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John Slater
Acting
22 Aug 1916
† 09 Jan 1975
London, England, UK
Biography
John Slater (22 August 1916 – 9 January 1975) was an English character actor who usually portrayed lugubrious, amiable cockney types. He was a familiar face in British films of the 1940s and appeared in many classic films of the period, including The Day Will Dawn (1942, US title The Avengers), Went the Day Well? (1942), We Dive at Dawn (1943), A Canterbury Tale (1944), The Seventh Veil (1945), It Always Rains on Sunday (1947) and Passport to Pimlico (1949). In later years, Slater moved into tel...
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John Slater's Movies
69%
A Canterbury Tale
21 Aug 1944
69%
Passport to Pimlico
26 Oct 1949
70%
The Million Pound Note
07 Jan 1954
71%
Went the Day Well?
07 Dec 1942
66%
It Always Rains on Sunday
28 Nov 1947
66%
The Seventh Veil
18 Oct 1945
71%
"Pimpernel" Smith
28 Jul 1941
63%
We Dive at Dawn
15 Apr 1943
72%
Violent Playground
14 Jan 1958
61%
The Flanagan Boy
10 Apr 1953
67%
The Long Memory
23 Jan 1953
57%
Escape
01 Mar 1948
53%
Noose
28 Sept 1948
59%
Love on the Dole
28 Jun 1941
64%
Against the Wind
01 Feb 1948
56%
Millions Like Us
01 Jun 1943
61%
For Those in Peril
01 Jun 1944
64%
A Place to Go
01 Jul 1963
73%
I Live in Grosvenor Square
20 Jul 1945
46%
Read All About It
08 Apr 1945
