MenuFLIXANO
Start Your Free Trial
Search
Howard St. John

Howard St. John

Howard St. John (October 9, 1905 – March 13, 1974) was a Chicago-born character actor who specialized in unsympathetic roles. His work spanned Broadway, film and television. He is probably best remembered for his bombastic General Bullmoose, which he played in the stage and screen versions of the 1956 musical Li'l Abner.

Sign up to watch Free Howard St. John Movies

Movies Starring Howard St. John (40)

Don't Drink the Water (1969)

The Hollander family's European vacation is interrupted when their plane is forced to land in Vulgaria. The Hollanders leave the plane to take pictures which results in accusations of spying. Chased by Vulgarian soldiers, they take refuge in the American E ...

Watch Now

Managing Time (1968)

Peter Drucker teaches you how to be an effective executive. ...

Watch Now

Banning (1967)

A playboy golf pro, kicked off the circuit for alleged cheating, is forced to hustle for a living. ...

Watch Now

Matchless (1967)

A secret agent possesses a ring that makes him invisible for a short time, once every 10 hours. He is in pursuit of an evil criminal mastermind but, at the same time, must evade an enemy agent who also wants the ring. ...

Watch Now

Strange Bedfellows (1965)

After a hasty wedding, Carter and Toni find that they disagree on everything. They separate and seven years later, on the eve before their divorce, meet again and spend the night together. Reality sets in when morning comes and they begin arguing again. O ...

Watch Now

Quick, Before It Melts (1965)

A reporter and a photographer become entwined with women, marriage, and a defecting Russian scientist while on an expedition to Antarctica for their magazine. ...

Watch Now

Sex and the Single Girl (1964)

A womanizing reporter for a sleazy tabloid magazine impersonates his hen-pecked neighbor in order to get an expose on renowned psychologist Helen Gurley Brown. ...

Watch Now

Fate Is the Hunter (1964)

A man refuses to believe that pilot error caused a fatal crash, and persists in looking for another reason. Airliner crashes near Los Angeles due to unusual string of coincidences. Stewardess, who is sole survivor, joins airline executives in discovering t ...

Watch Now

Strait-Jacket (1964)

After a twenty-year stay at an asylum for a double murder, a mother returns to her estranged daughter where suspicions arise about her behavior. ...

Watch Now

The Patriots (1963)

Thomas Jefferson has just returned from France, hoping to relax with his daughters at Monticello. George Washington however, has a favor to ask of him. Hit by tough political opposition, specifically afraid of rising monarch strength, he urges Jefferson to ...

Watch Now

Lafayette (1962)

The story of Lafayette, the 19 year old pacifist who takes the side of the Colonials during the American war of Independence. ...

Watch Now

Lover Come Back (1961)

Jerry Webster and Carol Templeton are rival Madison Avenue advertising executives who each dislike each other's methods. After he steals a client out from under her cute little nose, revenge prompts her to infiltrate his secret "VIP" campaign in order to p ...

Watch Now

One, Two, Three (1961)

C.R. MacNamara is a managing director for Coca Cola in West Berlin during the Cold War, just before the Wall is put up. When Scarlett, the rebellious daughter of his boss, comes to West Berlin, MacNamara has to look after her, but this turns out to be a di ...

Watch Now

Sanctuary (1961)

In 1920s rural Mississippi, Nancy Mannigoe, an African-American servant, is placed on death row for the murder of Temple Drake's infant child. Temple, the daughter of the governor, pleads with her father to exonerate Nancy of the charges, explaining that N ...

Watch Now

Madison Avenue (1961)

An adman and an adwoman put a dangerous milk tycoon in line for the White House. ...

Watch Now

Cry for Happy (1961)

Army photographers on leave in Japan take over a geisha house. ...

Watch Now

Li'l Abner (1959)

A comedy musical based on the comic strip charcters created by Al Capp. When residents of Dogpatch, USA are notified by the government that they must evacuate because of atomic bomb testing, they try to persuade the government that their town is worth savi ...

Watch Now

The Gift of the Magi (1958)

A musical version of O. Henry's famous Christmas story. ...

Watch Now

World in My Corner (1956)

A scrappy fighter from Jersey City named Tommy Shea -- "born in a dump, educated in an alley" -- catches the eye of wealthy businessman, Robert Mallinson, who allows him to train at his Long Island estate. Shea soon falls for Mallinson's daughter, Dorothy, ...

Watch Now

I Died a Thousand Times (1955)

After aging criminal Roy Earle is released from prison he decides to pull one last heist before retiring — by robbing a resort hotel. ...

Watch Now

The Tender Trap (1955)

A young actress flirts demurely with a swinging Manhattan bachelor who thinks he has it made. ...

Watch Now

Illegal (1955)

A hugely successful DA goes into private practice after sending a man to the chair -- only to find out later he was innocent. Now the drunken attorney only seems to represent criminals and low lifes. ...

Watch Now

Three Coins in the Fountain (1954)

Three American roommates working in Italy wish for the man of their dreams after throwing coins into Rome's magnificent Trevi Fountain. Frances, a secretary at a government agency, sets out to win the heart of her smooth-talking novelist employer; Anita, h ...

Watch Now

Stop, You're Killing Me (1952)

With the end of Prohibition a former bootlegger and his wife attempt to go straight. Remake of the 1938 film "A Slight Case of Murder". ...

Watch Now

Starlift (1951)

To impress a movie star, a U.S. Air Force crewman pretends he is soon to see combat. When his lie gets out, chaos ensues. ...

Watch Now

The Big Night (1951)

A young man zigzags through the sordid vortex of downtown Los Angeles while seeking vengeance on the man that beat his father. ...

Watch Now

Close to My Heart (1951)

A journalist's wife insists on adopting an abandoned child. ...

Watch Now

Strangers on a Train (1951)

Having met on a train, a smooth-talking psychotic socialite shares his theory on how two complete strangers can get away with murder to an amateur tennis player — a theory he plans to test out. ...

Watch Now

Goodbye, My Fancy (1951)

Agatha has fond memories of her romance with college president Dr. James Merrill, when she was a student and he was her professor, and wants to see if there is still a spark between them. ...

Watch Now

Saturday's Hero (1951)

A talented high school football player encounters trouble in a college program. ...

Watch Now

Born Yesterday (1950)

Uncouth, loud-mouth junkyard tycoon Harry Brock descends upon Washington D.C. to buy himself a congressman or two, bringing with him his mistress, ex-showgirl Billie Dawn. ...

Watch Now

Counterspy Meets Scotland Yard (1950)

A federal agent joins forces with a British lawman to foil a spy ring. ...

Watch Now

The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950)

A reporter investigates the story of a young man who may have been wrongly convicted and sentenced to be executed. ...

Watch Now

Mister 880 (1950)

The Skipper is a charming old man loved by all his neighbors. What they don't know is that he is also Mr. 880, an amateurish counterfeiter who has amazingly managed to elude the Secret Service for 20 years. ...

Watch Now

The Men (1950)

Ken, a WWII GI, returns home after he's paralyzed in battle. Residing in the paraplegic ward of a veteran's hospital and embittered by his condition, he refuses to see his fiancée and sinks into a solitary world of hatred and hostility. Head physician, Dr ...

Watch Now

David Harding, Counterspy (1950)

A Counterspy in the US military is killed under suspicious circumstances. His friend, Jerry Baldwin, a Navy Commander, is assigned to replace him and stop a saboteur in a torpedo factory. ...

Watch Now

711 Ocean Drive (1950)

A telephone repairman in Los Angeles uses his knowledge of electronics to help a bookie set up a betting operation. After the bookie is murdered, the greedy technician takes over his business. He ruthlessly climbs his way to the top of the local crime synd ...

Watch Now

Customs Agent (1950)

An undercover agent tracks a medicine black market from China to California. ...

Watch Now

The Undercover Man (1949)

Frank Warren is a treasury agent assigned to put an end to the activities of a powerful mob crime boss. Frank works undercover, posing as a criminal to seek information, but is frustrated when all he finds are terrified witnesses and corrupt police officer ...

Watch Now

Shockproof (1949)

Jenny Marsh, recently released from prison for killing a man, finds herself under the watchful eye of her parole officer, Griff Marat, who helps her secure a job caring for his ailing mother. ...

Watch Now