John McIntire

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John McIntire
Born	June 27, 1907 Spokane, Washington
Died	January 10, 1991 (aged 83) Pasadena, California
Spouse(s)	Jeanette Nolan (1935 - 1991)

John McIntire (June 27, 1907 – January 30, 1991) was an American character actor.

The craggy-faced film actor was born in Spokane, Washington and raised in Montana, growing up with ranchers and cowboys which would eventually inspire his performances in dozens of westerns later in life. The USC graduate began his acting career in radio and on stage.

McIntire began his long movie career in 1947 often playing roles as police chiefs, judges and sometimes crazy coots. His films include the film noir classic The Asphalt Jungle (1950) and his last film playing a crazy dog owner in Turner & Hooch (1989). He also played movie villains in westerns, some of which are considered the best films of the genre; Winchester '73 (1950), The Far Country (1955), both with Jimmy Stewart, and The Tin Star (1957) in which he was not a villain but a country doctor. On television, he appeared in The Naked City (his character was killed off) and played the wagon master on Wagon Train in 1961, and replaced actor Lee J. Cobb on The Virginian in 1967.

McIntire married fellow actor Jeanette Nolan, in 1935, and they had two children together, one of whom was the actor Tim McIntire who starred in the 1978 film American Hot Wax. He also played the brief but memorable role of Sheriff Al Chambers in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960), in which Nolan read some of Mother's lines and also did some voice-over screaming. McIntire worked more closely with Jeanette Nolan in Disney's 1977 The Rescuers, where he had voiced the cat Rufus and she, the muskrat Ellie Mae. Four years later, the couple worked on another Disney film, The Fox and the Hound, with McIntire as the voice of Mr. Digger, a badger, and Nolan as the voice of Widow Tweed.

John McIntire died from emphysema and lung cancer in Pasadena, California in 1991. He was 83 years old.