1. John Benjamin Ireland was a Canadian-American actor and film director.
45 Facts About John Ireland
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John Ireland was nominated for an Academy Award for his role as Jack Burden in All the King's Men, making him the first British Columbia-born actor to receive an Oscar nomination.
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John Ireland appeared in many television series, notably The Cheaters.
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In 1960, John Ireland was presented with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contribution to the television industry.
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John Ireland was born in Vancouver, British Columbia on January 30,1914.
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John Ireland lived in New York City from a very early age.
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John Ireland never knew his natural father; his mother, a Scottish piano teacher Gracie Ferguson, remarried to Michael Noone, an Irish vaudevillian, and had three other children, a daughter Kathryn, a son named Thomas, and another son, Michael.
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John Ireland was a swimmer, once competing with Johnny Weissmuller.
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John Ireland performed underwater stunts at a carnival and worked as a barker.
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John Ireland entered, thinking it offered a free show and instead received free training.
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John Ireland slept in a dressing room and was paid a dollar a day to work backstage while rehearsing lines.
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John Ireland signed with 20th Century Fox and made his screen-debut as Private Windy, the thoughtful letter-writing GI, in the 1945 war film A Walk in the Sun, directed by Lewis Milestone.
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John Ireland played Billy Clanton in John Ford's My Darling Clementine.
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John Ireland went back to support parts for The Gangster for the King Brothers and I Love Trouble for Columbia.
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John Ireland played the lead in Open Secret for Eagle-Lion, then had a support role in Anthony Mann's classic noir, Raw Deal.
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John Ireland had a vital support part in Howard Hawks' 1948 film Red River as the gunslinger Cherry Valance.
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However, John Ireland's part was reduced when Hawks became annoyed with the actor.
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John Ireland was an army captain in the Ingrid Bergman spectacular, Joan of Arc.
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John Ireland was nominated for an Oscar as Best Supporting Actor for his powerful performance as Jack Burden, the hard-boiled newspaper reporter who evolves from devotee to cynical denouncer of demagogue Willie Stark in All the King's Men, making him the first Vancouver-born actor to receive an Academy Award nomination.
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John Ireland was featured as Bob Ford in the low budget I Shot Jesse James the first movie directed by Sam Fuller.
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John Ireland was a villain in the Western Roughshod and a love rival for Paulette Goddard in Anna Lucasta.
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John Ireland had the leads in some low-budget films: The Basketball Fix ; The Scarf ; Little Big Horn ; The Bushwackers ; and Hannah Lee with his wife.
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John Ireland went to England to make The Good Die Young and supported his wife in Southwest Passage and Joan Crawford in Queen Bee.
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John Ireland had the lead in the British thriller The Glass Cage and the war film Hell's Horizon.
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John Ireland had the lead in No Place to Land, and Stormy Crossing.
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In 1959, John Ireland appeared as Chris Slade, with Karl Swenson as Ansel Torgin, in the episode "The Fight Back" of the NBC Western series, Riverboat.
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John Ireland turned director with the Western Hannah Lee, co-directing with Lee Garmes while appearing in it.
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John Ireland then co-directed The Fast and the Furious, an early production from Roger Corman.
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In 1959, John Ireland made a guest appearance on Judy Garland's album The Letter for Capitol Records.
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John Ireland had a key role as the gladiator Crixus in the Stanley Kubrick 1960 spectacle Spartacus, co-starring with Kirk Douglas.
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John Ireland supported Elvis Presley in Wild in the Country and had the lead in the British Return of a Stranger.
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In 1970, John Ireland appeared as Kinroy in the TV Western The Men From Shiloh in the episode titled "Jenny".
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John Ireland was seen in productions like The House of Seven Corpses, Salon Kitty and Satan's Cheerleaders.
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John Ireland did appear in big-budget fare such as The Adventurers, as a police lieutenant in the Robert Mitchum private-eye story Farewell, My Lovely.
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John Ireland starred in Thunder Run, an American action-thriller film directed by Gary Hudson and co-starring Forrest Tucker.
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John Ireland was seen in the War of the Worlds episode "Eye for an Eye" in 1988.
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Occasionally John Ireland's name was mentioned in tabloids of the times, in connection with much younger starlets, including Natalie Wood, Barbara Payton, and Sue Lyon.
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John Ireland attracted controversy by dating 16-year-old actress Tuesday Weld when he was 45.
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John Ireland had an affair with co-star Joan Crawford while on the set of Queen Bee.
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John Ireland later was admitted to hospital for taking an overdose of barbiturates.
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From 1962 until his death, John Ireland was married to Daphne Myrick Cameron, with whom he had a daughter named Daphne and a son named Cameron.
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John Ireland has four grandchildren: Pete, Melissa, Jack and Helios.
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An accomplished chef, he regularly worked in the kitchen and concocted John Ireland Stew, combining whatever ingredients were available on a given night.
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John Ireland was a regular at the restaurant's bar, greeting patrons and buying drinks for friends.
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On March 21,1992, John Ireland died in Santa Barbara, California of leukemia at the age of 78.