John Payne
Date of birth: 1912-05-28
Place of birth: Roanoke, Virginia, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: John Howard Payne
Biography
John Payne was an American stage, screen, and television actor. He is best remembered as a singer in 20th Century Fox musical films and for his roles in Miracle on 34th Street (1947) and the television series The Restless Gun (1957-1959).
Movie Credits
Kansas City Confidential
1952-11-11
An ex-convict sets out to uncover who framed him for an armored car robbery.
Miracle on 34th Street
1947-06-04
Kris Kringle, seemingly the embodiment of Santa Claus, is asked to portray the jolly old fellow at M
Hello, Frisco, Hello
1943-03-26
In turn-of-the-century San Francisco, an ambitious vaudevillian takes his quartet from a honky tonk
Slightly Scarlet
1956-02-29
Kleptomaniac Dorothy Lyons is paroled from prison into the custody of her sister June, secretary to
Larceny
1948-09-03
Rick Mason is the no-good lowdown rat who tries to capitalize on postwar patriotism and grief. He fi
Silver Lode
1954-06-24
Dan Ballard, a respected citizen in the western town of Silver Lode, has his wedding interrupted by
99 River Street
1953-08-21
A former boxer turned taxi driver earns the scorn of his nagging wife and gets mixed up with jewel t
Tennessee's Partner
1955-09-21
A tough, womanizing high-stakes gambler known only as Tennessee has an uneasy relationship with Duch
The Vanquished
1953-06-03
A man returns to his home -- a post Civil-War village -- and finds the law is in the hands of a few
The Crooked Way
1949-04-22
A war veteran suffering from amnesia, returns to Los Angeles from a San Francisco veterans hospital
Footlight Serenade
1942-08-01
Conceited World Champion boxer Tommy Lundy decides to test his popularity in a Broadway show. Tommy
Springtime in the Rockies
1942-11-06
Broadway partners Vicky Lane and Dan Christy have a tiff over Christy's womanizing. Jealous Vicky ta
Sun Valley Serenade
1941-08-29
When Phil Corey's band arrives at the Idaho ski resort its pianist Ted Scott is smitten with a Norwe
The Boss
1956-10-10
A crusading politician falls prey to the temptations of power.
Crosswinds
1951-10-01
A sailor gets his boat stolen from him after he's set up for a crime.
Hell's Island
1955-05-06
Down-on-his-luck Mike Cormack is hired to fly to a Caribbean island to retrieve a missing ruby. On t
Week-End in Havana
1941-10-17
A ship company employee, Jay Williams, is sent to Florida where one of the company cruise ships is s
Star Dust
1940-04-06
When Hollywood film studios reject her because she's too young, an Arkansas woman sets out to build
The Razor's Edge
1946-11-19
An adventurous young man goes off to find himself and loses his socialite fiancée in the process. Bu
Remember the Day
1941-12-25
Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him
Hidden Fear
1957-07-01
A U.S. lawman busts Copenhagen counterfeiters to help his sister, falsely accused of murder.
Santa Fe Passage
1955-05-12
A disgraced Indian scout and his partner are hired to escort a wagonload of guns through Indian terr
To the Shores of Tripoli
1942-11-09
Chronicle of a spoiled rich boy who joins the Marines with an off-handed attitude and finally become
Rebel in Town
1956-07-30
Ex-Confederate Bedloe Mason and his four sons ride into a small Western town with robbery in mind. H
The Dolly Sisters
1945-11-14
Two sisters from Hungary become famous entertainers in the early 1900s. Fictionalized biography with
Wings of the Navy
1939-02-11
Jerry tries to out compete his older brother Cass, a lieutenant Naval aviator. Cass is both tough on
Hold Back The Night
1956-07-29
A Marine officer goes through Korea with the bottle of Scotch that his wife gave him in the last war
They Ran for Their Lives
1968-01-01
A man with a dog helps a young woman being chased by hoodlums in the desert.
College Swing
1938-04-29
Gracie Alden tries to graduate from college to get an inheritance.
The Great Profile
1940-08-30
An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John Barrymore,
The Saxon Charm
1948-09-28
In order to get his way, New York producer Matt Saxon manipulates and controls everyone around him b
Raiders of the Seven Seas
1953-05-27
After staging a mutiny and commandeering his own ship, famed pirate Barbarossa takes hostage a spiri
Caribbean
1952-09-01
Francis Barclay, a former member of the British Admiralty, who was captured in the early 1700s, and
The Road to Denver
1955-06-15
The Mayhew brothers flee from one Texas town to another as older brother Bill repeatedly attempts to
Garden of the Moon
1938-09-23
Don Vincente is determined to make a success of himself and his band. He gets his break by performin
Passage West
1951-10-01
In 1863, having escaped from a rock-quarry prison in Salt Lake, six inmates led by convicted murdere
Hats Off
1936-12-05
The first musical comedy from the Grand National assembly line, Hats Off stars John Payne and Mae Cl
El Paso
1949-03-22
Ex-confederate officer Clay Fletcher jumps at the chance to reunite with his once lady-friend, Susan
Rails Into Laramie
1954-04-14
A federal agent arrives in Laramie to try to find out who is behind the efforts to stop the construc
Maryland
1940-07-19
A woman tormented by the hunting death of her husband forbids her son to have anything to do with ho
The Eagle and the Hawk
1950-10-01
Texas Ranger Todd Crayden is assigned a suicide mission South of the Border, to smuggle a government
Tear Gas Squad
1940-05-04
A brash night club singer becomes a cop to impress a woman.
Indianapolis Speedway
1939-08-05
A champion auto racer who unhappily learns his kid brother wants to enter the same profession rather
Wake Up and Dream
1946-12-02
Aided by her eccentric friends, a young woman goes looking for her missing brother.
Sentimental Journey
1946-03-06
An actress becomes taken with Hitty, a young orphan prone to dreaming. Julie soon finds out that she
Tripoli
1950-11-09
In 1805, the United States battles the pirates of Tripoli as the Marines fight to raise the American
Suspect
1960-11-15
A government team researching cures for plague find their results put on the Official Secrets list.
The Blazing Forest
1952-12-01
Estranged brothers (John Payne, Richard Arlen) find themselves on the same lumberjack crew hired by
The Great American Broadcast
1941-05-09
After WWI two men go into radio. Failure leads the wife of one to borrow money from another; she goe
The Royal Rodeo
1939-11-25
A young monarch, bored with responsibility and craving excitement, invites a traveling rodeo show to
Captain China
1950-02-02
The title character, played by John Payne, is a ship's captain whose embittered behavior after losin
Kid Nightingale
1939-11-04
A waiter becomes a singing prizefighter.
King of the Lumberjacks
1940-04-13
Outdoor drama about a newly-hired lumberjack discovering that his former girlfriend is now his new b
Bailout at 43,000
1957-05-01
An Air Force major feels a volatile mixture of relief and anger when he is excused from performing a
Love on Toast
1937-12-03
The plot concerns a female press agent who must select a "Mr. Manhattan" and "Miss Brooklyn" for an
Tin Pan Alley
1940-11-29
Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to Engla
Fair Warning
1937-03-05
In California's Death Valley a chemistry whiz-kid helps a sheriff track the man who murdered a wealt
Dodsworth
1936-09-23
A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that the
Iceland
1942-09-21
Marine James Murfin, is unaware of Icelandic customs. When he flirts with Katina her Icelandic famil
Take It or Leave It
1944-07-17
A young husband becomes a game-show participant in the hopes of winning the cash to pay his pregnant
Movieland Magic
1946-03-09
Released as part of a series of WB shorts under the collective title of "Technicolor Specials" (WB p
B-29 Flight Engineer
1944-03-13
This government documentary short film depicts and explains proper procedures for functioning as a f