John Rodney

John Rodney, the screen name of Raymond John Flynn, was an American actor whose movie and television work stretched from the late 1940s to the early 1960s. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, and sometimes appeared as John Flynn. His best remembered part was Deputy Sheriff Sawyer in John Huston's crime picture Key Largo (1948), opposite Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall and Edward G. Robinson. He also made Pursued (1947) with Teresa Wright and Robert Mitchum, plus Calamity Jane and Sam Bass (1949) alongside Yvonne De Carlo and Howard Duff. In Fighter Squadron (1948) he appeared with Edmond O'Brien and Robert Stack. On television he appeared in an episode of Westinghouse Studio One called The Storm, played Edwin Booth on Bonanza, and guested on Sea Hunt (1961), Wagon Train, The Fugitive, Gunsmoke and McHale's Navy. His final appearance came in The Tycoon in 1964. He died in 1996.