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![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Actor Born: November 23, 1915 in Staten Island, New York City, NY Death: February 4, 1992 in Santa Barbara, CA Biography:Starting out as an assistant animator at the Walt Disney studios, "John Dehner" went on to work as a professional pianist, Army publicist, and radio journalist. From 1944 until the end of big-time radio in the early '60s, Dehner was one of the busiest and best performers on the airwaves. He guested on such series as Gunsmoke, Suspense, Escape, and Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, and starred as British news correspondent J.B. Kendall on Frontier Gentleman (1958) and as Paladin in the radio version of Have Gun Will Travel (1958-1960). On Broadway, he appeared in Bridal Crown and served as director of Alien Summer. In films from 1944, Dehner played character roles ranging from a mad scientist in "The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters" (1954) to Sheriff Pat Garrett in "The Left-Handed Gun" (1958) to publisher Henry Luce in "The Right Stuff" (1983). Though he played the occasional lead, Dehner's cocked-eyebrow... Full Biography
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