John Beradino

John Beradino (born Giovanni Berardino, May 1, 1917 – May 19, 1996) was an American Major League Baseball infielder and actor. Known as Johnny Berardino in Los Angeles during World War II from 1942 to 1945. He played for the St. Louis Browns, Cleveland Indians and Pittsburgh Pirates, winning the World Series with the Indians in 1948. While primarily a middle infielder, playing second baseman or shortstop, he also played first and third base.

After injuring his leg and being released by Pittsburgh in 1952, he retired from baseball and returned to acting, having appeared in his first film in 1948.

Acting Beradino appeared briefly in an uncredited role as a state trooper in the 1954 thriller Suddenly, starring Frank Sinatra and Sterling Hayden, and later performed as a policeman who allows Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) to make a phone call to his mother in the 1959 Hitchcock thriller North by Northwest.

Beradino (still billed as John Berardino) played a cameo role in the 1954 sci-fi thriller Them!. He also appeared in a 1956 episode of the television series Adventures of Superman titled "The Unlucky Number" as a small-time criminal struggling to reform.

Beradino appeared twice on the Western series Annie Oakley: as Gorman in "Annie Rides the Navajo Trail" and as Roscoe Barnes in "Amateur Outlaw" (both 1956). He appeared as an outlaw in the opening scenes of Budd Boetticher's Seven Men From Now in 1956. He guest-starred on John Bromfield's syndicated crime drama with a modern Western setting, Sheriff of Cochise, and Bromfield's successor series, U.S. Marshal. He was also cast in an episode of David Janssen's crime drama series Richard Diamond, Private Detective.

Beradino played a minor gangster in The Untouchables pilot that originally aired as an installment in the Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse. He then played the recurring role of gangster Augie Viale in two episodes from the first season of The Untouchables series, "The Jake Lingle Killing" and "One-Armed Bandits".

On December 2, 1959, Beradino appeared in the episode "The Third Strike" of the syndicated adventure series Rescue 8, playing a professional baseball player who loses consciousness when struck by a wild pitch and awakens with short-term amnesia.

After appearing in more than a dozen B-movies, as well as in supporting roles on the series I Led Three Lives and The New Breed, His image was finally removed in early 1998, but an action clip of Beradino's character remained in the sequence until its 2004 retirement.

Personal life and death

Beradino had two children, Toni and Cindy from his first marriage, and two children, Katherine Ann and John Anthony from his second marriage. He was married to his third wife, Marjorie, at the time of his death.

Beradino was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 1996

Beradino supported Barry Goldwater in the 1964 United States presidential election.

Filmography

Film Year Title RoleNotes 1948 The Winner's Circle Trainer 1949 The Kid from Cleveland Mac 1951 Francis Goes to the Races S.C. White uncredited 1952 The Winning Team Sherdel uncredited 1953 Powder River Dealer uncredited The Kid from Left Field Hank Dreiser 1954 The Command Sergeant Major uncredited Suddenly Trooper Them! Patrolman Ryan The Raid Yankee Soldier Buying Cigars uncredited Shield for Murder Gambler Being Booked uncredited Suddenly Trooper uncredited The Bamboo Prison Progressive uncredited 1955 East of Eden Coalman at Lettuce Field uncredited Marty Man in Bar uncredited The McConnell Story Engineer uncredited Illegal Scott's Client uncredited 1956 The Killer Is Loose Mac Behind the High Wall Carl Burkhardt Seven Men from Now Clint Emergency Hospital Policeman at Accident uncredited 1958 The World Was His Jury Tony Armand Wild Heritage Arn The Naked and the Dead Capt. Mantelli 1959 North by Northwest Sergeant Emile Klinger 1960 Seven Thieves Chief of Detectives 1961 The Right Approach Rod 1982 Young Doctors in Love Soap Cameos directed by Garry Marshall

Television YearTitleRoleNotes 1954 I Led Three Lives Special Agent Steven Daniels recurring from 1954 to 1956 1956 Sheriff of Cochise Walt Harris episode: "Deputy's Wife" (S 2:Ep 6) Annie Oakley Gorman episode: "Annie Rides the Navajo Trail"(S 3:Ep 25) Adventures of Superman Dexter Brown episode: "The Unlucky Number" (S 4:Ep 2) Annie Oakley Henchman Roscoe Barnes episode: "Amateur Outlaw" (S 3:Ep 28) 1957 Richard Diamond, Private Detective Marty Stopka episode: "The Torch Carriers" (S 1:Ep 9) 1958 Tombstone Territory Frank Leslie episode: "Shoot Out at Dark" (S 1, Ep 13) Tales of Wells Fargo Kendall episode: "The Counterfeiters" (S 3"Ep 13 Sea Hunt Athlete Father Dave Crane episode: "The Lost Ones", S 1, Episode 28 1959 Have Gun - Will Travel Nelson Pike episode: "Juliet" ( S 2:Ep 20) Rescue 8 Al episode: "The Third Strike" ( S 2:Ep 11) Bronco Turk Hansen episode: "The Belles of Silver Flat" (S 1:Ep 14) The Untouchables Johnny Giannini, Augie Viale episode 1: pilot, Episodes 3 and 17 The Texan Duke Ellis episode: "The Marshal of Yellow Jacket" 1960 U.S. Marshal Carl Tabor episode: "Backfire" (S 2:Ep 25) Lawman Walt Carmody episode: "Dilemma" (S 3:Ep 7) Checkmate Floyd Venner episode: "The Dark Divide" (S 1:Ep 9) 1961 Tales of Wells Fargo Virgil McCready episode: "Border Renegades" (S 5:Ep 15) Route 66 Police Lieutenant Fielding episode: "Sleep on Four Pillows: (S 1:Ep 18) Dante Phil Diamond episode: "Not as a Canary" (S 1:Ep 20) Coronado 9 Andre Machado episode: "Caribbean Chase" (S 1:Ep 24) Michael Shayne Danny Fleck episode: "The Body Beautiful" (S 1:Ep 25) Coronado 9 Will episode: "Excursion to Algiers" (S 1:Ep 26) Miami Undercover Tom Dane episode: "The Tom Dane Story" (S 1:Ep 11) Surfside 6 Granger episode: "Circumstantial Evidence" (S 1:Ep 29) The Brothers Brannagan Don Girard episode: "Treasure Hunt" (S 1:Ep 33) Whispering Smith Claude Denton The New Breed Sgt. Vince Cavelli Cain's Hundred Al Krajac episode: "Crime and Commitment: Part 1" (S 1:Ep 1–Pilot) Bronco Ross Kinkaid episode: "The Cousin from Atlanta" (S 4:Ep 1) 1963 General Hospital Steve Hardy from 1963 to 1996 1968 Batman Doctor episode: "Penguin's Clean Sweep" (S 3:Ep 20) 1968 One Life to Live Steve Hardy 1 episode; crossover appearance 1971 Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate Det. Hallum directed by Ted Post and the screenplay adapted by John D.F. Black from a novel of the same name by Doris Miles Disney. 1972 Moon of the Wolf Dr. Druten directed by Daniel Petrie 1978 A Guide for the Married Woman Doctor directed by Hy Averback 1981 The Love Boat Dr. Cotts episode: "Black Sheep/Hometown Doc/Clothes Make the Girl" (S 4:Ep 21) Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy 'Satchel' Paige Jake Wells directed by Richard A. Colla and based on Leroy's autobiography Don't Look Back: Satchel Paige in the Shadows of Baseball. 1992 The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Dr. Harding episode: "Ill Will" (S 2:Ep 18)