John Agar net worth is
$2 Million
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John Agar was born in Chicago, the eldest of four children. In World War II, Sgt. John Agar was a United States Army Air Force physical instructor. His 1945 marriage at the Wilshire Memorial Church to "America's Sweetheart" Shirley Temple put him in the public eye for the first time, and a movie contract with independent producer David O. Selznick ...
Full Name | John Agar |
Net Worth | $2 Million |
Date Of Birth | June 21, 1949 |
Died | April 7, 2002, Burbank, California, United States |
Place Of Birth | British Guiana |
Height | 1.85 m |
Occupation | Actor |
Profession | Actor, Soldier, Poet, Playwright |
Education | Lake Forest Academy |
Nationality | American, British |
Spouse | Loretta Barnett Combs, Sir Richard Temple, 1st Baronet, Grace Nichols |
Children | Linda Susan Agar, Martin Agar, John G. Agar III |
Parents | John Agar, Sr., Lillian Agar |
Nicknames | John Agar, Agar, John |
IMDB | http://imdb.com/name/nm0000730 |
Nominations | Nestlé Smarties Book Prize |
Movies | Fort Apache, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, Revenge of the Creature, Sands of Iwo Jima, The Mole People, Tarantula, The Brain from Planet Arous, Chisum, Big Jake, Attack of the Puppet People, The Undefeated, Journey to the Seventh Planet, Adventure in Baltimore, Star in the Dust, Invisible Invaders, Alon... |
Star Sign | Aquarius |
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1 | A lot of the pictures I made were not released--they escaped. |
2 | [about working with director Larry Buchanan] Larry, God bless him, is a nice guy but he was really not a director . . . he didn't even know not to "cross the line", which is one of the simplest things there is in directing . . . The first picture I did for Larry was Zontar: The Thing from Venus (1966). Curse of the Swamp Creature (1966) came next; then we did a war film called Hell Raiders (1968). Of course I never thought those things would ever see the light of day--that was the only reason i did 'em! |
3 | [about the many "B" sci-fi films he made in the 1950s] I always had the kind of feeling that when people looked at some of these science-fiction things, we were going to get a big laugh. |
4 | [on working with director Edward L. Cahn] Edward Cahn was Mr. Speed-O; he'd jump up and almost get in the shot before he'd yell, "Cut!". |
5 | [on the "floating brain" from The Brain from Planet Arous (1957)] I thought it was terrible--just awful! They really could have done a heck of a better than that--it looked like a balloon with a face painted on it. And that's probably what it was, too. |
6 | [about director Jack Arnold] I've always had nothing but great respect for Jack Arnold. I did Revenge of the Creature (1955) for him and then the next year we did Tarantula (1955), and we got along very well. So far as I was concerned, he was a very knowledgeable director and he gave his all trying to make 'em the best that he could. |
7 | [about Daughter of Dr. Jekyll (1957)] I did that picture strictly for the bread. I didn't fluff it--but it wasn't my cup of tea. I just didn't believe it. |
8 | Who wants to shake the hand of the first man to put it to America's sweetheart? |
9 | To me the idea of just working is what's fun, I don't give a doggone what kind of part. Walter Huston said it years ago: "I don't care about billing. If the show is good and I'm good in it, people are going to say, 'Who was that?' And if it's not, I don't want 'em to know I was in it!" |
10 | [in a 1991 interview] Acting is something that I love to do, but it's a part of me that's often dormant. So, when I get an opportunity to go on a film set it's like somebody's pushing a button that has been idle for a long time and right away I'm ready to get going at it. It's fun for me to be able to get back into it because it's a part of my life that I've really enjoyed. |
11 | To me it's much easier to play in something that's real -- a natural situation -- than it is to deal with abstracts and the unknown. It's sort of difficult to make them come to life! I always had the feeling that when people looked at some of these science fiction things we were going to get a big laugh. On a couple of occasions some of the things that were supposed to frighten people really looked rather ludicrous -- funny, rather than scary. I feel it's more natural to deal in something that people understand, rather than something that human beings don't come in contact with. |
12 | I don't resent being identified with B science fiction movies at all. Why should I? Even though they were not considered top of the line, for those people that like sci-fi, I guess they were fun. My whole feeling about working as an actor is, if I give anybody any enjoyment, I'm doing my job, and that's what counts. |
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1 | After Universal put Agar into a third horror film, The Mole People (1956), he became disillusioned with the studio, especially since he had to compete with Tony Curtis, Rock Hudson, George Nader and Jeff Chandler for choice leading man roles, and he left the studio. |
2 | Was one of the dozens of Hollywood celebrities who made regular weekend visits to renowned animal trainer and Hollywood animal behaviorist Ralph Helfer's Africa U.S.A. Exotic Animal Ranch in Soledad Canyon, California, to play with the animals and pitch in with the chores. |
3 | Father, with Shirley Temple, of daughter Linda Susan Agar (born on January 30, 1948). |
4 | He has an entry in Jean Tulard's "Dictionnaire du cinéma/Les acteurs" published in Paris in 2007 by RobertLaffont/Bouquins (page 14). |
5 | Interviewed in Tom Weaver's books "Interviews with B Science Fiction and Horror Movie Makers" (McFarland & Co., 1988) and "They Fought in the Creature Features" (McFarland & Co., 1995). |
6 | The claim that he had done a "pink film" in Denmark was a gag. He starred in Journey to the Seventh Planet (1962), which was shot in Denmark, by writer/producer/director Sidney W. Pink. |
7 | His marriage to actress Shirley Temple started his film career in the 1940s. |
8 | In 1972 "Famous Monsters of Filmland" Magazine reported John Agar "Dead"!! Agar lived to autograph several copies of the articles. |
Actor
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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The Golden Mistress | 1954 | | Bill Buchanan |
Shield for Murder | 1954 | | Detective Sgt. Mark Brewster |
Schlitz Playhouse | 1954 | TV Series | Otis Tack |
The Rocket Man | 1954 | | Tom Baxter |
Fireside Theatre | 1952-1954 | TV Series | John Cushing |
Bait | 1954 | | Ray Brighton |
Man of Conflict | 1953 | | Ray Compton |
The Loretta Young Show | 1953 | TV Series | Lloyd |
The Ford Television Theatre | 1953 | TV Series | |
The Unexpected | 1952 | TV Series | Alan Liveright |
Hollywood Opening Night | 1952 | TV Series | |
Woman of the North Country | 1952 | | David Powell |
The Magic Carpet | 1951 | | Abdullah al Husan / Dr. Ramoth / The Scarlet Falcon |
Along the Great Divide | 1951 | | Billy Shear |
Breakthrough | 1950 | | Lt. Joe Mallory |
Sands of Iwo Jima | 1949 | | Pfc. Peter Conway |
The Woman on Pier 13 | 1949 | | Don Lowry |
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon | 1949 | | Lt. Flint Cohill |
Adventure in Baltimore | 1949 | | Tom Wade |
Fort Apache | 1948 | | 2nd Lt. Michael Shannon O'Rourke |
The Naked Monster | 2005 | | Dr. Clete Ferguson |
The Vampire Hunters Club | 2001 | Video short | Reggie |
The Pandora Directive | 1996 | Video Game | Thomas Malloy |
Words from Jerusalem | 1995 | TV Series | Poet - Himself |
Body Bags | 1993 | TV Movie | Dr. Lang (segment "Eye") |
Invasion of Privacy | 1992 | Video | Old Convict |
The Perfect Bride | 1991 | TV Movie | Gramps |
Fear | 1990 | | Leonard Scott Levy |
Nightbreed | 1990 | | Decker's Victim |
Miracle Mile | 1988 | | Ivan Peters |
Perfect Victims | 1988 | | Neighbor walking his dog |
The Twilight Zone | 1986 | TV Series | Pop (segment "A Day in Beaumont") |
Highway to Heaven | 1984 | TV Series | Morton Clay |
Divided We Fall | 1982 | | Yankee Officer |
Mr. No Legs | 1979 | | Police Capt. Hathaway |
Charlie's Angels | 1976 | TV Series | Col. Blaylock |
King Kong | 1976 | | City Official |
Police Story | 1976 | TV Series | Hammack |
Chase | 1974 | TV Series | |
How's Your Love Life? | 1971 | | Police Lt. Rafferty |
Big Jake | 1971 | | Bert Ryan |
Chisum | 1970 | | Amos Patton |
The Undefeated | 1969 | | Christian |
Hell Raiders | 1968 | TV Movie | Maj. Ronald Paxton |
The Virginian | 1964-1968 | TV Series | Joe Williams / Tom Anders |
The Name of the Game | 1968 | TV Series | Bert Walker |
Hondo | 1967 | TV Series | Frank James |
Night Fright | 1967 | | Sheriff Clint Crawford |
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre | 1967 | | Dion O'Bannion |
Family Affair | 1967 | TV Series | Gabe |
Curse of the Swamp Creature | 1966 | TV Movie | Barry Rogers |
Zontar: The Thing from Venus | 1966 | TV Movie | Dr. Curt Taylor |
Waco | 1966 | | George Gates |
Women of the Prehistoric Planet | 1966 | | Dr. Farrell |
Johnny Reno | 1966 | | Ed Tomkins |
Combat! | 1966 | TV Series | Capt. Thorpe |
Branded | 1965 | TV Series | The Sheriff |
Young Fury | 1964 | | Dawson |
Stage to Thunder Rock | 1964 | | Dan Carrouthers |
Law of the Lawless | 1964 | | Pete Stone |
Of Love and Desire | 1963 | | Gus Cole |
The Young and the Brave | 1963 | | Intelligence Captain |
Death Valley Days | 1963 | TV Series | Dr. Edwards |
Lawman | 1962 | TV Series | Jim Martin |
Journey to the Seventh Planet | 1962 | | Capt. Don Graham |
Hand of Death | 1962 | | Alex Marsh |
Fall Girl | 1961 | | Joe McElroy |
Bat Masterson | 1961 | TV Series | Sam Phelps |
The Best of the Post | 1961 | TV Series | Lt. Larry Bronsford |
Ripcord | 1961 | TV Series | Warrant Officer Frank Pierson |
Rawhide | 1959-1960 | TV Series | Mike Anderson / Lon Grant |
Raymie | 1960 | | Ike |
Whirlybirds | 1960 | TV Series | Danny Flynn |
Destination Space | 1959 | TV Movie | Col. Matthews |
Invisible Invaders | 1959 | | Maj. Bruce Jay |
Perry Mason | 1959 | TV Series | Kenneth Baxter |
Frontier Gun | 1958 | | Sheriff Jim Crayle |
Flight | 1958 | TV Series | |
The Gale Storm Show: Oh! Susanna | 1958 | TV Series | Lt Arnold Van Dyke |
Attack of the Puppet People | 1958 | | Bob Westley |
Jet Attack | 1958 | | Capt. Tom Arnett |
The Day of the Trumpet | 1958 | | Sgt. Judd Norcutt |
Ride a Violent Mile | 1957 | | Jeff Donner |
General Electric Theater | 1954-1957 | TV Series | Marvin Potter |
The Brain from Planet Arous | 1957 | | Steve March |
Daughter of Dr. Jekyll | 1957 | | George Hastings |
Joe Butterfly | 1957 | | Sgt. Dick Mason |
The Mole People | 1956 | | Dr. Roger Bentley |
Flesh and the Spur | 1956 | | Luke Random / Matt Random |
Star in the Dust | 1956 | | Sheriff Bill Jorden |
Hold Back Tomorrow | 1955 | | Joe Cardos |
The Lonesome Trail | 1955 | | Johnny Rush |
Tarantula | 1955 | | Dr. Matt Hastings |
Climax! | 1955 | TV Series | Larry Dorrant |
Revenge of the Creature | 1955 | | Professor Clete Ferguson |
Music Department
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Fall Girl | 1961 | vocalist: theme song | |
Thanks
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Can't Stop the Rock | 2007 | Video special thanks | |
Self
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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The Fearmakers Collection | 2007 | Video documentary | Himself |
100 Years of Horror: The Double Demons | 1996 | Video documentary | Himself |
100 Years of Horror: The Walking Dead | 1996 | Video documentary | Himself |
100 Years of Horror | 1996 | TV Series documentary | Himself - Actor / Himself - Star, 'Invisible Invaders' / Himself - Star - 'The Mole People' / ... |
The Making of 'Sands of Iwo Jima' | 1993 | Video documentary short | Himself |
The Famous Monsters 1993 World Convention Souvenir Video | 1993 | Video documentary | |
Amazing Worlds of Science Fiction and Fantasy | 1991 | Video | Himself |
Saturn Awards | 1981 | TV Special | Himself - Life Career Award Recipient |
Here's Hollywood | 1962 | TV Series | Himself |
Archive Footage
Won Awards
Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
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1991 | Golden Boot | Golden Boot Awards | | |
1981 | Life Career Award | Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA | | |
Known for movies
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