John Agar

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Biography

'John Agar' ended in 1949, while his movie career continued. Popular with fans of Westerns and sci-fi flicks, Agar was a staple at film conventions and autograph shows.

  • Primary profession
  • Actor·music_department
  • Country
  • United States
  • Nationality
  • American
  • Gender
  • Male
  • Birth date
  • 31 January 1921
  • Place of birth
  • Chicago
  • Death date
  • 2002-04-07
  • Death age
  • 81
  • Place of death
  • Burbank· California
  • Children
  • Spouses
  • Shirley Temple
  • Education
  • Lake Forest Academy
  • Parents
  • James Agar

Music

Movies

TV

Books

Trivia

In 1972 "Famous Monsters of Filmland" Magazine reported John Agar "Dead"!! Agar lived to autograph several copies of the articles.

His marriage to actress Shirley Temple started his film career in the 1940s.

The claim that he had done a "pink film" in Denmark was a gag. He starred in Journey to the Seventh Planet , which was shot in Denmark, by writer/producer/director Sidney W. Pink.

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).

He has an entry in Jean Tulards "Dictionnaire du cinma/Les acteurs" published in Paris in 2007 by RobertLaffont/Bouquins (page 14).

Father, with Shirley Temple , of daughter Linda Susan Agar (born on January 30, 1948).

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.

After Universal put Agar into a third horror film, The Mole People , 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.

Quotes

[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.

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