Personal Info
Birth date
1906-03-12 (119 Years)
Day of death
1947-05-15
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Crockett, Texas, USA
Also known as
Johnny Arledge
Johnson Arledge
Johnson Lundy Arledge
John Arledge
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Johnson Lundy Arledge (March 12, 1906 – May 15, 1947) was an American film and stage actor. He played dozens of supporting roles in the Hollywood movies of the 1930s–1940s, including the tractor driver who destroys a house in The Grapes of Wrath.
Filmography
Gone with the Wind
7.9
Overview:
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.The Grapes of Wrath
7.819
Overview:
Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncle’s farm, and joins them the next day as they head for California and a new life... Hopefully.Dark Passage
7.3
Overview:
A man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try and prove his innocence.You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
6.85
Overview:
Fields plays "Larsen E. Whipsnade", the owner of a shady carnival that is constantly on the run from the law. Whipsnade is struggling to keep a step ahead of foreclosure, and clearly not paying his performers, including Bergen and McCarthy, who try to coax money out of him, or in McCarthy's case, steal some outright.Arizona
6.2
Overview:
Phoebe Titus is a tough, swaggering pioneer woman, but her ways become decidedly more feminine when she falls for California bound Peter Muncie. But Peter won't be distracted from his journey and Phoebe is left alone and plenty busy with villains Jefferson Carteret and Lazarus Ward plotting at every turn to destroy her freighting company. She has not seen the last of Peter, however.Hell's Highway
6.2
Overview:
A prison-camp convict learns that his younger brother will soon be joining him behind bars.City for Conquest
6.833
Overview:
The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York City. When Peggy, hoping for something better in life for both of them, breaks off her engagement to Danny, he sets out to be a championship boxer, while she becomes a dancer paired with a sleazy partner. Will tragedy reunite the former lovers?The Farmer Takes a Wife
6.1
Overview:
A farmer tries to convince a girl to leave her life on a canal boat to live with him on his farm.King of Jazz
6.23
Overview:
Made during the early years of the movie musical, this exuberant revue was one of the most extravagant, eclectic, and technically ambitious Hollywood productions of its day. Starring the bandleader Paul Whiteman, then widely celebrated as the King of Jazz, the film drew from Broadway variety shows to present a spectacular array of sketches, performances by such acts as the Rhythm Boys (featuring a young Bing Crosby), and orchestral numbers—all lavishly staged by veteran theater director John Murray Anderson.Campus Confessions
4.2
Overview:
This comical campus romance showcases the fancy footwork of All-American basketball player Hank Luisetti while it tells the story of a dean's son who does his very best to become a good student. When he fails, he turns to playing basketball and befriends Luisetti, which makes him quite popular. This doesn't sit well with the dean, who wants academics to be more important than sports.Heartbreak
NYR
Overview:
John Merrick and Vilma Walden, who fall in love at an embassy fundraiser in Vienna before World War I. Vilma's brother, Carl, who is a war veteran, poses as a rival for Vilma's affections. When war erupts, John requests a transfer to the Italian front, where he confronts Carl, who had borrowed his aircraft for a mission. John is devastated to learn the pilot he downed was actually Carl, leading him to announce he will no longer kill.The Spider
6
Overview:
Lowe plays Chatrand the Great, a magician with great hypnotic and magical powers. During his evening performance at an upscale theater, a murder occurs. A hand wearing a sinister spider ring raises a revolver, the lights go out, and a shot rings out! When the lights come on, the body of a patron is lying on the floor, dying. Who is the mysterious killer? What is the strange secret of Lowe’s clairvoyant, amnesia-plagued assistant? After the police restrain the audience from leaving, Lowe uses his magical powers to help expose the killer. Watch for the terrific séance scene where weird ghost-like creatures float above the stage.After Tomorrow
5.8
Overview:
In the Depression, Pete and Sidney are good kids, working hard, giving money to their parents, and engaged for three years while they save to get married. Each has a selfish mother: Sydney's is cold, Pete's is clingy. Sidney's mother is looking for her own happiness, no matter how much that search harms her daughter and long-suffering husband; and, the longer the engagement lingers, the more pressure Pete's mom puts on Sidney to break it off and set her son free. "After Tomorrow" is Pete and Sidney's favorite song, but with illness, poverty, and temptation: will that good day ever come?6,000 Enemies
6
Overview:
A tough prosecutor who has sent dozens of criminals to prison finds himself framed on a bribery charge and winds up in prison himself.Strange Cargo
7
Overview:
Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure.All Women Have Secrets
5
Overview:
When they decide they might as well be penniless husbands and wives as penniless campus sweethearts, three couples at a Midwestern university, against the advice of their friends, get married. Joe and Susie Tucker prove that two can live as cheap as one by setting up housekeeping in a trailer, and working at whatever odd jobs turn up.Shipmates Forever
6.5
Overview:
An admiral's son with no interest in carrying on the family tradition is a successful crooner. He finally joins the Navy to prove he can, but with no real love in it.It's a Date
6.4
Overview:
An aspiring actress is offered the lead in a major new play, but discovers that her mother, a more seasoned performer, expects the same part. The situation is further complicated when they both become involved with the same man.The Fighting 69th
5.4
Overview:
Although loudmouthed braggart Jerry Plunkett alienates his comrades and officers, Father Duffy, the regimental chaplain, has faith that he'll prove himself in the end.Prison Nurse
5.1
Overview:
A state prison is threatened by approaching floods, an epidemic of typhoid fever breaks out among the inmates, the prison's only doctor falls sick, there are only three nurses to administer vaccines and take care of stricken patients--and a group of prisoners is planning to use the chaos as a cover for a mass escape.Flirtation Walk
5.571
Overview:
A private stationed in Hawaii gets involved with the general's engaged daughter. In order to avoid a scandal, the pair break up, but meet again years later when he's at West Point producing the annual play that turns out to star her.Numbered Woman
NYR
Overview:
After her brother is wrongfully arrested for the theft of some bonds, a nurse sets out to clear his name by setting a trap for the real thieves.Week Ends Only
NYR
Overview:
A recently impoverished but formerly wealthy young woman ends up working as a nightclub hostess. There she meets a handsome, sophisticated and wealthy fellow who hires her to help him spice up his weekend parties. She begins helping him and regains her lost wealth and posh lifestyle.Don't Turn 'em Loose
4.8
Overview:
A conscientious attorney who is a member of the State Parole Board, finds his own son, using an alias, up for parole and makes the decision to cast the approving vote.Murder on a Bridle Path
5.3
Overview:
When the body of Violet Feverel is discovered on the Central Park bridle path, Inspector Oscar Piper is about to declare her death accidental from a thrown horse, until his friend and amateur detective Hildegarde Withers locates the horse and discovers blood on the horse.Mary Jane's Pa
6
Overview:
Sam Preston is a small-town newspaper publisher who suffers from wanderlust. Leaving his family, he thinks well-provided for, he packs a suitcase and hits the road. Ten years later he comes back to find the newspaper shuttered and his family gone.Acting
1947Dark Passage as Lonely Man at Bus Station (uncredited)
1947I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now as Clerk (uncredited)
1947That's My Man as Thunder's owner
1940Arizona as Southern Lieutenant (uncredited)
1940The Flag of Humanity as Jeremy
1940City for Conquest as Salesman
1940Ski Patrol as Dick Reynolds
1940It's a Date as Newcomer on Ship (uncredited)
1940The Grapes of Wrath as Davis
1940Strange Cargo as Dufond
1940The Fighting 69th as Alabama Man #2 (uncredited)
1939Gone with the Wind as Dying Soldier (uncredited)
1939All Women Have Secrets as Joe Tucker
19396,000 Enemies as Phil Donegan
1939Twelve Crowded Hours as Red
1939You Can't Cheat an Honest Man as Phineas Whipsnade
1938Campus Confessions as Freddy Fry
1938Numbered Woman as Tommy Morgan
1938Prison Nurse as Mousie
1937County Fair as John Hope
1937Big City as Buddy
1936The Big Game as Spike Adams
1936Don't Turn 'em Loose as Walter Clifford
1936Murder on a Bridle Path as Joey Thomas
1936Two in Revolt as John Woods
1936You May Be Next! as Eddie House
1935We're Only Human as Johnny O'Brien
1935Shipmates Forever as Johnny 'Coxswain' Lawrence
1935Old Man Rhythm as Pinky Parker
1935The Farmer Takes a Wife as Man Talking About Transcontinental Railroad
1935Mary Jane's Pa as Linc Overman
1935Devil Dogs of the Air as Mac
1934Flirtation Walk as Spike Dukowe
1933Jimmy and Sally as Joe
1932Hell's Highway as Joe Carter
1932Week Ends Only as Ted Lane
1932Huddle as Pidge
1932Careless Lady as Hank Oldfield
1932After Tomorrow as Office Worker / Wedding Rehearsal Guest
1931Heartbreak as Jerry Sommers
1931The Spider as Tommy
1931Daddy Long Legs as Jimmy McBride
1931Young Sinners as Jimmy
1930King of Jazz as First Pianist at Giant Piano ('Rhapsody in Blue') / Quartet Member ('Nellie') (as Johnson Arledge)