Actor
John Kerr
Biography

John Grinham Kerr (November 15, 1931 – February 2, 2013), was an American actor and lawyer. He made his Broadway debut in 1953 in Mary Coyle Chase's Bernardine, a high-school comedy for which he won a Theatre World Award. In 1953-54, he received critical acclaim as a troubled prep school student in Robert Anderson's play Tea and Sympathy. In 1954, he won a Tony Award for his performance, and he starred in the film version in 1956. Kerr's first television acting role was in 1954 on NBC's Justice ...

Known For
Acting
1999 -- Anthony Perkins: A Life in the Shadows | Self
1979 -- Search and Destroy | MacPherson
1978 -- The Silent Partner | Detective #3
1974 -- Only God Knows | Health Inspector
1973 -- Class of '44 | Ford Hotel Bartender (uncredited)
1973 -- Class of '44 | Hotel Bartender
1973 -- Incident on a Dark Street | Gallagher - Trenier's Lawyer
1972 -- The Longest Night | Agent Jones
1971 -- Yuma | Capt. White
1961 -- The Pit and the Pendulum | Francis Barnard
1960 -- Girl of the Night | Larry Taylor
1960 -- The Crowded Sky | Mike Rule
1958 -- South Pacific | Lt. Joseph Cable, USMC
1957 -- The Vintage | Ernesto Barandero
1957 -- The Ninth Day |
1956 -- Tea and Sympathy | Tom Robinson Lee
1956 -- Gaby | Gregory Y. Wendell
1955 -- The Quatermass Xperiment | Photo Lab Technician (uncredited)
1955 -- The Cobweb | Steven W. Holte
1953 -- Rex Newman | Howie Madden
1953 -- Horace Mann's Miracle | student
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