Date of birth: 1923-05-30
Place of birth: Harrington Park, New Jersey, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: James Lydon, James Joseph Lydon

James J. Lydon (born May 30, 1923) is an American actor and television producer whose career in the entertainment industry began as a teenager during the 1930s.

1973-02-08
After killing their repulsive stepfather, emboldened sisters Myra and Ellie set out to become career

1976-09-09
In a small town in California, the quiet citizens find their lives disrupted by boisterous, lawless

1953-09-05
A C-47 transport plane, named the Corsair, makes a forced landing in the frozen wastelands of Labrad

1947-09-13
A straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really ru

1945-03-31
An adolescent believes that his widowed mother's suitor may have murdered his father.

1948-09-11
Donald Lewis is a low-paid clerk in a high-profile shipbuilding firm. When the company is robbed in

1960-02-17
A mysterious hypnotist is suspected by the police of being responsible for a wave of young, attracti

1948-12-22
In the 15th Century, France is a defeated and ruined nation after the One Hundred Years War against

1940-06-26
When private tutor Thomas Arnold becomes headmaster at an English preparatory school for boys, he pu

1939-04-19
The life of a young kid, who starts stealing small things to fit in with the "cool crowd".

1957-01-06
A police lieutenant fights to prove a boy's innocence after he's accused of murder. The fourth of fi

1969-05-08
In the turn-of-the century Texas town of Cottownwood Springs, marshal Frank Patch is an old-style la

1950-10-18
An industrialist and a pianist meet on a trip and fall in love. Through a quirk of fate, they are re

1950-10-22
A young man builds a hot rod despite the disapproval of his father, a Juvenile Court judge. Circumst

1947-10-23
The biggest town problem is worrying whether the high school basketball team will win the championsh

1950-02-28
Bud Dolliver, a former WWII hero, and an ex-convict, returns to his home town in an effort to make a

1942-09-01
Appointed editor of his high school newspaper, hapless Henry becomes intrigued by a series of myster

1950-06-01
A teacher (Dorothy Patrick) weekends at her fiance's (Robert Rockwell) cabin, where a fugitive hides

1944-10-22
The hometown life of a young soldier suffering from shellshock amnesia is revealed in flashback.

1947-08-29
Sheltered by her conservative parents, a small-town teenager finally goes out on a date.
1944-05-18
Documentary short film intended to drum up support for the Fifth War Loan Campaign. It shows a happy

1940-12-28
Dr. Tom O'Hara takes over a public clinic in New York's desperately poor Bowery section. Boy ganglea

1951-01-02
A young man tries to get rich by opening a diner. Comedy based on the popular comic strip.

1944-12-15
Comedy concerning two feuding fathers dealing with the shocking news that their sons were switched a

1960-03-18
A young woman falls in love and marries, but withholds from her husband information about her family

1944-04-11
Documentary short film intended to drum up support for the Fifth War Loan Campaign. It shows a happy

1949-02-22
A lawman tries to find the source of a juvenile delinquent's bad behavior.

1948-09-03
Joe spends a lot of his time at Nick's Pacific Street Saloon. Tom, who credits Joe with once saving

1945-05-31
Stephanie and Terry are identical twins who have been raised separately since their parents divorced

1951-09-17
A small town family discovers an unwanted houseguest is harder to eject than they expected. Comedy.

1947-12-04
At fictitious Tait University in the Roaring '20s, co-ed and school librarian Connie Lane falls for

1951-03-01
Unable to keep peace between frontier Indians and the US Cavalry, a heroic Captain risks court-marti

1975-03-23
When a famous fashion designer is found murdered, Inspector Richard Queen of the NYPD is baffled by

1961-05-27
Two Air Force friends have fun during their enlistment.

1971-03-26
In this pilot film to the TV series, Cannon investigates the murder of a war buddy to clear the man'

1939-12-08
A farm boy trains a wild colt on his own.

1944-06-10
Teenager Henry Aldrich and his pal Dizzy decide to try and earn extra money by starting a babysittin

1943-04-30
Teenager Henry Aldrich becomes a hometown celebrity when he wins a date with a sexy movie star. The

1941-10-17
Henry Aldrich finds himself in a heated election for high-school class president.

1943-06-23
Teenager Henry Aldrich decides to take matters into his own hands when his high school principal for

1943-11-10
Henry Aldrich and his high-school pals investigate a local haunted house.

1942-06-05
After accidentally sinking a borrowed motorboat, teenager Henry Aldrich scrambles to raise the repla

1944-01-13
Henry and his pal Dizzy become Boy Scout leaders, but a spoiled brat in their troop quickly proves t

1944-04-01
High-school student Henry Aldrich hopes to improve his grades by finding a sweetheart for his unmarr

1942-09-15
An American soldier pleads to the folks at home to conserve scarce wartime resources.

1940-11-29
Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for poor boys. When Dan, a tou

1939-04-30
"An average American family", the Middletons, visit the 1939 World's Fair and witnesses the advent o

1950-02-17
When Willie leaves home to join the war effort he is all ready to become a hero, but he is only frus

1971-06-22
A crotchety old ranch owner fights to be able to live his life the way he wants to, and not the way

1944-03-28
A girl from a show-business family seeks a backer for her boyfriend's musical.

1946-11-18
When the wealthy Mrs. Cooper passes away, she divides her estate between her sons, Henry and Wayne,

1984-12-31
Documentary featuring original materials from the 1939 New York World's Fair. Includes film images

1954-06-20
"Only a fool sticks his neck out for somebody else. Don't get in the habit of it." Outlaw gunslinger

1949-04-27
The story of Andy Bryant, a University of Arizona student whose grades suffer because of his preoccu

1943-03-20
Old rivals are pitted against each other in basic training and fight for the same woman.

1956-02-01
The crew of a U.S. Navy ship in World War II goes into battle against the Japanese fleet.

1939-05-26
A businessman goes home early to surprise his family and is treated with suspicion, mostly by his wi

1955-03-26
In this film's version of the story, four of the Reno Brothers are corrupt robbers and killers while

1942-05-15
A girl tries to pay the mortgage on a Nob Hill home and gets involved in selling her father's art tr

1949-02-11
Winning a mink coat brings nothing but trouble to a couple on a budget.

1941-06-05

1942-01-22
A military school cadet runs away after failing to fit in at sports or school life. He's befriended

1950-12-20
Biography of celebrated American jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes.

1949-01-19
A music teacher in 1870s Boston works hard to succeed, while her wealthy distant relatives find thei

1971-10-31
Three kids think they see a sea monster in the calm waters of Strawberry Cove, and set out to find w
1945-12-13
A group of sailors kid their shipmate Frank about his constant reading, when they would all rather p

1972-03-26
The name Michael O'Hara has become synonymous with law enforcement. There have been three generation

1976-05-29
Three young women who posed as the daughters of an elderly homesteader find out that he has been fal

1977-11-06
A teenage boy gets a job as a Pony Express rider in the Nebraska Territory not long before the Civil