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name: "John W. Considine Jr."
canonical: "https://film.one/person/john-w-considine-jr"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "7 October 1898"
died: "22 March 1961"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 68
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-19T23:41:43.201346+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 W. Considine Jr.

Producer. Born 7 October 1898 in Spokane. Died 22 March 1961.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 7 October 1898, Spokane
- **Died:** 22 March 1961
- **Active:** 1935–1938
- **Average Fi1m score:** 68, as producer, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_W._Considine_Jr., https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15821594, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0175908/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/126676

## Biography

John W. Considine Jr. (1898–1961) was an American film producer active from the mid-1920s into the 1940s. He worked for companies including Joseph M. Schenck Productions, Fox and MGM, where he joined in 1932. His credits include *The Son of the Sheik* (1926), *Puttin' on the Ritz* (1930), *Dancing Lady* (1933), *Mad Love* (1935) and *Broadway Melody of 1936* (1935).

Considine studied at Stanford, Yale, Oxford and Heidelberg before entering the film industry. He produced several MGM successes such as *Boys Town* (1938), *Of Human Hearts* (1938), *Young Tom Edison* (1940), *Edison, the Man* (1940) and *Johnny Eager* (1941). *Broadway Melody of 1936* received an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture.

He was the son of vaudeville impresario John Considine and was married to Carmen Elrene Pantages.

*Sources: catalog.afi.com, imdb.com, de.wikipedia.org, rottentomatoes.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Boys Town* (1938), Fi1m 65, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/boys-town.md)
- *Broadway Melody of 1936* (1935), Fi1m 72, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/broadway-melody-of-1936.md)

## Complete filmography (39)

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

- *Jackass Mail* (1942), Producer
- *Johnny Eager* (1941), Producer
- *Design for Scandal* (1941), Producer
- *Married Bachelor* (1941), Producer
- *Men of Boys Town* (1941), Producer
- *Third Finger, Left Hand* (1940), Producer
- *Young Tom Edison* (1940), Producer
- *Blackmail* (1939), Producer
- *Stronger Than Desire* (1939), Producer
- *Society Lawyer* (1939), Producer
- *Boys Town* (1938), Producer — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/film/boys-town.md)
- *Hold That Kiss* (1938), Producer
- *Arsène Lupin Returns* (1938), Producer
- *Of Human Hearts* (1938), Producer
- *The Emperor's Candlesticks* (1937), Producer
- *Personal Property* (1937), Producer
- *Absolute Quiet* (1936), Producer
- *Robin Hood of El Dorado* (1936), Producer
- *The Voice of Bugle Ann* (1936), Producer
- *Three Live Ghosts* (1936), Producer
- *Broadway Melody of 1936* (1935), Producer — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/broadway-melody-of-1936.md)
- *Mad Love* (1935), Producer
- *Sequoia* (1935), Producer
- *The Gay Bride* (1934), Producer
- *Evelyn Prentice* (1934), Producer
- *Have a Heart* (1934), Producer
- *This Side of Heaven* (1934), Producer
- *Dancing Lady* (1933), Associate Producer
- *Flesh* (1932), Producer
- *Disorderly Conduct* (1932), Director
- *She Wanted a Millionaire* (1932), Associate Producer
- *Doctors' Wives* (1931), Producer
- *Abraham Lincoln* (1930), Story
- *The Bad One* (1930), Supervising Producer
- *One Romantic Night* (1930), Associate Producer
- *Puttin' on the Ritz* (1930), Story
- *Tempest* (1928), Producer
- *Two Arabian Knights* (1927), Producer
- *Wild Justice* (1925), Producer

## Gallery

- ![Hollywood film producer John W. Considine, Jr. poses for a photograph, seated with his arms folded. (1920)](https://film.one/media/person/1227964/gallery-cb5b9583a548.jpg) Hollywood film producer John W. Considine, Jr. poses for a photograph, seated with his arms folded. (1920) — Los Angeles Times, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/John_W._Considine%2C_Jr%2C_1920s.jpg/1280px-John_W._Considine%2C_Jr%2C_1920s.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![John W. Considine Jr.](https://film.one/media/person/1227964/gallery-e7ae0b816cfb.jpg) John W. Considine Jr. — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Motion_picture_producer_John_W_Considine%2C_Jr_%28SAYRE_22141%29.jpg/1280px-Motion_picture_producer_John_W_Considine%2C_Jr_%28SAYRE_22141%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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