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John Bleifer, also known as John Melvin Bleifer, was an American actor whose career began at the very tail end of the silent film era, and lasted all the way through the mid-1980s. He appeared on the big screen in feature films and film serials, and on the small screen in a number of television series and miniseries. Bleifer also acted on stage, and appeared in several Broadway productions. ==Life and career== John Melvin Bleifer was born on July 26, 1901, in Zawiercie, Poland. After moving to the United States, he began his acting career in 1927, with a small role in the Edward Sloman film, ''Surrender''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher=Internet Movie Database )〕 Over the course of his career, he would appear in well over 100 films, serials, television shows and Broadway plays. His European accent allowed him to play several different nationalities, while using essentially the same accent. Bleifer did not make many silent films, but his career took off in 1933, after the advent of sound pictures. Bleifer appeared in dozens of films during the 1930s, mostly in smaller un-credited roles, such as in ''Blood Money'' (1933), starring George Bancroft;〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Blood Money: Detail View )〕 Howard Hawks' 1937 war film ''The Road to Glory'', starring Fredric March, Warner Baxter, and Lionel Barrymore;〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=The Road to Glory: Detail View )〕 ''Ladies in Love'', a 1936 romantic comedy starring Janet Gaynor, Constance Bennett, and Loretta Young;〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Ladies in Love: Detail View )〕 the romantic comedy ''The Baroness and the Butler'' (1938) starring William Powell and Annabella;〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=The Baroness and the Butler: Detail View )〕 and the comedy-drama ''Everything Happens at Night'', starring Sonja Henning, Ray Milland, and Robert Cummings.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Everything Happens at Night: Detail View )〕 He did have a number of featured roles during the decade as well, including: as Dr. Alexander Dexter in ''Night Alarm'', a 1934 drama;〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Night Alarm: Detail View )〕 the role of Chenildieu in the 1935 version of ''Les Misérables'', starring Fredric March and Charles Laughton;〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Les Misérables: Detail View )〕 Ludwig in 1937's ''Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo'', with Warner Oland in the title role;〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo: Detail View )〕 and as Wendling in the 1937 installment of the Mr. Moto series, ''Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation'', starring Peter Lorre.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation: Detail View )〕 Bleifer also appeared on stage during the 1930s, including the 1932 Broadway production of ''Clear All Wires'', in the role of Sozanoff,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher=Internet Broadway Database )〕 which he would reprise the following year in the similarly titled film, ''Clear All Wires!'', starring Lee Tracy, Benita Hume, Una Merkel, and James Gleason.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Clear All Wires!: Detail View )〕 The 1940s saw Bleifer's career continue on the same path he had taken in the prior decade. He had numerous small roles, many nameless and un-credited, as in: Archie Mayo's 1940 version of ''Four Sons'', starring Don Ameche;〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Four Sons: Detail View )〕 the war film ''Paris Calling'' (1942), starring Basil Rathbone, Randolph Scott, and Elisabeth Bergner;〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Paris Calling: Detail View )〕 the comedy ''They Got Me Covered'' (1943), starring Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour;〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=They Got Me Covered: Detail View )〕 ''Mr. Lucky'', starring Cary Grant and Laraine Day;〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Mr. Lucky: Detail View )〕 the classic ''For Whom the Bell Tolls'', starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman;〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=For Whom the Bell Tolls: Detail View )〕 and the 1946 comedy ''Without Reservations'', starring John Wayne and Claudette Colbert.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Without Reservations: Detail View )〕 He also had several featured roles, such as: Pedro in the classic 1940 swashbuckler, ''The Mark of Zorro'', starring Tyrone Power;〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=The Mark of Zorro: Detail View )〕 as Oscar Zimmerman in the spy drama ''Waterfront'', starring J. Carrol Naish and John Carradine;〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Waterfront: Detail View )〕 and as Franz Leiber in The Bowery Boys comedy, ''Smugglers' Cove'' (1948).〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Smugglers' Cove: Detail View )〕 During this decade Bleifer appeared in several film serials, including ''Perils of Nyoka '' (1942),〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher=Internet Movie Database )〕 and ''Secret Service in Darkest Africa'' (1943), 〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher=Internet Movie Database )〕 In 1944 Bleifer appeared in the role of Lopakhin, in the successful Broadway production of Anton Chekhov's ''The Cherry Orchard'' at the National Theatre,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher=Internet Broadway Database )〕 a role he would reprise for a short run the following year at New York's City Center.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher=Internet Broadway Database )〕 During the 1950s Bleifer's film career slowed down, as he became more involved with the new medium of television. He only had a few featured roles in film, such as in: Lew Landers' ''State Penitentiary'' (1950), starring Warner Baxter, where Bleifer had the role of Jailbreak Jimmy;〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=State Penitentiary: Detail View )〕 and in the role of Jake Haberman in the 1957 police drama, ''Chain of Evidence''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Chain of Evidence: Detail View )〕 He continued to appear in smaller roles in a number of features, including: the 1951 Humphrey Bogart film noir, ''Sirocco''; 〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Sirocco: Detail View )〕 1953's ''The Juggler'', starring Kirk Douglas and directed by Edward Dmytryk;〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=The Juggler: Detail View )〕 the 1955 musical ''Kismet'', starring Howard Keel and Ann Blyth;〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Kismet: Detail View )〕 the 1955 Bowery Boys comedy, ''Spy Chasers'';〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Spy Chasers: Detail View )〕 the 1957 musical ''Silk Stockings'', starring Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse;〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Silk Stockings: Detail View )〕 and Edward Dmytryk's 1959 remake of ''The Blue Angel''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=The Blue Angel: Detail View )〕 In the 1950s Bleifer appeared in numerous television shows, such as ''Dangerous Assignment'' (1952), ''Navy Log'' (1956), ''I Love Lucy'' (1956), ''The Count of Monte Cristo'' (1956), ''The Adventures of Jim Bowie'' (1956), ''Shirley Temple's Storybook'' (1958), ''Perry Mason'' (1958), ''Peter Gunn'' (1959), and ''Rawhide'' (1959). 〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher=Internet Movie Database )〕 Bleifer continued working through the 1960s, 1970s, and into the 1980s. He made numerous television appearances on shows such as ''Death Valley Days'' (1960), ''The Lawless Years'' (1961), ''The Untouchables'' (1961), ''Dr. Kildare'' (1962-3), ''The Man from U.N.C.L.E.'' (1966), ''Marcus Welby, M.D.'' (1969), ''Adam-12'' (1971), ''Kolchak: The Night Stalker'' (1974), ''S.W.A.T.'' (1975), ''Police Woman'' (1976), ''Little House on the Prairie'' (1979), ''The White Shadow'' (1979), and ''Highway to Heaven'' (1984). Bleifer also appeared in the television miniseries ''QB VII'', in the role of Ben-Dan.〔 While his activity in films decreased, he did continue in the medium, with roles in such films as: the tobacconist in the 1962 comedy ''If a Man Answers'', starring Bobby Darrin and Sandra Dee;〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=If a Man Answers: Detail View )〕 the Steward in ''The Hook'', starring Kirk Douglas;〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=The Hook: Detail View )〕 a small role in ''W.C. Fields and Me'' (1976), starring Rod Steiger and Valerie Perrine;〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=W.C. Fields and Me: Detail View )〕 as Mishka in ''F.I.S.T.'' (1978), starring Sylvester Stallone, Rod Steiger, and Peter Boyle;〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=F.I.S.T.: Detail View )〕 and as one of the Rabbis in the Robert Aldrich comedy, ''The Frisco Kid'', starring Gene Wilder and Harrison Ford. 〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=The Frisco Kid: Detail View )〕 Bleifer's final performance was in the featured role of Hyman in 1986's ''Inside Out'', starring Elliott Gould.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher=Internet Movie Database )〕 Bleifer died on January 24, 1992 in Los Angeles County, California, and was interred in the Hillside Memorial Park, in Culver City, California, next to his wife, Grace, who had died three years previously, in 1989.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher=Find a Grave )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Bleifer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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