John Hubbard (actor)

John Hubbard
John Hubbard
	in Turnabout (1940)
Born	April 14, 1914; East Chicago, Indiana, U.S.
Died	November 6, 1988 (aged 74); Camarillo, California, U.S.
Other names	Anthony Allan; Jack Hubbard
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1937-1980
Spouse(s)	Lois Hubbard (3 children)

John Hubbard (April 14, 1914 – November 6, 1988) was an American television and film actor.

Career

Born in East Chicago, Indiana, Hubbard took acting lessons as a teen at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, where he attracted attention and movie offers. He was signed by Paramount in 1937 as "Jack" Hubbard, but his contract was sold to MGM a year later. MGM changed his professional name to Anthony Allan[1] and cast him in modest feature films and short subjects for one year.

In 1939, Hal Roach signed John Hubbard (under his given name) as one of five promising young actors with "star" potential (the other four were Lon Chaney, Jr., Victor Mature, Carole Landis, and William Bendix). Roach saw something in Hubbard, whose handsome features lent themselves to romantic roles while his dialogue skills allowed him to play farce comedy. He was showcased in The Housekeeper's Daughter (1939) and Turnabout (1940), but when Roach abandoned full-length features for shorter featurettes, Hubbard found roles elsewhere.

During World War II Hubbard was busily engaged as a "male lead for hire" at several studios, substituting for established male stars who had joined the armed forces. With no single studio guiding his career, Hubbard never advanced to important roles in major productions, and wound up in routine juvenile roles in romances, mysteries, and musical comedies.[2] Hubbard himself joined the military in 1944, and resumed his movie career in 1947 at smaller, independent studios.

Television

Hubbard found additional opportunities in the new field of television, as a supporting actor. He played "Brown" in The Mickey Rooney Show (12 episodes), "Bill Bronson" in My Little Margie (four episodes), "Col. U. Charles Barker" in the military comedy Don't Call Me Charlie (18 episodes) and "Ted Gaynor" in Family Affair (eight episodes). However, most of his television assignments were single appearances in popular network series like Perry Mason, The Green Hornet, and Adam-12. He was frequently cast by Warner Bros. for such series as Maverick, Hawaiian Eye, 77 Sunset Strip, Lawman, Cheyenne, and Surfside 6.

Other media

In 1951 Hubbard starred on stage with Mary Brian in a comedy, Mary Had a Little, in Melbourne, Australia. Hubbard also worked in network radio, replacing Robert North as Alice Faye's brother Willy starting in the 1953-54 season of The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show. Between acting roles, Hubbard worked as an automobile salesman and the manager of a restaurant. He retired from acting in 1974 after a character role in Herbie Rides Again, although he made one more appearance in a television movie in 1980.

Personal life and death

Hubbard was married to his high school sweetheart, Lois, for nearly 50 years. The couple had three children: Lois, Jane, and John. On November 6, 1988, Hubbard died at the age of 74 in a convalescent home in Camarillo, California.[3]

Filmography

Film
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1937	Hold 'Em Navy	Midshipman Hopkins	Alternative title: That Navy Spirit
1938	The Buccaneer	Charles
1938	The Big Broadcast of 1938	Officer	Uncredited
1938	College Swing	Student	Uncredited
1938	Cocoanut Grove	Radio Station Attendant	Uncredited
1938	You and Me	Salesman	Uncredited
1938	Prison Farm	Guard	Uncredited
1938	Men with Wings	Attendant	Uncredited
1938	Give Me a Sailor	Rodney Weatherwax	Uncredited
1938	Out West with the Hardys	Cliff Thomas
1938	Dramatic School	Fleury
1939	Fast and Loose	Phil Sergeant
1939	The Kid from Texas	Bertie Thomas	credited as Anthony Allan
1939	Maisie	Richard "Ray" Raymond	credited as Anthony Allan
1939	The Housekeeper's Daughter	Robert Randall	leading role
1940	One Million B.C.	Ohtao
1940	Turnabout	Tim Willows	leading role
1940	Who Killed Aunt Maggie?	Kirk Pierce
1941	Road Show	Drogo Gaines
1941	Murder Among Friends	Dr. Thomas Wilson
1941	You'll Never Get Rich	Captain Tom Barton
1941	Our Wife	Tom Drake
1941	You'll Never Get Rich	Captain Tom Barton
1942	Canal Zone	Harley Ames
1942	The Mummy's Tomb	Dr. John Banning
1942	Youth on Parade	Prof. Gerald Payne
1942	Secrets of the Underground	P. Cadwallader Jones
1943	Chatterbox	Sebastian Smart
1943	What's Buzzin', Cousin?	Jimmy Ross
1943	Dangerous Blondes	Kirk Fenley
1943	There's Something About a Soldier	Michael Crocker
1943	Whispering Footsteps	Marcus Aureus 'Mark' Borne
1944	Beautiful But Broke	Bill Drake
1944	Up in Mabel's Room	Jimmy Larchmont
1944	Cowboy and the Senorita	Craig Allen
1947	Linda Be Good	Roger Prentiss
1948	Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad	Charles Kennedy
1948	Mexican Hayride	David Winthrop, American Embassy
1949	An Old-Fashioned Girl	Mr. Sydney
1949	And Baby Makes Three	Harold York	Uncredited
1950	Second Chance	Ed Dean
1951	Bullfighter and the Lady	Barney Flood	Alternative title: Torero
1951	The Cimarron Kid	George Weber
1952	Big Jim McLain	Lt. Cmdr. Clint Grey
1952	Horizons West	Sam Hunter
1953	Walking My Baby Back Home	Rodney Millard
1957	The Tall T	Willard Mims
1957	Pal Joey	Stanley	Uncredited
1958	The Buccaneer	Dragoon Capt. Wilkes
1958	Escort West	Lt. Weeks
1963	Gunfight at Comanche Creek	Marshal Dan Shearer
1963	Soldier in the Rain	Battalion Major
1964	Fate Is the Hunter	Al Robbins	Uncredited
1965	The Satan Bug	Guard	Uncredited
1966	The Family Jewels	Second Pilot
1966	Duel at Diablo	Major Novak - CO, Fort Creel
1969	The Love God?	Craig Frazier	Uncredited
1972	Justin Morgan Had a Horse	Wellington
1974	Herbie Rides Again	Announcer at Chicken Run
Television
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1950	The Magnavox Theatre	Athos	1 episode
1953	The Ford Television Theatre	Peter Blakely	1 episode
1954	Four Star Playhouse	Haskell Beecher	1 episode
1955	The Lone Ranger	Major Trask	1 episode
1955	The Danny Thomas Show	1st Baseball Coach	1 episode
1956	The Bob Cummings Show	Wally Seawell	1 episode
1956	Circus Boy	Arthur	1 episode
1957	Whirlybirds	Ben Davis	1 episode
	How to Marry a Millionaire	Quinby	1 episode
	Navy Log	Skipper	1 episode
1958	The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp	Tim Maxwell	1 episode
	Bronco	Aaron Lake	1 episode
	Frontier Doctor	Ralph Courtwright	1 episode
1959	Five Fingers	Major Kane	1 episode
1960	The DuPont Show with June Allyson	Bill	1 episode
	Rescue 8	Randolph	1 episode
	Hawaiian Eye	Gordon McLaren	1 episode
	Lock-Up	John Van Der Berg	1 episode
1961	Cheyenne	John Mercer	1 episode
	Lassie	Dr. Hank Simms	1 episode
	Pete and Gladys	Dr. Bill	1 episode
1962	Shannon	Dr. Fiske	1 episode
1963	Petticoat Junction	Max Thornton	1 episode
1964	Mister Ed	Major Collins	1 episode
	Rawhide	Smitty	1 episode
	Karen	Tolliver	1 episode
	The Munsters	Duke Ramsey	1 episode
	Wendy and Me	Maitre D'	2 episodes
1965	McHale's Navy	Dr. Halifert	1 episode
	The Virginian	Dr. Wagner	1 episode
	Burke's Law	Mr. Farrell the Manicurist	1 episode
	Kraft Suspense Theatre	Dwight Hardy	1 episode
	Hank	Kingston	1 episode
1967	The Wild Wild West	Clive Finsbury	1 episode
1968	Green Acres	Mr. Carter	1 episode
1969	Then Came Bronson	Walt	1 episode
1970	Adam-12	Dr. Vince Packard	1 episode
1970	That Girl	Passenger	1 episode

Notes

Coons, Robbin (November 4, 1943). "He Looked Like Film Star, Made His Career Identical". The Record. New Jersey, Hackensack. p. 17. Retrieved March 4, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
MacGillivray, Scott and Jan (2005). Gloria Jean: A Little Bit of Heaven. iUniverse; ISBN 978-0595370801.
Feramisco, Thomas M.; Moran Foster, Peggy (2002). The Mummy Unwrapped: Scenes Left on Universal's Cutting Room Floor. McFarland. p. 141. ISBN 0-7864-1368-9.

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[1] Coons, Robbin (November 4, 1943). "He Looked Like Film Star, Made His Career Identical". The Record. New Jersey, Hackensack. p. 17. Retrieved March 4, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.

[2] MacGillivray, Scott and Jan (2005). Gloria Jean: A Little Bit of Heaven. iUniverse; ISBN 978-0595370801.

[3] Feramisco, Thomas M.; Moran Foster, Peggy (2002). The Mummy Unwrapped: Scenes Left on Universal's Cutting Room Floor. McFarland. p. 141. ISBN 0-7864-1368-9.