Actor · Acting

John Dilson

Born 1891-02-18

Died 1944-06-01

📍 Brooklyn, New York, USA

John Dilson (February 18, 1891 – June 1, 1944) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 250 films between 1934 and 1944.

Filmography 160

The Ghost That Walks Alone

as Bascomb (uncredited)

Beautiful But Broke

Around the World

as Charles Clayton (uncredited)

Princess O'Rourke

as Elevator Operator (uncredited)

So's Your Uncle

The Leopard Man

as Coroner (uncredited)

Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case

as Green, Parole Board Member (uncredited)

This Land Is Mine

as Mayor's Secretary

Mission to Moscow

as American Senator (uncredited)

She Has What It Takes

as Chamberlain Jones (as John H. Dilson)

King of the Cowboys

Slightly Dangerous

as 'Telegram' reporter (uncredited)

as Board Member

The Great Gildersleeve

as Mayor Appleton

as Proprietor Martin

A Night to Remember

as Medical Examiner (uncredited)

Queen of Broadway

For Me and My Gal

as Lou (uncredited)

The Mayor of 44th Street

as Carter, the General Manager (as John H. Dilson)

You Can't Escape Forever

as Pop (uncredited)

Ten Gentlemen from West Point

as Senator (uncredited)

Tramp, Tramp, Tramp!

Obliging Young Lady

as Uncle Joe (uncredited)

as Police Dr. Tracy

Over My Dead Body

Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.

as Henry Weldon

as Pawnbroker (uncredited)

as Doctor (uncredited)

Jesse James at Bay

as Collins (uncredited)

Two Latins from Manhattan

as Jerome Kittleman

as Reporter (uncredited)

Doctors Don't Tell

as Jail Clerk (uncredited)

The Deadly Game

Whistling in the Dark

as Hugo in Show (uncredited)

as The Judge (uncredited)

Father Steps Out

Sunset in Wyoming

They Meet Again

as William Merrill Sr.

Cyclone on Horseback

as Mr. Williams

as John Frazier

The Wagons Roll at Night

as Minister (uncredited)

as Ward Heeler (uncredited)

The Lady from Cheyenne

as Special Prosecutor Fitzpatrick

Man-Made Monster

as Medical Examiner

The Monster and the Girl

as Employment Agency Clerk (uncredited)

Andy Hardy's Private Secretary

The Great Mr. Nobody

Across the Sierras

as Dan Woodworth

The Face Behind the Mask

as Man at Dock Asking for a Light (uncredited)

No, No, Nanette

Thundering Frontier

as Carter Filmore

You, the People

Phantom of Chinatown

as Charlie Frasier

as Albert Carter, School Principal

as Druggist (uncredited)

Beyond the Sacramento

as Dr. James Prentiss Harkness

Glamour for Sale

as Wilson (uncredited)

City for Conquest

as Mr. Cahn - Man Buying Newspaper (uncredited)

King of the Royal Mounted

The Leather Pushers

Public Deb No. 1

The Great Profile

as Doctor Perkins

The Golden Fleecing

as Cashier (uncredited)

The Secret Seven

as Walter W. Carter

I Love You Again

as Worker 'Trying It in Tile and Clay' (uncredited)

as Jim Pierce - Postal Inspector (uncredited)

My Love Came Back

as Accountant (uncredited)

Millionaires in Prison

as Observer at Train Station (uncredited)

Private Affairs

as Stock Buyer (uncredited)

Adventures of Red Ryder

Hold That Woman!

as Bill Lannigan

Edison, the Man

Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise

as Police Doctor at Hotel

The Man with Nine Lives

as John Hawthorne

Drums of Fu Manchu

as Prof. Ezra Howard

The Grapes of Wrath

as Bookseller (uncredited)

Women Without Names

Pioneers of the West

The Big Premiere

as Theater Owner

Five Little Peppers at Home

as Thomas Hatch

Brother Rat and a Baby

Legion of the Lawless

as Surveyor Dave Martin (uncredited)

Music in My Heart

as City Editor (uncredited)

as Mr. Jones - Casino Manager

as Doctor (uncredited)

Bad Little Angel

as Mr. Brown, Man in Jim's Office (uncredited)

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

as Secretary (uncredited)

as (uncredited)

A Woman is the Judge

Here I Am a Stranger

Each Dawn I Die

as Parole Board Member (uncredited)

as Head Train Steward (uncredited)

The Man They Could Not Hang

as King - City Editor (uncredited)

Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever

as Mr. Davis (uncredited)

S.O.S Tidal Wave

Racketeers of the Range

as Wiliam J. Benson

It's a Wonderful World

as Doctor (uncredited)

Weather Wizards

as California Meteorologist

Trouble in Sundown

as Edward Simmons

as Clarence Z. Dodds, Hanley's Accountant

Nancy Drew... Reporter

as Deputy Coroner (uncredited)

as Dr. Alexander Craig

North of Shanghai

Blackwell's Island

as Finlay (uncredited)

They Made Me a Criminal

as Doctor (uncredited)

Stand Up and Fight

as Man at Race Track

Tarnished Angel

Too Hot to Handle

as Film Developing Laboratory Foreman (uncredited)

as Process Server

as Mr. Robbins (uncredited)

Women in Prison

as Henry Russell

Who Killed Gail Preston?

Borrowing Trouble

The Shadow Strikes

Love Is on the Air

as Meeting Chairman

as Nervous Hotel Registrant (uncredited)

as Clerk (uncredited)

as Ellery Brewster [Chs. 1, 12]

as City Editor (Uncredited)

Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island

as E.G. Ellsworth

The Public Pays

as Milk Company Executive Moore (uncredited)

The President's Mystery

as Banker (uncredited)

Wives Never Know

as Doctor (uncredited)

And Sudden Death

as Lawyer Rusick

Three of a Kind

The Ex-Mrs. Bradford

as Analyst Examining Gelatin Capsule (uncredited)

as Arnold Crane

The Country Doctor

as City Editor (uncredited)

Hitch Hike To Heaven

as Charlie Reed

We're Only Human

as Ballistics Expert

The Calling of Dan Matthews

as City Editor Edison (uncredited)

Happiness C.O.D.

as J. Benton, City Editor

The Girl Who Came Back

as Henchman Waddy

as Gus (uncredited)

Cheers of the Crowd

as Barney Booth (as John H. Dilson)

Every Night at Eight

as Juror Talking to Mike (uncredited)

Death from a Distance

as Senator Lockhart

as John T. Bradley

I'll Tell the World