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{{refimprove|date=February 2013}}{{Infobox person
| name = John Qualen
| image = Grapes of Wrath, The - (Original Trailer) - 08.png
| imagesize =
| caption = John Qualen in The Grapes of Wrath (1940).
| birth_name = Johan Mandt Kvalen
| birth_date = {{birth date|1899|12|8}}
| birth_place = Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
| death_date = {{death date and age|1987|9|12|1899|12|8}}
| death_place = Torrance, California
| restingplace = Forest Lawn Memorial Park Glendale, California
| restingplacecoordinates = Great Mausoleum, Sanctuary of Reliance, Crypt 9632
| othername = John M. Qualen
John T. Qualen
| occupation = Actor
| yearsactive = 1931–1974
| spouse = Pearle Larson (1924–1987) 3 daughters
}}John Qualen (born Johan Mandt Kvalen, December 8, 1899 – September 12, 1987) was a Canadian-American character actor of Norwegian heritage who specialized in Scandinavian roles. Life and career Qualen was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, the son of immigrants from Norway; his father was a Lutheran minister and changed the family's original surname, "Kvalen", to "Qualen"{{citation needed|date=October 2016}} – though some sources give Oleson,[1] later Oleson Kvalen[2] as Qualen's earlier surnames. His father's ministering meant many moves and John was 20 when he graduated from Elgin High School in 1920. Though he was awarded a scholarship to Northwestern University after he won an oratory contest he never attended college. In a Milwaukee Journal interview he said he needed to start working and did so with the Chattaqua Circuit. Eventually reaching Broadway, he gained his big break as the Swedish janitor in Elmer Rice's Street Scene. His movie career began when he recreated the role in the film version. This was followed by his appearance in John Ford's Arrowsmith (1931) which began a more than thirty year membership in the director's "stock company", with important supporting roles in The Searchers (1956), Two Rode Together (1961), The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) and Cheyenne Autumn (1964). Appearing in well over one hundred films, and acting extensively on television into the 1970s, Qualen performed many of his roles with various accents, usually Scandinavian, often intended for comic effect. Three of his more memorable roles showcase his versatility. Qualen assumed a Midwestern dialect as Muley, who recounts the destruction of his farm by the bank in Ford's The Grapes of Wrath (1940), and as the confused killer Earl Williams in Howard Hawks' classic comedy His Girl Friday (also 1940). As Berger, the jewelry-selling Norwegian resistance member in Michael Curtiz' Casablanca (1942), he essayed a light Scandinavian accent, but put on a thicker Mediterranean accent as the homeward-bound fisherman Locota in William Wellman's The High and the Mighty (1954) Qualen was treasurer of The Authors Club and historian of The Masquers, Hollywood's social group for actors. John Qualen was blind in his later years. He died of heart failure in 1987 in Torrance, California, and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale. He was survived by his three daughters. Filmography{{div col|colwidth=30em}}- Street Scene (1931) as Karl Olsen
- Arrowsmith (1931) as Henry Novak (uncredited)
- The Devil's Brother (1933) as Man who owned bull (unconfirmed)
- Counsellor at Law (1933) as Johan Breitstein
- Let's Fall in Love (1933) as Svente Bjorkman (uncredited)
- Hi, Nellie! (1934) as Steve (uncredited)
- No Greater Glory (1934) as Nemecsek's father
- Upper World (1934) as Chris
- Sing and Like It (1934) as Oswald
- Private Scandal (1934) as Schultz (uncredited)
- He Was Her Man (1934) as Dutch
- Our Daily Bread (1934) as Chris
- Straight Is the Way (1934) as Mr. Chapman (uncredited)
- Servants' Entrance (1934) as Detective
- 365 Nights in Hollywood (1934) as Professor Herman Ellenbogen
- Charlie Chan in Paris (1935) as Consierge
- One More Spring (1935) as Auctioneer
- The Great Hotel Murder (1935) as Ole
- Black Fury (1935) as Mike
- Chasing Yesterday (1935) as Aristide Coccoz
- Silk Hat Kid (1935) as Mr. Fossbender
- Doubting Thomas as Von Blitzer
- The Farmer Takes a Wife (1935) as Sol Tinker
- Orchids to You (1935) as Smith
- Thunder in the Night (1935) as Hotel porter
- The Three Musketeers (1935) as Planchet
- Whipsaw (1935) as Will Dabson
- Man of Iron (1935) as Collins
- Ring Around the Moon (1936) as Bill Harvey
- Wife vs. Secretary (1936) as Mr. Jenkins (uncredited)
- The Country Doctor (1936) as Asa Wyatt
- The Road to Glory (1936) as Scared soldier
- Meet Nero Wolfe (1936) as Olaf
- Girls' Dormitory (1936) as Toni
- Reunion (1936) as Asa Wyatt
- Seventh Heaven (1937) as Sewer Rat
- Angel's Holiday (1937) as Waldo Everett
- Fifty Roads to Town (1937) as Sheriff Dow
- She Had to Eat (1937) as Sleepy
- Fit for a King (1937) as Otto
- Nothing Sacred (1937) as Fireman (uncredited)
- The Bad Man of Brimstone (1937) as "Loco"
- Joy of Living (1938) as Oswego
- The Texan (1938) as Swede (uncredited)
- The Chaser (1938) as Lars
- The Mad Miss Manton (1938) as Subway worker
- Five of a Kind (1938) as Asa Wyatt
- The Strange Case of Dr. Meade (1938) as Stoner
- Stand Up and Fight (1939) as Davy
- Let Us Live (1939) as Dan (uncredited)
- Mickey the Kid (1939) as Mailman
- Career (1939) as Jeff Trotter (uncredited)
- Honeymoon in Bali (1939) as Meek man
- Thunder Afloat (1939) as Milo
- Four Wives (1939) as Frank
- His Girl Friday (1940) as Earl Williams
- The Grapes of Wrath (1940) as Muley Graves
- Blondie on a Budget (1940) as Mr. Ed Fuddle
- Saturday's Children (1940) as First carpenter (uncredited)
- Ski Patrol (1940) as Gustaf
- On Their Own (1940) as Peters
- Babies for Sale (1940) as Howard Anderson
- Angels Over Broadway (1940) as Charles Engle
- Knute Rockne All American (1940) Lars Knuteson Rockne
- The Long Voyage Home (1940) as Axel
- Youth Will Be Served (1940) as Clem Howie
- Model Wife (1941) as Janitor
- Million Dollar Baby (1941) as Dr. Patterson
- Out of the Fog (1941) as Olaf Johnson
- The Shepherd of the Hills (1941) as Coot Royal
- The Great Awakening (1941) as Hasslinger's Clerk
- The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941) as Miser Stevens
- Jungle Book (1942) as The Barber
- Larceny, Inc. (1942) as Sam Bachrach
- Tortilla Flat (1942) as Jose Maria Corcoran
- Casablanca (1942) as Berger
- Arabian Nights (1942) as Alladin
- Swing Shift Maisie (1943) as Horatio Curly
- The Impostor (1944) as Monge
- An American Romance (1944) as Anton Dubechek
- Dark Waters (1944) as Uncle Norbert
- Roughly Speaking (1945) as Svend Olsen
- River Gang (1945) as Uncle Bill
- Captain Kidd (1945) as Bart Blivens
- Adventure (1945) as Model T
- Song of Scheherazade (1947) as Lorenzo
- High Conquest (1947) as Peter Oberwalder Sr.
- The Fugitive (1947) as Refugee doctor
- Reaching from Heaven (1948) as The Stranger
- On Our Merry Way (1948) (deleted sequence, uncredited)
- Alias a Gentleman (1948) as No End
- My Girl Tisa (1948) as Svenson
- 16 Fathoms Deep (1948) as Capt. Athos
- Hollow Triumph (1948) as Swangon
- The Big Steal (1949) as Julius Seton
- Captain China (1950) as Geech
- Buccaneer's Girl (1950) as Vegetable man
- Woman on the Run (1950) as Maibus
- The Jackpot (1950) as Mr. Ferguson (uncredited)
- The Flying Missile (1950) as Lars Hansen
- Belle Le Grand (1951) as Corky McGee
- Goodbye, My Fancy (1951) as Professor Dingley
- Hans Christian Andersen (1952) as Burgomaster
- Ambush at Tomahawk Gap (1953) as Jonas P. Travis
- Francis Covers the Big Town (1953) as Defense Attorney Cavendish (uncredited)
- I, the Jury (1953) as Dr. R. H. Vickers
- The High and the Mighty (1954) as Jose Locota
- The Student Prince (1954) as Willie Klauber
- Passion (1954) as Gasper Melo
- The Other Woman (1954) as Papasha
- Unchained (1955) as Leonard Haskins
- The Sea Chase (1955) as Chief Engineer Schmitt
- At Gunpoint (1955) as Livingstone
- The Searchers (1956) as Lars Jorgensen
- Johnny Concho (1956) as Jake
- The Big Land (1957) as Sven Johnson
- My World Dies Screaming (1958) as Jonah Snell
- The Gun Runners (1958) as Pop
- Revolt in the Big House (1958) as Doc
- Anatomy of a Murder (1959) as Deputy Sheriff Sulo
- Hell Bent for Leather (1960) as Old Ben
- Elmer Gantry (1960) as Sam, a storekeeper (uncredited)
- North to Alaska (1960) as Logger Judge
- Two Rode Together (1961) as Ole Knudsen
- The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) as Peter Erickson
- Donovan's Reef (1963) as Deckhand (uncredited)
- The Prize (1963) as Oscar
- 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964) as Luther Lindquist
- Cheyenne Autumn (1964) as Svenson (uncredited)
- Those Calloways (1965) as Ernie Evans
- I'll Take Sweden (1965) as Olaf
- The Sons of Katie Elder (1965) as Charlie Biller
- A Patch of Blue (1965) as Mr. Faber
- A Big Hand for the Little Lady (1966) as Jesse Buford
- The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin (1967) as Barber (uncredited)
- Firecreek (1968) as Hall
- P.J. (1968) as Poppa Gonowski
- Doc (1969, TV Movie) as Luke
- Hail, Hero! (1969) as Billy Hurd
- Getting Away from It All (1972, TV Movie) as Charlie Erickson
- Wednesday Night Out (1972, TV Movie)
- Frasier, the Sensuous Lion (1973) as Old man on porch
{{div col end}}The Odd Couple, epis “The Taste Of Money”-Sam (1971)==Television== - Alfred Hitchcock Presents, episode "A Bullet for Baldwin" – Benjamin Steep (1956)
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents, episode "Help Wanted" – Mr. Crabtree (1956)
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents, episode "Shopping for Death" – Elmer Shore (1956)
- Father Knows Best, episode "The Bus to Nowhere" - Old Man (1956)
- Cheyenne, episode "Deadline" – Charley Dolan (1957)
- Maverick, episode "The Lonesome Reunion" – Leland Mills (1958)
- The Californians episode "J. Jimmerson Jones, Inc." -- J. Jimmerson Jones (1958)
- Sea Hunt (1960) Season 3, Episode 31
- Mister Ed, episode "Ed's New Shoes" – Axel (the Handyman) (1961)
- Bonanza, episode "Springtime" – Parley (1961)
- Maverick, episode "The Golden Fleecing" – Henry Albright (1961)
- The Andy Griffith Show, episode "The Jinx" – Henry Bennett (1962)
- Laramie, episode "Shadow of the Past" – Mr. Elbee (1962)
- The Real McCoys, episode "Cupid Wore a Tail" – Frank (1963)
- The Real McCoys, episode "The Other Side of the Fence" – Frank (1963)
- Make Room for Daddy, episodes "Sense of Humor" and "Call Off the Hounds" – Swenson, the Janitor (1964)
- The Virginian, episode "A Bride for Lars" – Gosta Swenson (1964)
- The Girl from U.N.C.L.E., episode "The Jewels of Topango Affair" – Dr. Elmer Spritzer (1966)
- Hazel, episode "A Question of Ethics" – Mr. Johansson (1966)
- Shane, episode "The Hant" - Old Man (1966)
- I Spy, episode "Red Sash of Courage" – Hannos (1967)
- Green Acres, episode "Eb's Romance" - Mr. Appleby (1968)
- Green Acres, episode "The Ex-Con" - Willy Dunhill (1970)
- Make Room for Granddaddy, episode "The Arm Wrestle" Folsom (1971)
- The Partridge Family episode "My Heart Belongs to a Two Car Garage" – The Old Man (1972)
- The F.B.I., episode "The Detonator" (1973)
- Movin' On, episode "Life Line" – Liggett (1974) (final appearance)
References1. ^{{Cite book|title=Pseudonyms|author=Joseph F. Clarke|publisher=BCA|date=1977|page=136}}
2. ^{{Cite book|author=Adrian Room|title=Dictionary of Pseudonyms: 13,000 Assumed Names and Their Origins|edition=fifth|date=1 July 2010|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-5763-2|page=392}}
External links- {{IMDb name|id= 0702798|name= John Qualen}}
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- {{Find a Grave|8465}}
- Photos of John Qualen from The Long Voyage Home by Ned Scott
{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Qualen, John}} 16 : 1899 births|1987 deaths|American male film actors|American male television actors|American people of Norwegian descent|Burials at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale)|Canadian expatriate male actors in the United States|Canadian male film actors|Canadian male television actors|Canadian Lutherans|Canadian people of Norwegian descent|Male actors from Vancouver|Northwestern University alumni|People from Elgin, Illinois|20th-century American male actors|20th-century Canadian male actors |