Emerging from Cleveland, Ohio, S. John Launer built a lengthy screen career that spanned more than three decades. Though many of his 89 film appearances between 1943 and 1977 went uncredited, he contributed to genre classics such as The Werewolf (1956), I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957), the Elvis-starring Jailhouse Rock (1957), Alfred Hitchcock’s Marnie (1964) and the thriller Pendulum (1969). On t…
