---
name: "John Dall"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/john-dall"
fi1m_id: "john-dall"
imdb_id: "nm0197982"
tmdb_id: 14504
wikidata_id: "Q1336879"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "26 May 1920"
died: "15 January 1971"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 81
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-25T04:26:31.945221+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# John Dall

## Identity

John Dall

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/john-dall
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** john-dall
- **IMDb ID:** nm0197982
- **TMDB ID:** 14504
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1336879
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dall, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1336879, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0197982/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/14504

Actor. Born 26 May 1920 in New York City, New York, USA. Died 15 January 1971.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 26 May 1920, New York City, New York, USA
- **Died:** 15 January 1971
- **Active:** 1948–1950
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Average Fi1m score:** 81, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1940s 76 (1), 1950s 86 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dall, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1336879, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0197982/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/14504

## Streaming the US now

- **Tubi:** [*Gun Crazy*](https://film.one/film/gun-crazy.md) (86)

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## Biography

John Dall (born John Dall Thompson) was an American actor. Born in New York City on 26 May 1920, he began his career on the stage and made his Broadway debut in 1944. He first came to prominence with his screen debut in *The Corn Is Green* (1945), playing a young Welsh mining student opposite Bette Davis, a role that earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Dall is best remembered for his film roles as Brandon Shaw in Alfred Hitchcock's *Rope* (1948) and as Bart Tare in the film noir *Gun Crazy* (1950). He also appeared in *The Man Who Cheated Himself* (1950), *Spartacus* (1960) as Marcus Publius Glabrus, and *Atlantis: The Lost Continent* (1961). Primarily a stage and television actor, he worked in both mediums through the 1950s and into the mid-1960s. He died in Beverly Hills, California, on 15 January 1971.

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

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Gun Crazy* (1950), Fi1m 86, as Bart Tare — [page](https://film.one/film/gun-crazy.md)
- *Rope* (1948), Fi1m 76, as Brandon Shaw — [page](https://film.one/film/rope.md)

## Complete filmography (14)

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

- *Atlantis: The Lost Continent* (1961), as Zaren
- *Spartacus* (1960), as Marcus Publius Glabrus
- *Perry Mason* (1957), series, as Julian Kirk, Edward Franklin, Colin Durant, Roan Daniel
- *General Electric Theater* (1953), series, as Lt. Reese
- *Schlitz Playhouse of Stars* (1951), series, as Hugh Mitchell
- *The Man Who Cheated Himself* (1950), as Andy Cullen
- *Gun Crazy* (1950), as Bart Tare — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/gun-crazy.md)
- *Miracle in the Rain* (1949), Actor
- *Suspense* (1949), series, as Jim
- *Studio One* (1948), series, Actor
- *Another Part of the Forest* (1948), as John Bagtry
- *Rope* (1948), as Brandon Shaw — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/rope.md)
- *Something in the Wind* (1947), as Donald Read
- *The Corn Is Green* (1945), as Morgan Evans

## Gallery

- ![John Dall](https://film.one/media/person/3865861/gallery-aac4be6fa28d.jpg) John Dall — Unknown, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/John_Dall.jpg/1280px-John_Dall.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![John Dall](https://film.one/media/person/3865861/gallery-fd310ad93158.jpg) John Dall — Image via TMDB
- ![John Dall](https://film.one/media/person/3865861/gallery-758c2d4ec14d.jpg) John Dall — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1946: Best Supporting Actor (nominated), for *The Corn Is Green*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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