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name: "John Heldabrand"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/john-heldabrand"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "16 October 1920"
died: "25 April 2007"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-16T21:17:01.618827+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 Heldabrand

Actor. Born 16 October 1920 in Yonkers, New York, USA. Died 25 April 2007.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 16 October 1920, Yonkers, New York, USA
- **Died:** 25 April 2007

## Biography

John Heldabrand (1920–2007) was an American actor. He appeared in two feature films, playing Mott in Elia Kazan's *On the Waterfront* (1954) and Tomasini in Alfred Hitchcock's *The Wrong Man* (1956).

He performed on Broadway in the 1950s, with roles in the revival of *Tovarich* (1952), *The Immoralist* (1954), *The Sin of Pat Muldoon* (1957) and *A Desert Incident* (1959). Heldabrand also appeared in episodes of television anthology series including *Studio One*, *Kraft Theatre*, *Omnibus* and *You Are There*.

*Sources: imdb.com, catalog.afi.com, ibdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *On the Waterfront* (1954), Fi1m 89, as Mott — [page](https://film.one/film/on-the-waterfront.md)

## Also known for

- *The Wrong Man* (1956), Tomasini

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