John Larch
Known For
Acting
Born
1914-10-04 in Salem, Massachusetts, USA
Died
2005-10-16
Biography
John Larch (October 4, 1914 - October 16, 2005) was an American film and television actor. After his lead role in the radio serial Captain Starr of Space (1953–54), John Larch entered films in 1954. He usually appeared in westerns (How The West Was Won) and action films, including Miracle of the White Stallions as General George S. Patton Jr. (1963), Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur as General Omar Bradley (1976), replacing James Gregory as Mac in the Matt Helm movie The Wrecking Crew (1969) starring Dean Martin, Sharon Tate and Elke Sommer. Larch, an old friend of Clint Eastwood, appeared in Eastwood films, including Dirty Harry (1971) and Play Misty for Me (1971). He also appeared on a number of television programs, including Naked City (three episodes), Route 66 (three episodes), The Fugitive (two episodes), The Invaders, The Restless Gun (four episodes), Gunsmoke (seven episodes), The Virginian (four episodes), Bonanza, Hawaii Five-0, Mission Impossible (two episodes), The Troubleshooters, Bus Stop, Laramie, The Law and Mr. Jones, and possibly most famously as Bill Mumy's father in The Twilight Zone episode "It's a Good Life" in 1961. He also appeared in two other The Twilight Zone episodes, playing a psychiatrist in "Perchance to Dream" and the sheriff in "Dust". Description above from the Wikipedia article John Larch, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Most Known For
Bonanza
as Blake McCall
Mission: Impossible
as Premier Anton Rojek
Mission: Impossible
as Larry Gault
The Twilight Zone
as Eliot Rathmann
The Twilight Zone
as Mr. Fremont
The Twilight Zone
as Sheriff Koch
Little House on the Prairie
as Arthur Mahoney
Dallas
as Wally Windham
Dallas
as Arlen Ward / Atticus Ward
Dallas
as Arlen Ward
Dallas
as Atticus Ward
Dynasty
The Six Million Dollar Man
as Arthur Vale
The Fugitive
as George Duncan
The Fugitive
as Sheriff Ben Corby
Hawaii Five-O
as Joseph Trinian
Hawaii Five-O
as Roger Maggers
Charlie's Angels
as Kamden
Ironside
