John Ireland: movies and TV shows
John Ireland has 199 credits in the archive: 136 films and 63 TV series, from 1945 to 2015. Highest rated: Little House on the Prairie (7.9/10).
Career timeline
1945 – 2015 · busiest year: 1951 (12 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 3-D Rarities | (archive footage) | Film | 6.0 | 101 |
| 2002 | The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller | Bob Ford (archive footage) | Film | 5.8 | 88 |
| 1992 | Waxwork II: Lost in Time | King Arthur | Film | 5.0 | 78 |
| 1992 | Merlin | Film | 6.2 | 78 | |
| 1992 | Hammer Down | Lt. Bates | Film | 10.0 | 78 |
| 1991 | Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat | Jefferson | Film | 6.1 | 77 |
| 1991 | The Graveyard Story | Dr. McGregor | Film | 4.0 | 77 |
| 1989 | Snoops | Gabriel Franken | TV | 6.3 | 75 |
| 1989 | Christine Cromwell | TV | 7.8 | 75 | |
| 1989 | Terror Night | Lance Hayward | Film | 4.8 | 75 |
| 1988 | War of the Worlds | Harv | TV | 6.4 | 74 |
| 1988 | Messenger of Death | Zenas Beecham | Film | 6.0 | 74 |
| 1988 | Perry Mason: The Case of the Lady in the Lake | Walter | Film | 6.9 | 74 |
| 1988 | Bonanza: The Next Generation | Capt. Aaron Cartwright | Film | 7.7 | 74 |
| 1987 | J.J. Starbuck | Charles Capstone | TV | 6.0 | 73 |
| 1986 | Seasons in the Sun | Keith Slattery | Film | 7.0 | 72 |
| 1985 | Martin's Day | Brewer | Film | 6.4 | 71 |
| 1985 | Treasure of the Amazon | Priest | Film | 4.5 | 71 |
| 1985 | Thunder Run | George Adams | Film | 4.5 | 71 |
| 1985 | Miami Golem | Anderson | Film | 5.6 | 71 |
| 1984 | Murder, She Wrote | Sheriff Hainer | TV | 7.5 | 70 |
| 1984 | Airwolf | Hardesty | TV | 7.6 | 70 |
| 1984 | Airwolf | Carl Barron | TV | 7.6 | 70 |
| 1983 | The Hitchhiker | Jack Guttman | TV | 6.3 | 69 |
| 1983 | Hardcastle and McCormick | Bucky Miller | TV | 6.5 | 69 |
| 1983 | Trauma Center | TV | 7.0 | 69 | |
| 1983 | A Matter of Cunning | John Markham | Film | 5.3 | 69 |
| 1982 | Cassie & Co. | Lyman 'Shack' Shackelford | TV | 5.3 | 68 |
| 1982 | Incubus | Hank Walden | Film | 5.6 | 68 |
| 1981 | Bordello | Judge | Film | 4.7 | 67 |
| 1980 | Magnum, P.I. | Wyndom Jackson | TV | 7.3 | 66 |
| 1980 | Tourist | Joe Vigil, Sr. | Film | 7.5 | 66 |
| 1980 | Marilyn: The Untold Story | John Huston | Film | 6.9 | 66 |
| 1980 | The Courage of Kavik, the Wolf Dog | George Hunter | Film | 5.6 | 66 |
| 1979 | Hart to Hart | Zeke BaIllinger | TV | 6.8 | 65 |
| 1979 | The Littlest Hobo | Pa | TV | 7.3 | 65 |
| 1979 | $weepstake$ | TV | — | 65 | |
| 1979 | Delta Fox | Lucas Johnson | Film | 4.3 | 65 |
| 1979 | The Shape of Things to Come | Senator Smedley | Film | 4.1 | 65 |
| 1979 | Crossbar | Miles Kornylo | Film | 5.5 | 65 |
| 1979 | Guyana: Crime of the Century | Dave Cole | Film | 5.0 | 65 |
| 1979 | When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion | Self | Film | — | 65 |
| 1979 | On the Air Live with Captain Midnight | Agent Pierson | Film | 9.0 | 65 |
| 1978 | Tomorrow Never Comes | Captain | Film | 5.7 | 64 |
| 1978 | The Millionaire | Marshall Wayburn | Film | 8.0 | 64 |
| 1977 | Ransom | Chief Haliburton | Film | 6.5 | 63 |
| 1977 | Love and the Midnight Auto Supply | Tony Santore | Film | 4.0 | 63 |
| 1977 | Satan's Cheerleaders | Sheriff B.L.Z. Bubb | Film | 4.5 | 63 |
| 1977 | Mission to Glory: A True Story | Father Mora | Film | 7.0 | 63 |
| 1977 | The Perfect Killer | Benny | Film | 4.3 | 63 |
| 1976 | Quincy, M.E. | Attorney John Packard | TV | 7.5 | 62 |
| 1976 | Quincy, M.E. | Jerry Driskill | TV | 7.5 | 62 |
| 1976 | Quincy, M.E. | Sheriff Ned Evers | TV | 7.5 | 62 |
| 1976 | Salon Kitty | Cliff | Film | 5.6 | 62 |
| 1976 | The Swiss Conspiracy | Dwight McGowan | Film | 5.0 | 62 |
| 1976 | Sex Diary | Milton | Film | 5.7 | 62 |
| 1975 | Switch | Verne Deamer | TV | 6.6 | 61 |
| 1975 | Farewell, My Lovely | Nulty | Film | 6.6 | 61 |
| 1975 | Khan! | TV | 6.0 | 61 | |
| 1975 | We Are No Angels | Mr. Shark | Film | 7.5 | 61 |
| 1974 | Little House on the Prairie | Frank Carlin | TV | 7.9 | 60 |
| 1974 | Planet of the Apes | Brun | TV | 6.9 | 60 |
| 1974 | The House of Seven Corpses | Eric Hartman | Film | 4.7 | 60 |
| 1974 | Wam Bam Thank You Spaceman | Film | 2.9 | 60 | |
| 1974 | The Phantom of Hollywood | Lt. Gifford | Film | 5.6 | 60 |
| 1974 | Welcome to Arrow Beach | Sheriff Duke Bingham | Film | 5.2 | 60 |
| 1974 | Northeast of Seoul | Flanaghan | Film | 7.0 | 60 |
| 1974 | The Girl on the Late, Late Show | Bruno Walters | Film | 5.5 | 60 |
| 1974 | The Rangers | Carson | Film | 8.0 | 60 |
| 1974 | Blood River | Abel Webster | Film | 4.0 | 60 |
| 1973 | Police Story | TV | 7.0 | 59 | |
| 1972 | Ghost Story | Arthur Mundy | TV | 7.4 | 58 |
| 1972 | Escape to the Sun | Jacob Kagan | Film | 4.3 | 58 |
| 1970 | The Adventurers | Mr.James Hadley | Film | 4.7 | 56 |
| 1970 | Challenge of McKenna | Jones/Jonas MacKenna | Film | 5.2 | 56 |
| 1969 | Zenabel | Don Alonso Imolne | Film | 3.9 | 55 |
| 1969 | The War Devils | Film | 7.0 | 55 | |
| 1969 | One on Top of the Other | Inspector Wald | Film | 6.4 | 55 |
| 1969 | Carnal Circuit | Richard Salinger | Film | 4.0 | 55 |
| 1968 | Hawaii Five-O | Phil Coleman | TV | 7.2 | 54 |
| 1968 | The Name of the Game | Mel Wexler | TV | 7.0 | 54 |
| 1968 | Villa Rides | Client in Barber Shop (uncredited) | Film | 6.3 | 54 |
| 1968 | Run, Man, Run | Santillana | Film | 6.5 | 54 |
| 1968 | A Gun for One Hundred Graves | Douglas | Film | 5.8 | 54 |
| 1968 | Go For Broke | Owl/Gufo/le Hibou | Film | 6.9 | 54 |
| 1968 | Arizona Bushwhackers | Dan Shelby | Film | 4.3 | 54 |
| 1968 | Dead for a Dollar | Der Colonel | Film | 7.5 | 54 |
| 1968 | Gatling Gun | Tarpas | Film | 5.1 | 54 |
| 1968 | Vengeance for Vengeance | Maj. Bower | Film | 9.3 | 54 |
| 1968 | A Taste of Death | Dan El/Ralph | Film | 7.3 | 54 |
| 1968 | Bloody Che Contra | Stuart | Film | 7.8 | 54 |
| 1967 | Caxambu! | Vince Neff | Film | 6.7 | 53 |
| 1967 | Hate for Hate | James Cooper | Film | 6.5 | 53 |
| 1967 | Fort Utah | Tom Horn | Film | 4.3 | 53 |
| 1967 | Dirty Heroes | Captain O’Connor | Film | 5.6 | 53 |
| 1966 | Mission: Impossible | Andrew Metzger | TV | 7.6 | 52 |
| 1966 | The Man Who Never Was | TV | — | 52 | |
| 1965 | Run for Your Life | Dr. Mason | TV | 7.1 | 51 |
| 1965 | Branded | Cattle Rancher Renger | TV | 6.8 | 51 |
| 1965 | Branded | Ted Evers | TV | 6.8 | 51 |
| 1965 | I Saw What You Did | Steve Marak | Film | 6.2 | 51 |
| 1965 | Day of the Nightmare | Sgt. Dave Harmon | Film | 5.1 | 51 |
| 1964 | Daniel Boone | Hiram Manville | TV | 7.0 | 50 |
| 1964 | The Fall of the Roman Empire | Ballomar | Film | 6.5 | 50 |
| 1964 | The Big Parade of Comedy | Captain Calbern in 'A Southern Yankee' (arch. foot.) (uncred.) | Film | 7.2 | 50 |
| 1963 | Burke's Law | Orrin Lashwell | TV | 6.3 | 49 |
| 1963 | Burke's Law | Bullock | TV | 6.3 | 49 |
| 1963 | Kraft Suspense Theatre | William 'Scotty' Scott | TV | 6.5 | 49 |
| 1963 | 55 Days at Peking | Sgt. Harry | Film | 6.9 | 49 |
| 1963 | The Ceremony | Prison Warden | Film | 5.6 | 49 |
| 1963 | No Time To Kill | Johnny Greco | Film | 6.0 | 49 |
| 1962 | The Virginian | Kinroy | TV | 6.5 | 48 |
| 1962 | Brushfire | Jeff Saygure | Film | 10.0 | 48 |
| 1961 | Wild in the Country | Phil Macy | Film | 6.2 | 47 |
| 1961 | Return of a Stranger | Ray Reed | Film | 5.5 | 47 |
| 1960 | Thriller | Eddie Wilson | TV | 6.7 | 46 |
| 1960 | Spartacus | Crixus | Film | 7.5 | 46 |
| 1960 | The Cheaters | John Hunter | TV | 8.0 | 46 |
| 1960 | Faces in the Dark | Max Hammond | Film | 6.1 | 46 |
| 1959 | Bonanza | Marshal Will Rimbau | TV | 7.5 | 45 |
| 1959 | Rawhide | Frank Trask | TV | 7.2 | 45 |
| 1959 | Rawhide | Dr. Joseph Merritt | TV | 7.2 | 45 |
| 1959 | Rawhide | Jed Colby | TV | 7.2 | 45 |
| 1959 | Rawhide | Winch | TV | 7.2 | 45 |
| 1959 | Riverboat | Chris Slade | TV | 6.5 | 45 |
| 1959 | Startime | Cliff Harrison | TV | 6.8 | 45 |
| 1958 | Party Girl | Louis Canetto | Film | 6.8 | 44 |
| 1958 | No Place to Land | Jonas Bailey | Film | 3.5 | 44 |
| 1958 | Stormy Crossing | Griff Parker | Film | 5.7 | 44 |
| 1957 | Suspicion | TV | 6.2 | 43 | |
| 1957 | Gunfight at the O.K. Corral | Johnny Ringo | Film | 7.0 | 43 |
| 1957 | A Sound of Different Drummers | Ben Hammond | Film | — | 43 |
| 1957 | Without Incident | Sgt. Turley | Film | — | 43 |
| 1956 | Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre | Marshal Harry Phillips | TV | 6.2 | 42 |
| 1956 | Armchair Theatre | Monroe Stahr | TV | 6.0 | 42 |
| 1956 | Gunslinger | Cane Miro | Film | 4.4 | 42 |
| 1955 | Gunsmoke | Jed Coombs | TV | 6.7 | 41 |
| 1955 | Gunsmoke | Parker | TV | 6.7 | 41 |
| 1955 | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Captain McCabe | TV | 7.8 | 41 |
| 1955 | The Glass Cage | Pel Pelham | Film | 5.6 | 41 |
| 1955 | Queen Bee | Judson Prentiss | Film | 6.3 | 41 |
| 1955 | Hell's Horizon | Capt. John Merrill | Film | 5.7 | 41 |
| 1954 | Climax! | Greg | TV | 3.8 | 40 |
| 1954 | Studio 57 | TV | 7.5 | 40 | |
| 1954 | The Whistler | TV | — | 40 | |
| 1954 | The Steel Cage | Al, a Ringleader, segment "The Hostages" | Film | 7.0 | 40 |
| 1954 | The Good Die Young | Eddie Blaine | Film | 6.4 | 40 |
| 1954 | Security Risk | Ralph Payne | Film | 6.0 | 40 |
| 1954 | The Fast and the Furious | Frank Webster | Film | 5.3 | 40 |
| 1954 | The Fast and the Furious | Film | 5.3 | 40 | |
| 1954 | Southwest Passage | Clint McDonald | Film | 6.3 | 40 |
| 1953 | General Electric Theater | Abe Lincoln | TV | 6.8 | 39 |
| 1953 | The 49th Man | Investigator John Williams | Film | 6.5 | 39 |
| 1953 | Hannah Lee: An American Primitive | Marshal Sam Rochelle | Film | 6.7 | 39 |
| 1953 | Hannah Lee: An American Primitive | Film | 6.7 | 39 | |
| 1953 | Hannah Lee: An American Primitive | Film | 6.7 | 39 | |
| 1953 | Combat Squad | Sgt. Ken 'Fletch' Fletcher | Film | 7.5 | 39 |
| 1952 | Hurricane Smith | Hurricane Smith | Film | 6.4 | 38 |
| 1951 | Schlitz Playhouse of Stars | TV | 7.2 | 37 | |
| 1951 | Schlitz Playhouse of Stars | Jim Regan | TV | 7.2 | 37 |
| 1951 | Schlitz Playhouse of Stars | Billy Bob Jackson | TV | 7.2 | 37 |
| 1951 | Schlitz Playhouse of Stars | Pete Bronson | TV | 7.2 | 37 |
| 1951 | Schlitz Playhouse of Stars | Andrew Evans | TV | 7.2 | 37 |
| 1951 | Little Big Horn | Lt. John Haywood | Film | 6.1 | 37 |
| 1951 | Vengeance Valley | Hub Fasken | Film | 5.4 | 37 |
| 1951 | Red Mountain | Gen. William Quantrill | Film | 6.7 | 37 |
| 1951 | The Bushwhackers | Jefferson Waring | Film | 5.9 | 37 |
| 1951 | This Is Korea! | Narrator | Film | 6.8 | 37 |
| 1951 | The Basketball Fix | Pete Ferreday | Film | 6.0 | 37 |
| 1951 | The Scarf | John Howard Barrington | Film | 5.7 | 37 |
| 1950 | Lux Video Theatre | Milt Shanks | TV | 6.7 | 36 |
| 1950 | Lux Video Theatre | Marty | TV | 6.7 | 36 |
| 1950 | Cargo to Capetown | Steve Conway | Film | 6.6 | 36 |
| 1950 | The Return of Jesse James | Johnny Callum | Film | 6.0 | 36 |
| 1949 | All the King's Men | Jack Burden | Film | 7.0 | 35 |
| 1949 | I Shot Jesse James | Bob Ford | Film | 6.2 | 35 |
| 1949 | Mr. Soft Touch | Henry 'Early' Byrd | Film | 6.8 | 35 |
| 1949 | The Undercover Man | Narrator (voice) (uncredited) | Film | 6.1 | 35 |
| 1949 | The Walking Hills | Frazee | Film | 6.0 | 35 |
| 1949 | The Doolins of Oklahoma | Bitter Creek | Film | 6.8 | 35 |
| 1949 | Roughshod | Lednov | Film | 5.7 | 35 |
| 1949 | Anna Lucasta | Danny Johnson | Film | 4.2 | 35 |
| 1948 | The Philco Television Playhouse | TV | 6.6 | 34 | |
| 1948 | Red River | Cherry Valance | Film | 7.3 | 34 |
| 1948 | Joan of Arc | Jean de la Boussac (St. Sevére), Captain | Film | 6.2 | 34 |
| 1948 | I Love Trouble | Reno | Film | 6.5 | 34 |
| 1948 | Raw Deal | Fantail | Film | 6.7 | 34 |
| 1948 | A Southern Yankee | Capt. Jed Calbern | Film | 5.5 | 34 |
| 1948 | Open Secret | Paul Lester | Film | 6.9 | 34 |
| 1947 | Repeat Performance | Narrator (Voice) | Film | 6.1 | 33 |
| 1947 | The Gangster | Karty | Film | 5.2 | 33 |
| 1947 | Railroaded! | Duke Martin | Film | 6.7 | 33 |
| 1946 | My Darling Clementine | Billy Clanton | Film | 7.5 | 32 |
| 1946 | Somewhere in the Night | Thug (voice) (uncredited) | Film | 6.7 | 32 |
| 1946 | Behind Green Lights | Oppenheimer | Film | 5.6 | 32 |
| 1946 | It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog | Benny Smith | Film | 5.8 | 32 |
| 1946 | Wake Up and Dream | Howard Williams | Film | 7.4 | 32 |
| 1945 | A Walk in the Sun | Pfc. Windy Craven | Film | 5.9 | 31 |
| Glorious Hours | Narrator (Archive Footage) | Film | — | — |