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John Dehner was an American actor and animator. He had a long and prolific career in radio, television, and film, often as droll villains. Between 1940 and 1989, he appeared in over 260 films, television series, and made-for-television movies.
Birth Name
John Dehner Forkum
Born
Tuesday, 23 November 1915
Died
Tuesday, 04 February 1992
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Red Carpet Report | Self | 2009 |
| Legends of the West | Actor in 'The Left Handed Gun' | 1992 |
| War and Remembrance | Adm. Ernest King | 1988 |
| The Colbys | Billy Joe Erskine / Sam Erskine | 1985 |
| Jagged Edge | Judge Carrigan | 1985 |
| Creator | Paul | 1985 |
| The Right Stuff | Henry Luce | 1983 |
| Hardcastle and McCormick | Guenther Rieseman | 1983 |
| Bare Essence | Hadden Marshall | 1983 |
| The Winds of War | Adm. Ernest King | 1983 |
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Red Carpet Report | Self | 2009 |
| Legends of the West | Actor in 'The Left Handed Gun' | 1992 |
| War and Remembrance | Adm. Ernest King | 1988 |
| The Colbys | Billy Joe Erskine / Sam Erskine | 1985 |
| Jagged Edge | Judge Carrigan | 1985 |
| Creator | Paul | 1985 |
| The Right Stuff | Henry Luce | 1983 |
| Hardcastle and McCormick | Guenther Rieseman | 1983 |
| Bare Essence | Hadden Marshall | 1983 |
| The Winds of War | Adm. Ernest King | 1983 |
| Airplane II: The Sequel | The Commissioner | 1982 |
| California Gold Rush | Captain John Sutter | 1981 |
| Enos | Lt. Joseph Broggi / Lt. Jacob Broggi | 1980 |
| Nothing Personal | Senator | 1980 |
| Young Maverick | Marshal Edge Troy | 1979 |
| Hart to Hart | Dodsworth Nash | 1979 |
| Greatest Heroes of the Bible | Debuknar | 1978 |
| The Boys from Brazil | Henry Wheelock | 1978 |
| The Lincoln Conspiracy | Col. Lafayette C. Baker | 1977 |
| Big Hawaii | Barrett Fears | 1977 |
| Danger in Paradise | Barrett Fears | 1977 |
| Dead of Night | Narrator | 1977 |
| Fun with Dick and Jane | Jane's Father | 1977 |
| Guardian of the Wilderness | John Muir | 1976 |
| Quincy M.E. | Dr. Ronald Shafer | 1976 |
| The Killer Inside Me | Bob Maples | 1976 |
| The New Daughters of Joshua Cabe | Warden Mannering | 1976 |
| How the West Was Won | Bishop Benjamin | 1976 |
| Barbary Coast | General Everett Barton | 1975 |
| Ellery Queen | George Tisdale | 1975 |
| Switch | Mr. Simon | 1975 |
| McCoy | Bishop | 1975 |
| S.W.A.T. | Gen. Woodward | 1975 |
| The Missiles of October | Former Secretary of State Dean Acheson / Dean Acheson - Former Secretary of State | 1974 |
| Kolchak: The Night Stalker | Capt. Vernon Rausch | 1974 |
| Petrocelli | Dr. Leo Stegner | 1974 |
| Movin' On | Mr. Lanier | 1974 |
| The Rockford Files | Judge Lyman / Inspector DeMartonis | 1974 |
| The Day of the Dolphin | Wallingford | 1973 |
| The Magician | Simon Russell | 1973 |
| The New Temperatures Rising Show | Dr. Charles Cleveland Claver | 1972 |
| Slaughterhouse-Five | Prof. Rumfoord / Rumfoord | 1972 |
| Columbo | Commodore Otis Swanson / Roland Pangborn | 1971 |
| Support Your Local Gunfighter | Colonel Ames / Col. Ames | 1971 |
| Dirty Dingus Magee | Brig. Gen. George | 1970 |
| The Silent Force | Judge Caldwell | 1970 |
| The Don Knotts Show | Self | 1970 |
| The Cheyenne Social Club | Clay Carroll | 1970 |
| Quarantined | Dr. John Bedford | 1970 |
| Tiger by the Tail | Sheriff Chancey Jones | 1970 |
| The Immortal | George Allison | 1969 |
| Love, American Style | Judge (segment "Love and the Secret Spouse") | 1969 |
| Stiletto | District Attorney Frank Simpson | 1969 |
| Then Came Bronson | Sid Casper | 1969 |
| The Queen and I | Moose Mitchell | 1969 |
| The Doris Day Show | Cy Bennett / Cyril Bennett | 1968 |
| The Outcasts | Colonel Romulus | 1968 |
| Land of the Giants | Lt. Grayson | 1968 |
| Hawaii Five-O | Anthony Del Vecchi | 1968 |
| The Helicopter Spies | Dr. Parviz Kharmusi / Dr. Kharmusi | 1968 |
| Mannix | Jim Claman | 1967 |
| Ironside | The Colonel | 1967 |
| The High Chaparral | Gar Burnett / Captain Surtee | 1967 |
| Judd for the Defense | Byron Shellenbach / Schellenbach | 1967 |
| The Flying Nun | Capt. Daniel J. Dolger | 1967 |
| Winchester 73 | High-Spade Johnny Dean | 1967 |
| Captain Nice | Medula | 1967 |
| Mission: Impossible | Dan Whelan | 1966 |
| T.H.E. Cat | El Ganso | 1966 |
| Jericho | Oberlieutenant Werner Hobst | 1966 |
| The Road West | Dr. Kruger | 1966 |
| Tarzan | Crosby | 1966 |
| The Monroes | Pete Lamson | 1966 |
| Get Smart | Colonel Kyle K. Kirby | 1965 |
| The Wild Wild West | John Maxwell Avery / Torres | 1965 |
| Hogan's Heroes | Colonel Backscheider / General von Platzen | 1965 |
| O.K. Crackerby! | Ol' Sam | 1965 |
| The Big Valley | Daddy Cade | 1965 |
| Run for Your Life | Eliot Ponas | 1965 |
| A Man Called Shenandoah | Moberly | 1965 |
| F Troop | Professor Cornelius Clyde | 1965 |
| The Hallelujah Trail | Narrator | 1965 |
| Branded | Joshua Murdock | 1965 |
| Youngblood Hawke | Scotty Hawke | 1964 |
| The Baileys of Balboa | Commodore Cecil Wyntoon | 1964 |
| The Man from U.N.C.L.E. | Dr. Parviz Kharmusi | 1964 |
| Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea | Borgman | 1964 |
| The Rogues | Taylor C. Grant | 1964 |
| Mr. and Mrs. | Mr. Henderson | 1964 |
| The Great Adventure | President Thomas Jefferson | 1963 |
| Glynis | Willie the Fink | 1963 |
| East Side/West Side | John Manulis | 1963 |
| Temple Houston | Mayor Benedict Williams / Jed Dobbs | 1963 |
| The Greatest Show on Earth | Aubrey | 1963 |
| Critic's Choice | S.P. Champlain | 1963 |
| The Gallant Men | Capt. Rauch | 1962 |
| The Chapman Report | Geoffrey Harnish | 1962 |
| Combat! | Gen. Armand Bouchard | 1962 |
| Stoney Burke | Zack Mundorf | 1962 |
| The Beverly Hillbillies | Rex Goodbody | 1962 |
| Empire | Dan Tabor | 1962 |
| The Virginian | Morgan Starr / Marshall Eliazer Teague / Frank Sturgis / Bleeck | 1962 |
| Aquamania | Narrator | 1961 |
| The Litterbug | Narrator | 1961 |
| The Canadians | Frank Boone | 1961 |
| The Roaring 20's | Duke Williams | 1960 |
| Stagecoach West | Sandy Campbell / 'Henchard' / Colonel Sam Carlin | 1960 |
| Surfside 6 | Francisco Hernandez / Dan Castle | 1960 |
| The Andy Griffith Show | Colonel Harvey | 1960 |
| The Westerner | Burgundy Smith / 'Burgundy Smith' | 1960 |
| The Tom Ewell Show | Newton Pickering | 1960 |
| Here's Hollywood | Self | 1960 |
| The Brothers Brannagan | Frank Lucas | 1960 |
| Checkmate | George Shay | 1960 |
| The Aquanauts | Max | 1960 |
| Vice Raid | Narrator | 1959 |
| Hawaiian Eye | Ishmael Carmichael | 1959 |
| Philip Marlowe | Brother Aaron | 1959 |
| Startime | Commentator | 1959 |
| Adventures in Paradise | Paul Jordan | 1959 |
| The Alaskans | Cornish / Soapy Smith | 1959 |
| The Rebel | John Sims | 1959 |
| The Twilight Zone | Alan Richards / Captain Allenby / Jared Garrity | 1959 |
| Law of the Plainsman | Walter Shannon | 1959 |
| Wichita Town | Lew Lowry | 1959 |
| Laramie | Jack Slade | 1959 |
| Bonanza | Jean Lafitte / Captain Pender | 1959 |
| Cast a Long Shadow | Chip Donohue / Chip Donahue | 1959 |
| Invisible Invaders | Narrator | 1959 |
| The David Niven Show | Tom Edwards | 1959 |
| The Untouchables | Huey Barker | 1959 |
| Black Saddle | Aaron Robinson / Park Forrest | 1959 |
| Rawhide | Arvid Lacey / Ben Kerran / Capt. Francis Cabot / Jubal Wade / Straw Coleman | 1959 |
| Timbuktu | Emir Bhaki aka The Lion of the Desert / Emir Bhaki - aka The Lion of the Desert | 1958 |
| The Sign of Zorro | Don Estaban - Viceroy / Viceroy | 1958 |
| Cimarron City | Will Buckley | 1958 |
| 77 Sunset Strip | Dr. Burke / John Dehner / Mark Hammet / Morton P. Franklin / Robert McGill / Roland Dumont | 1958 |
| Bat Masterson | Sheriff / Marshal Ben Holt | 1958 |
| Lawman | Ben Wyatt | 1958 |
| Yancy Derringer | Col. Tate | 1958 |
| Man of the West | Claude / Claude Tobin | 1958 |
| The Rifleman | Wood Bartell / Tom King / Maj. Aaron King / Al Walker | 1958 |
| The Texan | Major Randolph | 1958 |
| Bronco | Otis Dameyer / Narrator / Ben Cullen | 1958 |
| Wanted: Dead or Alive | Sheriff Hayes / Grant Mandeville / Abraham Saxon | 1958 |
| Apache Territory | Grant Kimbrough | 1958 |
| Frontier Justice | Jim Randolph | 1958 |
| The Left Handed Gun | Pat Garrett | 1958 |
| The Betty White Show | Self / Himself | 1958 |
| Zorro | Viceroy | 1957 |
| The Real McCoys | Roger Brewster | 1957 |
| Goodyear Theatre | Walter Howey | 1957 |
| The Restless Gun | Aaron Dixon / George Temple / Sheriff Heck Partridge | 1957 |
| Maverick | Luther Cannonbaugh / Archie Walker / Big Ed Murphy / John Bates | 1957 |
| Perry Mason | Major Lewis | 1957 |
| Wagon Train | Ned Rossiter / Cleve Colter | 1957 |
| Have Gun - Will Travel | Ben Marquette | 1957 |
| The Truth About Mother Goose | Narrator | 1957 |
| Trooper Hook | Fred Sutliff | 1957 |
| The Girl in Black Stockings | Sheriff Jess Holmes | 1957 |
| Date with the Angels | Norman Dunbar | 1957 |
| The Iron Sheriff | Roger Pollack | 1957 |
| Tales of Wells Fargo | Wade Cather / Big Willy Crane / Cather | 1957 |
| Revolt at Fort Laramie | Maj. Seth Bradner | 1957 |
| Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers | Major Kevin McPherson | 1956 |
| Zane Grey Theatre | Colonel Overton / Dr. Jim Randolph / Jim Brayden / Marshal Tom Harvey | 1956 |
| Playhouse 90 | Colonel Tedesco | 1956 |
| Tension at Table Rock | Hampton | 1956 |
| The Sheriff of Cochise | Bradford | 1956 |
| The Fastest Gun Alive | Taylor Swope | 1956 |
| A Day of Fury | Preacher Jason | 1956 |
| Terror at Midnight | Lew Hanlon | 1956 |
| Please Murder Me! | Ray Willis / Dist. Atty. Ray Willis | 1956 |
| Carousel | Mr. Bascombe | 1956 |
| Top Gun | Tom Quentin | 1955 |
| Matinee Theatre | Captain Miles Standish | 1955 |
| Crusader | Wilson Foster | 1955 |
| Frontier | Yancy / John Masterson | 1955 |
| Cheyenne | Nagel | 1955 |
| Duel on the Mississippi | Jules Tulane / Jacques Scarlet | 1955 |
| Gunsmoke | Ben / Caleb / Cope Borden / Hardy Tate / Luke / Nate Springer / Nip Cullers / Paolo Scanzano / Rack / Sam Wall / Tom Cassidy / Wayne Russell | 1955 |
| Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre | General Hugh Marley / Henry Latham / McDermott | 1955 |
| The King's Thief | Capt Herrick | 1955 |
| The Scarlet Coat | Nathanael Greene | 1955 |
| The Soldiers | Captain | 1955 |
| Tall Man Riding | Ames Luddington | 1955 |
| The Man from Bitter Ridge | Ranse Jackman | 1955 |
| The Prodigal | Joram | 1955 |
| The Millionaire | Prof. Ridgely | 1955 |
| The Magical World of Disney | Narrator / Jason Gore / Washington Irving / Cyrus | 1954 |
| Apache | Weddle | 1954 |
| Adventures of the Falcon | Vic Killeman | 1954 |
| Strauss Fantasy | Announcer | 1954 |
| The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters | Dr. Derek Gravesend / Derek Gravesend | 1954 |
| The Cowboy | Narrator | 1954 |
| Southwest Passage | Matt Carroll | 1954 |
| Waterfront | Al Catania | 1954 |
| Stories of the Century | Sheriff Henry Plummer | 1954 |
| The Man Behind the Badge | Capt. Harold D. Smith | 1953 |
| The Steel Lady | Sid Barlowe | 1953 |
| Vicki | Police Capt. J. 'Chief' Donald / Captain Donald | 1953 |
| Fort Algiers | Major Colle | 1953 |
| Gun Belt | Matt Ringo | 1953 |
| Powder River | Harvey Logan | 1953 |
| Man on a Tightrope | The Chief | 1953 |
| Plymouth Adventure | Gilbert Winslow | 1952 |
| Four Star Playhouse | Gen. Hatfield / Charles Quine / Capt. Bowns | 1952 |
| Junction City | Emmett Sanderson | 1952 |
| Lady in the Iron Mask | Count de Fourrier | 1952 |
| Cripple Creek | Emil Cabeau | 1952 |
| California Conquest | Fredo Brios | 1952 |
| Desert Passage | Bronson | 1952 |
| Scaramouche | Doutreval | 1952 |
| The Green Glove | Narrator | 1952 |
| Aladdin and His Lamp | Prince Bokra | 1952 |
| Harem Girl | Khalil | 1952 |
| Ten Tall Men | Jardine | 1951 |
| Schlitz Playhouse | Capt. Thomas Flynn | 1951 |
| Hot Lead | Turk Thorne - aka John H. Smith / Turk Thorne aka John H. Smith | 1951 |
| Corky of Gasoline Alley | Jefferson Jay | 1951 |
| The Adventures of Kit Carson | George Graham | 1951 |
| China Corsair | Pedro | 1951 |
| The Texas Rangers | John Wesley 'Wes' Hardin / Wes Hardin | 1951 |
| Lorna Doone | Baron de Wichehalse | 1951 |
| When the Redskins Rode | John Delmont | 1951 |
| Fort Savage Raiders | Capt. Michael Craydon | 1951 |
| Al Jennings of Oklahoma | Tom Marsden | 1951 |
| The Flying Missile | Lieutenant Commander | 1950 |
| Counterspy Meets Scotland Yard | Agent Bob Reynolds / Bob Reynolds | 1950 |
| Last of the Buccaneers | Sgt. Belchue | 1950 |
| Lux Video Theatre | Lloyd / Gilbert Simmone / Baron DeBalbus | 1950 |
| Three Secrets | Gordon Crossley | 1950 |
| David Harding, Counterspy | Frank Reynolds | 1950 |
| Captive Girl | Hakim | 1950 |
| Rogues of Sherwood Forest | Sir Baldric | 1950 |
| Destination Murder | Frank Niles | 1950 |
| Texas Dynamo | Stanton | 1950 |
| Dynamite Pass | Anson Thurber | 1950 |
| Dangerous Assignment | Capt. Riki / Carson | 1950 |
| Backfire | Blake - Plainclothes Cop | 1950 |
| Bodyhold | Sir Raphael Brokenridge | 1949 |
| Horsemen of the Sierras | Duke Webster | 1949 |
| Mary Ryan, Detective | Belden | 1949 |
| Feudin' Rhythm | Serious Actor | 1949 |
| Bandits of El Dorado | Charles Bruton | 1949 |
| Barbary Pirate | Murad Reis | 1949 |
| The Secret of St. Ives | Couguelat | 1949 |
| Kazan | Henri Le Clerc | 1949 |
| Tulsa | Oilman | 1949 |
| Riders of the Pony Express | John Dakin (Joseph Dakin in credits) | 1949 |
| I Cheated the Law | Newspaperman | 1949 |
| State Department: File 649 | Third Oral Examiner | 1949 |
| He Walked by Night | Assistant Bureau Chief | 1949 |
| Let's Live a Little | Dempster | 1948 |
| The Trial of Donald Duck | Pierre / Defense Attorney | 1948 |
| Dream Girl | Radio Announcer | 1948 |
| Bury Me Dead | Reporter | 1947 |
| Blonde Savage | Joe Comstock | 1947 |
| Golden Earrings | SS Officer with Hoff | 1947 |
| Vigilantes of Boomtown | Bob Fitzsimmons | 1947 |
| It's a Joke, Son! | Reporter | 1947 |
| Out California Way | Rod Mason | 1946 |
| Big Town | Willard Erskine | 1946 |
| The Last Crooked Mile | Jarvis - Gang Leader / Jarvis, Gang Leader | 1946 |
| The Searching Wind | American Reporter in Paris | 1946 |
| O.S.S. | German Radar Captain | 1946 |
| Rendezvous 24 | Harris | 1946 |
| Her Kind of Man | Guest | 1946 |
| The Catman of Paris | Georges | 1946 |
| The Undercover Woman | Walter Hughes | 1946 |
| Club Havana | Jeffreys | 1945 |
| She Went to the Races | Winner's Announcer | 1945 |
| State Fair | Hog Contest Announcer | 1945 |
| Christmas in Connecticut | State Trooper #2 | 1945 |
| Captain Eddie | Ambulance Attendant | 1945 |
| Twice Blessed | Contest Announcer | 1945 |
| The Corn Is Green | Miner with Pipe in Bar | 1945 |
| The Clock Watcher | Speaker Pipe | 1945 |
| Lake Placid Serenade | Radio Announcer | 1944 |
| Hollywood Canteen | Norwegian Sailor | 1944 |
| Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo | Lieutenant Commander | 1944 |
| Commando Duck | Flight Officer | 1944 |
| Contrary Condor | Narrator | 1944 |
| Tarzan's Desert Mystery | Prince Ameer | 1943 |
| Bellboy Donald | Hotel Manager | 1942 |
| Lend a Paw | Pluto's Devil | 1941 |
| The Reluctant Dragon | Tall Baby Weems Storyboard Artist with Mustache | 1941 |
