J.P. McGowan
Actor/Actriz
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Series
From Wikipedia
John Paterson McGowan (February 24, 1880 – March 26, 1952) was a pioneering Hollywood actor and director and occasionally a screenwriter and producer. J. P. McGowan, as he was usually known, remains the only Australian to have been made a life member of the Screen Directors Guild (now Directors Guild of America).
Born in the then-bustling railway centre of Terowie in South Australia, McGowan grew up in Adelaide (Islington) and Sydney. He was a capable horseman and served in the Second Boer War with Montmorency's Scouts as a special dispatch rider.
McGowan directed and often acted in the first 33 episodes of Kalem's 1914 adventure film series, The Hazards of Helen, which eventually ran to 54 episodes, some still with McGowan's participation. While filming he began a relationship with Helen Holmes, the film's star, and the two married. They left Kalem to set up their own production company, Signal Films, which successfully made a series of railroad melodramas but lost out when their distributor (Mutual) failed. The collaboration ended when they divorced in 1925. There was an adopted daughter, Kaye.
McGowan successfully made the transition from silent film to talkies. While never a major star, in a busy career that spanned four decades he is credited with acting in 232 films—mostly strong roles like sheriff or villain—writing 26 screenplays and directing 242 productions. In 1932 he directed a young John Wayne in the 12-episode rail vs airplane serial The Hurricane Express for the independent Mascot Pictures. From 1938 to 1951, as Executive Secretary of the Screen Directors Guild, he fought to secure recognition for the director within the studio systems of the film and emerging television industry.
J.P. McGowan died in 1952 in Hollywood and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.
Como Actor/Actriz
Stagecoach
Bit Part (uncredited)
Les Misérables
Javert's Plainclothesman
Prisionero del odio
Ship's Captain (uncredited)
Murder in the Fleet
Chief of Police (Uncredited)
The Buccaneer
Jailer
Kidnapped
Clansman
From the Manger to the Cross
Wise Man 1
The Accusing Finger
Inner Guard
Hit the Saddle
Rance McGowan
Wagon Wheels
Couch
Bar 20 Rides Again
Buck Peters
Robin Hood of El Dorado
Danglong
Diamond Jim
Engineer
Mississippi
Dealer (uncredited)
Slave Ship
Helmsman
Sinner Take All
Police Officer Murphy (uncredited)
Borderland
El Rio Sheriff
The Lady and the Bandit
Old Man
The Three Mesquiteers
Brack Canfield
Empty Holsters
U.S. Marshal Billy O'Neill
Silver Spurs
Webb Allison
Elmo the Fearless
Pioneers of the West
Tom Dorgan
The Hazards of Helen
Various roles
Secret Patrol
Blacksmith Barstow
She Had to Eat
Police Sergeant (uncredited)
Barriers of the Law
Steve Redding
Savage Fury
Ship's Captain
Plunging Hoofs
Jim Wales
Stampede
Matt Stevens
Detrás de Cámaras
The Hurricane Express
Guionista, Director
Canyon Hawks
Director
Deadwood Pass
Director
Perils of the Yukon
Director
Drum Taps
Director, Guionista
Where the West Begins
Director
Elmo the Fearless
Director
Pioneers of the West
Director, Adaptation, Productor
The Hazards of Helen
Director
The Box Car Trap
Director
So This Is Arizona
Director
Secret Patrol
Guionista
Barriers of the Law
Director
A Two Fisted Tenderfoot
Director
Tangled Fortunes
Director
The Lure of the Circus
Director
Code of the West
Director
The Canyon of Missing Men
Director
Blackbirds
Director
The Plot at the Railroad Cut
Director
Near the Rainbow's End
Director
The Girl on the Engine
Director
In Danger's Path
Director
The Girl at the Throttle
Director
The Outlaw Dog
Director
The Outlaw Tamer
Director
The Girl Telegrapher's Peril
Director
Riders of the North
Director
The Law of the Plains
Director
Mark of the Spur
Director