TopTenREVIEWS presents the film career and movie reviews of John Payne.
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Birthdate: May 23, 1912
Death date: December 6, 1989
John Payne
ACTOR RANKINGS:
CAREER SPAN
Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1930s
No Reviews
8
1940s
2.6613
24
1950s
1.3538
20
1960s
0.0331
2
1970s
No Reviews
1
1980s
No Reviews
0
1990s
0.8011
4
2000s
1.0320
1
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: 
2.0990
2.0990
John Payne Movie Rankings
1
3.3520At the Macy's Department Store Thanksgiving Day parade, the actor playing Santa is discovered to be drunk by a whiskered old man. Doris Walker, the no nonsense special events director, persuades the old man to take his place. ...more about Miracle on 34th Street
DVD from $9.21
(15 sellers)
2
2.7298Well-to-do Chicagoan, Larry Darrell, breaks off his engagement to Isabel and travels the world seeking enlightenment, eventually finding his guru India. ...more about Razor's Edge
DVD from $9.99
(9 sellers)
3
2.5661In 1904, Uncle Latsie comes to New York from Hungary with two little nieces, who immediately take to cafe dancing. In 1912 they're still at it, but to pay Uncle's card debts they decide to go into vaudeville. ...more about Dolly Sisters
DVD from $9.99
(14 sellers)
4
2.5296
Sergeant Dixie Smith has more raw recruits to turn into Marines, if he can. Among them is cocky casanova Chris Winters, son of an officer, who's just tried to "mash" Mary Carter, a major's niece. ...more about To the Shores of Tripoli
DVD from $9.99
(5 sellers)
5
2.3495
Duets is a road-trip comedy which revolves around the little known world of karaoke and the whimsical characters who inhabit it. ...more about Duets
DVD from $7.02
(10 sellers)
7
2.1673
A ship company employee, Jay Williams (John Payne), is sent to Florida where one of the company cruise ships is stuck on a reef off of the coast. ...more about Week-End in Havana
DVD from $9.99
(12 sellers)
9
1.9058
A group of teenagers come together to indulge in that great Canadian pastime, the house-party, and find themselves literally confined to the kitchen trapped by an extraordinary well manicured carpet in the living room. ...more about Kitchen Party
DVD from $12.77
(5 sellers)
10
1.6620
Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to England, and Katy joins her after the boys give a new song to Nora Bayes. All are reunited when the boys, now in the army, show up in England. ...more about Tin Pan Alley
- Not Available on DVD
12
1.5693
Kleptomaniac Dorothy Lyons is paroled from prison in custody of her sister June, secretary to "reform" political candidate Frank Jansen. Ben Grace, associate of crime boss Sol Caspar, sees this as a way to smear Jansen's campaign. ...more about Slightly Scarlet
DVD from $6.39
(7 sellers)
13
1.2980
A government team researching cures for plague find their results put on the Official Secrets list. ...more about Suspect
- Not Available on DVD
16
Stormy waves in the South China Sea wash a drunken captain, Charles Chinnough, off his ship just before it crashes on a reef. He's then rescued by a passing vessel. ...more about Captain China
- Not Available on DVD
17
In 1728, while hunting ducks, Dick Lindsay comes across a pirate named Francis Barclay burying a treasure-chest. Barclay and his lieutenant, Burford, take Lindsay prisoner aboard their ship, the Black Panther. ...more about Caribbean
- Not Available on DVD
20
'Jumbo' Johnson hires Steve Singleton (and his boat, the "Seeker") to search for pearls on the coast of New Guinea. Johnson tricks Singleton, however, by supplying him with phony permits. Singleton loses his boat and is sentenced to jail. ...more about Crosswinds
- Not Available on DVD
21
1863. Texas Ranger Todd Croyden and Union spy Whitney Randolph cross into Mexico to investigate a growing struggle for power between the French-supported Maximilian and the native-born Benito Juarez. ...more about Eagle and the Hawk
- Not Available on DVD
22
Ex-confederate officer Clay Fletcher jumps at the chance to reunite with his once lady-friend, Susan Jeffers, when his father, Judge Fletcher, sends him on an errand to El Paso, Texas to get the signature of Susan's father, Judge Jeffers, on a legal ...more about El Paso
- Not Available on DVD
23
Conceited World Champion boxer Tommy Lundy decides to test his popularity in a Broadway show. Tommy always has an eye for the ladies and he starts paying attention to beautiful chorus girl Pat Lambert. ...more about Footlight Serenade
- Not Available on DVD
24
John Quinn is the ruthless manager of the night club Garden of the Moon. ...more about Garden of the Moon
- Not Available on DVD
25
After WWI two men go into radio. Failure leads the wife of one to borrow money from another; she goes on, after separation, to stardom. A coast-to-coast radio program is set up to bring everyone back together. ...more about Great American Broadcast
- Not Available on DVD
26
Barrymore lampoons himself. A famous actor, given to drink, nearly destroys the show, but his leading lady (Hughes) returns to save it. Meanwhile a young girl (Baxter) tries to reform him. ...more about Great Profile
- Not Available on DVD
27
Gunfighter's Moon is one of the latest entries in the classic western plot of the master gunfighter as the loner and outsider that is reviled by the community until his unique skills are needed to save the town. ...more about Gunfighter's Moon
- Not Available on DVD
31
Marine, James Murfin, is unaware of Icelandic customs. When he flirts with Katina her Icelandic family take his actions as a proposal of marriage to Katina. Desperately wanting out, James gets his buddy to help him. ...more about Iceland
- Not Available on DVD
32
Joe is the three time Indy champion who still races to put young Eddie through College. Joe wants a better life for Eddie, and he explodes when he finds out that Eddie quit school for a racing career. ...more about Indianapolis Speedway
- Not Available on DVD
38
Woman (Bainter) tormented by the hunting death of her husband forbids her son (Payne) to have anything to do with horses. But when he falls for the daughter (Joyce) of his father's trainer (Brennan), he defies his mother by entering the Maryland Hunt. ...more about Maryland
- Not Available on DVD
39
In 1863, having escaped from a rock-quarry prison in Salt Lake, six inmates led by convicted murderer Pete Black take over a small wagon train headed by preacher Jacob Karns. ...more about Passage West
- Not Available on DVD
40
Barbaroosa (John Payne), a pirate, frees a group of Spanish prisoners and makes them his crew. On a raid, he takes as a prize a Spanish countess, Alida (Donna Reed). ...more about Raiders of the Seven Seas
- Not Available on DVD
41
An army officer is sent to Laramie to find out why all progress on the railroad has stopped. He finds drink plentiful not only in town but at the railhead, with an old pal of his behind it all. ...more about Rails Into Laramie
- Not Available on DVD
42
Ex-Confederate Bedloe Mason and his four sons ride into a small Western town with robbery in mind. Hearing a suspicious "click," Wes Mason whirls and shoots dead a boy playing with a cap pistol. ...more about Rebel in Town
- Not Available on DVD
43
Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation to Dan Hopkins, the man she married and lost. ...more about Remember the Day
- Not Available on DVD
44
The Mayhew brothers flee from one Texas town to another as older brother Bill repeatedly attempts to keep younger brother Sam out of jail. Bill finally gives up on his younger brother and heads for Colorado. ...more about Road to Denver
- Not Available on DVD
45
In the tiny European country of Arvania, the king is a young boy who is enthralled with the magazine adventures of American cowboy Bill Stevens. When Stevens and his Wild West Show pay a visit to Arvania, the king is delighted. ...more about Royal Rodeo
- Not Available on DVD
46
Scout and wagon-train guide Kirby Randolph (John Payne) hates all Indians, particularly Kiowa Chief Satank (George Keymas), whose massacre of an entire wagon-train of settlers led by Kirby, has led to his ostracism and neither he nor his pal Sam Beekman ...more about Santa Fe Passage
- Not Available on DVD
49
An actress becomes taken with Hitty, a young orphan prone to dreaming. Julie soon finds out that she is ill and has only a short time to live. She decides to adopt the child so that her husband Bill will not be alone when she dies. ...more about Sentimental Journey
- Not Available on DVD
50
Dan Ballard, a respected citizen in the western town of Silver Lode, has his wedding interrupted by four men led by Ned McCarthy, an old acquaintance who, as a US Marshal, arrests Ballard for the murder of his brother and the theft of $20,000. ...more about Silver Lode
DVD from $6.98
(6 sellers)
51
Broadway partners Vicky Lane and Dan Christy have a tiff over Christy's womanizing. Jealous Vicky takes up with her old flame and former dance partner, Victor Price, and Dan's career takes a nosedive. ...more about Springtime in the Rockies
- Not Available on DVD
52
Carolyn Sayres gets a Hollywood contract from talent scout Brooke but is later rejected because she's too young. She falls in love with Bud Borden, another contractee who helps her to become a star. ...more about Star Dust
- Not Available on DVD
53
When Phil Corey's band arrives at the Idaho ski resort its pianist Ted Scott is smitten with a Norwegian refugee he has sponsored, Karen Benson. When soloist Vivian Dawn quits, Karen stages an ice show as a substitute. ...more about Sun Valley Serenade
- Not Available on DVD
54
Druggist Joe McCabe foils a robbery, and his brother Tommy decides to join the state police in order to impress Joe and Tommy's new date, Jerry, a policeman's daughter. When the robbers exact revenge on Joe, Tommy hunts them down. ...more about Tear Gas Squad
- Not Available on DVD
55
A tough, womanizing high-stakes gambler known only as Tennessee has an uneasy relationship with Duchess, madam of a thinly-disguised bordello, and no other friends at all. ...more about Tennessee's Partner
DVD from $6.98
(6 sellers)
58
A Southern States official returns home after the Civil War and has to see that in his village the law is in the hands of a few scrupoulos people. ...more about Vanquished
- Not Available on DVD
59
Henry Pecket (Clem Bevans) keeps a land-bound, home-made sloop in the backyard of his boarding house ran by widow Sara March (Charlotte Greenwood), who is tolerant of the fancied trips around the world taken by her "ancient mariner" boarder. ...more about Wake Up and Dream
- Not Available on DVD
60
Jerry and Cass have always been competitive. Now that Cass is a well respected Naval aviator like his father, Jerry leaves the submarine service to become a flying cadet with Class 61 at Pensacola. ...more about Wings of the Navy
- Not Available on DVD
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