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John Ireland
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John Ireland

1914 – 1992 · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · Active 1945–2015

John Ireland, born in 1914 in Vancouver, Canada, made a significant impact on cult cinema with his roles in films like Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957) and I Saw What You Did (1965). Known for his commanding presence, he often portrayed complex characters that added depth to the narratives. His work in The House of Seven Corpses (1974) further solidified his status in the horror genre, where he navigated the eerie atmosphere with ease. Ireland's contributions to films on SassyFlix demonstrate his versatility and enduring appeal in the realm of cult and exploitation cinema.

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The Adventurers

The Adventurers

1970 ★ 4.5
as Mr.James Hadley

The wealthy playboy son of an assassinated South American diplomat discovers that his father was murdered on orders of the corrupt president of the country- a man who was his father's friend and who, in fact, his father had helped put into power. He returns from living a jet-set life in Europe to lead a revolution against the government, only to find out that things aren't quite as black and white as he'd assumed.

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Filmography

198 credits
2010s 1 credit
2015
3-D Rarities as (archive footage)
Movie ★ 6.0
2000s 1 credit
2002
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller as Bob Ford (archive footage)
Movie ★ 5.8
1990s 5 credits
1992
Movie ★ 5.0
1992
Movie ★ 6.2
1992
Hammer Down as Lt. Bates
Movie ★ 10.0
1991
Movie ★ 6.0
1991
The Graveyard Story as Dr. McGregor
Movie ★ 4.0
1980s 27 credits
1989
Terror Night as Lance Hayward
Movie ★ 4.8
1989
Snoops as Gabriel Franken
TV ★ 6.3
1989
TV ★ 7.8
1988
Messenger of Death as Zenas Beecham
Movie ★ 6.0
1988
Bonanza: The Next Generation as Capt. Aaron Cartwright
Movie ★ 7.7
1988
TV ★ 6.4
1987
J.J. Starbuck as Charles Capstone
TV ★ 6.0
1986
Seasons in the Sun as Keith Slattery
Movie ★ 7.0
1985
Miami Golem as Anderson
Movie ★ 5.6
1985
Thunder Run as George Adams
Movie ★ 4.5
1985
Movie ★ 4.5
1985
Martin's Day as Brewer
Movie ★ 6.4
1984
Murder, She Wrote as Sheriff Hainer
TV ★ 7.5
1984
Airwolf as Hardesty
TV ★ 7.6
1984
Airwolf as Carl Barron
TV ★ 7.6
1983
A Matter of Cunning as John Markham
Movie ★ 5.3
1983
TV ★ 6.5
1983
The Hitchhiker as Jack Guttman
TV ★ 6.3
1983
TV ★ 7.0
1982
Incubus as Hank Walden
Movie ★ 5.6
1982
Cassie & Co. as Lyman 'Shack' Shackelford
TV ★ 5.3
1981
Bordello as Judge
Movie ★ 4.7
1980
Movie ★ 6.9
1980
Movie ★ 5.6
1980
Tourist as Joe Vigil, Sr.
Movie ★ 7.5
1980
Magnum, P.I. as Wyndom Jackson
TV ★ 7.3
1970s 41 credits
1979
Movie ★ 5.0
1979
Movie ★ 4.1
1979
Movie ★ 9.0
1979
Crossbar as Miles Kornylo
Movie ★ 5.5
1979
Delta Fox as Lucas Johnson
Movie ★ 4.3
1979
Hart to Hart as Zeke BaIllinger
TV ★ 6.9
1979
TV ★ 7.3
1978
Movie ★ 5.7
1978
The Millionaire as Marshall Wayburn
Movie ★ 8.0
1977
Satan's Cheerleaders as Sheriff B.L.Z. Bubb
Movie ★ 4.5
1977
Movie ★ 7.0
1977
Movie ★ 4.3
1977
Ransom as Chief Haliburton
Movie ★ 6.5
1977
Movie ★ 4.0
1976
The Swiss Conspiracy as Dwight McGowan
Movie ★ 5.0
1976
Sex Diary as Milton
Movie ★ 5.7
1976
Movie ★ 5.6
1976
Quincy, M.E. as Attorney John Packard
TV ★ 7.5
1976
Quincy, M.E. as Jerry Driskill
TV ★ 7.5
1976
Quincy, M.E. as Sheriff Ned Evers
TV ★ 7.5
1975
Movie ★ 6.6
1975
We Are No Angels as Mr. Shark
Movie ★ 7.5
1975
TV ★ 6.0
1975
Switch as Verne Deamer
TV ★ 6.7
1974
Movie ★ 4.7
1974
Welcome to Arrow Beach as Sheriff Duke Bingham
Movie ★ 5.2
1974
Movie ★ 5.5
1974
Movie ★ 2.9
1974
The Rangers as Carson
Movie ★ 8.0
1974
Blood River as Abel Webster
Movie ★ 4.0
1974
Movie ★ 5.6
1974
Movie ★ 7.0
1974
TV ★ 6.9
1974
TV ★ 7.9
1973
TV ★ 7.0
1972
Escape to the Sun as Jacob Kagan
Movie ★ 5.5
1972
Ghost Story as Arthur Mundy
TV ★ 7.4
1970
The Adventurers as Mr.James Hadley
Movie ★ 4.7
1970
Challenge of McKenna as Jones/Jonas MacKenna
Movie ★ 5.2
1960s 44 credits
1969
Zenabel as Don Alonso Imolne
Movie ★ 3.9
1969
Carnal Circuit as Richard Salinger
Movie ★ 4.0
1969
Movie ★ 7.0
1969
Movie ★ 6.4
1968
Villa Rides as Client in Barber Shop (uncredited)
Movie ★ 6.3
1968
Run, Man, Run as Santillana
Movie ★ 6.5
1968
Movie ★ 5.1
1968
Dead for a Dollar as Der Colonel
Movie ★ 7.5
1968
Movie ★ 5.8
1968
A Taste of Death as Dan El/Ralph
Movie ★ 7.3
1968
Go For Broke as Owl/Gufo/le Hibou
Movie ★ 6.9
1968
Movie ★ 4.3
1968
Movie ★ 9.3
1968
Movie ★ 7.8
1968
Hawaii Five-O as Phil Coleman
TV ★ 7.2
1968
TV ★ 7.0
1967
Fort Utah as Tom Horn
Movie ★ 4.3
1967
Dirty Heroes as Captain O’Connor
Movie ★ 5.6
1967
Caxambu! as Vince Neff
Movie ★ 6.7
1967
Hate for Hate as James Cooper
Movie ★ 6.5
1966
Mission: Impossible as Andrew Metzger
TV ★ 7.6
1965
Movie ★ 6.2
1965
Day of the Nightmare as Sgt. Dave Harmon
Movie ★ 5.1
1965
Run for Your Life as Dr. Mason
TV ★ 7.1
1965
Branded as Cattle Rancher Renger
TV ★ 6.8
1965
Branded as Ted Evers
TV ★ 6.8
1964
Movie ★ 6.5
1964
The Big Parade of Comedy as Captain Calbern in 'A Southern Yankee' (arch. foot.) (uncred.)
Movie ★ 7.2
1964
Daniel Boone as Hiram Manville
TV ★ 7.0
1963
55 Days at Peking as Sgt. Harry
Movie ★ 6.9
1963
The Ceremony as Prison Warden
Movie ★ 5.6
1963
No Time To Kill as Johnny Greco
Movie ★ 6.0
1963
Burke's Law as Orrin Lashwell
TV ★ 6.3
1963
Kraft Suspense Theatre as William 'Scotty' Scott
TV ★ 6.5
1963
Burke's Law as Bullock
TV ★ 6.3
1962
Brushfire as Jeff Saygure
Movie ★ 10.0
1962
The Virginian as Kinroy
TV ★ 6.5
1961
Movie ★ 6.2
1961
Movie ★ 5.5
1960
Spartacus as Crixus
Movie ★ 7.5
1960
Faces in the Dark as Max Hammond
Movie ★ 6.1
1960
Thriller as Eddie Wilson
TV ★ 6.7
1960
The Cheaters as John Hunter
TV
1950s 52 credits
1959
Riverboat as Chris Slade
TV ★ 6.5
1959
Bonanza as Marshal Will Rimbau
TV ★ 7.5
1959
Rawhide as Winch
TV ★ 7.2
1959
Rawhide as Frank Trask
TV ★ 7.2
1959
Rawhide as Dr. Joseph Merritt
TV ★ 7.2
1959
Rawhide as Jed Colby
TV ★ 7.2
1959
Startime as Cliff Harrison
TV ★ 6.8
1958
Party Girl as Louis Canetto
Movie ★ 6.8
1958
Stormy Crossing as Griff Parker
Movie ★ 5.7
1958
No Place to Land as Jonas Bailey
Movie ★ 3.5
1957
Movie ★ 7.0
1957
Without Incident as Sgt. Turley
Movie
1957
Movie
1957
TV ★ 6.2
1956
Gunslinger as Cane Miro
Movie ★ 4.4
1956
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Marshal Harry Phillips
TV ★ 6.2
1956
Armchair Theatre as Monroe Stahr
TV ★ 6.0
1955
Queen Bee as Judson Prentiss
Movie ★ 6.3
1955
The Glass Cage as Pel Pelham
Movie ★ 5.6
1955
Hell's Horizon as Capt. John Merrill
Movie ★ 5.7
1955
Gunsmoke as Jed Coombs
TV ★ 6.7
1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Captain McCabe
TV ★ 7.8
1955
Gunsmoke as Parker
TV ★ 6.7
1954
Movie ★ 5.3
1954
The Good Die Young as Eddie Blaine
Movie ★ 6.4
1954
The Steel Cage as Al, a Ringleader, segment "The Hostages"
Movie ★ 7.0
1954
Security Risk as Ralph Payne
Movie ★ 6.0
1954
Southwest Passage as Clint McDonald
Movie ★ 6.3
1954
Climax! as Greg
TV ★ 3.8
1954
TV ★ 8.0
1953
The 49th Man as Investigator John Williams
Movie ★ 6.5
1953
Hannah Lee: An American Primitive as Marshal Sam Rochelle
Movie ★ 6.7
1953
Combat Squad as Sgt. Ken 'Fletch' Fletcher
Movie ★ 7.5
1953
TV ★ 6.8
1952
Hurricane Smith as Hurricane Smith
Movie ★ 6.4
1951
The Scarf as John Howard Barrington
Movie ★ 5.7
1951
Vengeance Valley as Hub Fasken
Movie ★ 5.4
1951
The Basketball Fix as Pete Ferreday
Movie ★ 6.0
1951
Red Mountain as Gen. William Quantrill
Movie ★ 6.7
1951
Little Big Horn as Lt. John Haywood
Movie ★ 6.2
1951
This Is Korea! as Narrator
Movie ★ 6.8
1951
The Bushwhackers as Jefferson Waring
Movie ★ 5.9
1951
TV ★ 7.2
1951
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as Billy Bob Jackson
TV ★ 7.2
1951
TV ★ 7.2
1951
TV ★ 7.2
1950
Cargo to Capetown as Steve Conway
Movie ★ 6.6
1950
Movie ★ 6.0
1950
Lux Video Theatre as Milt Shanks
TV ★ 6.7
1950
TV ★ 6.7
1940s 24 credits
1949
All the King's Men as Jack Burden
Movie ★ 7.0
1949
Movie ★ 6.3
1949
The Undercover Man as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Movie ★ 6.1
1949
Mr. Soft Touch as Henry 'Early' Byrd
Movie ★ 6.8
1949
Roughshod as Lednov
Movie ★ 5.7
1949
Movie ★ 6.8
1949
Anna Lucasta as Danny Johnson
Movie ★ 4.2
1949
Movie ★ 6.1
1948
Red River as Cherry Valance
Movie ★ 7.4
1948
Raw Deal as Fantail
Movie ★ 6.7
1948
Movie ★ 6.5
1948
Open Secret as Paul Lester
Movie ★ 6.9
1948
A Southern Yankee as Capt. Jed Calbern
Movie ★ 5.5
1948
Joan of Arc as Jean de la Boussac (St. Sevére), Captain
Movie ★ 6.1
1947
Movie ★ 5.2
1947
Repeat Performance as Narrator (Voice)
Movie ★ 6.1
1947
Railroaded! as Duke Martin
Movie ★ 6.7
1946
My Darling Clementine as Billy Clanton
Movie ★ 7.5
1946
Behind Green Lights as Det. Oppenheimer
Movie ★ 5.5
1946
Movie ★ 5.8
1946
Wake Up and Dream as Howard Williams
Movie ★ 7.4
1946
Somewhere in the Night as Thug (voice) (uncredited)
Movie ★ 6.7
1945
A Walk in the Sun as Pfc. Windy Craven
Movie ★ 5.9
Crew Credits
1950s 3 credits
1954
Movie ★ 5.3
1953
Movie ★ 6.7
1953
Movie ★ 6.7