- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- November 15, 1931
- Place of Birth
- New York City, New York, USA
- Died
- February 2, 2013
John Kerr
John Grinham Kerr (November 15, 1931 – February 2, 2013), was an American actor and lawyer. He made his Broadway debut in 1953 in Mary Coyle Chase's Bernardine, a high-school comedy for which he won a Theatre World Award. In 1953-54, he received critical acclaim as a troubled prep school student in Robert Anderson's play Tea and Sympathy. In 1954, he won a Tony Award for his performance, and he starred in the film version in 1956. Kerr's first television acting role was in 1954 on NBC's Justice as a basketball player who believes that gamblers have ruined his success on the court. His mother appeared with him on the series, which focuses on the cases of attorneys with the Legal Aid Society of New York. He made The Cobweb for MGM, who liked his work so much they co-starred him with Leslie Caron in Gaby (1956), the third remake of Waterloo Bridge, which, in its original pre-Code 1931 versi…
Filmography
Anthony Perkins: A Life in the Shadows
movieAnthony Perkins: A Life in the Shadows
1999 · Self
movieBay Coven
1987 · Ferry Captain
tvThe Ray Bradbury Theater
1985 · Don
movieThe Amateur
1981 · CIA Security Guard
movieSearch and Destroy
1979 · MacPherson
moviePlague
1979 · Escaping Guard
movieThe Silent Partner
1978 · Detective #3
tvMedical Story
1975 · Dr. Barrett
movieOnly God Knows
1974 · Health Inspector
tvToma
1973
movieClass of '44
1973 · Hotel Bartender, Ford Hotel Bartender (uncredited)
tvPolice Story
1973
movieIncident on a Dark Street
1973 · Gallagher - Trenier's Lawyer
tvThe Streets of San Francisco
1972
tvSearch
1972
movieThe Longest Night
1972 · Agent Jones
tvThe Rookies
1972 · Price
tvColumbo
1971 · Roger Dutton
movieYuma
1971 · Capt. White
tvAlias Smith and Jones
1971
tvThe Mod Squad
1968
tvAdam-12
1968 · Father Joe
tvThe Name of the Game
1968 · Billy Keaton, Stuart Clark
tvThe High Chaparral
1967 · Creed Hallock
tvThe F.B.I.
1965 · SAC Gary Morgan, Chicago Special Agent, SAC William Converse, S.A.C. Douglas Parker, Clayton McGregor
The Long, Hot Summer
tvThe Long, Hot Summer
1965
tvRun for Your Life
1965 · Alex Ryder
Profiles in Courage
tvProfiles in Courage
1964 · Whitlock
tvArrest and Trial
1963 · Barry Pine
tvThe Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962 · Glendon Baker
tvThe Virginian
1962 · Oliver Smith
movieKing of Kings
1961 · Man at Sermon on the Mount (uncredited)
tvBus Stop
1961
tvThe Defenders
1961 · Jonathan Winthrop
movieThe Pit and the Pendulum
1961 · Francis Barnard
movieGirl of the Night
1960 · Larry Taylor
movieThe Crowded Sky
1960 · Mike Rule
tvRiverboat
1959 · Jefferson Carruthers
tvRawhide
1959
movieSouth Pacific
1958 · Lt. Joseph Cable, USMC
movieThe Vintage
1957 · Ernesto Barandero
movieThe Ninth Day
1957
movieSnowshoes: A Comedy of People and Horses
1957 · Self - Announcing Next Week's Show
movieTea and Sympathy
1956 · Tom Robinson Lee
movieGaby
1956 · Gregory Y. Wendell
movieThe Quatermass Xperiment
1955 · Photo Lab Technician (uncredited)
tvMGM Parade
1955 · self
tvGunsmoke
1955 · Lute
movieThe Cobweb
1955 · Steven W. Holte
tvThe Wonderful World of Disney
1954 · Martin Didler
tvClimax!
1954 · Matt Sloane, Danny Barron/Steve Barron, Poggi
tvThe United States Steel Hour
1953
movieRex Newman
1953 · Howie Madden
Horace Mann's Miracle
movieHorace Mann's Miracle
1953 · student
tvGeneral Electric Theater
1953 · Freddie
tvHallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · , Peter Standish
Lux Video Theatre
tvLux Video Theatre
1950 · Tony
tvSuspense
1949 · Derek Howard
tvStudio One
1948 · , The Boy
tvThe Philco Television Playhouse
1948 · George Avery