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John Herrick McIntire (June 27, 1907 – January 30, 1991) was an American character actor.〔Obituary ''Variety'', February 4, 1991.〕 McIntire replaced Ward Bond in the starring role on ''Wagon Train'' as the second trail master, Christopher Hale (a role he played from early 1961 to the series' ending in 1965). ==Career and Personal Life== John McIntire was born in Spokane, Washington and is of Irish decent. He grew up around ranchers, an experience that would later inspire his performances in dozens of film and television westerns. A graduate of USC, McIntire began acting in radio on ''Tarzan and The Diamond of Asher'', where he met his future wife, Jeanette Nolan. McIntire appeared in countless Suspense radio programs from the early 1940s. He was the voice in the radio program ''The March of Time''—and then on stage, before he embarked on a lengthy film and television career as a character actor. He was already forty when he made his big-screen debut in 1947, but went on to appear in some sixty-five films, often playing police chiefs, judges, eccentric loners, or other western characters. His films include the film noir classic ''The Asphalt Jungle'' (1950), the 1960 Hitchcock thriller ''Psycho'' and the 1960 drama ''Elmer Gantry'', but some of his more memorable roles were in westerns such as the acclaimed ''Winchester '73'' (1950) and ''The Far Country'' (1955), both with James Stewart, and ''The Tin Star'', with Henry Fonda (1957). McIntire actually received top billing for perhaps his best film role, as a crusading politician in ''The Phenix City Story'' (1955), even though he played a supporting part. He played Federal Judge Isaac Parker in ''Rooster Cogburn'' (1975), the sequel to ''True Grit'' featuring John Wayne and Katharine Hepburn. His final film role was in ''Turner & Hooch'' (1989). In the mid-1950s, McIntire moved into television, appearing in anthology series, sitcoms and dramas. He guest starred as Judson in the episode "Chinese Invasion" of NBC's western series ''Cimarron City'', with George Montgomery and John Smith.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''Cimarron City'' )〕 McIntire procured a regular role on ABC's ''Naked City'', before his character was killed off. Though McIntire had never had the lead role in a film, television provided him with his most prominent and long-running role when in 1961 he replaced the late Ward Bond in the popular NBC/ABC series ''Wagon Train'', playing trailmaster Chris Hale in more than 150 episodes between 1961 and 1965. His co-stars were Robert Horton, Robert Fuller, Denny Scott Miller, Terry Wilson, Frank McGrath, and Michael Burns. Even before ''Wagon Train'', McIntire was cast from January to May 1961 in the supporting role of Pa Canfield in the NBC American Civil War drama ''The Americans'', starring Darryl Hickman and Richard Davalos as brothers who fight on opposites of the conflict. In 1960, McIntire guest-starred as William Palmer in the series finale, "The Most Dangerous Gentleman", of the short-lived NBC western ''Overland Trail'', starring William Bendix and Doug McClure, his subsequent co-star on ''The Virginian''. In 1967, he guest starred in an episode of CBS's ''Dundee and the Culhane''. McIntire subsequently replaced actors Lee J. Cobb and Charles Bickford on NBC's ''The Virginian'' in 1967, playing the brother of Bickford's character. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John McIntire」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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