John Hammond (actor)

John Hammond (born October 6, 1955) is an American actor. As a virtual unknown he landed the lead role in the 1982 miniseries, The Blue and the Gray as fictional Virginia war-artist John Geyser,^[1]^[2]^[3] then followed it up with lead role in the 1983 family film The Prodigal.^[4] He also appeared in five episodes of the TV drama St. Elsewhere in 1984, two episodes of Highway to Heaven, the TV movies Deadly Care in 1987 and Do You Know the Muffin Man in 1989. Hammond also made an appearance in the 1990 movie The Adventures of Ford Fairlane, starring Andrew Dice Clay, and the 1998 horror movie Laughing Dead. Most recently, he starred in the 2017 somber drama Days Till Death, directed by Chia Hao Tat.

References

^ W. Bryan Rommel Ruiz American History Goes to the Movies 1136845399 2011 In The Blue and the Gray, the film's protagonist, John Geyser (John Hammond) leaves his family's Virginia farm after the ...
^ Peter C. Rollins, John E. O'Connor -Hollywood's White House: The American Presidency in Film and History 0813137969 2010 - In The Blue and the Gray (1982), for example, the film's hero, John Geyser (John Hammond) leaves his family's Virginia farm after the state secedes and a black friend has been hanged for sheltering runaway blacks. Reversing the theme of ...
^ Susan A. Compo Warren Oates: A Wild Life 2009 081313918X The Blue and the Gray was a sprawling, $15 million Civil War yarn with movie aspirations and miniseries limitations. ... pivoted around artist John Gentry (John Hammond), who sketched war scenes and vignettes for Harpers Illustrated Weekly.
^ People John Hammond Isn't Just Whistling Dixie: His Role in the Blue and the Gray May Turn His Career into Gold "His current project, a film called The Prodigal, may be a form of repentance for what he calls “the ungodly sum of money” he earned for The Blue and The Gray. The movie was produced by World Wide Pictures, a subsidiary of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, and stars Hammond as a wayward son who gets involved with a loose woman and drug dealing before deciding that Christ is the answer. “It’s a kind of Ordinary People story with a happy ending,” he says. “The Billy Graham aspect bothers me a little, but I liked the role so I took it.”"

External links

John Hammond at IMDb

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[1] W. Bryan Rommel Ruiz American History Goes to the Movies 1136845399 2011 In The Blue and the Gray, the film's protagonist, John Geyser (John Hammond) leaves his family's Virginia farm after the ...

[2] Peter C. Rollins, John E. O'Connor -Hollywood's White House: The American Presidency in Film and History 0813137969 2010 - In The Blue and the Gray (1982), for example, the film's hero, John Geyser (John Hammond) leaves his family's Virginia farm after the state secedes and a black friend has been hanged for sheltering runaway blacks. Reversing the theme of ...

[3] Susan A. Compo Warren Oates: A Wild Life 2009 081313918X The Blue and the Gray was a sprawling, $15 million Civil War yarn with movie aspirations and miniseries limitations. ... pivoted around artist John Gentry (John Hammond), who sketched war scenes and vignettes for Harpers Illustrated Weekly.

[4] People John Hammond Isn't Just Whistling Dixie: His Role in the Blue and the Gray May Turn His Career into Gold "His current project, a film called The Prodigal, may be a form of repentance for what he calls “the ungodly sum of money” he earned for The Blue and The Gray. The movie was produced by World Wide Pictures, a subsidiary of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, and stars Hammond as a wayward son who gets involved with a loose woman and drug dealing before deciding that Christ is the answer. “It’s a kind of Ordinary People story with a happy ending,” he says. “The Billy Graham aspect bothers me a little, but I liked the role so I took it.”"

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