---
name: "John Harkins"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/john-harkins"
fi1m_id: "john-harkins"
imdb_id: "nm0363157"
tmdb_id: 68897
wikidata_id: "Q6237813"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "7 September 1932"
died: "5 March 1999"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 82
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-04T17:31:04.674824+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 Harkins

## Identity

John Harkins

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/john-harkins
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** john-harkins
- **IMDb ID:** nm0363157
- **TMDB ID:** 68897
- **Wikidata ID:** Q6237813
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harkins_(actor), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6237813, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0363157/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/68897

Actor. Born 7 September 1932 in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA. Died 5 March 1999.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 7 September 1932, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
- **Died:** 5 March 1999
- **Active:** 1979–1985
- **Also known as:** John Raymond Harkins
- **Average Fi1m score:** 82, as actor, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1970s 84 (1), 1980s 80 (2)
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 0 of 1 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Comedy 2, Drama 2, Crime 1, Romance 1
- **Screen time:** 4 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $71m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harkins_(actor), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6237813, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0363157/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/68897

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Absence of Malice*](https://film.one/film/absence-of-malice.md) (73)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

John Harkins was an American stage, film and television actor. Born in St Louis, Missouri, he studied at the University of Iowa and began his professional career on Broadway in the mid-1950s. He was a life member of the Actors Studio and appeared in productions including *Mother Courage and Her Children*, *The Three Sisters* and *West Side Story*.

Harkins made his screen debut in the 1966 film *The Three Sisters*. His film roles include *Being There* (1979), *Absence of Malice* (1981) as Davidek, *Amityville 3-D* (1983) and *Birdy* (1984). On television he had recurring roles in *Dark Shadows* and *Cagney & Lacey*, and guest appearances in series such as *The Mary Tyler Moore Show*, *Dallas*, *The Golden Girls* and *Murder, She Wrote*. He died in 1999.

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

## On Fi1m (3)

- *The Golden Girls* (1985), Fi1m 88, as Ham Lushbough — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-golden-girls.md)
- *Absence of Malice* (1981), Fi1m 73, as Davidek — [page](https://film.one/film/absence-of-malice.md)
- *Being There* (1979), Fi1m 84, as Sidney Courtney — [page](https://film.one/film/being-there.md)

## Complete filmography (61)

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

- *Mary Tyler Moore: A Celebration* (2015), as Reverend Burns / MTM Show (archive footage)
- *Nature Boy* (2000), series, as Billy
- *Crime of the Century* (1996), as Edward Reilly
- *Cagney & Lacey: The Return* (1994), as Mansfield
- *The Boys* (1993), series, as Harlan Cooper
- *This Gun for Hire* (1991), as Boynton
- *Slaves of New York* (1989), as Chuck Dade Dolger
- *Inherit the Wind* (1988), as Judge
- *Sable* (1987), series, Actor
- *Rampage* (1987), as Dr. Keddie
- *The Penalty Phase* (1986), as Mr. Hunter
- *L.A. Law* (1986), series, as Martin Lowens
- *Matlock* (1986), series, as Michael Koskoff, Richard 'Dick' Lerner
- *The Golden Girls* (1985), series, as Ham Lushbough — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-golden-girls.md)
- *Moonlighting* (1985), series, as Omar Gauss — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/moonlighting.md)
- *Crazy like a Fox* (1984), series, as Henry Clayborn
- *Birdy* (1984), as Doctor Major Weiss
- *City Killer* (1984), as Wally Rickvine
- *Attack on Fear* (1984), as Tom Banner
- *Murder, She Wrote* (1984), series, as Owen Brownwell
- *Hunter* (1984), series, as Dr. Pence
- *The Seduction of Gina* (1984), as Matthew Walters
- *Right of Way* (1983), as G. Clayburn
- *Amityville 3-D* (1983), as Clifford Sanders
- *The Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Fifteen Years Later Affair* (1983), as Alexi Kemp
- *The Winds of War* (1983), series, as August Van Winaker II
- *Six Weeks* (1982), Actor
- *One Shoe Makes it Murder* (1982), as Smiley Copell
- *Cagney & Lacey* (1982), series, Actor — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/tv/cagney-and-lacey.md)
- *Rascals and Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn* (1982), as Mr. Clinch
- *The Day the Bubble Burst* (1982), Actor
- *Cassie & Co.* (1982), series, as Stockman
- *American Playhouse* (1982), series, as Whittaker Chambers
- *Absence of Malice* (1981), as Davidek — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/film/absence-of-malice.md)
- *Callie & Son* (1981), as Arthur Cotham
- *All God's Children* (1980), as Dr. Munter
- *Tenspeed and Brown Shoe* (1980), series, as Colonel Kurt Beuler
- *Marriage Is Alive and Well* (1980), as Sunny Delmar
- *Being There* (1979), as Sidney Courtney — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/being-there.md)
- *The Five Forty-Eight* (1979), as Trace Beardon
- *O Youth and Beauty!* (1979), as Trace Bearden
- *The Sorrows of Gin* (1979), as Trace
- *The Cracker Factory* (1979), as Father Dunhill
- *A Question of Love* (1978), as Dr. Berwick
- *Taxi* (1978), series, as John Bowman — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/tv/taxi.md)
- *Dallas* (1978), series, as Control
- *Good Against Evil* (1977), as Father Wheatley
- *Alice* (1976), series, Actor
- *Acapulco Gold* (1976), as Morgan Frye
- *Griffin and Phoenix* (1976), as Dr. Glenn
- *Guilty or Innocent: The Sam Sheppard Murder Case* (1975), as Medical Examiner
- *Fear on Trial* (1975), as Vincent Hartnett
- *Doc* (1975), series, as Fred Fenner
- *Last Hours Before Morning* (1975), as Cashman
- *Baretta* (1975), series, Actor
- *Harry O* (1974), series, Actor
- *All in the Family* (1971), series, as Gordon Faraday — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/all-in-the-family.md)
- *The Mary Tyler Moore Show* (1970), series, as Reverend Burns — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-mary-tyler-moore-show.md)
- *The Tiger Makes Out* (1967), as Leo
- *The Crucible* (1967), as Judge Hathorne
- *The Three Sisters* (1966), as Fedotik

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