John Dilson

Acting

Born: 1891-02-18 in Brooklyn, New York, USA

Died: 1944-06-01

Biography

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

Acting

Manpower

Jail Clerk (uncredited)

The Secret Seven

Walter W. Carter

Phantom of Chinatown

Charlie Frasier

Easy Living

Nervous Hotel Registrant (uncredited)

Think It Over

North of Shanghai

Editor

Doctors Don't Tell

Two Latins from Manhattan

Jerome Kittleman

Flying G-Men

Dr. Alexander Craig

Gun to Gun

The Monster and the Girl

Employment Agency Clerk (uncredited)

Girls Under 21

Albert Carter, School Principal

They Meet Again

William Merrill Sr.

The President's Mystery

Banker (uncredited)

Marked Men

Dr. James Prentiss Harkness

Women in Prison

Henry Russell

The Ex-Mrs. Bradford

Analyst Examining Gelatin Capsule (uncredited)

Dick Tracy

Ellery Brewster [Chs. 1, 12]

Scandal Sheet

Chris Durk

Johnny Eager

Pawnbroker (uncredited)

Who Killed Gail Preston?

Mr. Curran

Three of a Kind

Doc Adams

The Drag-Net

Arnold Crane

Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island

E.G. Ellsworth

Happiness C.O.D.

Snyder

Adventures of Red Ryder

Hale

Racketeers of the Range

Wiliam J. Benson

Gang Bullets

Capt. Brown

Wildcat

Gus Sloane

The Wagons Roll at Night

Minister (uncredited)

A Man's Game

John T. Bradley

Pioneers of the West

Morgan

The Leather Pushers

The Girl Who Came Back

Henchman Waddy

Every Night at Eight

Huxley

The Man with Nine Lives

John Hawthorne

Twin Triplets

J. Benton, City Editor

Midnight Taxi

Doc Wilson

I'll Tell the World

Legendre

Racket Busters

Mr. Robbins (uncredited)

We're Only Human

Ballistics Expert

Woman Wanted

Juror Talking to Mike (uncredited)

Love Is on the Air

Meeting Chairman

The Ghost That Walks Alone

Bascomb (uncredited)

Tarnished Angel

Mr. Greer

Stand Up and Fight

Auctioneer

They Made Me a Criminal

Doctor (uncredited)

Cheers of the Crowd

Barney Booth (as John H. Dilson)

Nancy Drew... Reporter

Deputy Coroner (uncredited)

Blackwell's Island

Finlay (uncredited)

It's a Wonderful World

Doctor (uncredited)

Each Dawn I Die

Parole Board Member (uncredited)

In Name Only

Head Train Steward (uncredited)

The Man They Could Not Hang

King - City Editor (uncredited)

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Secretary (uncredited)

Stage to Chino

Jim Pierce - Postal Inspector (uncredited)

Reno

Mr. Jones - Casino Manager

Bad Little Angel

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

Man-Made Monster

Medical Examiner

Kentucky

Man at Race Track

You, the People

Mr. Sanders

King of the Royal Mounted

Wall

Danger Ahead

Thomas Hatch

Drums of Fu Manchu

Prof. Ezra Howard

The Big Premiere

Theater Owner

Fixer Dugan

Steve

The Country Doctor

City Editor (uncredited)

Thundering Frontier

Carter Filmore

Here I Am a Stranger

Professor

Sunset in Wyoming

Phipps

The Grapes of Wrath

Bookseller (uncredited)

Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise

Police Doctor at Hotel

Five Little Peppers at Home

Daniels

Jesse James at Bay

Collins (uncredited)

Music in My Heart

City Editor (uncredited)

Brother Rat and a Baby

Pawnbroker

Legion of the Lawless

Surveyor Dave Martin (uncredited)

Edison, the Man

Broker

Father Steps Out

Tom Oliver

Money to Loan

Clarence Z. Dodds, Hanley's Accountant

Trouble in Sundown

Edward Simmons

Easy Money

Lawyer Rusick

All by Myself

Mr. Dilson

The Lady from Cheyenne

Special Prosecutor Fitzpatrick

Dark Command

Town Leader

Love Is News

Clerk (uncredited)

Andy Hardy's Private Secretary

Mr. Davis

Happy Land

Charles Clayton (uncredited)

Sergeant York

Reporter (uncredited)

This Land Is Mine

Mayor's Secretary

My Love Came Back

Accountant (uncredited)

Gallant Sons

Druggist (uncredited)

City for Conquest

Mr. Cahn - Man Buying Newspaper (uncredited)

I Love You Again

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

The Golden Fleecing

Cashier (uncredited)

No, No, Nanette

Desk Clerk

Millionaires in Prison

Observer at Train Station (uncredited)

Madame Spy

Proprietor Martin

Beyond the Sacramento

Jason Perry

Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.

Henry Weldon

Hold That Woman!

Bill Lannigan

Women Without Names

Sheriff

The Great Profile

Doctor Perkins

Weather Wizards

California Meteorologist

The Mayor of 44th Street

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

And Sudden Death

Judge

Hitch Hike To Heaven

Charlie Reed

Citizen Kane

Ward Heeler (uncredited)

The Shadow Strikes

Bill Gordan

The Deadly Game

Harkness

Across the Sierras

Dan Woodworth

Sabotage

(uncredited)

I'll Fix It

Burger, the lawyer

Queen of Broadway

Bickel

Cyclone on Horseback

Mr. Williams

Sabotage Squad

Guthrie

The Great Gildersleeve

Mayor Appleton

Idaho

Board Member

King of the Cowboys

Bryson

Ten Gentlemen from West Point

Senator (uncredited)

Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever

Mr. Davis (uncredited)

The Leopard Man

Coroner (uncredited)

S.O.S Tidal Wave

Appleby

New York Town

Doctor (uncredited)

Over My Dead Body

Editor

The Great Mr. Nobody

Pawnbroker

Obliging Young Lady

Uncle Joe (uncredited)

Slightly Dangerous

'Telegram' reporter (uncredited)

A Woman is the Judge

Ramsey

A Clean Sweep

Bank Manager

Beautiful But Broke

Putnam

Tramp, Tramp, Tramp!

Judge Smith

Around the World

Colonel

Borrowing Trouble

Clark

Naval Academy

John Frazier

So's Your Uncle

Stevens

The Public Pays

Milk Company Executive Moore (uncredited)

Public Deb No. 1

Clerk

Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case

Green, Parole Board Member (uncredited)

Mission to Moscow

American Senator (uncredited)

Princess O'Rourke

Elevator Operator (uncredited)

Ex-Champ

Lawton

A Night to Remember

Medical Examiner (uncredited)

The Chaser

Process Server

Glamour for Sale

Wilson (uncredited)

The Calling of Dan Matthews

City Editor Edison (uncredited)

Special Agent

Gus (uncredited)

Highway West

The Judge (uncredited)

Private Affairs

Stock Buyer (uncredited)

Whistling in the Dark

Hugo in Show (uncredited)

Drunk Driving

Doctor (uncredited)

Great Guy

City Editor (Uncredited)

She Has What It Takes

Chamberlain Jones (as John H. Dilson)

You Can't Escape Forever

Pop (uncredited)

For Me and My Gal

Lou (uncredited)

Fly By Night

Police Dr. Tracy

1-2-3-Go!

Mayor

The Westerner

Senator Lockhart

Wives Never Know

Doctor (uncredited)

The Face Behind the Mask

Man at Dock Asking for a Light (uncredited)

Death from a Distance

Unfinished Rainbows

Prof. Jewett

Too Hot to Handle

Film Developing Laboratory Foreman (uncredited)

Manpower

Jail Clerk (uncredited)

The Secret Seven

Walter W. Carter

Phantom of Chinatown

Charlie Frasier

Easy Living

Nervous Hotel Registrant (uncredited)

Think It Over

North of Shanghai

Editor

Doctors Don't Tell

Two Latins from Manhattan

Jerome Kittleman

Flying G-Men

Dr. Alexander Craig

Gun to Gun

The Monster and the Girl

Employment Agency Clerk (uncredited)

Girls Under 21

Albert Carter, School Principal

They Meet Again

William Merrill Sr.

The President's Mystery

Banker (uncredited)

Marked Men

Dr. James Prentiss Harkness

Women in Prison

Henry Russell

The Ex-Mrs. Bradford

Analyst Examining Gelatin Capsule (uncredited)

Dick Tracy

Ellery Brewster [Chs. 1, 12]

Scandal Sheet

Chris Durk

Johnny Eager

Pawnbroker (uncredited)

Who Killed Gail Preston?

Mr. Curran

Three of a Kind

Doc Adams

The Drag-Net

Arnold Crane

Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island

E.G. Ellsworth

Happiness C.O.D.

Snyder

Adventures of Red Ryder

Hale

Racketeers of the Range

Wiliam J. Benson

Gang Bullets

Capt. Brown

Wildcat

Gus Sloane

The Wagons Roll at Night

Minister (uncredited)

A Man's Game

John T. Bradley

Pioneers of the West

Morgan

The Leather Pushers

The Girl Who Came Back

Henchman Waddy

Every Night at Eight

Huxley

The Man with Nine Lives

John Hawthorne

Twin Triplets

J. Benton, City Editor

Midnight Taxi

Doc Wilson

I'll Tell the World

Legendre

Racket Busters

Mr. Robbins (uncredited)

We're Only Human

Ballistics Expert

Woman Wanted

Juror Talking to Mike (uncredited)

Love Is on the Air

Meeting Chairman

The Ghost That Walks Alone

Bascomb (uncredited)

Tarnished Angel

Mr. Greer

Stand Up and Fight

Auctioneer

They Made Me a Criminal

Doctor (uncredited)

Cheers of the Crowd

Barney Booth (as John H. Dilson)

Nancy Drew... Reporter

Deputy Coroner (uncredited)

Blackwell's Island

Finlay (uncredited)

It's a Wonderful World

Doctor (uncredited)

Each Dawn I Die

Parole Board Member (uncredited)

In Name Only

Head Train Steward (uncredited)

The Man They Could Not Hang

King - City Editor (uncredited)

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Secretary (uncredited)

Stage to Chino

Jim Pierce - Postal Inspector (uncredited)

Reno

Mr. Jones - Casino Manager

Bad Little Angel

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

Man-Made Monster

Medical Examiner

Kentucky

Man at Race Track

You, the People

Mr. Sanders

King of the Royal Mounted

Wall

Danger Ahead

Thomas Hatch

Drums of Fu Manchu

Prof. Ezra Howard

The Big Premiere

Theater Owner

Fixer Dugan

Steve

The Country Doctor

City Editor (uncredited)

Thundering Frontier

Carter Filmore

Here I Am a Stranger

Professor

Sunset in Wyoming

Phipps

The Grapes of Wrath

Bookseller (uncredited)

Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise

Police Doctor at Hotel

Five Little Peppers at Home

Daniels

Jesse James at Bay

Collins (uncredited)

Music in My Heart

City Editor (uncredited)

Brother Rat and a Baby

Pawnbroker

Legion of the Lawless

Surveyor Dave Martin (uncredited)

Edison, the Man

Broker

Father Steps Out

Tom Oliver

Money to Loan

Clarence Z. Dodds, Hanley's Accountant

Trouble in Sundown

Edward Simmons

Easy Money

Lawyer Rusick

All by Myself

Mr. Dilson

The Lady from Cheyenne

Special Prosecutor Fitzpatrick

Dark Command

Town Leader

Love Is News

Clerk (uncredited)

Andy Hardy's Private Secretary

Mr. Davis

Happy Land

Charles Clayton (uncredited)

Sergeant York

Reporter (uncredited)

This Land Is Mine

Mayor's Secretary

My Love Came Back

Accountant (uncredited)

Gallant Sons

Druggist (uncredited)

City for Conquest

Mr. Cahn - Man Buying Newspaper (uncredited)

I Love You Again

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

The Golden Fleecing

Cashier (uncredited)

No, No, Nanette

Desk Clerk

Millionaires in Prison

Observer at Train Station (uncredited)

Madame Spy

Proprietor Martin

Beyond the Sacramento

Jason Perry

Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.

Henry Weldon

Hold That Woman!

Bill Lannigan

Women Without Names

Sheriff

The Great Profile

Doctor Perkins

Weather Wizards

California Meteorologist

The Mayor of 44th Street

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

And Sudden Death

Judge

Hitch Hike To Heaven

Charlie Reed

Citizen Kane

Ward Heeler (uncredited)

The Shadow Strikes

Bill Gordan

The Deadly Game

Harkness

Across the Sierras

Dan Woodworth

Sabotage

(uncredited)

I'll Fix It

Burger, the lawyer

Queen of Broadway

Bickel

Cyclone on Horseback

Mr. Williams

Sabotage Squad

Guthrie

The Great Gildersleeve

Mayor Appleton

Idaho

Board Member

King of the Cowboys

Bryson

Ten Gentlemen from West Point

Senator (uncredited)

Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever

Mr. Davis (uncredited)

The Leopard Man

Coroner (uncredited)

S.O.S Tidal Wave

Appleby

New York Town

Doctor (uncredited)

Over My Dead Body

Editor

The Great Mr. Nobody

Pawnbroker

Obliging Young Lady

Uncle Joe (uncredited)

Slightly Dangerous

'Telegram' reporter (uncredited)

A Woman is the Judge

Ramsey

A Clean Sweep

Bank Manager

Beautiful But Broke

Putnam

Tramp, Tramp, Tramp!

Judge Smith

Around the World

Colonel

Borrowing Trouble

Clark

Naval Academy

John Frazier

So's Your Uncle

Stevens

The Public Pays

Milk Company Executive Moore (uncredited)

Public Deb No. 1

Clerk

Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case

Green, Parole Board Member (uncredited)

Mission to Moscow

American Senator (uncredited)

Princess O'Rourke

Elevator Operator (uncredited)

Ex-Champ

Lawton

A Night to Remember

Medical Examiner (uncredited)

The Chaser

Process Server

Glamour for Sale

Wilson (uncredited)

The Calling of Dan Matthews

City Editor Edison (uncredited)

Special Agent

Gus (uncredited)

Highway West

The Judge (uncredited)

Private Affairs

Stock Buyer (uncredited)

Whistling in the Dark

Hugo in Show (uncredited)

Drunk Driving

Doctor (uncredited)

Great Guy

City Editor (Uncredited)

She Has What It Takes

Chamberlain Jones (as John H. Dilson)

You Can't Escape Forever

Pop (uncredited)

For Me and My Gal

Lou (uncredited)

Fly By Night

Police Dr. Tracy

1-2-3-Go!

Mayor

The Westerner

Senator Lockhart

Wives Never Know

Doctor (uncredited)

The Face Behind the Mask

Man at Dock Asking for a Light (uncredited)

Death from a Distance

Unfinished Rainbows

Prof. Jewett

Too Hot to Handle

Film Developing Laboratory Foreman (uncredited)