Elwood Dager Cromwell, known as John Cromwell, was an American film and stage director and actor. His films spanned the early days of sound to 1950s film noir, when his directing career was cut short by the Hollywood blacklist.
John Cromwell Biography / Wiki
| Name | John Cromwell |
| Also Know | Elwood Dager Cromwell |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Directing |
| Place of Birth | Toledo, Ohio, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1886-12-23 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 92 |
| Deathday | 1979-09-26 |
John Cromwell Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| The Arena | Senator Harvey Rogers | 1956-04-09 | Arriving in Washington, a freshman senator gets an experienced advisor who warns him not to continue a heated feud with his state’s senior salon, held… |
| The Dummy | Walter Babbing | 1929-03-09 | The title character is office-boy Barney. Pretending to be a deaf-mute, Barney tries to trump his detective boss Walter Babbing by tracking down the p… |
| Top Secret Affair | General Daniel A. Grimshaw | 1957-01-30 | A publisher (Susan Hayward) uses her magazine and charm to derail a general (Kirk Douglas) on the Washington fast track…. |
| 3 Women | Mr. Rose | 1977-04-10 | Two co-workers, one a vain woman and the other an awkward teenager, share an increasingly bizarre relationship after becoming roommates…. |
| A Wedding | Bishop Martin | 1978-08-29 | Muffin’s wedding to Dino Corelli is to be a big affair. Except the ageing priest isn’t too sure of the ceremony, only the families actually turn up as… |
| The Mighty | Mr. Jamieson | 1929-11-16 | In this melodrama set during WW I, a gangster joins the army and is promoted to major. He then returns from war torn Europe to tell a family that thei… |
| Ann Vickers | Sad Faced Doughboy (uncredited) | 1933-09-26 | After a love affair ending in an abortion, a young prison reformer submerges herself in her work. She then falls for a controversial and married judge… |
| Abe Lincoln in Illinois | John Brown (uncredited) | 1940-02-22 | Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his el… |
John Cromwell Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| The Goddess | Director | 1958-06-24 | Booze, pills and loneliness mark a young actress’ rise to stardom…. |
| Dead Reckoning | Director | 1947-01-16 | Paratroopers Captain ‘Rip’ Murdock and Sergeant Johnny Drake are mysteriously ordered to travel to Washington, DC. When Drake learns that he is to be… |
| Algiers | Director | 1938-01-16 | Pepe Le Moko is a notorious thief, who escaped from France. Since his escape, Moko became a resident and leader of the immense Casbah of Algiers. Fren… |
| Little Lord Fauntleroy | Director | 1936-03-06 | An American boy turns out to be the heir of a wealthy British earl. He is sent to live with the irritable and unsentimental aristocrat, his grandfathe… |
| The Racket | Director | 1951-10-25 | Mobster Nick Scanlon has managed to buy several of the local government and law-enforcement officials. However, he can’t seem to touch the incorruptib… |
| In Name Only | Director | 1939-08-18 | A wealthy man falls for a widow but is locked into a loveless marriage with a woman who has contrived to convince his parents she is the ideal wife…. |
| The Company She Keeps | Director | 1951-01-27 | A lady con artist sets out to steal her parole officer’s fiance…. |
| Caged | Director | 1950-05-19 | Caged tells the story of a teenage newlywed, who is sent to prison for being an accessory to a robbery. Her experiences while incarcerated, along with… |
| Since You Went Away | Director | 1944-06-30 | While husband Tim is away during World War II, Anne Hilton copes with problems on the homefront. Taking in a lodger, Colonel Smollett, to help make en… |
| Anna and the King of Siam | Director | 1946-08-11 | In 1862, a young Englishwoman becomes royal tutor in Siam and befriends the King…. |
| The Enchanted Cottage | Director | 1945-04-28 | A homely maid and a scarred ex-GI meet at the cottage where she works and where he was to spend his honeymoon prior to his accident. The two develop a… |
| Ann Vickers | Director | 1933-09-26 | After a love affair ending in an abortion, a young prison reformer submerges herself in her work. She then falls for a controversial and married judge… |
| Abe Lincoln in Illinois | Director | 1940-02-22 | Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his el… |
| The Prisoner of Zenda | Director | 1937-09-03 | An Englishman who resembles the king of a small European nation gets mixed up in palace intrigue when his look-alike is kidnapped…. |
| Of Human Bondage | Director | 1934-07-20 | Club-footed medical school student Philip Carey falls in love with cynical waitress Mildred Rogers. She rejects him and runs off with a salesman, late… |
| Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake | Director | 1942-01-29 | Sir Arthur Blake has inherited title and lands from his brother. He also has his orphaned nephew Benjamin working for him as a bonded servant. While h… |
| Spitfire | Director | 1934-03-08 | Dirt-poor mountain girl Trigger Hicks is a loner. Her faith-healing is mistaken for witchcraft by the community. She falls for an engineer building a … |
| Made for Each Other | Director | 1939-02-10 | A couple struggle to find happiness after a whirlwind courtship…. |
| The Scavengers | Director | 1959-10-01 | This low-budget Asian-set adventure concerns a reformed smuggler (Vince Edwards of TV’s Ben Casey) who finds his missing wife (Carol Ohmart) in Hong K… |
| Jalna | Director | 1935-08-09 | A young poet, accompanied by his new bride, returns home to his large family at their Canadian farm…. |
| The Dance of Life | Director | 1929-08-16 | A vaudeville comic and a pretty young dancer aren’t having much luck in their separate careers, so they decide to combine their acts. In order to save… |
| The Silver Cord | Director | 1933-05-05 | A domineering matriarch is less than happy when her son brings home his new bride. She immediately sets to work at sabotaging their marriage as well a… |
| Village Tale | Director | 1935-06-15 | The insidious typical talk of a small town makes a young man and the married woman he is in love very unhappy…. |
| Banjo on My Knee | Director | 1936-12-11 | A young husband leaves his river shantyboat community in Pecan Point, Tennessee and travels to New Orleans in search of his runaway wife…. |
| Scandal Sheet | Director | 1931-01-31 | Confirming his principle that no one escapes the news, a tabloid editor prints a scathing story about his wife…. |
| Tom Sawyer | Director | 1930-12-19 | The classic Mark Twain tale of a young boy and his friends on the Mississippi River. Tom and his pals Huckleberry Finn and Joe Harper have numerous ad… |
| Sweepings | Director | 1933-04-14 | Daniel Pardway, starting with almost nothing after the great Chicago fire, builds the biggest department store in town. He wants to pass on the busine… |
| Double Harness | Director | 1933-07-21 | After tricking him into marriage, a woman tries to win the love of her philandering husband…. |
| Night Song | Director | 1947-11-10 | A socialite pretends to be poor and blind in her plan to help a blinded pianist…. |
| This Man Is Mine | Director | 1934-04-13 | The seemingly happy relationship between Tony and Jim is threatened when his manipulative, drama-queen ex-wife visits…. |
| For the Defense | Director | 1930-07-19 | William Foster is a slick attorney who stays within the law, but specializes in representing crooks and shady characters. He’s adept at keeping them o… |
| I Dream Too Much | Director | 1935-11-29 | Opera student Annette Monard meets composer Jonathan Street, and in a buoyant, alcohol-fueled evening, the couple marries. Sincerely falling in love, … |
| So Ends Our Night | Director | 1941-02-27 | An anti-Nazi on the run and a young Jewish couple race across Europe trying to escape Hitler’s ever powerful influence…. |
| The Vice Squad | Director | 1931-05-29 | A diplomat is blackmailed by crooked vice cops into helping them frame prostitutes…. |
| Unfaithful | Director | 1931-03-14 | In this society drama set in contemporary England, a noblewoman pretends to be an adulteress in order to protect her sister-in-law, who actually is…. |
| The Fountain | Director | 1934-08-22 | Set during the first World War in neutral, but pro-German, Holland, Lewis Allison, an interned British officer, is paroled to the castle of Baron Von … |
| Street of Chance | Director | 1930-02-08 | ‘Natural’ Davis (William Powell) is a respected gambler who follows a ruthless code of honour with those who cheat against him. His wife Alma (Kay Fra… |
| Close Harmony | Director | 1929-04-12 | Marjorie, a song-and-dance girl in the stage show of a palatial movie theater, becomes interested in Al West, a warehouse clerk who has put together a… |
| To Mary – with Love | Director | 1936-08-01 | Mary stands by Jack after the Depression of 1929 but considers divorce when he again becomes successful by 1935. Bill, who loves Mary, works at keepin… |
| Victory | Director | 1940-12-21 | A hermit’s idyllic life on an island is disturbed by the arrival of a bunch of cutthroats…. |
| The Texan | Director | 1930-05-10 | Outlaw Llano Kid poses as a rich Mexican widow’s son and falls in love with a cousin…. |
| The World and the Flesh | Director | 1932-04-22 | During the 1917 Russian revolution, a group of artistocrats find themselves in the custody of a brutal Communist revolutionary. He lusts after one of … |
| The Mighty | Director | 1929-11-16 | In this melodrama set during WW I, a gangster joins the army and is promoted to major. He then returns from war torn Europe to tell a family that thei… |
| Watchtower Over Tomorrow | Director | 1945-03-29 | Short documentary film about the Dumbarton Oaks plan and the proposed formation of the United Nations…. |
| Rich Man’s Folly | Director | 1931-11-14 | The dream of Paul Dombey, the wealthy owner of the shipping company, is to have a son to continue his business. Tragically, Dombey’s wife dies shortly… |
| Guest in the House | Director | 1944-12-08 | Evelyn, an emotionally vulnerable and unstable woman, stays at the home of her doctor Dan Proctor. There she meets and falls in love with his brother,… |
| Director | New York Confidential is a British-American crime drama series that aired from 1958 to 1959. The series aired in syndicated in the United States and … | ||
John Cromwell Production Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Night Song | Producer | 1947-11-10 | A socialite pretends to be poor and blind in her plan to help a blinded pianist…. |
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