John Burton
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Known For:Acting
Birthday:1904-04-06
Place of Birth:London, England, UK
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Rulers of the Sea (1939)
The struggle of a man to build a steam ship to take him across the Atlantic in spite of all setbacks, and his win against a crack sailing boat in the...

Invisible Agent (1942)
The Invisible Man's grandson uses his secret formula to spy on Nazi Germany in this comedy-thriller.

Captain from Castile (1947)
Spain, 1518: young caballero Pedro De Vargas offends his sadistic neighbor De Silva, who just happens to be an officer of the Inquisition. Forced to...

Lancer Spy (1937)
An Englishman impersonates an imprisoned German officer and "returns" to Germany to become a national hero. A female German spy is assigned to check...

A Yank in the R.A.F. (1941)
An American pilot impulsively joins His Majesty's Royal Air Force in Britain in an attempt to impress his ex-girlfriend.

Pierre of the Plains (1942)
A French-Canadian trapper's adventures jeopardize his romance with an innkeeper.

Journey for Margaret (1942)
An American newspaperman and his wife, end up in London after several retreats in the opening days of WWII. After a shrapnel wound and loss of her...

White Cargo (1942)
In Africa early in World War II, a British rubber plantation executive reminisces about his arrival in the Congo in 1910. He tells the story of a...

Assignment in Brittany (1943)
A French Resistance fighter discovers he's a dead ringer for a Nazi official.

Two Tickets to London (1943)
Accused of helping an enemy submarine, a man escapes and joins a beautiful girl in trying to find the real traitors.

The Very Thought of You (1944)
Army sergeants Dave and "Fixit" spend a three-day pass in Pasadena, where they meet Janet and Cora, two young women who work in a parachute factory.

Enter Arsène Lupin (1944)
A rich but naive young woman is in possession of some priceless jewels. She herself doesn't know it, but a gang of jewel thieves does.

Three Strangers (1946)
On the eve of the Chinese New Year, three strangers, Crystal Shackleford, married to a wealthy philanderer; Jerome Artbutny, an outwardly respectable...

Dark Delusion (1947)
Spoiled socialite Cynthia Grace is suffering from a blood clot. Not unexpectedly, Tommy Coalt falls in love with Cynthia, much to her parents'...

The Fan (1949)
Lord Windermere appears to all – including his young wife Margaret – to be the perfect husband. The couple's happy marriage is placed at...

Everybody Does It (1949)
Leonard Borland loves his monied wife, but with his wrecking business looking shaky he treasures her all the more. So when she decides to try again...

Three Came Home (1950)
Borneo, 1941, during World War II. When the Japanese occupy the island, American writer Agnes Newton Keith is separated from her husband and...

My Blue Heaven (1950)
Radio star Kitty Moran, long married to partner Jack, finds she's pregnant, but miscarries. For a change, the couple turn their act into a series on...

David and Bathsheba (1951)
King David enters into an adulterous affair with the beautiful Bathsheba, which has tragic consequences for his family and Israel.

The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
An alien and a robot land on Earth after World War II and tell mankind to be peaceful or face destruction.

The Flames of Wrath (1923)
After P. C. Gordon is murdered and robbed of a diamond ring that he bought as a birthday present for his wife, one of the thieves, C. Dates, is...

Nostradamus Says So! (1953)
The life of the French seer and some of his selected quatrains are reviewed.

The House on Telegraph Hill (1951)
Concentration camp survivor Victoria Kowelska finds herself involved in mystery, greed, and murder when she assumes the identity of a dead friend in...

Black Beauty (1946)
Based on Anna Sewell's novel. In rural England of the 1880's, widower Squire Wendon is rearing his young daughter Anne. Her father has forbidden her...

The Woman in Green (1945)
Sherlock Holmes investigates when young women around London turn up murdered, each with a finger severed. Scotland Yard suspects a madman, but Holmes...

Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943)
In World War II, a British secret agent carrying a vitally important document is kidnapped en route to Washington. The British government calls on...

Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1942)
In the midst of World War II, Sherlock Holmes rescues the Swiss inventor of a new bomb-sight from the Gestapo and brings him to England, where he...

Random Harvest (1942)
Wandered away from his asylum, an amnesiac World War I veteran falls in love with a music hall star but his amnesia makes it difficult to last.

Mrs. Miniver (1942)
Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the...

Rage in Heaven (1941)
A jealous man frames his wife's suspected lover for murder.

Dark Streets of Cairo (1940)
A rapid series of murders occurs when a professor disrupts a tranquil Egyptian tomb by removing some precious jewels.

Foreign Correspondent (1940)
American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an...

Phantom Raiders (1940)
In this second Carter mystery, a mysterious rash of cargo ships sinking in Panama leads insurers Llewellyns of London to hire vacationer Nick Carter...

The Earl of Chicago (1940)
A behind the times Chicago bootlegger goes to England with his lawyer to claim his estate as the Earl of Gorley.

The Sun Never Sets (1939)
The Randolph family have a tradition of working in the British colonial service. Clive comes home from a mission in the Gold Coast of Africa...

Storm Over Bengal (1938)
This being a Republic picture, it should come as no surprise that Storm Over Bengal was filmed in its entirety in the San Fernando Valley. Within its...

Marie Antoinette (1938)
The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the...

Lord Jeff (1938)
Spoiled child Geoffrey Bramer teams up with a pair of small time crooks to pose as an aristocrat and steal jewelry from exclusive shops. During a a...

Kidnapped (1938)
Robert Louis Stevenson's hero David Balfour joins rebel Alan Breck Stewart in 18th-century Scotland.

The King Without a Crown (1937)
This short explores the possibility that Louis XVII, son of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, escaped death during the French Revolution and was...

Lost Horizon (1937)
British diplomat Robert Conway and a small group of civilians crash land in the Himalayas, and are rescued by the people of the mysterious, Eden-like...

Beloved Enemy (1936)
In 1921, British Lord Athleigh arrives in Dublin with his daughter, Helen, to engage in peace talks. As wanted Irish rebel leader Dennis Riordan is...

Lloyd's of London (1936)
Norfolk, England, 1770. The nephew of an innkeeper and the son of a reverend maintain a very close friendship until, after living a great adventure,...

Slave Ship (1937)
Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced against his will to again transport human cargo.

Eagle Squadron (1942)
An American joins the British Royal Air Force just before Pearl Harbor is attacked, and falls in love with a beautiful English girl.

Whispers (1941)
In this John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short we see how gossip can be used to spread propaganda or to ruin a person's reputation.

Nostradamus (1938)
A look at various predictions Nostradamus made, such as the American and French Revolutions.

More About Nostradamus (1941)
This short film portrays Nostradamus as having predicted the horrors of WWI and Hitler's rise to power, as well as the eventual triumph of "the...

Further Prophecies of Nostradamus (1942)
This short film applies the prophecies of Nostradamus to events of World War II.

Let's Ask Nostradamus (1953)
Nostradamus writes a letter to his young son, and his prophecies are compared to events of the French Revolution.

The Spider Woman (1943)
Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of so-called "pajama suicides". He knows the female villain behind them is as cunning as Moriarty and as...

Bravest of the Brave (1938)
This short film looks at the life of Michel Ney, who fought at Napoleon's side and was made a Marshall of France.

The Black Swan (1942)
When notorious pirate Henry Morgan is made governor of Jamaica, he enlists the help of some of his former partners in ridding the Caribbean of...