
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. John Loder (3 January 1898 — 26 December 1988) was a British-American actor. He was born William John Muir Lowe in London. His father was General W. H. M. Lowe, the British officer to whom Patrick Pearse, the leader of the Irish 1916 Rising in Dublin, surrendered. Both General Lowe and his son were present at the surrender of Pearse. He was educated at Eton and the Royal Military College and followed his father into the army, commissioned into 15th Hussars as a second lieutenant on 17 March 1915, and then serving in the Gallipoli Campaign and at one point being imprisoned by the Germans. Upon being released, he stayed in Germany to run a pickle factory and also began to develop an interest in acting, appearing in bit-parts in a few German films. He left Germany to briefly return to England and then headed to Hollywood to try his luck in the new medium, Talkies. He appeared in The Doctor's Secret, which was Paramount's first talking picture—though his very English persona didn't win America over at this time and he returned to England where he co-starred in plush musicals and intrigue such as Love Life and Laughter and Sabotage. He was the male romantic interest in the 1937 original film version of King Solomon's Mines. When World War II started he returned to America where he seamlessly coasted into a career in 'B' movie roles usually playing upper crust characters with occasional appearances on Broadway. He occasionally did play roles, though supporting ones, in major 'A' films such as How Green Was My Valley, in which he was at the same time one of Roddy McDowall's brothers and Donald Crisp's sons. In 1947 he became an American citizen, his last screen appearance was in 1971. In 1959 he became a naturalised citizen of the United Kingdom as he has been of "uncertain nationality". Description above from the Wikipedia article John Loder, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Katia

Love, Life and Laughter

情熱の航路

わが谷は緑なりき

The Firechasers

Gentleman Jim

Old Acquaintance

The Fighting Guardsman

Paix sur le Rhin

The Story of Esther Costello

You Made Me Love You

On the Loose

サボタージュ

Doctor Syn

Passage to Marseille

Non-Stop New York

Small Hotel

Gideon's Day

The Private Life of Henry VIII

The Secret Man

Alraune

A Game of Death

The Man Who Changed His Mind

Abroad with Two Yanks

Java Head

The Brighton Strangler

It Happened in Paris

The Wife of Monte Cristo

Lorna Doone

The Mysterious Doctor

Dishonored Lady

Sing As We Go

The Hairy Ape

Robert Montgomery Presents

Woman Who Came Back

The Silent Passenger

Eagle Squadron

One More Tomorrow

Jealousy

Menaces...

Whom the Gods Love: The Original Story of Mozart and His Wife

Adventure in Iraq

The Unholy Night

King Solomon's Mines

One Night at Susie's

Adventure in Diamonds

The Case of Lena Smith

Owd Bob

Tin Pan Alley

The Gorilla Man

Murder on the Waterfront

My Song Goes Round the World

Ourselves Alone

The Racketeer

海の底

Wedding Rehearsal

The Count of Monte Cristo

Anything to Declare?

Confirm or Deny

The First Born

Her Private Affair

The Battle

Lilies of the Field

The Doctor's Secret

The Man Hunter

Love, Live & Laugh

Allá donde el viento brama

The Second Floor Mystery

Queen of Hearts

Money for Speed

Scotland Yard

One Night In Lisbon

Rich People

Diamond Frontier

Black Waters

Meet Maxwell Archer

Freiwild

The Silent Battle

Josette of New Orleans

Sunset Pass

Woman and the Hunter

Die weiße Spinne

Under Secret Orders

Are You There?