John Calvert

Active - 1944 - 1956  |   Born - Aug 5, 1911   |   Genres - Mystery, Western, Action

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One of America's great stage magicians, John Calvert segued into acting when hired to play himself in Bombardier (1943). The result was a contract with Columbia Pictures, who usually cast him as a villain. Independent film company Film Classics chose him to portray fictional sleuth "the Falcon" in three low-budget whodunits from 1948 to 1949 but the remainder of his onscreen career was uninspiring. Calvert later functioned as technical advisor on Paul Newman's screen debut, The Silver Chalice (1954), and produced, directed, and starred in the action-adventure Dark Venture (1955) as John Trevlac (Calvert spelled backwards). In the late '90s, he toured with a magic show.

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