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John Larch

John Larch (born Harold Aronin), was a pro-baseball player before beginning his nearly four-decades long acting career. On the big screen, he is perhaps best remembered as Harry Callahan's Chief of Police in the original Dirty Harry (1971).


Aliases
  • Harry Larch
English
  • Born In Salem, Massachusetts, USA
  • Born October 4, 1914
  • Died October 16, 2005
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  • Modified June 17, 2023 by
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Dirty Harry

1971
as Chief

The Amityville Horror

1979
as Farther Nuncio

Man from Del Rio

1956
as Bill Dawson

Airplane II: The Sequel

1982
as Prosecuting Attorney

Winter Kill

1974
as Dr. Bill Hammond

Hell to Eternity

1960
as Capt. Schwabe

The Walter Winchell File

1957
as Lt. Michaels

Santee

1973
as Banner

Quantez

1957
as Heller

Pages of Death

1962
as Councilman Halliday

Seven Men from Now

1956
as Payte Bodeen

The Careless Years

1957
as Sam Vernon

The Phenix City Story

1955
as Clem Wilson

Framed

1975
as Bundy

Man in the Shadow

1957
as Ed Yates

A Fire in the Sky

1978
as Johnson

From Hell to Texas

1958
as Hal Carmody

The Wrecking Crew

1968
as MacDonald

The Desperate Miles

1975
as Dr. Bryson

Hail, Hero!

1969
as Mr. Conklin

The Killer Is Loose

1956
as Otto Flanders

Bitter Creek

1954
as Hired Gunman

This Is My Love

1954
as Police Detective

Play Misty for Me

1971
as Sgt. McCallum

Bad Ronald

1974
as Sgt. Lynch

Move

1970
as Mounted Patrolman

Gun for a Coward

1957
as Stringer

Miracle of the White Stallions

1963
as General George S. Patton, Jr.

Behind the High Wall

1956
as William Kiley

Director

Episode Bonanza
The Newcomers
1959

Guest Star

Episode The New Breed
No Fat Cops
1961
Episode Gunsmoke
Fingered
1957
Episode Gunsmoke
Jailbait Janet
1960
Episode Gunsmoke
All That
1961
Episode Private Benjamin
Me, Me, Me
1982
Episode The Fugitive
Man on a String
1964
Episode Alfred Hitchcock Presents
The Door Without a Key
1962
Episode Wagon Train
The Dan Hogan Story
1958
Episode The Feather And Father Gang
Sun, Sand and Death
1977
Episode Big Shamus, Little Shamus
The Assassin
1979
Episode Mission: Impossible
The Martyr
1970
Episode Zane Grey Theater
Death Watch
1956
Episode Route 66
Legacy for Lucia
1960
Episode Dragnet (1951)
The Big Dare
1954
Episode Hawaii Five-O
The Execution File
1979
Episode The Felony Squad
The Deadly Abductors
1968
Episode Charlie's Angels
Angel Trap
1977
Episode Ironside
The Rolling Y
1993
Episode Route 66
Go Read the River
1962
Episode The Lone Wolf
The Art Story
1970
Episode Police Woman
Seven Eleven
1974
Episode The Rifleman
Six Years and a Day
1961
Episode Daniel Boone
Chief Mingo
1967
Episode Broken Arrow
Ordeal
1957
Episode Adventures in Paradise
Castaways
1960
Episode Wagon Train
The Ben Courtney Story
1959
Episode Naked City
The S.S. American Dream
1963
Episode Riverboat
Payment In Full
1959
Episode Stoney Burke
Gold-Plated Maverick
1963
Episode The Restless Gun
Hornitas Town
1958
Episode The Streets of San Francisco
Inferno
1974
Episode Cain's Hundred
The Plush Jungle
1962
Episode Have Gun, Will Travel
Out at the Old Ballpark
1960
Episode Judd for the Defense
The Living Victim
1967
Episode Bat Masterson
The Secret Is Death
1959
Episode Law of the Plainsman
Fear
1960
Episode Gunsmoke
Smoking Out the Nolans
1955
Episode The Virginian
The Executioners
1962
Episode Hawaii Five-O
Yesterday Died and Tomorrow Won't Be Born
1968
Episode Wagon Train
The Baylor Crowfoot Story
1962
Episode Alias Smith and Jones
The Girl in Boxcar #3
1971
Episode Ben Casey
And If I Die
1962
Episode The Six Million Dollar Man
The Cheshire Project
1977
Episode Cannon
To Ride a Tiger
1973
Episode Johnny Ringo
The Liars
1960
Episode The Smith Family
Class of '46
1971
Episode Slattery's People
Question: Is Democracy Too Expensive?
1965
Episode Cannon
Come Watch Me Die
1973
Episode Gunsmoke
Long Hours, Short Pay
1961
Episode Big Hawaii
The Sun Children
1977
Episode Naked City
Today the Man Who Kills Ants Is Coming
1962
Episode The Twilight Zone
Perchance to Dream
1959
Episode The Invaders
Genesis
1967
Episode Dallas
Deeds and Misdeeds
1985
Episode The Restless Gun
The Crisis at Easter Creek
1958
Episode The Untouchables
Hammerlock
1961
Episode Rawhide
Incident at Sugar Creek
1962
Episode The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
The Man from THRUSH Affair
1967
Episode Lou Grant
Samaritan
1979
Episode The F.B.I.
The Price of Death
1966
Episode Mission: Impossible
The Puppet
1972
Episode The Texan
Law of the Gun
1958
Episode Black Saddle
Client: Northrup
1959
Episode Dallas
Deliverance
1985
Episode The Restless Gun
The Shooting of Jett King
1957
Episode Zane Grey Theater
A Time To Live
1957
Episode Cannon
A Deadly Quiet Town
1972
Episode The Twilight Zone
Dust
1961
Episode Rawhide
Incident of the Tumbleweed
1959
Episode Vega$
Deadly Blessing
1980
Episode Naked City
King Stanislaus and the Knights of the Round Stable
1962
Episode O'Hara, U.S. Treasury
Operation: Good Citizen
1972
Episode Quincy, M.E.
Aftermath
1979
Episode Gunsmoke
The Boots
1959
Episode Ellery Queen
Too Many Suspects (pilot)
1975
Episode Route 66
The Strengthening Angels
1960
Episode Little House on the Prairie
A New Beginning
1980
Episode Wagon Train
The Cathy Eckhart Story
1960
Episode Vega$
Ghost of the Ripper
1979
Episode Ben Casey
My Enemy is a Bright Green Sparrow
1963
Episode The Untouchables
Elegy
1962
Episode Ironside
The Leaf in the Forest
1967
Episode The Twilight Zone
It's a Good Life
1961
Episode The Felony Squad
The Broken Badge
1966
Episode The Restless Gun
Thunder Valley
1958
Episode Yancy Derringer
Two Tickets to Promontory
1959
Episode Wanted: Dead or Alive
Die by the Gun
1958
Episode Gunsmoke
The Constable
1959
Episode The Fugitive
The Other Side of the Coin
1967
Episode Nanny and the Professor
The Great Debate
1971
Episode Have Gun, Will Travel
The Hanging of Roy Carter
1958
Episode The Dukes of Hazzard
Good Neighbors, Duke
1981