John Bromfield

John Bromfield

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   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. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Bromfield, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: John Bromfield
  • Popularity: 2.366
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1922-06-11
  • Place of Birth: South Bend, Indiana, USA
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John Bromfield Movies

  • 1948
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    Sorry, Wrong Number

    Sorry, Wrong Number

    6.7 1948 HD

    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...

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  • 1955
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    Revenge of the Creature

    Revenge of the Creature

    5.7 1955 HD

    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...

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  • 1950
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    The Furies

    The Furies

    7.1 1950 HD

    A New Mexico cattle man and his strong-willed daughter clash over land and love.

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  • 1956
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    Crime Against Joe

    Crime Against Joe

    5.8 1956 HD

    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...

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  • 1956
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    Curucu, Beast of the Amazon

    Curucu, Beast of the Amazon

    3.8 1956 HD

    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...

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  • 1953
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    Easy to Love

    Easy to Love

    6.1 1953 HD

    Two men vie for the heart of a Cypress Gardens swimming star.

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  • 1949
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    Rope of Sand

    Rope of Sand

    5.6 1949 HD

    Story of a South African diamond mine watched over by a sadistic policeman tasked with looking out for smugglers.

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  • 1956
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    Hot Cars

    Hot Cars

    5.7 1956 HD

    Story of a salesman lured into the "hot car" racket.

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  • 1950
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    Paid in Full

    Paid in Full

    6.6 1950 HD

    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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  • 1952
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    Flat Top

    Flat Top

    4 1952 HD

    A rock hard commander trains Navy Carrier Pilots during the Second World War

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  • 1979
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    When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion

    When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion

    1 1979 HD

    Some of TV and film's popular western actors reunite in this tribute special hosted by Glenn Ford.

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  • 1955
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    The Big Bluff

    The Big Bluff

    5.2 1955 HD

    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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  • 1956
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    Three Bad Sisters

    Three Bad Sisters

    4 1956 HD

    Following the death of a wealthy man, his three daughters squabble about who should be the principal heiress.

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  • 1956
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    Quincannon, Frontier Scout

    Quincannon, Frontier Scout

    4.4 1956 HD

    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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  • 1956
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    Manfish

    Manfish

    3.7 1956 HD

    Three deep sea divers get involved in murder while searching for a lost treasure.

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  • 1952
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    Hold That Line

    Hold That Line

    6 1952 HD

    The Bowery Boys are enrolled in a fancy college by a pair of rich snobs who think they can turn the Boys into classy guys. Sach becomes a football...

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  • 1954
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    The Black Dakotas

    The Black Dakotas

    5.1 1954 HD

    During the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln sends an emissary with a peace treaty to the Sioux Indians. He also sends a gift of $130,000 in gold....

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  • 1956
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    Frontier Gambler

    Frontier Gambler

    6 1956 HD

    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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  • 1954
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    Ring of Fear

    Ring of Fear

    5 1954 HD

    Mystery writer Mickey Spillane tries to help Clyde Beatty deal with a plot to sabotage his circus.

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  • 1961
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    Officer Morgan and a Man of Mystery

    Officer Morgan and a Man of Mystery

    1 1961 HD

    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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  • 1951
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    Racket Squad

    Racket Squad

    6 1951 HD

    Racket Squad is an American TV crime drama series starring Reed Hadley as Captain John Braddock, a fictional detective working for the San Francisco,...

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  • 1955
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    Frontier

    Frontier

    5 1955 HD

    Frontier is an American Western anthology series that aired on NBC from September 1955, to September 1956. The series de-emphasizes gunplay and...

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  • 1958
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    U.S. Marshal

    U.S. Marshal

    6 1958 HD

    United States Marshal (renamed from Sheriff of Cochise) is a crime drama set in Tuscon, Arizona about a U.S. Marshal fighting crime. After "U.S....

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  • 1956
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    U.S. Marshall

    U.S. Marshall

    7.5 1956 HD

    While this sounds like a western, THE SHERIFF OF COCHISE was a contemporary police drama set in Cochise County, AZ. Sheriff Frank Morgan was...

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