror
1957
as Dan Matthews
A woman leads an expedition into a remote jungle to find her long-lost brother, but instead finds a mad scientist who has created a fungus monster tha...

The High and the Mighty
1954
as Howard Rice
Dan Roman is a veteran pilot haunted by a tragic past. Now relegated to second-in-command cockpit assignments he finds himself on a routine Honolulu-t...

Make Haste to Live
1954
as Josh Blake
A single mother in New Mexico senses her own death in the hands of a mysterious stalker.

Models Inc.
1952
as John Stafford
The wealthy owner of a modeling agency keeps a new student in the high life, unaware that she and a recently released convict share a criminal and per...

Experiment Alcatraz
1950
as Dr. Ross Williams
A doctor testing drugs on convicts gets mixed up in a murder investigation.

Radar Secret Service
1950
as Bill Travis
A federal agent and his partner track uranium-ore hijackers with radar.

The Fighting Kentuckian
1949
as Blake Randolph
John Breen (John Wayne), a Kentucky militiaman falls in love with French exile Fleurette De Marchand (Vera Ralston). He discovers a plot to steal the ...

I, Jane Doe
1948
as William Hilton
While stationed in France during World War II, an American fighter pilot marries a French girl but leaves her behind when he returns to the U.S. The F...

Love from a Stranger
1947
as Nigel Lawrence
Cecily Harrington, struggling along on a small allowance, wins a fortune in a lottery. She decides to travel rather than marrying her fiance Nigel Law...

Twilight Hour
1945
as William Rolands

The Undying Monster
1942
as Oliver Hammond
A werewolf prowls around at night but only kills certain members of one family. It seems like just a coincidence, but the investigating Inspector soon...

Isle of Missing Men
1942
as Merrill Hammond
A young woman receives an invitation from the Governor of an island prison to spend a week with him. She does so, but conceals the fact that her husba...

Submarine Raider
1942
as Commander Chris Warren
On December 6, 1941, Captain Yamanada of the Japanese aircraft carrier "Hiranamu", orders full steam ahead for Pearl Harbor. His ship encounters and s...

The Man Who Returned to Life
1942
as David Hampton Jameson
An accused killer is granted a reprieve when his victim returns to town in the flesh after an eight-year absence.

A Tragedy at Midnight
1942
as Greg Sherman
The host of a whodunit radio show finds himself involved in his own mystery when he awakens to find a woman with a knife in her back in his bedroom.

Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 5
1942
as Self
Fifth film in the Hedda Hopper documentary series.

Three Girls About Town
1941
as Tommy Hopkins
Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician's convention is leaving and the ...

Father Takes a Wife
1941
as Frederic Osborne Junior
A famous actress has to win over her ready-made family when she weds a shipping magnate.

Tight Shoes
1941
as Jimmy Rupert
A crook with big feet buys shoes that are too tight from a salesman, then decides to use the store as a front for illegal gambling.

The Invisible Woman
1940
as Richard Russell
Kitty Carroll, an attractive store model, volunteers to become a test subject for a machine that will make her invisible so that she can use her invis...

The Mad Doctor
1940
as Gil Sawyer
A reporter sleuths the mystery behind an oft-married Viennese doctor whose wives met mysterious fates.

The Texas Rangers Ride Again
1940
as Jim Kingston aka Pecos Kid
With thousands of cattle being rustled from White Sage ranch the 1930's Texas Rangers are called in. They manage to get one of their agents into the g...

The Philadelphia Story
1940
as George Kittredge
When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.

The Man from Dakota
1940
as Oliver Clark
A frontier scout, a Boston officer and a Russian girl escape with a map past Confederates.

Green Hell
1940
as Hal Scott
A group of adventurers head deep into South American jungle in search of an ancient Incan treasure.

Disputed Passage
1939
as John Wesley Beaven
A doctor's medical studies are threatened by his infatuation with a Chinese girl. The girl returns to China, but complications ensue when she runs int...

What a Life
1939
as Mr. Nelson
Jackie Cooper stars in this first film in the wholesome "Henry Aldrich" series of teen comedies.

Bulldog Drummond's Bride
1939
as Capt. Hugh C. Drummond
Hugh “Bulldog” Drummond is on the precipice of matrimony to his beloved Phyllis -- but a bank robbery and a daring escape is going to get in their way...

Grand Jury Secrets
1939
as John Keefe
A newspaper reporter gets involved with shady stock promoters when he listens in on a jury room session.

Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police
1939
as Captain Hugh 'Bulldog' Drummond
Captain Drummond and his girlfriend want to marry but a hidden treasure in the house in which they want to celebrate their marriage is complicating th...

Arrest Bulldog Drummond
1938
as Captain Hugh C. Drummond
The invention of a machine that can cause remote explosions brings the attention of Scotland Yard and Bulldog Drummond.

Bulldog Drummond in Africa
1938
as Captain Hugh Chesterton 'Bulldog' Drummond
Drummond has to leave for Morocco on his wedding day with his fiancee and trusted friends to rescue his friend Nielsen who is kidnapped by an internat...
Touchdown, Army
1938
as Cadet Brandon Culpepper
Prep football star Jimmy Howal gets a reception far different from what he expected when he enters West Point.

Prison Farm
1938
as Dr. Roi Conrad
Shirley Ross plays an innocent young girl convicted for complicity in a crime committed by her boy friend (Lloyd Nolan). The male crook is sentence to...

Bulldog Drummond's Peril
1938
as Captain Hugh 'Bulldog' Drummond
Drummond's wedding with Phyllis is interrupted when the inspector guarding their gifts is killed. He tries to trace the killers and uncovers the myste...

Penitentiary
1938
as William Jordan
The story of a D.A. who becomes a prison warden and winds up overseeing the sentence of a man he prosecuted.

Hitting a New High
1937
as Jimmy James
A Paris cabaret singer dreams of becoming a Metropolitan Opera singer. A press agent arranges her Manhattan debut by way of Africa.

Bulldog Drummond's Revenge
1937
as Capt. Hugh Chesterton 'Bulldog' Drummond
Captain Drummond is travelling to Switzerland to marry his girlfriend. However, when a cargo containing dangerous explosives goes missing from its pla...

Hold 'Em Navy
1937
as Chuck Baldwin
Two football players fight over the same girl.

Sunday Night at the Trocadero
1937
as John Howard
A series of vignettes with a loose plot. Featured are Frank Morgan, Groucho Marx, Frank McHugh, Robert Benchley and The Brian Sisters. Not bad, more i...

Bulldog Drummond Comes Back
1937
as Captain Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond
Drummond's girlfriend is kidnapped by his enemies and he along with his friend Nielsen, an inspector from Scotland Yard, follow the trail and try to r...

Mountain Music
1937
as Ardinger Burnside
Mary Beamish, a folksy Ozark girl, yearns for the glitter of show business and for a man. She knows she is anything but gorgeous, but figures her enth...

Let Them Live
1937
as Dr. Paul Martin
A young man goes up against a crooked town boss.

Lost Horizon
1937
as George Conway
British diplomat Robert Conway and a small group of civilians crash-land in the Himalayas, where they are rescued by the inhabitants of the hidden, id...

Easy to Take
1936
as Rodney Garfield
To boost the ratings of a kiddie show, the host agrees to take guardianship of of a bratty boy who has a lovely older sister.

Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
1936
as Paul Darnley
Carrie Snyder is a prostitute, who is forced out of the fictional southern town of Crebillon, after forming a friendship with a young boy named Paul, ...

Border Flight
1936
as Lt. Dan Conlon
Frances Farmer's second film is a typical B-programmer from the Paramount lot of 1936--up and coming stars (John Howard, Robert Cummings, Grant Wither...

13 Hours by Air
1936
as Freddie Scott
Womanizer and airline pilot Jack Gordon must fly the world's fastest airliner from New York to California while dealing with dangerous jewel thieves o...

Soak the Rich
1936
as Kenneth 'Buzz' Jones
Tycoon Humphrey Craig is fearful that a "soak the rich" bill will pass in the United States Senate.
Millions in the Air
1935
as Eddie Warren
The daughter of a radio-program sponsor wants to get on the air too, but her father doesn't allow it, so she enters an amateur contest on his radio pr...

Annapolis Farewell
1935
as Duncan Haley
Commodore Fitzhugh, an old retired naval officer, lives at the Annapolis Naval Academy and, unhappy with the "modern" navy, likes to talk about his da...

Car 99
1935
as Trooper Carney
A story of the Michigan State Police and the strong sense of loyalty and duty it instills in its men. It follows the career of a newly-inducted rookie...