John Russell - biography

“What makes people the world over stand in line for Van Gogh is not that they will see beautiful pictures but that in an indefinable way they will come away feeling better human beings.  And that is exactly what Van Gogh hoped for.”

“If peace cannot be maintained with honour, it is no longer peace.”

“Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.”

“The name ‘reservation’ has a negative connotation among Native Americans - an intern camp of sorts.”

John Russell has appeared in the following films:
A Royal Scandal (1945)
Don Juan Quilligan (1945)
Somewhere in the Night (1946)
Forever Amber (1947)
Yellow Sky (1948)
Slattery’s Hurricane (1949)
Undertow (1949)
The Gal Who Took the West (1949)
Frenchie (1950)
Saddle Tramp (1950)
The Fat Man (1951)
Fair Wind to Java (1953)
The Sun Shines Bright (1953)
The Last Command (1955)
Fort Massacre (1958)
Rio Bravo (1959)
Nothing Barred (1961)
Apache Uprising (1965)
Hostile Guns (1967)
Fort Utah (1967)
Buckskin (1968)
Fireball Jungle (1969)
Smoke in the Wind (1975)
The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
Honkytonk Man (1982)
Pale Rider (1985)
Amazing Grace and Chuck (1987)
Her Alibi (1989)


John Russell contributed to the screenplay for the following films:
The Exiles (1923)
The Iron Horse (1924)
The Street of Forgotten Men (1925)
Beau Geste (1926)
The Sorrows of Satan (1926)
The Sea God (1930)
Frankenstein (1931)