Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. John Loder (3 January 1898 — 26 December 1988) was a British-American actor. He was born William John Muir Lowe in London. His father was General W. H. M. Lowe, the British officer to whom Patrick Pearse, the leader of the Irish 1916 Rising in Dublin, surrendered. Both General Lowe and his son were present at the surrender of Pearse. He was educated at Eton and the Royal Military College and followed his father into the army, commissioned into 15th Hussar...
Known For
Complete Filmography
The Firechasers
1971
as Routledge
Insurance investigator must find out who is setting fires. Along the way he meets and works with a beautiful newspaper reporter and falls in love.
Allá donde el viento brama
1963
The action takes place in Comodo Rivadavia, and reenacts a 1907 mission lead by José Fuchs, who was supposed to find water but found oil instead.
The Secret Man
1958
as Major Anderson
A physicist finds himself drawn into an investigation to track down a spy at his research station.
Gideon's Day
1958
as Ponsford 'The Duke'
Scotland Yard Inspector George Gideon starts his day off on the wrong foot when he gets a traffic-violation ticket from a young police officer. From t...
Josette of New Orleans
1958
as The Colonel
Josette of New Orleans
The Story of Esther Costello
1957
as Paul Marchant
Eighteen-year-old Esther has been deaf and blind since the accident which killed her mother. Wealthy Margaret Landi, a native of Esther's village in I...
Small Hotel
1957
as Mr. Finch
The dining room of the Jolly Fiddler has long been presided over by Albert, an aged but very shrewd waiter. A past master of the gentle art of fiddlin...
Woman and the Hunter
1957
as Mitchell Gifford
When embittered safari guide David Kirby accepts a fateful commission to lead a hunting trip for wealthy and ruthless American Mitchell Gifford, trage...
Dishonored Lady
1947
as Felix Courtland
Art editor Madeleine Damian carries on numerous loveless affairs. After a failed relationship with advertiser Felix Courtland, the increasingly depres...
One More Tomorrow
1946
as Owen Arthur
Shiftless playboy Tom Collier lives to jump from party to party — until he meets photographer Christie Sage. Through Christie, Tom takes over the owne...
The Wife of Monte Cristo
1946
as De Villefort, Prefect of Police
In this sequel to the original story, Monte Cristo count Edmund Dantes (Martin Kosleck) returns to Paris to get revenge but soon finds himself pursued...
Woman Who Came Back
1945
as Dr. Matt Adams
A young woman is tormented by the belief that she is the victim of a witch's curse.
A Game of Death
1945
as Don Rainsford
A shipwrecked Don Rainsford washes up on a homicidal big-game hunter's Caribbean island where the madman hunts human prey for his personal island habi...
Jealousy
1945
as Dr. David Brent
A female cabbie is suspected of killing her drunken husband.
The Brighton Strangler
1945
as Reginald Parker / Edward Grey
After suffering a head injury during the Blitz, John Loder, a theatre actor comes to believe himself to be the Brighton Strangler, the murderer he was...
The Fighting Guardsman
1945
as Sir John Tanley
A French Baron robs Louis XVI like Robin Hood.
Abroad with Two Yanks
1944
as Aussie Sgt. Cyril North
Biff and Jeff, two American G.I.'s on furlough in Australia during The Second World War, are enjoying their time the way most soldiers on leave do. Wh...
The Hairy Ape
1944
as Tony Lazar
Aboard ship, a spoiled woman (Susan Hayward) insults the brutish stoker (William Bendix) while watching him work.
Passage to Marseille
1944
as Manning
A freedom-loving French journalist sacrifices his happiness and security to battle Nazi tyranny.
Old Acquaintance
1943
as Preston Drake
Two writers, friends since childhood, fight over their books and lives.
Adventure in Iraq
1943
as George Torrence
Three Allied soldiers in an airplane flying to Egypt crash-land in Iraq. They are taken in by a local sheik, but soon begin to suspect that he may not...
Murder on the Waterfront
1943
as Holbrook
A sailor and his wife become involved in a murder investigation.
The Mysterious Doctor
1943
as Sir Henry Leland
The citizens of a tiny Cornish village are tormented during World War II by a headless ghost which is haunting the local tin mine.
The Gorilla Man
1943
as Captain Craig Killian
A wounded soldier discovers his hospital is secretly run by the Nazis.
Gentleman Jim
1942
as Carlton De Witt
As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the...
Now, Voyager
1942
as Elliot Livingston
A woman suffers a nervous breakdown and an oppressive mother before being freed by the love of a man she meets on a cruise.
Eagle Squadron
1942
as Paddy Carson
An American joins the British Royal Air Force just before Pearl Harbor is attacked, and falls in love with a beautiful English girl.
Confirm or Deny
1941
as Captain Lionel Channing
Newsman Mitch and teletype operator Jennifer, whose job is to see he doesn't send inappropriate stuff out of the country, dodge bombs during the blitz...
How Green Was My Valley
1941
as Ianto Morgan
A man in his fifties reminisces about his childhood growing up in a Welsh mining village at the turn of the 20th century.
One Night In Lisbon
1941
as Cmdr. Peter Walmsley
Saucy screwball comedy wherein lovely Madeleine falls in love with flier Fred despite interference from her fiancee and his ex.
Scotland Yard
1941
as Sir John Lasher
Inspector Cork pursues a bank robber who serves in the army and receives facial injuries. After plastic surgery he shows up as a bank president planni...
Tin Pan Alley
1940
as Reggie Carstairs
Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to England, and Katy joins her after the boys give a new s...
Diamond Frontier
1940
as Dr. Charles Clayton
Story of the early days of the diamond-mining era in South Africa.
Adventure in Diamonds
1940
as Michael Barclay
A government pilot (George Brent) falls for a woman (Isa Miranda) helping her partner (John Loder) smuggle diamonds out of South Africa.
Meet Maxwell Archer
1940
as Maxwell Archer
Maxwell Archer, a private detective, attempts to clear a young man wrongly accused of murder.
Threats
1940
as Dick Stone
"Menaces" deals with the months before WW2 in a hotel :t he fear of the impending war never leaves the guests of an hotel in Paris.
Murder Will Out
1939
as Dr. Paul Raymond
Paul and Pamela Raymond become immersed in intrigue after receiving a costly jade. As they look for assistance in saving their skins, all their leads ...
The Silent Battle
1939
as Bordier
Secret agents try to defeat terrorists on the Orient Express.
Anything to Declare?
1938
as Capt. Rufus Grant
John Loder and Elliot Makeham star in Redd Davis’s British topical crime thriller. Professor Grayson is working on an anti-gas experiment and Dr. Klee...
Peace on the Rhine
1938
as Émile Scheffer
During the lead up to a second World War, one of several French films hoping for peace,specifically between Germany and France as shown by a border fa...
Katia
1938
as Tsar Alexandre II of Russia
In the middle of the 19th century, Tsar Alexander II made the acquaintance of a young aristocratic girl from the provinces, unruly in character. He fa...
Owd Bob
1938
as David Moore
Adam McAdam is an old, dour sheepherder whose life is devoted to his faithful dog, the whiskey bottle and his daughter, Jeannie. And a conflict that a...
Under Secret Orders
1937
as Lt. Peter Carr
During the First World War, a woman doctor falls in love with one of her patients who turns out to be a German spy. She herself ends up working for Ge...
Non-Stop New York
1937
as Inspector Jim Grant
A young woman finds herself as the intended victim of a murder plot on a transatlantic flight from London to New York.
Doctor Syn
1937
as Denis Cobtree
A highly respected clergyman is actually a former pirate who exacts vigilante justice in this British production.
King Solomon's Mines
1937
as Sir Henry Curtis
White hunter Allan Quartermain and his enigmatic guide help a young Irish woman locate her missing father in unexplored Darkest Africa.
Sabotage
1937
as Ted
Karl Anton Verloc and his wife own a small cinema in a quiet London suburb where they live seemingly happily. But Mrs. Verloc does not know that her h...
Queen of Hearts
1936
as Derek Cooper
A woman prevents a popular stage performer getting arrested for drunk driving, though has to pretend to be a rich benefactor when she next meets him.
The Man Who Changed His Mind
1936
as Dick Haslewood
Dr. Laurence, a once-respectable scientist, begins to research the origin of the mind and the soul. The science community rejects him, and he risks lo...
Guilty Melody
1936
as Richard Carter
A British spy falls in love with a singer whose husband is working for the enemy.
Ourselves Alone
1936
as Captain Wiltshire
In 1921, as Irish nationalists battle with British authorities, a young girl is torn between loyalty to her brother, an IRA leader, her fiance, a poli...
Whom the Gods Love: The Original Story of Mozart and His Wife
1936
as Prince Lobkowitz
Mozart biopic.
It Happened in Paris
1935
as Paul
A British millionaire's son travels to France to study art, and falls in love in Paris.
The Silent Passenger
1935
as John Ryder
A really well made British murder mystery from British Gaumont studios. Story opens with a dead body found in a trunk. Who's the cold-blooded killer?
18 Minutes
1935
as Trelawney
A lion-tamer's partly innate and partly acquired attitude to other living beings - that they shall submit without question to his will - is applied wi...
Lorna Doone
1934
as John Ridd
High drama, set in the English moorland of the 1600s. John Ridd wants revenge on the criminal Doone family, but falls in love with the daughter of the...
My Song Goes Round the World
1934
as Rico
Set in Venice, the touching and sometimes comic story of a diminutive tenor who falls in love whilst striving for success. Also filmed in German as Ei...
Sing As We Go
1934
as Hugh Phillips
When the textile mill closes, putting her out of work, Gracie finds herself experiencing all of the amusements of Blackpool.
Rolling in Money
1934
as Lord Gawthorpe
An impoverished duchess arranges a marriage for her daughter to a wealthy working-class London barber.
Java Head
1934
as Gerrit Ammidon
The port city of Bristol, England, in the 1800s is home to Java Head, a sailing ship line company. The owner has two sons. One, a handsome seafarer, i...
The Battle
1934
as Fergan
The Battle is a 1934 Franco-British co-production English language drama film directed by Nicolas Farkas and Viktor Tourjansky, and starring Charles B...
Love, Life and Laughter
1934
as Prince Charles
Gracie plays a London publican's daughter named after Nell Gwynn, who much like the original, becomes romantically involved with a King(John Loder).
You Made Me Love You
1933
as Harry Berne
A rich American businessman in London makes believe he's lost all his money so that his daughter will marry a composer.
The Private Life of Henry VIII
1933
as Peynell
Renowned for his excess, King Henry VIII goes through a series of wives during his rule. With Anne Boleyn, his second wife, executed on charges of tre...
Money for Speed
1933
as Mitch
A motorcycle champion becomes a stunt rider after he is banned from speedway racing.
Wedding Rehearsal
1932
as John Hopkins aka Bimbo
The grandmother of a British nobleman, reluctant to marry, plays matchmaker. He outmaneuvers her by getting all of the matches married off .
Money Means Nothing
1932
as Earl Egbert
British comedy film directed by Harcourt Templeman and Herbert Wilcox..
On the Loose
1931
as Mr. Loder
Two young women, Zasu and Thelma, complain that all of their dates take them to Coney Island. The next day a car goes by and they are splashed with mu...
Seas Beneath
1931
as Franz Shiller
In the waning days of WWI, a U.S. "Mystery Ship," sets sail for the coast of Spain towing a submarine. Their mission is to find and sink a U-boat that...
One Night at Susie's
1930
as Hayes
A woman gets help from her gangster friends after her foster son takes the blame for a murder he did not commit.
Sweethearts and Wives
1930
as Sam Worthington
An aristocrat tries to prevent her sister's divorce by attempting to recover a diamond necklace, which is being used as incriminating evidence against...
The Man Hunter
1930
as George Castle
Rin-Tin-Tin leaves his usual far north and ranch settings for Africa.
The Second Floor Mystery
1930
as Fraser-Freer's Younger Brother
In this mystery, a man and woman have been corresponding through a "personal" column under the names Lord Strawberries and Lady Grapefruit. When the m...
Lilies of the Field
1930
as Walter Harker
Mildred Harker loses custody of her child in a messy divorce settlement. Leaving her hometown in disgrace, Mildred heads to New York, where after a cr...
Rich People
1929
as Captain Danforth
Connie Hayden (Constance Bennett) faces a dilemma; will she choose the rich guy or the ordinary Joe? Naturally, Connie has the answer in time for the ...
The Racketeer
1929
as Jack Oakhurst
A dapper gangster sponsors an alcoholic violinist in order to win the love of a glamorous divorced socialite.
Love, Live & Laugh
1929
as Dr. Price
Any movie that starts Jewish entertainer George Jessel as an Italian accordionist named Luigi can't be all bad. In love with the beautiful Margharita ...
Her Private Affair
1929
as Carl Weild
A married society woman accidentally kills her would-be lover and blackmailer and then suffers a crisis of conscience when his disgruntled butler is c...
The Unholy Night
1929
as Captain Dorchester
When a rash of murders depletes their number, a billionaire's employees are brought together at an Englishman's estate.
Black Waters
1929
as Charles
A mad captain poses as a cleric to murder people aboard a fogbound ship.
Sunset Pass
1929
as Ashleigh Preston
This Zane Grey adaptation stars square-jawed Jack Holt as a lawman going undercover to ferret out a notorious cattle rustler.
The Doctor's Secret
1929
as Hugh Paton
Young Englishwoman Lillian Garson is unhappy with her marriage and decides to elope with another man. However he is killed in a car accident and she r...
The First Born
1928
as Lord David Harborough
Would-be politician Sir Hugo Boycott and his wife Madeleine have an unhappy marriage. Madeleine is aware that Hugo is a serial philanderer, and their ...
Casanovas Erbe
1928
Fair Game
1928
as Oberleutnant von Rohnstedt
A Daughter Of Destiny
1928
as Viscount
Hanns Heinz Ewers' grim science-fiction novel Alraune has already been filmed twice when this version was assembled in 1928. In another of his "mad do...
Die weiße Spinne
1927