Biographies: John Archer - Actor

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An American actor, who was born in Osella, Nebraska, on May 8, 1915, and died on December 3, 1999 in Redmond, Washington, of lung cancer. John Archer is best known for: King of the Zombies (1941), White Heat (1949), Destination Moon (1950), and Blue Hawaii (1961). John Archer was born in Nebraska and moved with his family when he was five to California, where he graduated from Hollywood High School and joined the University of Southern California. He took a film course at the University of Southern California, but he could not get a job in the studio, so he turned to acting on the stage on Broadway. In late 1937 he entered a major radio competition to be his gateway to Hollywood, where his movie debut was Flaming Frontiers (1938). He continued in cinema and radio during the forties, and cinema and television during the fifties. After that, he focused on television series to become one of the distinguished stars until the mid-nineties.

• 1 September 2021
• Toqa Hesham