Biography
John Randolph (1915–2004) was an American film, television and stage actor.
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Dogwalker
2002
as Ike
Jerry Cooper is The Dogwalker, a Tom Sawyer grown up for the nineties, who having fallen on hard times, is struggling with the reality of having to sl...

Sunset Strip
2000
as Mr. Niederhaus
A day in Hollywood, 1972, with young people looking for the 24 hours that will change their lives. Zach will open that night for a British rocker at W...

You've Got Mail
1998
as Schulyer Fox
Book superstore magnate, Joe Fox and independent book shop owner, Kathleen Kelly fall in love in the anonymity of the Internet—both blissfully unaware...

A Price Above Rubies
1998
as Rebbe Moshe
About a young woman who is married to a devout Jew and the problems that trouble their marriage because of the woman wanting something more out of her...

A Foreign Field
1993
as Waldo
Nostalgic comic drama in which Cyril and Amos, two veterans of the Normandy landings, return to France to visit the grave of their wartime buddy. They...

The American Clock
1993
as Older Lee Baumler
Moe, Rose and Lee Baumler are members of an upper class family who find the world completely changed when they lose everything in the stock market cra...

Iron Maze
1991
as Mayor Peluso
In Corinth, a dying town 15 miles from Pittsburgh: One evening, a Japanese businessman, who wanted to tear down the closed iron mills to build an amus...

Sibling Rivalry
1990
as Charles Turner, Sr.
Marjorie Turner is suffocating in her marriage and day to day life. An extramarital affair with a stranger seems to be the answer until her paramour h...

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
1989
as Clark, Sr.
It's Christmastime, and the Griswolds are preparing for a family seasonal celebration. But things never run smoothly for Clark, his wife Ellen, and th...

The Wizard of Loneliness
1988
as Doc
After his mother dies and father goes to fight in World War II, a young boy moves in with his aunt and uncle who live in the countryside. Lonely and u...

Superman's 50th Anniversary: A Celebration of the Man of Steel
1988
as Morton Simon, Dry Cleaner
A humourous telling of the history of the comic book superhero.

Means and Ends
1987
as Bill Henderson
The makers of a sexploitation film deceive the officials of a small Illinois town into believing they are making a wholesome comedy.

As Summers Die
1986
as Augustus Tompkins
Set in a sleepy Southern Louisiana town in 1959, a lawyer, searches for justice as he volunteers to help a black woman whose property is being threate...

Joshua and the Battle of Jericho
1986
as (voice)
Learn the tale of Joshua's leadership and his determination to follow his God. Joshua leads the Hebrews through a battle with the Canaanites, who buil...
Vital Signs
1986
Two doctors, a father and son, conceal their alcohol and drug problems in this potent look at the abuse of those substances that exist in the medical ...

The Right of the People
1986
as Hollander
The Second Amendment of the Constitution forms the basis of this drama that follows the crusade of a lawyer to allow citizens to carry handguns. He la...

Prizzi's Honor
1985
as Angelo 'Pop' Partanna
Charley Partanna is a hitman who works for the Prizzis, one of the richest crime families in the US. When he sees Irene Walker, it's love at first sig...

The Execution
1985
as Judge
The members of a San Diego Wednesday night womens' mah jongg club are five survivors of a Nazi concentration camp. They recognize the owner of a local...

A Rose for Emily
1983
as Mr. Grierson
Townsfolk discover a warped secret while clearing out the house of a recently deceased, aristocratic spinster.

Shooting Stars
1983
as Producer
Two television actors who play detectives are fired when the show's star gets upset that they are getting the better parts to play. So, they decide to...

Kentucky Woman
1983
A woman faces harassment and humiliation when she goes to work as a coal miner to support her small son and ailing dad.

Frances
1982
as Kindly Judge
The true story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted.

The Adventures of Pollyanna
1982
as Mr. Muller
Pollyanna’s Aunt Polly wants the girl to spend her time studying, but Pollyanna has other ideas. She joins a secret club with a group of orphans, and ...

Killing at Hell's Gate
1981
as Attorney General
A whitewater rafting party is terrorized by a group of loggers who, after accidentally killing one of the rafters in a drunken session of target pract...

The New Deal for Artists
1981
The Arts Project of the Work Projects Administration (1935-1942) was a USA government agency established to support writers, theater people, painters,...

Lovely But Deadly
1981
as Franklin Van Dyke
A cheerleader goes undercover to fight drug dealers because her brother OD'd and her fellow cheerleaders are hooked.

The Adventures of Nellie Bly
1981
as Joseph Pulitzer
A "Classics Illustrated" account of pioneer female journalist Nellie Bly, who became a legend through her exposes of corruption and inhumane condition...

Nero Wolfe
1979
as Lon Cohen
Gourmet Nero Wolfe interrupts his orchid-tending to take on the case of a lady tycoon who wants to know why she's under investigation by the FBI, only...

The Winds of Kitty Hawk
1978
as Alexander Graham Bell
The story of the Wright Brothers and their efforts to invent, build, and fly the world's first successful motor-operated airplane.

Heaven Can Wait
1978
as Former Owner
Joe Pendleton is a quarterback preparing to lead his team to the superbowl when he is almost killed in an accident. An overanxious angel plucks him to...

Doctors' Private Lives
1978
as Irv
Two heart surgeons clash over personal issues and medical ethics in a big-city hospital.

Nowhere to Run
1978
as Marian's Father
Harry's married to Marian and things are not going all that well, so he wants out but somehow feels that a divorce is not the answer. After developing...

The Gathering
1977
as Dr. Hodges
When Adam Thornton learns that he only has a little time left, he decides that he wants to make peace with his family. Only problem is that most of hi...

Kill Me If You Can
1977
as Judge Lewis Goodman
The story of Caryl Chessman, a convicted California rapist who spent 12 years on death row before finally being executed.

Lucan
1977
as Dr. Don Hoagland
A 20-year old who spent the first 10 years of his life running wild in the forest after being raised by predatory animals now strikes out on his own i...

Secrets
1977
as Ed Warner
A young woman trapped in an unhappy marriage goes from affair to affair in her search for the "secret" to happiness.

Tail Gunner Joe
1977
as Gen. Lampkin
Senator Joseph McCarthy from Wisconsin accuses prominent people of Communist sympathies in order to give him a national power base when he later plann...

King Kong
1976
as Captain Ross
An oil company expedition disturbs the peace of a giant ape and brings him back to New York to exploit him.

Independence
1976
as Samuel Adams
John Huston directs this film giving relevance and life to the hallowed buildings and ground making up Independence National Historical Park. Through ...

All the President's Men
1976
as John Mitchell (voice) (uncredited)
During the 1972 elections, two reporters' investigation sheds light on the controversial Watergate scandal that compels President Nixon to resign from...

Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur
1976
as Charlie Ross
U.S. President Harry S Truman and his commander in the Korean War, General Douglas MacArthur, disagree on war strategy. Their conflict comes to a head...

F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood
1975
as Rupert Wahler
The story of author F. Scott Fitzgerald's two stays in Hollywood to write for films, once in 1927 at the height of his acclaim, and again in 1937 when...

Beyond the Horizon
1975
as James Mayo
On a Connecticut farm, James Mayo's two sons both love Ruth Atkins. Robert, the younger son, is sickly and dreams of escaping to a romantic life somew...

Everybody Rides the Carousel
1975
as Stage 7 (voice)
Everybody Rides The Carousel invites the viewer along on eight "rides" through the different stages of life. Based on the work by Erik Erikson, one o...

The Runaways
1975
as George Collingwood
A story about a teenage boy who runs away from his foster home after wrongly being accused of theft and soon crosses paths with a young leopard which ...

Adventures of the Queen
1975
as John Howe
A madman hijacks the luxury cruise liner, S.S. Queen, and threatens to blow it up unless a millionaire pays him the the contents of a safe deposit box...

Earthquake
1974
as Los Angeles Mayor
Various interconnected people struggle to survive when an earthquake of unimaginable magnitude hits Los Angeles, California.

Nourish the Beast
1974
as Mario
Baba Goya is a loudmouth mother who goes through husbands and orphans like the Turkish coffee she makes in a dirty old soup pan. In Queens she preside...
Tell Me Where It Hurts
1974
as Lou
A housewife, increasingly disenchanted with her homemaker role, looks for new meaning in her life and organizes a discussion group, changing the lives...

Serpico
1973
as Sidney Green
New York cop Frank Serpico blows the whistle on the rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him.

Pueblo
1973
as Lt. Gen. S.J. McKee
Dramatization showing the 1968 seizure of the spy ship, Pueblo, by the North Koreans and the treatment of the Pueblo's crew during their year of capti...

Partners in Crime
1973
as Judge Charles Leland
A retired judge who opens a private detective agency and her ex-con associate try to track down $750,000 in bank robbery loot.

The Judge and Jake Wyler
1972
as James Rockmore
A retired lady judge runs a private detective agency with a charming ex-con as her leg man and various parolees helping in the day-to-day operation.

The Family Rico
1972
as Mike Lamont
A Mafia chief is torn between his brother, who has defected from the family, and his loyalty to the organization.

Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
1972
as Commission Chairman
In a futuristic world that has embraced ape slavery, a chimpanzee named Caesar resurfaces after almost twenty years of hiding from the authorities, an...

A Death of Innocence
1971
as Charles Camaron
A mother travels to New York to see her daughter who is awaiting trial for murder. The mother is totally convinced of her daughter's innocence and doe...

Crosscurrent
1971
as Frederick Cooper
Two San Francisco detectives investigating a murder committed on one of the city's famous cable cars discover that the victim was the son of a shippin...

Escape from the Planet of the Apes
1971
as Committee Chairman
The world is shocked by the appearance of three talking chimpanzees, who arrived mysteriously in a spacecraft. Intrigued by their intelligence, humans...

A Step Out of Line
1971
as Detective Riddle
Three financially down-and-out buddies plot to pull a bank robbery to cure their financial woes.

Little Murders
1971
as Mr. Chamberlain
A young nihilistic New Yorker copes with pervasive urban violence, obscene phone calls, rusty water pipes, electrical blackouts, paranoia, and ethnic-...

There Was a Crooked Man...
1970
as Cyrus McNutt
Arizona Territorial Prison inmate Paris Pitman, Jr. is a schemer, a charmer, and quite popular among his fellow convicts — especially with $500,000 in...

Gaily, Gaily
1969
as Father
After runaway Ben Young is robbed and left on his own, he is taken in by Lil, the head of a Chicago brothel. Acting as a surrogate mother for Ben, who...

Number One
1969
as Coach James Southerd
A former football hero cannot accept his career is over. He loses himself in alcohol and women.

Smith!
1969
as Mr. Edwards
When the Indian Jimmyboy is accused of murder of a white man, he flees onto the ranch of Smith, who's well known for his tolerance for Indians, since ...

Pretty Poison
1968
as Morton Azenauer
A troubled arsonist spins a tale of espionage to a captivating girl, who becomes enthralled and entangled in his dangerous fantasies, leading to unexp...

Of Mice and Men
1968
Two ranch workers, one of them simple-minded, look for work and happiness during the Great Depression, but luck is not in their cards.

The Borgia Stick
1967
as Smith
A suburban couple discovers that they are pawns for a powerful crime syndicate. They try to break away from the cartel and go legitimate, but the synd...

Sweet Love, Bitter
1967
A loose fictitious of Charlie Parker's last years and a portrait of the jazz scene in 1960's New York. A black jazz musician bent on self destruction ...

Seconds
1966
as Arthur Hamilton
An unhappy middle-aged banker agrees to a procedure that will fake his death and give him a completely new look and identity; one that comes with its ...

Inherit the Wind
1965
as Rev. Brown
A young man, Bert Cates, is arrested in a small Bible Belt town for teaching the theory of Evolution in the public school. Two of the finest legal min...

Hamlet
1964
as Gravedigger
Hamlet suspects his uncle has murdered his father to claim the throne of Denmark, and the hand of Hamlet's mother, but the prince cannot decide whethe...

Fourteen Hours
1951
as Fireman (uncredited)
A young man, morally destroyed by his parents not loving him and by the fear of being not capable to make his girlfriend happy, rises on the ledge of ...

The Naked City
1948
as Ed Garzah (uncredited)
After a former model is drowned in her bathtub, Detective James Halloran and Lieutenant Dan Muldoon attempt to piece together her murder.