John Justin

John Justin

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   John Justin (24 November 1917 - 29 November 2002) was a British stage and film actor. John Justinian de Ledesma was born in London, England, the son of a well-off Argentine rancher. Though he grew up on his father's ranch, he was educated at Bryanston School, Dorset. He developed an interest in flying and became a qualified pilot at the age of 12, though he was not allowed to fly solo at the time because of his age. The acting bug bit him early. By the age of 16, he had joined the Plymouth Repertory. In 1937, he briefly trained with the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, but did not like it and soon joined the repertory company of John Gielgud. In 1938, he auditioned for and won the role for which he is perhaps best remembered, Ahmad in the 1940 version of The Thief of Bagdad, opposite Sabu. World War II broke out during the film's production. After completing the picture, Justin joined the Royal Air Force, serving as a test pilot and flying instructor. He also worked on two films, The Gentle Sex (1943) with Leslie Howard, and Journey Together (1944) with Edward G. Robinson. With the war's end, Justin returned to acting. He made more films, such as David Lean's The Sound Barrier (1952), Island in the Sun (1957) and Lisztomania (1975), but his strong preference was for the stage. He became a member of the Old Vic company in 1959. He made his Broadway debut in 1960 in the play Little Moon of Alban. Justin was married three times, first to dancer and choreographer Pola Nirenska. His second marriage, to actress Barbara Murray, lasted from 1952 to 1964; they had three daughters. From 1970 to his death in 2002, he was married to Alison McMurdo. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Justin licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: John Justin
  • Popularity: 0.6165
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1917-11-24
  • Place of Birth: London, England, UK
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  • Also Known As: John Justinian de Ledesma
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John Justin Movies

  • 1953
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    Melba

    Melba

    3 1953 HD

    Rural Australian Nellie Melba becomes an opera star in 1900s Europe and the United States.

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  • 1940
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    The Thief of Bagdad

    The Thief of Bagdad

    7.1 1940 HD

    When Prince Ahmad is blinded and cast out of Bagdad by the nefarious Jaffar, he joins forces with the scrappy thief Abu to win back his royal place, as well as the heart of a beautiful princess.

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  • 1973
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    Barcelona Kill

    Barcelona Kill

    3 1973 HD

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  • 1948
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    Call Of The Blood

    Call Of The Blood

    1 1948 HD

    A young man's passions are stirred by a beautiful Sicilian after his physician-wife is called away on an emergency.

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  • 1953
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    King of the Khyber Rifles

    King of the Khyber Rifles

    5.7 1953 HD

    Freshly arrived Sandhurst-trained Captain Alan King, better versed in Pashtun then any of the veterans and born locally as army brat, survives an attack on his escort to his Northwest Frontier province garrison near the Khyber pass because of Ahmed, a native Afridi deserter from the Muslim fanatic rebel Karram Khan's forces. As soon as his fellow officers learn his mother was a native Muslim which got his parents disowned even by their own families, he falls prey to stubborn prejudiced discrimination, Lieutenant Geoffrey Heath even moves out of their quarters, except from half-Irish Lt. Ben Baird.

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  • 1955
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    Untamed

    Untamed

    5.6 1955 HD

    When the great potato famine hits Ireland, the diaspora begins as thousands emigrate. Among those leaving the Emerald Isle is Katie O'Neill and her husband, who decide that the promised land is South Africa and make their way there. Once there, they discover the hardships that are the reality of the homesteader experience.

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  • 1975
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    Lisztomania

    Lisztomania

    5.861 1975 HD

    In the 19th century, Romantic composer/pianist Franz Liszt tries to end his hedonistic ways but keeps getting sucked back in by his seductive fellow composer Richard Wagner.

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  • 1956
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    Safari

    Safari

    5.625 1956 HD

    Wealthy eccentric Sir Vincent Brampton and his fiancée Linda Latham hire Ken Duffield to lead them on a jungle hunt. Duffield is looking for the murderer of his son; he gets the killer and Linda.

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  • 1952
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    The Sound Barrier

    The Sound Barrier

    6.5 1952 HD

    A young RAF pilot tests his father-in-law’s prototype supersonic aircraft to the limit, at a time of intense development in the field of aviation, just as commercial jet airliners are about to enter service.

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  • 1960
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    The Spider's Web

    The Spider's Web

    6.2 1960 HD

    Mystery film based on an Agatha Christie play. An ambassador's wife must hide the corpse of her stepdaughter's unlikeable stepfather from her husband, who is bringing important visitors to their country home.

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  • 1954
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    Seagulls Over Sorrento

    Seagulls Over Sorrento

    5.4 1954 HD

    A Navy lieutenant is borrowed by the British to supervise torpedo experiments after one of their scientists is killed.

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  • 1954
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    The Teckman Mystery

    The Teckman Mystery

    5.9 1954 HD

    A fiction writer begins working on a biography of a pilot who went down during the test flight of a new plane and finds himself soon involved in a series of murders.

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  • 1950
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    The Angel with the Trumpet

    The Angel with the Trumpet

    6.3 1950 HD

    Sad tale of a woman who marries the man her family wishes her to wed, not Wooland, the man she truly loves. Years after her lover's suicide, Herlie joins him before the Gestapo can get to her because of her Jewish ancestry.

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  • 1955
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    The Man Who Loved Redheads

    The Man Who Loved Redheads

    4.5 1955 HD

    Framed in flashback, The Man Who Loved Redheads is an anecdotal comedy about a man (John Justin) whose life is defined by his first romantic experience. That liaison occurred in Justin's youth, when the young man matures and enters the diplomatic world, he spends the rest of his career searching for his first love.

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  • 1972
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    Savage Messiah

    Savage Messiah

    6.1 1972 HD

    In the Paris of the 1910s, brash young sculptor Henri Gaudier begins a creative partnership with an older writer, Sophie Brzeska. Though the couple is 20 years apart in age, Gaudier finds that his untamed work is complemented by the older woman's cultural refinement. He then moves to London with Brzeska, where he falls in with a group of avant-garde artists. There, Gaudier encounters yet another artistic muse in passionate suffragette Gosh Boyle.

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  • 1953
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    The Village

    The Village

    7 1953 HD

    At the end of the Second World War, orphans of various nationalities come together at the Pestalozzi Children's Village in Trogen. When the order arrives from Poland that the Polish children must return to their country, it comes as a shock to 13-year-old Andrzey: he doesn't want to leave Anja, for whom he has developed a strong affection. The two children decide to flee and go into hiding...

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  • 1978
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    The Big Sleep

    The Big Sleep

    5.824 1978 HD

    Private eye Philip Marlowe investigates a case of blackmail involving the two wild daughters of a rich general, a pornographer and a gangster.

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  • 1962
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    Candidate for Murder

    Candidate for Murder

    1 1962 HD

    Professional killer Kersten arrives in England and is hired by Donald Edwards to murder his wife Helene. But Helene's lover Robert Vaughan discovers the plot and he trails Kersten and Edwards to a country cottage.

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  • 2008
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    Visual Effects: The Thief of Bagdad

    Visual Effects: The Thief of Bagdad

    7 2008 HD

    Documentary about the technical achievements of the 1940 film classic The Thief of Bagdad.

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  • 1962
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    La salamandre d'or

    La salamandre d'or

    1 1962 HD

    In 1525, on the evening of the Battle of Pavia, François 1er was taken prisoner by the armies of Charles-Quint, with the Constable de Bourbon on their side. His mother, regent of the kingdom, commissioned the king's loyal equerry, Antoine de Montpezat, to raise a ransom of two million ecus and send it to Madrid. Despite the treachery of Vandoeuvre, governor of Languedoc and supporter of the connétable de Bourbon, who has his eye on the French throne, Montpezat accomplishes his mission and is reunited with his fiancée, who had almost married the traitor Vandoeuvre.

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  • 1943
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    The Gentle Sex

    The Gentle Sex

    7 1943 HD

    During the War seven women from very different backgrounds find themselves together in the Auxiliary Territorial Services. They are soon drilling, driving lorries, and manning ack-ack batteries.

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  • 1977
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    Valentino

    Valentino

    5.7 1977 HD

    The untimely death of silent screen star Rudolph Valentino prompts the many women in his past to reminisce about his troubled rise to superstardom.

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  • 1979
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    Schalcken the Painter

    Schalcken the Painter

    5.5 1979 HD

    Can Schalcken save his love, Rose, from the clutches of a ghastly suitor before it is too late?

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  • 1956
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    Guilty?

    Guilty?

    4.75 1956 HD

    Convinced that a wartime resistance heroine is innocent of a murder charge, Nap Rumbold, a solicitor / private detective travels to France searching for evidence to clear her name.

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  • 1961
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    Man Wants to Live

    Man Wants to Live

    1 1961 HD

    Professor Chardin has just killed a man. Before calling the police to turn himself in, he burns some leaves and a notebook in the fireplace. Secret agents in the street with listening devices flee when the police arrive. The professor refuses to be defended by a lawyer and to explain himself, but his friend Professor Carter and his wife come to his support and he agrees to explain his crime of inventing the H-bomb, the secret of which was stolen from him by his collaborator Rossi at the very moment when he had given up his research, convinced by Albert Einstein's pacifist plea and other personal circumstances.

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  • 1945
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    Journey Together

    Journey Together

    6.4 1945 HD

    Two Englishmen train with the Royal Air Force, ending with a bombing raid on Berlin.

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  • 1957
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    Island in the Sun

    Island in the Sun

    6.6 1957 HD

    A scandalous tale of politics, social inequality, interracial romance, and murder set on a fictitious British-owned Caribbean island.

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  • 1981
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    Timon of Athens

    Timon of Athens

    7 1981 HD

    Timon loves to give parties and objects to friends, but when he cannot pay his creditors, his "friends" refuse to help him, and he becomes a misanthropic hermit.

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  • 1958
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    A Midsummer Night's Dream

    A Midsummer Night's Dream

    1 1958 HD

    Mistaken identity, unrequited love, and the supernatural are combined in Shakespeare's classic set in the woods of Greece on a moonlit night.

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  • 1953
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    Hot Ice

    Hot Ice

    1 1953 HD

    An eccentric jewel-thief invites an assortment of people for a country house week-end, then keeps them prisoner after his plans to steal their jewels have been discovered.

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  • 1965
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    Gideon's Way

    Gideon's Way

    6.8 1965 HD

    Gideon's Way is a British television crime series made by ITC Entertainment in 1964/65, based on the novels by John Creasey. The series was made at Elstree in twin production with The Saint TV series. It starred Liverpudlian John Gregson in the title role as Commander George Gideon of Scotland Yard, with Alexander Davion as his assistant, Detective Chief Inspector David Keen, Reginald Jessup as Det. Superintendent LeMaitre, Ian Rossiter as Detective Chief Superintendent Joe Bell and Basil Dignam as Commissioner Scott-Marle. The show did not acknowledge any help from Scotland Yard, any other police force or advisor. Daphne Anderson starred as his wife, Kate with Giles Watling as young son, Malcolm, Richard James as older son, Matthew who seemed to have a lot of new girlfriends and Andrea Allan as daughter, Pru. Unusually for police stories, Gideon was shown as a family man at home though urgent phone calls from his bosses tend to disrupt family plans too often. However, he did admit in "State Visit" that his wife had walked out on him for a while years ago when he put the job first and her second. They live in an expensive detached house in Chelsea.

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  • 1978
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    Lillie

    Lillie

    8.2 1978 HD

    The Rise and Fall of a Professional Beauty. It was the affair that shook Victorian society to its core. He was the Prince of Wales, the future monarch; she was a professional beauty, who became a royal bedmate. Follow the fascinating life of the Dean of Jersey's daughter from her modest childhood to her emergence as one of the most celebrated beauties of her time. Lillie's liaison with the heir to the throne marked only the beginning of a remarkable, scandalous and daring series of adventures in open defiance of accepted morality imposed by Victorian and Edwardian society.

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  • 1980
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    Lady Killers

    Lady Killers

    5 1980 HD

    Compelling crime anthology looks at some of Britain's most notorious murder trials, in which both male and female defendants stood accused of the murder of women. Introduced by Robert Morley, seven hour-long dramas reconstruct sensational trials which shocked Britain, offering in-depth analyses of individuals' motives and methods.

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  • 1971
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    A Ghost Story for Christmas

    A Ghost Story for Christmas

    7.4 1971 HD

    A strand of annual British short television adaptations of classic ghost stories, referencing the oral tradition of telling supernatural tales at Christmas. First broadcast on BBC One from 1971 to 1978, and revived in 2005 on BBC Four.

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  • 1957
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    Theatre Night

    Theatre Night

    1 1957 HD

    A BBC television series of forty-five-minute excerpts from stage plays running in London.

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  • 1974
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    Churchill's People

    Churchill's People

    1 1974 HD

    Churchill's People is a British anthology series based on A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Winston Churchill's four-volume history of Britain and its former colonies. 26 episodes were produced by the BBC and initially broadcast from 30 December 1974 to 23 June 1975.

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