John Boylan
✓ Source-basedrisingAmerican actor (1912-1994)
John J. Boylan was an American film, television, and theatrical actor. One of three children born in Canton, Ohio to an Irish-American immigrant family, he began acting in 1932 when he helped found the Players' Guild for a local community theater.
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Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
Land of the Lost
Fever Pitch
Pet Sematary: Bloodlines
Rabid
Cow Belles
To Catch a Killer
Before You Say 'I Do'
The Story of Luke
Clearcut
On the 2nd Day of Christmas
Blood Relatives
Lethal Vows
L'Homme en colère
Cosmic Dawn
Escape Clause
A Saintly Switch
WitchSlayer Gretl
Dead of Winter
Alien Thunder
Mr. Headmistress
Angela
The Perfect Son
Campton Manor
The Limit
Keeping Track
Code Breakers
King Solomon's Treasure
The Tin Flute
Thanks of a Grateful Nation
Servitude
Canada Vignettes: December Lights
The Long Island Incident
Man Descending
Les Tisserands du pouvoir
Canada Vignettes: Acadian Quadrille
Les Tisserands du pouvoir 2, la révolte49 credits on file
Television 10
Earth: Final Conflict
Due South
Alphas
The Wonderful World of Disney
Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye
Man Seeking Woman
ReGenesis
Being Erica
The City
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About this person
John J. Boylan was an American film, television, and theatrical actor. One of three children born in Canton, Ohio to an Irish-American immigrant family, he began acting in 1932 when he helped found the Players' Guild for a local community theater. His working life was spent in the Ohio and Pennsylvania steel industries, but he continued acting whenever the opportunity arose, often travelling to Greenwich Village in New York City the 1930s and 1940s when regular employment was scarce. It was during these periods spent in New York that he performed on Broadway, becoming acquainted with fellow actors Burgess Meredith and John Ireland while there.
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