Highest rated movie: Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
Lowest rated movie: Hustler Squad (1976)
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Looking for reviews of John Ericson movies? Cinafilm has a total of 727 reviews across 8 movies.
Movies starring John Ericson have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 60%.
Bad Day at Black Rock - released in 1955 - is John Ericson's highest rated movie, with a score of 79% based on 194 reviews.
The lowest rated film from John Ericson is Hustler Squad - released in 1976 - with a score of 32% based on 6 reviews.
John Ericson (sometimes Erickson), born John Meibes (September 23, 1926) in Düsseldorf, Germany, is a German-American actor and film and television star. He trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York, played the lead role in Stalag 17 by Donald Bevan and Edmund Trzcinski on Broadway (1951). He went on to make a number of films for MGM in quick succession in the 1950s. His first appearance was in Teresa (1951), directed by Fred Zinnemann, which also launched the film careers of Pier Angeli and Rod Steiger. He then went on to appear in a series of films which included Rhapsody, The Student Prince, Green Fire (all in 1954), and Bad Day at Black Rock (1955).
His career continued, mostly on television, for the next thirty years. He appeared in the lead role in "The Peter Bartley Story" of CBS's fantasy drama, The Millionaire. Child actor Johnny Washbrook appeared in the same episode in a flashback segment of Ericson as a boy. He appeared with Dorothy Malone in the January 1, 1956, episode entitled "Mutiny" of CBS's Appointment with Adventure. He guest starred in 1958 in the NBC western series The Restless Gun, starring John Payne. He also guest starred in the 1961 ABC crime drama, Target: The Corruptors! In 1965-1966, he co-starred with Anne Francis in the detective series Honey West. He occasionally appeared in such films as Pretty Boy Floyd (1960), 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964) and Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971).
He has been married twice and has two children from his first marriage to Milly Coury.
John Ericson has acted in films with Lee Marvin, Dean Jagger, Hank Worden and Paul Dubov.
John Ericson has worked with these film directors: John Sturges, Charles Band, Robert Stevenson and Fred Zinnemann.
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