John Bromfield
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John Bromfield (né Farron Bromfield) (June 11, 1922 - September 19, 2005) was an American film and television actor.
Bromfield was born in South Bend, Indiana. He played football and was a boxing champion in college. He served in the United States Navy. In 1948, he twice harpooned a whale in the documentary film Harpoon. In 1948, he was cast as a detective in the film Sorry, Wrong Number, starring Burt Lancaster and Barbara Stanwyck for Columbia Pictures. In 1953, Bromfield appeared with Esther Williams in the film Easy to Love set in bathing suit attire in Cypress Gardens, Florida. In the middle 1950s, he appeared in westerns, such as NBC's Frontier anthology series in the role of a sheriff in the episode "The Hanging at Thunder Butte Creek". He also starred in horror films, including the 1955 3D production, Revenge of the Creature, one of the Creature from the Black Lagoon sequels.
In 1956, Bromfield was cast as law enforcement officer Frank Morgan in the syndicated western-themed crime drama series, Sheriff of Cochise, later retitled by studio boss Desi Arnaz, Sr., as U.S. Marshal. The real sheriff of Cochise County at the time, Jack Howard, visited the set when the program began and made Bromfield an honorary deputy. Bromfield once told the Los Angeles Times: "About 40 million see 'Sheriff of Cochise' or 'U.S. Marshal' every week. I'd have to do about twenty-five pictures, major pictures, over a span of eight or nine years for enough people to see me in the theater who see me in one week on 'U.S. Marshal'. ... The show is seen all over the world. Television is a fabulous medium." The series was actually created by his co-star Stan Jones (1914–1963), who appeared in twenty-four segments as Deputy Harry Olson. Sheriff of Cochise featured numerous young actors who later became well-known in the industry: Mike Connors, Gavin MacLeod, David Janssen, Michael Landon, Stacy Keach, Charles Bronson, Jack Lord, Doug McClure, Ross Martin, and Martin Milner.
In 1960, Bromfield retired from acting to produce sports shows and work as a commercial fisherman off Newport Beach, California. Bromfield was divorced from actresses Corinne Calvet (1925–2001) and Larri Thomas (born 1933). He died at the age of eighty-three of renal failure in Palm Desert, California, having been survived by his third wife of forty-three years, Mary Bromfield.
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 6.525 |
Birthday | 1922-06-11 |
Place of Birth | South Bend, Indiana, USA |
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1948
Sorry, Wrong Number
6.7/175
Leona Stevenson is confined to bed and uses her telephone to keep in contact with the outside world. One day she overhears a murder plot on the teleph...
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Sorry, Wrong Number
1950
The Furies
7.2/65
A New Mexico cattle man and his strong-willed daughter clash over land and love.
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The Furies
1955
Revenge of the Creature
5.65/132
In a tributary of the Amazon, a monster – half-man, half-fish – is captured and placed in a reservoir in a Florida national park to be observed by sci...
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Revenge of the Creature
1956
Crime Against Joe
5.769/13
Down-and-out artist Joe Manning (John Bromfield) wakes up from a night of drunken revelry in a jail cell, where he's being held on suspicion for the m...
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Crime Against Joe
1956
Curucu, Beast of the Amazon
4.1/8
Rock and Dr. Andrea travel up the Amazon to find out why the plantation workers have left their work in panic, allegedly because of attacks from Curuc...
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Curucu, Beast of the Amazon
1953
Easy to Love
6.1/7
Two men vie for the heart of a Cypress Gardens swimming star.
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Easy to Love
1949
Rope of Sand
5.6/26
Story of a South African diamond mine watched over by a sadistic policeman tasked with looking out for smugglers.
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Rope of Sand
1956
Hot Cars
5.679/14
Story of a salesman lured into the "hot car" racket.
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Hot Cars
1950
Paid in Full
6.6/7
Two sisters fall in love with the same man. After the wedding, the new husband realizes he may have married the wrong sister.
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Paid in Full
1952
Flat Top
4.045/11
A rock hard commander trains Navy Carrier Pilots during the Second World War
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Flat Top
1955
The Big Bluff
5.2/18
When a scheming fortune hunter finds his rich wife is not going to die as expected, he and his lover make other plans to get her millions.
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The Big Bluff
1956
Three Bad Sisters
4/8
Following the death of a wealthy man, his three daughters squabble about who should be the principal heiress.
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Three Bad Sisters
1956
Quincannon, Frontier Scout
4.4/5
A young woman hires a frontier scout to help her discover if her brother died in an Indian attack on a remote fort.
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Quincannon, Frontier Scout
1956
Manfish
3.7/12
Three deep sea divers get involved in murder while searching for a lost treasure.
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1954
The Black Dakotas
5.1/8
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The Black Dakotas
1952
Hold That Line
6/1
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1956
Frontier Gambler
6/1
A deputy marshal arrives in the small western town of Fairweather to investigate the death of a beautiful gambler known as "The Princess".
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Frontier Gambler
1954
Ring of Fear
5/6
Mystery writer Mickey Spillane tries to help Clyde Beatty deal with a plot to sabotage his circus.
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Ring of Fear
1961
Officer Morgan and a Man of Mystery
0/0
Detective Morgan and the Japanese police cooperate to unveil the truth of the mysterious death of Morgan’s friend in Arizona.
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Officer Morgan and a Man of Mystery
1979
When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
0/0
Some of TV and film's popular western actors reunite in this tribute special hosted by Glenn Ford.
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