---
name: "John Alexander"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/john-alexander-2671"
fi1m_id: "john-alexander-2671"
imdb_id: "nm0018514"
tmdb_id: 2671
wikidata_id: "Q434495"
roles: []
born: "29 November 1897"
died: "13 July 1982"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T04:50:27.437683+00:00"
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# John Alexander

## Identity

John Alexander

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/john-alexander-2671
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** john-alexander-2671
- **IMDb ID:** nm0018514
- **TMDB ID:** 2671
- **Wikidata ID:** Q434495
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Alexander_(actor), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q434495, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0018514/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2671

Actor. Born 29 November 1897 in Newport, Kentucky, USA. Died 13 July 1982.

## Details

- **Born:** 29 November 1897, Newport, Kentucky, USA
- **Died:** 13 July 1982
- **Also known as:** Джон Александер
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Alexander_(actor), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q434495, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0018514/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2671

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Winchester '73*](https://film.one/film/winchester-73.md) (81)

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## Biography

John Alexander was an American stage, film and television actor. Born in Newport, Kentucky, he began his career as a child on stage and appeared on Broadway from 1917. His work spanned more than fifty years, with a long association with the theatre.

He is best known for playing Teddy Brewster in the 1941 Broadway production of *Arsenic and Old Lace* and reprising the role in the 1944 film adaptation. Other film roles include Steve Edwards in *A Tree Grows in Brooklyn* (1945), Jack Riker in *Winchester '73* (1950) and Howard Shipley in *The Marrying Kind* (1952). He also appeared in television series during the 1950s and 1960s.

Alexander was married to actress Genevieve Hamper from 1928 until her death in 1971. He died in New York City in 1982.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Winchester '73* (1950), Fi1m 81, as Jack Riker — [page](https://film.one/film/winchester-73.md)

## Complete filmography (31)

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

- *The Defenders* (1961), series, as Judd Forrest
- *One Foot in Hell* (1960), as Sam Giller - Storekeeper
- *The Man in the Net* (1959), as Mr. Carey
- *Keep in Step* (1959), as The General
- *The Mugger* (1958), as Chief of Police
- *Inner Sanctum* (1954), series, Actor
- *Untamed Frontier* (1952), as Max Wickersham
- *The Marrying Kind* (1952), as Howard Shipley
- *The Model and the Marriage Broker* (1951), as Mr. Perry
- *The Sleeping City* (1950), as Insp. Gordon
- *Fancy Pants* (1950), as Teddy Roosevelt
- *Winchester '73* (1950), as Jack Riker — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/winchester-73.md)
- *Night Has a Thousand Eyes* (1948), as Mr. Gilman
- *Summer Holiday* (1948), as Mr. Dave McComber
- *Where There's Life* (1947), as Mr. Herbert Jones
- *Cass Timberlane* (1947), as Dr. Roy Drover
- *Living in a Big Way* (1947), as Attorney Ambridge
- *The Jolson Story* (1946), as Lew Dockstader
- *The Horn Blows at Midnight* (1945), as First Trumpeter / Doremus
- *A Tree Grows in Brooklyn* (1945), as Steve Edwards
- *The Doughgirls* (1944), as Warren Buckley
- *Arsenic and Old Lace* (1944), as 'Teddy Roosevelt' Brewster
- *Mr. Skeffington* (1944), as Jim Conderley
- *The Flag of Humanity* (1940), as Robert Todd Lincoln (uncredited)
- *Calling All Husbands* (1940), as Ben Barnes
- *Flowing Gold* (1940), as Sheriff
- *On Such a Night* (1937), as District attorney
- *Special Agent* (1935), as Arcade Manager (uncredited)
- *The Arizonian* (1935), as Billy
- *The Ghost Rider* (1935), as Sheriff
- *Baby Take a Bow* (1934), as Ragpicker (Uncredited)

## Gallery

- ![John Alexander](https://film.one/media/person/3868176/gallery-9c3440b600bb.jpg) John Alexander — unknown (United Artists), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/John_Alexander_in_New_Orleans_%281947%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![John Alexander](https://film.one/media/person/3868176/gallery-6ad4d4eaa175.jpg) John Alexander — Image via TMDB

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