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name: "Jerome Courtland"
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born: "27 December 1926"
died: "1 March 2012"
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# Jerome Courtland

Actor. Born 27 December 1926 in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA. Died 1 March 2012.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 27 December 1926, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
- **Died:** 1 March 2012
- **Also known as:** Jerome "Jerry" Courtland
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_Courtland, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q967738, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0183857/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/68133

## Biography

Jerome Courtland (also credited as Jerome "Jerry" Courtland) was an American actor, director and producer. Born in Knoxville, Tennessee, he began his career in the 1940s with film roles including Johnny Howard in *The Man from Colorado* (1948) and Abner Spudler in *Battleground* (1949). He also appeared in *Tokyo Joe* (1949) and sang in *Old Yeller* (1957).

Courtland later moved into television, appearing in series such as *The Rifleman* (1958) and starring in the 1957 Disneyland miniseries "The Saga of Andy Burnett". From the late 1960s he worked as a director and producer on shows including *The Flying Nun*, *Dynasty*, *The Love Boat*, *Falcon Crest* and *Knots Landing*, as well as Disney films such as *Escape to Witch Mountain* (1975) and *Pete's Dragon* (1977). He retired in 1993.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Battleground* (1949), Fi1m 80, as Abner Spudler — [page](https://film.one/film/battleground.md)

## Complete filmography (53)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Island Son* (1989), series, Director
- *Dear John* (1988), series, as Frank
- *The Colbys* (1985), series, Director
- *Matt Houston* (1982), series, Director
- *Hotel* (1982), series, Director
- *Falcon Crest* (1981), series, Director
- *Amy* (1981), Producer
- *The Devil and Max Devlin* (1981), Producer
- *Dynasty* (1981), series, Director
- *The Ghosts of Buxley Hall* (1980), Producer
- *Knots Landing* (1979), series, as Dr. Green · Director
- *The Sky Trap* (1979), Director, Producer
- *The Young Runaways* (1978), Producer
- *Return from Witch Mountain* (1978), Producer
- *The Million Dollar Dixie Deliverance* (1978), Producer
- *Pete's Dragon* (1977), Producer
- *Born to Run* (1977), Producer
- *The Love Boat* (1977), series, Director
- *Escape to Witch Mountain* (1975), Producer
- *Hog Wild* (1974), Director, Co-Producer
- *Diamonds on Wheels* (1973), Director
- *Run, Cougar, Run* (1972), Director
- *Gidget Grows Up* (1969), Producer
- *The Flying Nun* (1967), series, Director, Associate Producer
- *The Restless Ones* (1965), as Tim Reynolds
- *Black Spurs* (1965), as Sam Grubbs
- *The Virginian* (1962), series, as Byron Prescott
- *Colussus and the Huns* (1962), Actor
- *The Adventures of Mary Read* (1961), as Peter Goodwin
- *Noah's Ark* (1959), as Narrator
- *Tales of the Vikings* (1959), series, Actor
- *Tonka* (1958), as Lieutenant Henry Nowlan
- *The Rifleman* (1958), series, Actor
- *West Point* (1956), series, Actor
- *The Millionaire* (1955), series, as John Cole
- *The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin* (1954), series, Actor
- *The Bamboo Prison* (1954), as Arkansas
- *Take the High Ground!* (1953), as Elvin C. Carey
- *Cripple Creek* (1952), as Larry Galland
- *The Barefoot Mailman* (1951), as Steven Pierton
- *Sunny Side of the Street* (1951), as Ted Mason
- *The Texas Rangers* (1951), as Danny Carver
- *Santa Fe* (1951), as Terry Canfield
- *When You're Smiling* (1950), as Gerald Durham
- *The Palomino* (1950), as Steve Norris
- *A Woman of Distinction* (1950), as Jerome
- *Battleground* (1949), as Abner Spudler — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/battleground.md)
- *Tokyo Joe* (1949), as Danny
- *Make Believe Ballroom* (1949), as Gene Thomas
- *The Walking Hills* (1949), as Johnny
- *The Man from Colorado* (1948), as Johnny Howard
- *Kiss and Tell* (1945), as Dexter Franklin
- *Together Again* (1944), as Gilbert Parker

## Gallery

- ![Jerome Courtland](https://film.one/media/person/1236063/gallery-119f09cf5b78.jpg) Jerome Courtland — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bc/Jerome_Courtland_1967.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Actor Jerome Courtland, 1946](https://film.one/media/person/1236063/gallery-0161a719bc7b.jpg) Actor Jerome Courtland, 1946 — Photographer not credited, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Actor_Jerome_Courtland%2C_1946.jpg/1280px-Actor_Jerome_Courtland%2C_1946.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Jerome Courtland](https://film.one/media/person/1236063/gallery-bf76f47b1293.jpg) Jerome Courtland — Image via TMDB

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