John Justin

About John Justin

Who is it?: Actor
Birth Day: November 24, 1917
Birth Place:  London, England, United Kingdom
Died On: 29 November 2002(2002-11-29) (aged 85)\nPetersfield, Hampshire, England, UK
Birth Sign: Sagittarius
Occupation: Actor
Years active: 1940-1983
Spouse(s): Pola Nirenska (m. 1935; div. 1949) Barbara Murray (m. 1952; div. 1964) Alison McMurdo (m. 1979)
Children: 3

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John Justin was born on November 24, 1917 in  London, England, United Kingdom, is Actor. British stage actor who has occasionally appeared in UK and US films since 1940.
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Biography/Timeline

1937

He became interested in acting at a young age. By the age of 16, he had joined the Plymouth Repertory. In 1937, he briefly trained with the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, but did not like it and soon joined the repertory company of John Gielgud. Among the plays he appeared in was Dear Octopus.

1938

In 1938, he auditioned for and won the role for which he is perhaps best remembered, Ahmad in the 1940 version of The Thief of Bagdad, opposite Sabu. To do so he had to sign a seven-year contract with Alexander Korda.

1943

He was given leave to work on two films, The Gentle Sex (1943) with Leslie Howard, and Journey Together (1944), an RAF feature film with a cast led by Richard Attenborough, Jack Watling and David Tomlinson; with a special appearance by the American film star, Edward G. Robinson. Silent film star Bessie Love also appeared in the cast.

1948

With the war's end, Justin returned to acting. In 1948, he did a stint at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-on-Avon, appearing in King John, The Merchant Of Venice, The Winter's Tale, Othello, Hamlet, and Troilus and Cressida. He also made the film Call of the Blood (1948).

1949

In 1949, he appeared on stage in Peter Pan and was in Antigone on the BBC. Justin was in Return To Tyassi (1950) on the West End and appeared in The Angel with the Trumpet (1950).

1952

Justin was married three times, first to Dancer and Choreographer Pola Nirenska. His second marriage, to Actress Barbara Murray, lasted from 1952 to 1964; they had three daughters. From 1970 to his death in 2002, he was married to Alison McMurdo.

1953

He was in The Village (1953), a Swiss film; Melba (1953), a biopic; King of the Khyber Rifles (1954), a Hollywood film with Tyrone Power for 20th Century Fox; Seagulls Over Sorrento (1954) with Gene Kelly; The Teckman Mystery (1954) with Margaret Leighton; The Man Who Loved Redheads (1955) with Moira Shearer.

1955

Fox called him back for Untamed (1955) and Warwick Films used him in Safari (1956) with Victor Mature. Justin had a good role in Fox's Island in the Sun (1957), romancing Dorothy Dandridge.

1957

In 1957, he appeared on stage in Dinner With The Family. In 1959 he joined the Old Vic where his plays included The Double Dealer, As You Like It, and The Importance Of Being Earnest.

1960

He made his Broadway debut in 1960 in the play Little Moon of Alban and was in The Spider's Web (1960). He was later in stage productions of Much Ado About Nothing (1963), Death of a Salesman (1965), and As You Like It (1965).

1963

Between 1963 and 1970, he made no film appearances. In 1968, he played Thorin Oakenshield in the BBC Radio adaptation of The Hobbit.

1971

On stage he was in Lulu (1971), toured South Africa in Who Killed Santa Claus? (1971), was in Old Fruit (1974), A Man And His Wife (1974)

1972

Later films included Ken Russell's Savage Messiah (1972), Lisztomania (1975) and Valentino (1977).

1979

In 1979, he played the ghoulish lover in the BBC's dramatisation of Le Fanu's Strange Incident in the Life of Schalcken the Painter, one of its Christmas ghost stories.