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name: "John Emery"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/john-emery"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "20 May 1905"
died: "16 November 1964"
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average_fi1m_score: 72
average_as: "actor"
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updated: "2026-09-20T01:19:14.457182+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."
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# John Emery

Actor. Born 20 May 1905 in New York City, New York, USA. Died 16 November 1964.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 20 May 1905, New York City, New York, USA
- **Died:** 16 November 1964
- **Active:** 1941–1945
- **Average Fi1m score:** 72, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Emery_(actor), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3181436, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0256305/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/35194

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*Here Comes Mr. Jordan*](https://film.one/film/here-comes-mr-jordan.md) (77)

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## Biography

John Emery (20 May 1905 – 16 November 1964) was an American actor. Born in New York City to stage actors Edward Emery and Isabel Waldron, he was educated at La Salle Military Academy on Long Island. He made his Broadway debut in the 1920s and appeared in numerous stage productions, including Shakespearean roles and plays with Katharine Cornell.

Emery began his film career in the late 1930s with *The Road Back* (1937). He is known for supporting roles in *Here Comes Mr. Jordan* (1941) as Tony Abbott, *Spellbound* (1945) as Dr. Fleurot, *Joan of Arc* (1948) as Jean, Duke d'Alençon, *Rocketship X-M* (1950) as Dr. Karl Eckstrom, *The Mad Magician* (1954) and *Kronos* (1957). He also appeared in television series including *I Love Lucy*, *Alfred Hitchcock Presents* and *Have Gun – Will Travel*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, catalog.afi.com, watch.plex.tv.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Spellbound* (1945), Fi1m 66, as Dr. Fleurot — [page](https://film.one/film/spellbound.md)
- *Here Comes Mr. Jordan* (1941), Fi1m 77, as Tony Abbott — [page](https://film.one/film/here-comes-mr-jordan.md)

## Complete filmography (39)

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

- *Youngblood Hawke* (1964), as Georges Peydal
- *Five Fingers : The Temple of the Swinging Doll* (1961), as Norman Kingsley
- *Peter Loves Mary* (1960), series, Actor
- *The Tom Ewell Show* (1960), series, Actor
- *Checkmate* (1960), series, as Lawrence Price
- *Thriller* (1960), series, as The Pawnbroker
- *Ten North Frederick* (1958), as Paul Donaldson
- *Have Gun, Will Travel* (1957), series, Actor
- *Kronos* (1957), as Dr. Hubbell Eliot
- *The Girl Can't Help It* (1956), as Wheeler
- *Forever, Darling* (1956), as Edward Winter
- *A Lawless Street* (1955), as Cody Clark
- *Alfred Hitchcock Presents* (1955), series, as Kerwin Drake
- *Climax!* (1954), series, as Abel Dennis
- *The Mad Magician* (1954), as Rinaldi aka 'The Great Rinaldi'
- *I Love Lucy* (1951), series, as Harold, Mr. Stewart (uncredited)
- *Triple Cross* (1951), as Professor
- *Double Crossbones* (1951), as Governor Elden
- *Frenchie* (1950), as Clyde Gorman
- *Rocketship X-M* (1950), as Dr. Karl Eckstrom
- *Dakota Lil* (1950), as Vincent
- *Suspense* (1949), series, Actor
- *Joan of Arc* (1948), as Jean, Duke d'Alencon, cousin of Charles
- *The Gay Intruders* (1948), as John Newberry
- *The Woman in White* (1948), as Sir Percival Glyde
- *Let's Live Again* (1948), as Larry Blake
- *The Voice of the Turtle* (1947), as George Harrington
- *Spellbound* (1945), as Dr. Fleurot — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/spellbound.md)
- *The Spanish Main* (1945), as Mario Du Billar
- *Blood on the Sun* (1945), as Premier Gilchi Tanaka
- *Mademoiselle Fifi* (1944), as Jean Cornudet
- *Assignment in Brittany* (1943), as Capt. Deichgraber
- *George Washington Slept Here* (1942), as Clayton Evans
- *Eyes in the Night* (1942), as Paul Gerente
- *Ship Ahoy* (1942), as Dr. Farno
- *Two Yanks in Trinidad* (1942), as Chicago Hagen
- *The Corsican Brothers* (1942), as Tomasso
- *Here Comes Mr. Jordan* (1941), as Tony Abbott — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/here-comes-mr-jordan.md)
- *The Road Back* (1937), as Captain Von Hagen

## Gallery

- ![John Emery](https://film.one/media/person/1232250/gallery-a1e80b74fece.jpg) John Emery — Vandamm Studio, New York, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9f/John_Emery_%281958%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![John Emery](https://film.one/media/person/1232250/gallery-63ae96a2d5fc.jpg) John Emery — Image via TMDB

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