John Kerr

Personal Info

Birthday

November 15, 1931

Day of Death

2013-02-02

(81 years old)

Place of Birth

New York, New York, USA

John Kerr

Biography

John Grinham Kerr (November 15, 1931 – February 2, 2013), was an American actor and lawyer. He made his Broadway debut in 1953 in Mary Coyle Chase's Bernardine, a high-school comedy for which he won a Theatre World Award.

In 1953-54, he received critical acclaim as a troubled prep school student in Robert Anderson's play Tea and Sympathy. In 1954, he won a Tony Award for his performance, and he starred in the film version in 1956. Kerr's first television acting role was in 1954 on NBC's Justice as a basketball player who believes that gamblers have ruined his success on the court.

Known For

Columbo

Climax!

The Philco Television Playhouse

The Ray Bradbury Theater

The Virginian

Studio One

Adam-12

The Name of the Game

Filmography

1999
Anthony Perkins: A Life in the Shadows
as Self
1981
The Amateur
as CIA Security Guard
1979
Search and Destroy
as MacPherson
1978
The Silent Partner
as Detective #3
1974
Only God Knows
as Health Inspector
1973
Class of '44
as Hotel Bartender
Incident on a Dark Street
as Gallagher - Trenier's Lawyer
1972
The Longest Night
as Agent Jones
1971
Yuma
as Capt. White
1961
King of Kings
as Man at Sermon on the Mount (uncredited)
The Pit and the Pendulum
as Francis Barnard
1960
Girl of the Night
as Larry Taylor
The Crowded Sky
as Mike Rule
1958
South Pacific
as Lt. Joseph Cable, USMC
1957
The Vintage
as Ernesto Barandero
1956
Tea and Sympathy
as Tom Robinson Lee
Gaby
as Gregory Y. Wendell
1955
The Quatermass Xperiment
as Photo Lab Technician (uncredited)
The Cobweb
as Steven W. Holte
1953
Rex Newman
as Howie Madden
Horace Mann's Miracle
as student