John Dilson


John Henry Dilson was an American film and stage actor, and playwright. He appeared in more than 250 films between 1934 and 1944.

Personal life

Dilson was married to Edith Constance Lee, with whom he had a son, John, Jr.
On June 3, 1944, following several months of failing health, Dilson died in Camarillo, California, of lobar pneumonia. He was survived by his wife and son, and his brother, actor Clyde Dilson. His remains are interred at Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City.

Selected filmography

A Man's Game The Westerner The Girl Who Came Back Death from a Distance Cheers of the Crowd Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island The Drag-Net The Public Pays Gentle Julia Three of a Kind Dick Tracy Gang Bullets Laugh It Off Racketeers of the Range Scandal Sheet A Woman Is the Judge Phantom of Chinatown Beyond the Sacramento The Man with Nine Lives Marked Men Hold That Woman!